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Claudio Ranieri: Nottingham Forest success greater than Leicester's

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Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri says the club's shock success cannot yet compare with the achievements of Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.

Leicester beat odds of 5,000-1 to take the title this season, just a year after a late surge saw them avoid relegation to the second tier, prompting suggestions Ranieri's men had achieved the most unlikely feat in sporting history.

However, Forest were crowned champions in 1977-78 after having scraped promotion to the top flight a year earlier, and they then won back-to-back European Cups in the two seasons that followed.

Ranieri told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "People always try to look for something exceptional in sport but I think that, 30-40 years ago, Nottingham Forest did something even greater than what we have done.

"They got promoted from the second division, then they won the First Division title and then won the European Cup twice, so let's just wait a few more years."

Leicester can now look to emulate that achievement in Europe with their Premier League title ensuring they will be one of the top seeds in the draw for next season's Champions League group stage.

"Life is beautiful and is there to be lived to the full," Ranieri said. "We woke up from this dream to discover it was all true, that we had won a title which was unimaginable at the start of the season.

"I want to thank the magnificent players I had this season because they were the ones who made this dream come true for so many people."

Former Valencia, Chelsea, Juventus and Roma boss Ranieri says the team spirit was one of the secrets to his side's success.

He told the Italian newspaper: "When I met my players, I said to them: 'It's going to take me a bit of time to get to know you because there are so many of you, but you just have to get to know one person -- me. All I ask of you is to give everything you have got for each other.'

"For example, did you know that most of the lads don't even live in Leicester? Some live in London, some in Manchester or Birmingham. Yet when they all went to [Jamie] Vardy's house together on the day we won the title, they travelled and stayed in hotels just so that they could be together."

Ranieri also thanked his backroom staff for their hard work in preparing the team for every match.

"I'm obsessed with video analysis," the 64-year-old said. "Just think that when I was coach of Cagliari, I had two VHS video recorders that I would use to produce a single film.

"Well, up there [in Leicester] I found a huge room full of televisions, with people recording every match and every training session with three cameras, and other people looking at players all over the world to satisfy my demands on the transfer market.

"Then, before every match, we would download onto the tablet of each player a video of their next opponents with their characteristics. It was a perfect organisation."

That all contributed to Leicester lifting the Premier League trophy last Saturday, after Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli had started the celebrationsat the King Power Stadium.

"If I could have imagined the perfect ending to this story for Leicester, this is precisely the way I would have imagined it, with Bocelli singing 'Vincero' in the middle of the stadium," Ranieri said. "It was he who called me in April to tell me, 'Boss, if you do it, I'm going to come and sing for you.'

"When he was here, he came close to me and said, 'I'm feeling enormously emotional.' Imagine this -- his wife revealed to me that it was the first time she had ever seen him happy to get on a plane. I still have goosebumps now."

Ranieri took the Leicester job when his reputation was particularly low after adisastrous stint in charge of Greece, and he had talked up his desire to return to England -- or even Scotland -- last July.

"I was delighted," he said. "I was so desperate to come back that I would even have accepted a job in the second division.

"Two other Premier League clubs had also contacted me, but then they chose somebody else. Leicester convinced me with their management, their plans and their structures. Then I got to know the chairman's family, who I will only mention by his first name because I don't even know how to pronounce his second."

 

 

 

 

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City FC won the 2016 English Premier League title on a sunlounger

 

Jamie Vardy has described Claudio Ranieri’s decision to give the Leicester Cityplayers a week off in February as a “great idea” and described it as one of the defining moments in the club’s title‑winning season. The England striker also revealed that his break in Dubai was made all the more enjoyable by the fact that the Sunderland players were pounding the beach across the road while he was topping up his tan.

Ranieri made the bold call to give everyone an extended breather after Leicester lost 2-1 against Arsenal on Valentine’s Day. With no match for a fortnight because of their FA Cup elimination, Ranieri reasoned that it was an ideal opportunity for his players to switch off from football following the injury-time defeat at Arsenal that Vardy described as a “killer blow”.

The striker said: “I think a good thing that helped us straight after that game was the gaffer had seen exactly how much we’d all fought for each other and put into that game, and because we weren’t in the week after because we’d been knocked out of the FA Cup he gave us a week off to completely forget about everything and recharge the batteries.

