Sitting atop the Premier League table, Leicester City clearly are in the driving seat in the chase for the English top-flight title this season, and the shrewd Claudio Ranieri will doubtless help the King Power Stadium club retain their new-found dominance for the years to come. Thanks to their Hollywood rise to prominence, Tottenham Hotspur’s
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It’s the start of February, 23 games played and on top of the EPL table is a team that managed to confirm their status for this 2015/2016 Premiership season with a late charge for survival the previous season. After 23 games in the 2014/2015 season, Leicester city were rooted to the bottom of the table
There was a sense of deep worry among Leicester City fans back in the summer who, after the Foxes had survived via a late dash out of the relegation zone last term, dismissed manager Nigel Pearson and replaced him with Claudio Ranieri, with the latest entries on his C.V distinctly underwhelming. Esteban Cambiasso, so pivotal
Leicester City’s high-flying team has been glittered with numerous outstanding performances this term. The Foxes, who have lost just two league games all season, have undoubtedly been this year’s surprise package – as Claudio Ranieri’s side sit in second place, just two points behind Arsenal after 20 league games. Obviously, the two star players who
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We’ve pretty much ran out of superlatives to describe Leicester City’s incredible rise to the top of the Barclays Premier League table. The Foxes team is littered with players who are playing well beyond their expectations, and midfielder Danny Drinkwater is another Leicester star who has really caught the eye this term. The former Manchester
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Leicester City’s rise to the top of the Barclays Premier League table under their new boss Claudio Ranieri has been nothing short of extraordinary. The Foxes haven’t just got lucky, they’ve got there on merit and done it in some style, too. When you look at Leicester’s incredible rise to the top, the names that
Just three years ago Jamie Vardy was firing Fleetwood Town to promotion from the Conference and in doing so earned himself a £1 million move to Leicester City, then of the Championship. It seemed bemusing that Vardy, whose background has taken in the glamour of Stocksbridge Park Steels and Halifax Town, would be receiving good
Even the most hopelessly optimistic and deluded Leicester City fan must be pinching themselves right now. When the Foxes triumphed in an emphatic 5-3 victory over the Manchester United last season, few would have predicted that a year on they would be battling it out for the top spot in the Premier League. Without meaning
Quick Facts: Name: Jeffrey Schlupp Age: 22 Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany Position: Left back/winger Club: Leicester City Jeffrey Schlupp is undoubtedly the reason why Leicester City are in the English Premier League; so impressive that he has been voted Leicester’s players as the Player of the Year at the end of the 2014-15 season alongside being named
Sunday evening marked the end of Greece’s woeful Euro 2016 qualifying campaign which saw them win just one of their ten games to leave them rock bottom of a group that contained the Faroe Islands. Now onto their third manager in just under a year, Greece’s qualifying run was started by Claudio Ranieri and it was
Let’s take a look at Riyad Mahrez as he has has now scored four goals for the season with only three games gone. So far, arguably, he is the player of the season and will be a contender for player of the month. However, there is one great floor in his play and it could
Perhaps it should not come as a shock that Leicester City are reportedly lining up Guus Hiddink to succeed Nigel Pearson as manager. It has been the ambitions of their Thai owners that have previously seen them hire Sven Goran Eriksson and now in the market for a similarly high-profile name, the 68 year old
There has been something unbecoming to Nigel Pearson’s season with Leicester City. A campaign in which the manager has kept the club in the Premier League with one of the most encapsulating tales of great escape has been marred by unsavoury outbursts at the media as well as his own fans, as well as
Rickie Lambert was there first. The original rags to riches story in Roy Hodgson’s England era, the striker who came from Macclesfield, Stockport County and Rochdale and completed his fairy-tale rise with a goal on his England debut against Scotland. That story has now been raised by Jamie Vardy, of Stocksbridge Park Steels as recently
Formation: 4-3-1-2 GK: Petr Čech He may no longer be the Chelsea’s first choice, but let’s face it, there aren’t many teams in the world whose starting XI wouldn’t include Čech if they had the choice. With his height and agility, Čech has made hardly any mistakes whatsoever in his ten years in the
Emile Heskey. Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey. Born in Leicester, Heskey is a professional footballer that played for Leicester City, Liverpool, Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic, Aston Villa, and currently plays for the Newcastle Jets, in Australia. He made 696 appearances in English football, scoring 151 goals in a span of 18 years. He also played regularly