The Leicester City manager is being celebrated for his kindly personality but his knowhow helped deliver the Premier League title and we might not have seen the last of his achievements Leicester City are great, aren’t they? We can all agree on that. Not content with winning their first title at ludicrous odds and embarrassing the Premier League’s so-called big guns along the way, the Foxes then showed how celebrations should be done, with action at Jamie Vardy’s house, the long-awaited trip to a pizza restaurant and – an especially neat touch – an impromptu photo opportunity with a Footballer of the Year lookalike on the team bus. Truly English football will never be the same again, or so we hope. Bookmakers’ calculations are never going to be the same again either, football writers’ predictions for the coming seasons are going to become a lot less brash and breezy, while clubs on the lookout for a new manager will have a lot more to ponder now that the man in charge of a Greece team humbled by the Faroe Islands has just become the most popular face in football. Continue reading...
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