Ranieri sacked

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:58 pm

dermotdermot wrote:I only wish it was as easy as this to get rid of completely useless Labour leaders.

Already been done, Blair and Brown when ages ago.

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:02 pm

As you call yourself South West Claret, I gather that you hail from the Scilly Isles?

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:20 pm

Your gathering skills need some improvement, good night.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:37 pm

Absolute berks Leicester City, I hope your club folds for real this time never mind just get relegated.

You will be up there as one of the most hated clubs in Britain now after being one of the best for neutrals.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:44 pm

Disgrace. Almost as much of a disgrace as the leicester fans who want him out.

Fans wonder why players and managers have no loyalty these days. Well im sorry this is why. Treating good men, club legends like this.

Sure they may be struggling. But Ranieri earnt the right to be able to at least see this season out. Winning the title should have him enough credit in the bank for a good few seasons.

Theyre a 1-0 home win from the champions league quarters.

His only mistake is not strenghtening the back four. But he showed loyalty to his players that achieved the impossible. Its a shame his loyalty hasnt been repaid in ewual measure by the board, the players or even the fans.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:44 pm

Elizabeth wrote:This Leicester fan is such a bullshitter. Ranieri was the Right person at the Right time. Give me strength , Leicester were a relegation contender at any time. What does he mean by the right time? Right time for what? To win the Premier League. Ranieri completed a MIRACLE.

If you think it was just down to Ranieri, then you just prove my suspicion that you know nothing about my football club. He brought a few key ingredients, the the main ingredients were already there for him to work with. Top notch scouting / team building by Steve Walsh, a fantastic team spirit created by Pearson, an industry leading sports science department to condition and keep players fit.

Ranieri said it himself, he praised the set up from day one and said a number of times that he didn't change much. He didn't have to because he inherited a team and players that had found there way in the league. The club had worked out who was good enough for the league, who wasn't and what we needed and had bought to fix old issues from the "great escape". We'd played well most of the season then, but it finally clicked at the end, so lets not forget we'd been on league winning form for the last quarter of the season just about before he even arrived.

He added a calmness and his way with the media took the pressure off all year, we were very gung ho. His negative outlook made us better at the back, unfortunately over time the negativity took over and that's what we're seeing now.

He wasn't the person who did it alone. It was years of hard work and a perfect combination of things, take away Pearson before him, wouldn't have happened. Take away the recruitment, wouldn't have happened.... take away Ranieri, wouldn't have happened. Exactly the right person at the right time.

It's a different story now, things have changed. He's removed staff, started to "tinker". Had more say on recruitment, not managed the squad correctly to keep the spirit.

Elizabeth wrote:Then we get that this is a long term decision. Rubbish, this is a decision brought about the immediate short term FEAR of relegation from a league that brings football clubs quite a decent percentage of a BILLION pound just for one season which if sustained gets you closer to that mind boggling figure.

It's with both in mind, anyone associated with the club will know relegation is very likely. But stay up or go down, Ranieri was not the man to lead us forward. He's failed in team building and moral / spirit and those things are key.

Elizabeth wrote:This is a financial decision not a football decision . I may not be a Leicester fan but I still have good nostrils .

It's a football decision, if he had managed to make us look remotely competitive then he would still be here. Of course finances will come into the thinking, they are business people. But it's the football on show and the results that dictate this.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:45 pm

Truly pathetic this, if Dyche did what CR did with our club he'd have a damn statue outside turf moor and a contract with no expiry date on it.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:48 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Disgrace. Almost as much of a disgrace as the leicester fans who want him out.

Fans wonder why players and managers have no loyalty these days. Well im sorry this is why. Treating good men, club legends like this.

Sure they may be struggling. But Ranieri earnt the right to be able to at least see this season out. Winning the title should have him enough credit in the bank for a good few seasons.

Theyre a 1-0 home win from the champions league quarters.

His only mistake is not strenghtening the back four. But he showed loyalty to his players that achieved the impossible. Its a shame his loyalty hasnt been repaid in ewual measure by the board, the players or even the fans.

Ranieri earnt the right to basically relegate us is what you're saying, absolute rubbish. The owners were as much a part of us winning the league as he was, they have paid for the right to try and keep us up.

If you think he's only made one mistake, then I don't know what to say. This club do not make decisions like this rashly, they have backed Pearson through some awful times because people always had total faith in what he was trying to do and how he was running the club. Claudio was one small cog in a machine last season, do not be fooled into thinking it was all his work... it was not, not in the slightest.

