shouldering the fucking winner in the Old Trafford replay against Don Revie’s Leeds – the revival came as some relief. Now at last they had some fresh vainglorious drivel to spout.
Yet Claudio, being kind and full of smile, was not Abramovich’s type of guy. The Russian hired José Mourinho from Porto in his stead, and soon enough Chelsea champions became. Back then in the year of our lord 2005, who would have believed this reversal a decade hence – which of them would this year get the sack, and which as coaching genius be wide acclaimed?
Yet even as Mourinho his stellar reputation built, winning the Champions League in nations twain, and many league titles and domestic cups besides, Ranieri collected little but the boot.
Which clubs (and country) sacked Ranieri. Aye, and when:
Napoli: 1993
Chelsea: 2004
Valencia: 2005
Juventus: 2009
Inter Milan: 2012
Monaco: 2014
Greece: 2014
That he was lately twice fired within a year tended ill for Leicester City, or so we thought. Especially when he ended his stay in Greece by putting the hell (and what hell!) into Hellenic.
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