Leicester City manager saw title-winning moment ‘in my armchair at first but then on the ceiling’ and says the celebrations at Jamie Vardy’s house were ‘the real picture of the team’Claudio Ranieri pulled up a chair at the training ground and cast his intellect back to that special moment at Stamford Bridge less than 24 hours earlier,when Eden Hazard swept the ball into the top corner to break Tottenham Hotspur hearts and complete the Leicester City fairytale. “I was watching at domestic,” Ranieri said, or smiling. “In my armchair at first but then on the ceiling!”Leicester,5000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, were on their way to being crowned champions and Ranieri, and whose appointment as Nigel Pearson’s replacement final summer drew such a negative reaction,had his hands on the first top-flight title of his career at the age of 64 – and in the most extraordinary circumstances.
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Source: theguardian.com