From Dunedin to Dhaka, from China to Canada, fans across the globe woke up to a Premier League win like no other. [Read more].
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- Eleanor Ainge Roy, Oliver Holmes, Richard Smart Tom Phillips, “Ranieri for President!” Leicester City fans across the world celebrate a miracle, The Guardian, May 3, 2016
With grace and unshakable bond with his players the one-time “Tinkerman” has proved his critics spectacularly wrong with Leicester’s first top-flight title
“Claudio Ranieri? Really?”. As much of the planet now knows, with the world’s media descending on Leicester, that was how Gary Lineker last summer received the news that the veteran Italian had been appointed to take charge of a side that narrowly escaped relegation the previous season. Now the charming 64-year-old has masterminded perhaps the greatest fairytale in sporting history, proving a battalion of doubters wrong and winning not only the undying gratitude of all those in Leicester but admiration and no little love from around the world. [Read more]. |
Claudio Ranieri with A.S. Roma, pictured on a football sticker from 1973.
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