SWIRLING rain, slate-grey skies, biblical weather — welcome to the apocalypse. Should Leicester City win the Premier League then clear the landscape. Everything modern football believes about itself will be razed.
It’s a squad game. For the fifth league match in a row, Claudio Ranieri used the same XI — and with freshness and fearlessness, with quality and dash, those XI mastered, indeed humiliated, Manchester City.
It’s about money. Riyad Mahrez, man of the match, player of the season, cost £400,000: what City will pay Pep Guardiola every nine days.
It’s all about an elite of managers. Leicester would not swap Ranieri for a Pep Guardiola-Sir Alex Ferguson dream dugout. At 64, after 16 jobs and seven moves of country, Ranieri has found his club. Claudio is suddenly the Roman Brian Clough