Italian is the bookmakers’ favourite to be the next Premier League manager to be sacked after Leicester’s fourth Premier League defeat in a row
It was this weekend last year when the dream started to take hold. “So if you’re just joining us #lcfc are leading 3-0 and Robert Huth is on a hat-trick” was the wonderful tweet that Leicester City posted from their account during a victory at Manchester City that convinced Claudio Ranieri and his players, as much as the watching football world, that something incredible was happening.
Twelve months on and the fairytale has turned into a nightmare. Leicester, make no mistake, are in real danger of becoming the first top-flight champions to be relegated since Manchester City in 1938. A fourth successive Premier League defeat leaves them two points off the bottom of the table before a potentially make-or-break trip to Swansea next Sunday that could shape their own survival prospects as well as Claudio Ranieri’s future.
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