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CLAUDIO – FROM OSCAR TO RASPBERRY

DAN BILLINGHAM looks at the reasons why Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri went from the top of the bill to the bottom in a matter of months

DAN BILLINGHAM
LEICESTER CITY

THERE was a joke doing the rounds as Leicester’s season plummeted towards its lowest point that the sequel to the planned Jamie Vardy movie was going to be awful.
I suspect though that if it were possible to produce true warts-and-all films, I’d be among those who’d vastly prefer watching the painful crash to reality in the sequel to the original Cinderella story of the title-winning season.
For much the s...

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