Cubanclaret · Post by **Cubanclaret** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:49 pm

What surprises me is the complete lack of faith that the Leicester fans and board have in the manager AND PLAYERS to put a sequence of results together to survive relegation.
This is a team who lost 3 games in 38 prem games (wasn't it 47 if u include the last 9 games of the 14/15season?)... I watched last night's game in Sevilla and thought they were well under the cosh but rode their luck and ended up with a terrific result. It certainly didn't look like they weren't playing for their manager. I think Leicester and Blackburn are of a similar ilk, completely at odds with their own identity.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:50 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:Truly pathetic this, if Dyche did what CR did with our club he'd have a damn statue outside turf moor and a contract with no expiry date on it.

But it's not Dyche, he has built your team and much of your club. This is like someone coming after him, benefiting from all his hard work by giving you one great season... then dismantling all the good work that go you there in the first place.

gogogadgetlegs · Post by **gogogadgetlegs** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:51 pm

Ridiculous from a side who are (clearly not 'at best') relegation avoiders.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:52 pm

They were going down with him in charge.
As a burnley supporter I would of preferred he stayed.
Take away the sentimentality and it's the right decision.
That's my view anyway

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:52 pm

If we could win the league next year in exchanfe for relegation tjhe year after id snap your hands off

Relegations happen. Titles especially for clubs of our size happen once in a lifetime if you are lucky. You should be enjoying it whilst its happened. You are still champions you know.

Leicester fans arrogance was epitomised by singing to us 'champions of england you'll never sing that.' Well I am afraid weve done it twice.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:53 pm

Cubanclaret wrote:What surprises me is the complete lack of faith that the Leicester fans and board have in the manager AND PLAYERS to put a sequence of results together to survive relegation.
This is a team who lost 3 games in 38 prem games (wasn't it 47 if u include the last 9 games of the 14/15season?)... I watched last night's game in Sevilla and thought they were well under the cosh but rode their luck and ended up with a terrific result. It certainly didn't look like they weren't playing for their manager. I think Leicester and Blackburn are of a similar ilk, completely at odds with their own identity.

I have no faith in us being able to do that with Ranieri sending us out to fail game after game. I'm telling you, we were going down. It has been obvious for a long time sadly. We probably still will, as it takes more than a quick fix to sort this seasons damage.

gogogadgetlegs · Post by **gogogadgetlegs** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:53 pm

foxedup wrote:But it's not Dyche, he has built your team and much of your club. This is like someone coming after him, benefiting from all his hard work by giving you one great season... then dismantling all the good work that go you there in the first place.

Ranieri hasnt dismantled any good work, the team have. Lazy, overpaid wasters.

gogogadgetlegs · Post by **gogogadgetlegs** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:56 pm

Going down we hope - 1 of 3 not us.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:59 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:If we could win the league next year in exchanfe for relegation tjhe year after id snap your hands off

Relegations happen. Titles especially for clubs of our size happen once in a lifetime if you are lucky. You should be enjoying it whilst its happened. You are still champions you know.

Leicester fans arrogance was epitomised by singing to us 'champions of england you'll never sing that.' Well I am afraid weve done it twice.

But that wasn't the choice, it wasn't a decision we had to make. The management this season has been abysmal, just too much to even go into without writing war and peace. You just expect basic competence, and it's been lacking since pre season.

There is no arrogance, we don't think we're anything more than we are. Just because a few kids sitting around the away end don't realise football existed pre sky don't paint us all like that.

For the long term health of this club, it was best to remove Claudio. Whether that's now or after relegation in the summer. I'd rather it be now do actually stand a chance of staying up, but accept that we're probably still going down.

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:00 am

Leicester destined to win the Premier League 2015/16 after ending a bog awful season the year before with a good run. Really? Any team can go on a run of good results but it's crazy to believe what you've just claimed. You were rubbish for two thirds of that season . Yeh go on then, it all clicked into place.

Long term decisions for clubs are not made at this time of the season. However you want to justify you support for Ranieri's sacking.

gogogadgetlegs · Post by **gogogadgetlegs** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:04 am

Complete disregrard for a hero of Leicester. More than your wildest dreams could have wished for. Now Fk off....

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:07 am

gogogadgetlegs wrote:Complete disregrard for a hero of Leicester. More than your wildest dreams could have wished for. Now Fk off....

Could of been worse.
They could of tried to set his wife's coat on fire

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:07 am

gogogadgetlegs wrote:Ranieri hasnt dismantled any good work, the team have. Lazy, overpaid wasters.

All I can say is you know very little about my football club if you think it's just that.

