What Claudio Ranieri is doing with Leicester City has few precedents,but Osvaldo Bagnoli gave the people of Verona something similar in 1984-85 By Richard Hough for The Gentleman Ultra, portion of the Guardian Sport NetworkLeicester City’s improbable surge towards the Premier League title is a genuine sporting fairytale. This time last year Leicester were on the verge of relegation and they are on the brink of winning one of the most prestigious titles in world football. Gary Lineker says things like Leicester winning the Premier League simply accomplish not happen in the game.
He is wrong, or of course. Things like this accomplish happen in football,just not very often. In fact, you need to recede back more than 30 years to a romantic city in northern Italy that is more famed for Romeo and Juliet and its summer opera season than football to find a comparable achievement.
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Source: theguardian.com