“We all ventured off, quite a few of us went to Dubai together as a team, and I think that moment, for him to even think about doing that, showed what he’d thought of us as a team and how much work we’d already put in. So to get those batteries recharged for that week and come back fighting stronger was a massive part [in winning the league].

“It was a great idea. I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness. For me to be relaxing while they’re doing the training was quite nice. It worked out perfectly, no one was going to go on a seven-day bender. It was a case of being there to relax with family and that’s all we did until we got back to training.”

Speaking at the launch of his V9 Academy in Manchester, which has been set up to give non-league players a chance to break into the professional game and follow in his own footsteps, Vardy was on good form as he reflected on winning the league with Leicester and that slightly mischievous tweet he sent out showingthe Lion King’s Mufasa falling down a cliff. “That’s just my favourite kids’ film!” he said, smiling.

Vardy posted that picture immediately after Leicester claimed the title on the back of Tottenham Hotspur being held to a 2-2 draw at Chelsea, and in response to the picture Harry Kane had put on Instagram after Ranieri’s side had dropped points at home against West Ham United a fortnight earlier. Kane’s image showed a pack of lions about to go a hunt.

Asked whether there was a friendly rivalry between himself and Kane, who could be playing alongside one another at Euro 2016 this summer, Vardy replied: “We’re away with England to do a job for England and that’s all we focus on while we’re there. After that when you go back to your own clubs, I’m sure a few of us can put a few pictures out and let the media join the dots up themselves.”

 
 

Mauricio Pochettino, the Spurs manager, has criticised other managers and players for expressing their “personal opinion” about who they wanted to win the title before it had been decided and implied that some clubs may have got caught up in the Leicester fairytale, yet Vardy was dismissive of the idea that his team benefited in any way during the run-in. “I can’t see any team doing that, to be honest with you. I don’t think anyone would like to just turn up and be rolled over to let someone else win, I don’t think that is inside anyone, it wouldn’t look good on the club if they were doing that and I’m sure the fans wouldn’t like it. So I can’t see that being true whatsoever.”

Vardy’s Premier League winners’ medal is hung up by the side of his bed and he has not given up hope of picking up the golden boot to go along with the Football Writers’ player of the year award that he will receive in London on Thursday. He is on 24 league goals, level with Sergio Agüero and one behind Kane with the trip to Stamford Bridge to come on Sunday. “I’d have been level if I’d not put that penalty in the garden,” he said, smiling at the memory of the spot-kick that sailed over the crossbar in the 3-1 win against Everton on Saturday and which cost him the chance of a first Premier League hat-trick.

Alluding to the team spirit that has been such a cornerstone of Leicester’s success, Vardy described his team-mates as being like “brothers” and said that the camaraderie among them is “the main thing that has got us where we are”. He expressed his hope that their achievements this season will keep the squad together. The 29-year-old also suggested that his own future – in February he signed a contract extension until 2019 – is secure.

“We’ve just won the league and will be playing in the Champions League next year. I am happy here,” Vardy said.

Vardy’s rag-to-riches story is the inspiration behind his academy, which receives its first intake of players in May next year. Held at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus, the academy will host 42 non-league players across five days and offer elite coaching as well as the opportunity to train and play in front of scouts from professional clubs.

Sat alongside his agent, John Morris, who is the co-founder of the V9 Academy, Vardy talked about wanting to “give something back” after his own experiences in non-league football. Released from Sheffield Wednesday at the age of 16 for being too small, Vardy spent seven years with Stocksbridge Park Steels and another two with Halifax and Fleetwood Town before breaking into the professional game with Leicester at the age of 25.

“I think you have got to give everyone the full time to develop, to see how big and strong they become, up until 21,” Vardy said. “It is a long time to keep someone on, for teams to hope you are going to fulfil that potential. But [it cannot be right if] you’re telling them six years previously. When I was released, I was only 4ft 11in, so I probably was too small. Two months later I had a massive growth spurt, so who knows what difference it would have made. I doubted myself as soon as I got released. It was my boyhood club, I had made them the highlight of everything. To be told at that age I was not big enough or strong enough was hard to take. The important thing was playing non-league football and enjoying it again, but it was a long hard process.”