Who chose to sack backroom staff, Ranieri.
Who chose to change training, Ranieri.
Who chose to change diets, Ranieri.
Who ignored his recruitment team leading to them leaving, Ranieri.
Whose player choices were crap, Ranieri.
Who promised players they could leave in the summer, but then wouldn't let them, Ranieri.
Who promised pay rises and didn't give them, Ranieri.
Who chose to not sign a single player in the three areas that most obviously needed changing, Ranieri.
Who stockpiled so many players in certain positions, expensive players couldn't even get on the bench, Ranieri.

I could go on and on, I get it... everyone thinks it was all down to him we won the league. He's a nice harmless bloke and he gives the press what they want. But it just couldn't go on from a fans or an owners perspective.

He'll be forever adored for his part of what happened last season, but sentiment only lasts so long. The more odd decisions that were made, the quicker that ran out I'm afraid.

gogogadgetlegs · Post by **gogogadgetlegs** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:12 am

foxedup wrote:All I can say is you know very little about my football club if you think it's just that.

Who chose to sack backroom staff, Ranieri.
Who chose to change training, Ranieri.
Who chose to change diets, Ranieri.
Who ignored his recruitment team leading to them leaving, Ranieri.
Whose player choices were crap, Ranieri.
Who promised players they could leave in the summer, but then wouldn't let them, Ranieri.
Who promised pay rises and didn't give them, Ranieri.
Who chose to not sign a single player in the three areas that most obviously needed changing, Ranieri.
Who stockpiled so many players in certain positions, expensive players couldn't even get on the bench, Ranieri.

I could go on and on, I get it... everyone thinks it was all down to him we won the league. He's a nice harmless bloke and he gives the press what they want. But it just couldn't go on from a fans or an owners perspective.

He'll be forever adored for his part of what happened last season, but sentiment only lasts so long. The more odd decisions that were made, the quicker that ran out I'm afraid.

Cockwomble approach to justifying why Ranieri was sacked - player choices, training, promises to leave in the summer, pay rises - get the fk out of here you Judas.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:14 am

Elizabeth wrote:Leicester destined to win the Premier League 2015/16 after ending a bog awful season the year before with a good run. Really? Any team can go on a run of good results but it's crazy to believe what you've just claimed. You were rubbish for two thirds of that season . Yeh go on then, it all clicked into place.

Long term decisions for clubs are not made at this time of the season. However you want to justify you support for Ranieri's sacking.

Errrrm... who claimed it was destiny because of a run of games at the end of the season. It's a fact though that we ended that season in league winning form. Our upturn started long before he arrived.

You know nothing about our club, so please don't sit there acting like you know more. The simple facts are that he was part of it, wouldn't have happened without him, but it wouldn't have happened without Pearson, or Walsh either.

He's not a football genius, his team building and managing of spirit have been shown up this season. He didn't need to worry about that last year. It was a once in lifetime coming together 100's and probably 1000's of things that made it possible.

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:14 am

You asked, 'Who chose to change diets?'

Where were your complaints last season when Premier League championship winning manager Claudio Ranieri was ordering pizza for the whole squad?

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:15 am

gogogadgetlegs wrote:Cockwomble approach to justifying why Ranieri was sacked - player choices, training, promises to leave in the summer, pay rises - get the fk out of here you Judas.

He's only got himself to blame. You have no idea what you're talking about fella.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:17 am

Elizabeth wrote:You asked, 'Who chose to change diets?'

Where were your complaints last season when Premier League championship winning manager Claudio Ranieri was ordering pizza for the whole squad?

The change in diets happened this summer, all of those things happened this summer. He left well alone last season.

You do know the difference between a joke and the actual changing of players long term eating habits don't you?

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:21 am

You are right, I know a joke when I see one.

foxedup · Post by **foxedup** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:22 am

Elizabeth wrote:You are right, I know a joke when I see one.

So cutting...

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:36 am

Ok , one last retort.

Let's say Leicester are relegated. How will you feel then? Do you think it will all have been worth it to see your club lose its dignity , all for the sake of money?

I think in the back of your mind you believe you will stay up. If you do I hope you feel kicking the man who won you the league title was worth it. Especially when he was down and needed your support.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:42 am

I haven't read the thread, but this was on the cards. Irrelevant what happened before, right now they are awful comparatively.
Forall the plaudits they received, and rightly so, this season the form is so far off the mark it beggars belief.
The owners cannot risk this sort of immediate collapse. It is a business after all. He was good, then he wasn't, now he's gone.

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:51 am

Maybe it wasn't a business in the 2014/15 season then Wile .

As I remember that season , and I know you will correct me if I am wrong, but at the same stage as this season didn't Leicester stand by their manager when they were in an even more perilous situation than they are in now. And didn't the manager they stood by then take them on a great run to finish the season well clear of relegation.

If I am wrong and they took a business reason to sack the then manager and replace him with another manager who saved them, then I might rethink things.

I say might and not will because I still think football is the loser in this case with Ranieri's sacking.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:57 am

they may have been more tolerant had the team simply dropped a few places and settled , they didn't though.
The example you cite is fine, but this is now about THE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS, massive difference. This division is where the money lives, losing the status of premier league alone is bad enough, losing it after winning it is unacceptable.

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:17 am

Oh , sounds like you are saying there is a difference between Ranieri who won Leicester the league and Pearson who kept Leicester at the bottom of the table for the first two thirds of the season. That is a logic I don't understand.

Business is business surely not , the stakes to stay in the Premier League in 2014/15 were just as high then even though the money has since increased.

If Pearson was able to keep Leicester up then against far worse odds, what's to say Ranieri couldn't have kept them up now.

Cubanclaret · Post by **Cubanclaret** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:10 am

'He changed the diets.'
Vardy stopped taking performance enhancing drugs.

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:29 am

They've joined Palace on my need to go down list, morally bankrupt the pair of them

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:42 am

The refs started seeing Vardy's dives.

Huth & Morgan couldn't manhandle players as much as they used too with the rule changes.

Kante was gone, but not replaced, and he was probably the main key to them winning the title.

Maybe the billionaires are worried about having to write off another £200 million to get out of the championship?
It took them long enough to get promoted last time after spending silly amount of money.

They should've driven Vardy to Arsenal themselves because last season is going to be the best season he ever haves in the top flight.

The team stagnated, other clubs knew how to beat them this season.
I think it was Giggs who said that each season had to be forgotten about at the start of the next one, even if a medal/trophy/title had been lifted.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:00 am

The correct decision 100%, he has clearly lost the dressing room and they were almost certainly getting relegated with him in charge. When a manager has lost the dressing room there is absolutely no going back, whether you're Mourinho at Chelsea or Ranieri at Leicester. Why should Leicester sit and watch the club be relegated? Should they have just accepted it?

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:23 am

absolute fraud club.

Deardeary · Post by **Deardeary** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:39 am

"Champions of England you'll never sing that" sung to us by more than a few Leicester fans earlier this season, for that, clapping sticks, and the bankrupt swindle they pulled off a good few years back, hope this lot go down. As for being a neutrals favourite? Not for me and many others I know. I'm happy that no one likes us and we don't care, time for Leicester to get used to a similar tag.
Claudio's sacking was inevitable, but please don't pass this off as a long term strategy, that's garbage.

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:01 am

He had to go.

Leicester have been a complete shambles this season , and no one man is bigger than any football club. The be all and end all of any Premier league club is to stay in the league no matter what, as the financial consequences can be dire.
I can see someone coming in and turning this lot round within a couple of games.
This really is bad news for all clubs apart from Leicester in the bottom half of the league

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:04 am

foxedup wrote:If you think it was just down to Ranieri, then you just prove my suspicion that you know nothing about my football club. He brought a few key ingredients, the the main ingredients were already there for him to work with. Top notch scouting / team building by Steve Walsh, a fantastic team spirit created by Pearson, an industry leading sports science department to condition and keep players fit.

Ranieri said it himself, he praised the set up from day one and said a number of times that he didn't change much. He didn't have to because he inherited a team and players that had found there way in the league. The club had worked out who was good enough for the league, who wasn't and what we needed and had bought to fix old issues from the "great escape". We'd played well most of the season then, but it finally clicked at the end, so lets not forget we'd been on league winning form for the last quarter of the season just about before he even arrived.

There's some alternative facts that would make Trump say "Whoa whoa whoa, steady on"

I love the bit I've highlighted there the most. Prior to that upturn in form the Leicester fans had driven Pearson off sanity cliff with their slating of him and the team, he's still not recovered. "Played well most of the season"

Swearing at fans, throttling players, ostrich comments... Karanka looks the model of stability next to the gibbering wreck Leicester's fans reduced Pearson to, all because they couldn't support him and his players through their first season back in the top flight.

All the Leicester fans, fickle bunch of plastics that they are, quickly forgot that as soon as a couple of wins came along and then Ranieri took them to the title which has caused them to become even more entitled. I'm glad the wider world is cottoning onto this now, was hard to stomach all the fawning over them last season.