For information about the V9 Academy, see www.V9academy.co.uk

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City FC won the 2016 English Premier League title on a sunlounger

 

 

 

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Yes he is a nob, but I don't normally wear my scarf at work, last week was an exception.

This twat just asked the home secretary if we vote to come out of the EEC would LCFC be allowed to play in the champions league... supposed to be  the chairman of the home affairs committee ...spouting this crap..god help the country...

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After reading Adrian Durham newest piece of tosh, I wonder whether he's the one drunk or the players he accuses of being intoxicated "all week":

 

... we are prepared to completely overlook anything remotely negative connected to Leicester City, and pretend it's all pure. Some are even calling it a fairytale. Try telling that to the ambulance service who were left short-changed when the club went into administration. That chapter of the fairytale was conveniently left out by the publishers.

What does our current owners have to do with the situation back then?

 

So while Leicester players were understandably drinking themselves into title-winning oblivion all week, and their captain was being dragged around Vardy's kitchen floor, we had to watch the massively overpaid lumbering figure of Yaya Toure on a walking sight-seeing tour of the Bernabeu pitch midweek in the biggest game of Manchester City's lifetime.

We have at least three Muslims within the squad (Mahrez, Benalouane and Inler) and I'm pretty sure they don't drink alcohol at all, same could be said about Kanté.

 

Vardy's unsavoury casino incident last summer has been quickly forgotten. John Terry can only wonder why he was never cut the same slack.

Both apologized for their antics, but it has to be said John Terry's reported tales of misdemeanor could probably fill an entire book. A London footballer's shortcomings now conveniently stuck under the rug to pave the way for some "Vardy-bashing".

Don't we all love to hate the "province"? You've got to give to Durham, at least he's trying.

 

There is so much to admire about Vardy. But the fairytale ignores some very real negatives. So the fairytale isn't actually true.

What else has been forgotten? The stadium is superb and earns them lots of money. But Leicester couldn't afford it. They built it, moved into it in the summer of 2002, and then a couple of months later, the club went into administration with £30million of debts. Hard-working people lost out massively. The company which built the stadium was forced to just forget about the final payment of £5.5m. The East Midlands Ambulance Service was left with a shortfall of £16,000. The romance of Leicester's title win makes this kind of story easier to forget.

Again, what does our success story under the Thai owners have to do with the situation when the stadium was built? Why doesn't the Daily Mail go after the real culprits? Or shed more light on the collapsed ITV deal, for instance?

 

Leicester are awaiting a fine for breaking Financial Fair Play rules two seasons ago. This has directly helped Leicester: Vardy was on the brink of signing for another Championship club when Leicester sent his wages through the roof, blasting the rivals out of the water. Wages Leicester couldn't afford, they broke the rules. Bournemouth did the same, running up huge debts and massive wages to take a 'risk', that word was used by Bournemouth chairman Jeff Mostyn by the way.

I beg your pardon?

 

"Build them up, then knock them down" is the rag life's motto. As long as it sells papers, who cares about the trustworthiness or validity of your statements?

I wonder whether we'll ever see Durham doing a piece on Manchester United's investments, Chelsea's financial interactions or Manchester City's overpaid squad. Or the fact that Tottenham's starting eleven is mostly paid for by the sale of one former player only.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3582034/Leicester-City-s-Premier-League-success-restored-faith-football-darker-fairytale.html

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After reading Adrian Durham newest piece of tosh, I wonder whether he's the one drunk or the players he accuses of being intoxicated "all week":

 

What does our current owners have to do with the situation back then?

 

We have at least three Muslims within the squad (Mahrez, Benalouane and Inler) and I'm pretty sure they don't drink alcohol at all, same could be said about Kanté.

 

Both apologized for their antics, but it has to be said John Terry's reported tales of misdemeanor could probably fill an entire book. A London footballer's shortcomings now conveniently stuck under the rug to pave the way for some "Vardy-bashing".

Don't we all love to hate the "province"? You've got to give to Durham, at least he's trying.

 

Again, what does our success story under the Thai owners have to do with the situation when the stadium was built? Why doesn't the Daily Mail go after the real culprits? Or shed more light on the collapsed ITV deal, for instance?

 

I beg your pardon?

 

"Build them up, then knock them down" is the rag life's motto. As long as it sells papers, who cares about the trustworthiness or validity of your statements?

I wonder whether we'll ever see Durham doing a piece on Manchester United's investments, Chelsea's financial interactions or Manchester City's overpaid squad. Or the fact that Tottenham's starting eleven is mostly paid for by the sale of one former player only.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3582034/Leicester-City-s-Premier-League-success-restored-faith-football-darker-fairytale.html

 

I appreciate that "journalists" want to find another angle, but it's not even new FFS, all this has been dragged up plenty of times before this season and nobody, outside a bitter handful, gives a shit. It is not a fairytale because we are perfect, it is not a fairytale because all of our players and fans and everyone ever involved at the club are perfect angels and always have been throughout our 132 years.

 

It is a fairytale because the chance of a club the size of Leicester with the players we have at our disposal winning the Premier League are miniscule, the odds were that low that even at  5000-1 hardly anybody backed us, that  means that of all those millions of gamblers out there thought the odds were too short to make worthwhile making a bet.

 

We have broken into a closed shop and given hope to anyone outside the established elite, we have done that with a chequered past and massive question marks over all of our players, we have done by having to play ugly football, and fight and battle and push the boundaries at every turn. Regardless we have done it by being the best team over the course of a season.

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I do wish people would talk about us without using the following words and phrases

Fairytale

5000/1

Vardy non league

Team spirit

It's so nauseating. You can't win a league title on ****ing team spirit alone, and if I hear "fairytale" or "5000/1" one more time I will go crazy.

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I do wish people would talk about us without using the following words and phrases

Fairytale

5000/1

Vardy non league

Team spirit

It's so nauseating. You can't win a league title on ****ing team spirit alone, and if I hear "fairytale" or "5000/1" one more time I will go crazy.

5000/1 fairytale.

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I see we made Have I Got News For You.

 

'Comedy' feeding off the tittle tattle, some true some false by 'comedians' who admitted to knowing nothing about football.

 

Some funny bits but mostly  :yawn:

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After reading Adrian Durham newest piece of tosh, I wonder whether he's the one drunk or the players he accuses of being intoxicated "all week":

 

What does our current owners have to do with the situation back then?

 

We have at least three Muslims within the squad (Mahrez, Benalouane and Inler) and I'm pretty sure they don't drink alcohol at all, same could be said about Kanté.

 

Both apologized for their antics, but it has to be said John Terry's reported tales of misdemeanor could probably fill an entire book. A London footballer's shortcomings now conveniently stuck under the rug to pave the way for some "Vardy-bashing".

Don't we all love to hate the "province"? You've got to give to Durham, at least he's trying.

 

 

The company which built the stadium was forced to just forget about the final payment of £5.5m. The East Midlands Ambulance Service was left with a shortfall of £16,000. The romance of Leicester's title win makes this kind of story easier to forget.

 

Again, what does our success story under the Thai owners have to do with the situation when the stadium was built? Why doesn't the Daily Mail go after the real culprits? Or shed more light on the collapsed ITV deal, for instance?

 

I beg your pardon?

 

"Build them up, then knock them down" is the rag life's motto. As long as it sells papers, who cares about the trustworthiness or validity of your statements?

I wonder whether we'll ever see Durham doing a piece on Manchester United's investments, Chelsea's financial interactions or Manchester City's overpaid squad. Or the fact that Tottenham's starting eleven is mostly paid for by the sale of one former player only.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3582034/Leicester-City-s-Premier-League-success-restored-faith-football-darker-fairytale.html

 

Can someone tweet him this:

 

 

 

A  little late, but I'm sure the interest makes up for it

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Can someone tweet him this:

 

 

 

A  little late, but I'm sure the interest makes up for it

Not forgetting all the money they've put into the Foxes Foundation

 

 
Once again the LCFC Foxes Foundation will aim to give back to its community by raising vital funds for a range of different local charities that make a huge difference to children and young people, health, education and human services in Leicestershire. 
 