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:06 am

So called modern day football never ceases to amaze me. The man who did the impossible has now been sacked.

The Leicester players need to have a long hard look at themselves, when they came to Burnley they were by far the worst team I have seen here this season and that includes Lincoln and Bristol City. To have gone from Premier league champions to that is incredible.
At least Ranieri will have an improved cv.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:38 am

The only winner here is Claudio Ranieri.

He's the miracle worker who won the league with a team probably incapable of avoiding relegation without Kante. It was a miracle. Incredible. Kante apart, Leicester players were average at best before 2016 and are average again. Vardy has always been a nasty, irksome striker with a low goal to game ratio, with the exception of last year when everything he hit, from anywhere, somehow hit the net. And the seven top teams in the league had a shocker. If they did the same this season West Brom would be champions. But you get the impression the players actually believe they're as good as City, Chelsea, Arsenal et al when they're not as good as us or Watford, and slightly better than Sunderland.

Ranieri worked a miracle to be sacked less than a year later by a sleazy club. If they stay up he might have kept them up anyway. If they go down he'll be the man who won the league, and was sacked, and then they went down. Ha!

He walks away with a deserved four year pay-off - neutrals are all fond of him, and neutrals see Leicester as a nasty, tacky, dishonest club.

I really hope the vastly overpaid, severely limited, dishonest and rather stupid bunch of journeymen go down.

vinrogue · Post by **vinrogue** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:01 am

With Ranieri in charge I wanted Leicester to avoid relegation, now they are on my yes please relegate all these players and remind them that they play for a TEAM not just for money alone.

So that now makes it Leicester, Boro and one more to be decided on my wish list of "anyone but us".

Goodclaret · Post by **Goodclaret** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:02 am

Guich wrote:The only winner here is Claudio Ranieri.

He's the miracle worker who won the league with a team probably incapable of avoiding relegation without Kante. It was a miracle. Incredible. Kante apart, Leicester players were average at best before 2016 and are average again. Vardy has always been a nasty, irksome striker with a low goal to game ratio, with the exception of last year when everything he hit, from anywhere, somehow hit the net. And the seven top teams in the league had a shocker. If they did the same this season West Brom would be champions. But you get the impression the players actually believe they're as good as City, Chelsea, Arsenal et al when they're not as good as us or Watford, and slightly better than Sunderland.

Ranieri worked a miracle to be sacked less than a year later by a sleazy club. If they stay up he might have kept them up anyway. If they go down he'll be the man who won the league, and was sacked, and then they went down. Ha!

He walks away with a deserved four year pay-off - neutrals are all fond of him, and neutrals see Leicester as a nasty, tacky, dishonest club.

I really hope the vastly overpaid, severely limited, dishonest and rather stupid bunch of journeymen go down.

Reading between the lines I have a feeling you aren't too keen on The Foxes Guich?

kentonclaret · Post by **kentonclaret** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:22 am

The same football pundits and commentators who expressed shock and incredulity at the appointment of Raniieri are now the very same pundits and commentators expressing shock and incredulity at his sacking. At least they are being consistent I suppose.

We now go through the whole rigmarole of every PL manager being asked for their opinion of the sacking at each daily news conference and this being replayed ad infinitum on SSN.

SalisburyClaret · Post by **SalisburyClaret** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:25 am

The fairytale is over, "Sport's Greatest Ever Achievement" has come to an end. The charming story of one team's overspending to the point of bankruptcy, the team who lost their stadium only to be bailed out by their council and who then overspent all over again. They then became the darling's of the media who skilfully ignored their financial dealings and the racism of their main striker and sold the non-football public on the "story".

Sadly the story has come to an end, the club's owners have publicly lied to the fans and sadly revealed it's only ever been about money and they couldn't care less about Leicester or even football itself. It's not a football fairytale at all - or anything resembling one. It never has been.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:26 am

Goodclaret wrote:Reading between the lines I have a feeling you aren't too keen on The Foxes Guich?

I think it dates back to a game I vaguely remember when I was a lad. I think Linekar was playing, I think we had two players sent off and I think Alan Stevenson was one of them. I can't exactly remember as I was in a blind fury and have disliked them ever since. Not one to hold a grudge though

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:32 am

Liked Ranieri even when at Chelsea. If they go down his achievements and the fairy tale will be greater. Players greed has diluted their hunger to over achieve again. Sad reflection of modern footballers.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:50 am

He'sjust like everyone's favourite uncle, that's why you all liked him, the truth is he failed miserably after such an achievement. If it was Big fat Sam, nobody would care less.