The 2015/16 season will see the Lord Mayor of Leicester’s Appeal support two causes, including both Place2Be and the Spark Arts For Children, while the Royal Voluntary Service, Leicester Hospitals Charity Children’s Appeal, Warning Zone and Once, We Were Soldiers will all also benefit from the LCFC Foxes Foundation’s efforts. 
 
Established in 1993, Place2Be provides emotional and therapeutic services in primary and secondary schools, building children's resilience through talking, creative work and play. 
 
They currently reach 94,000 children in 235 schools across the UK helping them to cope with wide-ranging and complex social issues, from bullying to neglect and trauma. 
 
The Spark Arts For Children is a registered charity that offers children throughout Leicestershire the opportunity to discover and enjoy the arts as audiences, as learners and as creators of their own art. 
 
It creates an annual festival for children hosted by venues across Leicester during the summer. Throughout the year they also facilitate and commission a range of events and projects which complement and extend the work of the festival. 
 
Formed over seven decades ago and now celebrating their 75th anniversary, the Royal Voluntary Service help to combat loneliness by helping older people to maintain their independence and stay involved in the local community. 
 
Funds will be raised for the Leicestershire and Rutland branch, who offer friendship, help and support to reduce isolation and ensure older people are safe, warm and well in their homes across Leicester City, Loughborough, Coalville, Melton Mowbray and Wigston. 
 
Leicester Hospitals Charity Children’s Appeal works to provide the best possible facilities and environment for their patients, visitors and staff. Using money donated to the charity they improve patient areas and also invest heavily in state-of-the-art equipment to diagnose and treat patients. 
 
The organisation relies on government funding as well as donations and fundraising activities. They aim to upgrade the children’s facilities and equipment throughout the three Leicester Hospitals – the Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital. 
 
Warning Zone combines vital messages in a single stimulating and memorable experience which helps to prepare youngsters for increased independence and their transition into early adolescence. 
 
The core programme aims to foster an understanding of risk, consequence of actions, peer pressure and personal responsibility. 
 
Finally, Once, We Were Soldiers, are based in Leicestershire and provides support for former serving members of the British Armed Forces. 
 
Aimed towards homeless veterans, facing homelessness and veterans that have fallen on hard times, they support veterans who have served during all former conflicts. 
 
Raising vital funds for all these worthy causes would not be possible without the magnificent help of the Leicester City supporters, so to once again get involved with the LCFC Foxes Foundation’s 2015/16 fundraising campaign and arrange your own event, email lcfcfoxesfoundation@@lcfc.co.uk. 

Read more at http://www.lcfc.com/club/foxes-foundation/index.aspx#YAWbmZXLcgPB2AQ7.99

 

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I do wish people would talk about us without using the following words and phrases

Fairytale

5000/1

Vardy non league

Team spirit

It's so nauseating. You can't win a league title on ****ing team spirit alone, and if I hear "fairytale" or "5000/1" one more time I will go crazy.

This.

I've actually stopped reading and watching stuff related to us now because it's become so annoying and cringeworthy. It kind of makes a mockery of us. Idiots

We're the best football team in England. That's it. Next year we'll be the European champions. We have to go a third season to make this all stop.

#havingaparty needs to stop. Anything Vardy having a party related is becoming a little bit too much.

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all this fairytale little team nobody gave a chance to stuff would be slightly less annoying if we'd beaten man city or arsenal or man utd into second place. the difference in media approach to us and spurs is unfathomable considering nobody gave either of us a chance, neither of us have ever won the PL before and for about 2 generations worth of the population neither of us have been anything more than also rans who nobody really cared about except that night bale scored a hat trick at the san siro. 

 

that's the only bit that irks me. the way spurs fans and the media were going on like everyone wanted us to win to break up the big team monopoly, and everyone wanted spurs to lose because if they won it'd just be "same old same old". yeah, same old never happened before kinda same old. 

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I see we made Have I Got News For You.

 

'Comedy' feeding off the tittle tattle, some true some false by 'comedians' who admitted to knowing nothing about football.

 

Some funny bits but mostly  :yawn:

 

It was funny. Hislop literally has no interest in football and that's what's funny. Everytime ANY football club gets a mention, they point to Hislop for answers knowing he knows sod all... Merton, on the other hand, always gets his football stuff spot on. 

 

Was nice to see us recognised on my favourite tv programme.

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