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#4 Ranieri will lead Leicester City to relegation from the Premier League
The 2014/15 season was a tough one for Leicester City, as they found themselves glued to the bottom of the Premier League table for four-and-a-half months between November and mid-April.
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A late-season resurgence saw them win seven of their last nine fixtures, however, and they ended the season in a respectable 14th place.
So when manager Nigel Pearson was fired in June and replaced by former Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri, the doom-mongers immediately began to pop up.
Leicester fans themselves were sceptical, as were plenty of writers and pundits. And to be frank it looked like they had good reason to be.
Not only had Ranieri not managed in the Premier League for over a decade, but he’d also lasted just a handful of months in his previous job – he’d been fired by the Greece national team following a loss in European Championship qualifying to the lowly Faroe Islands.
Former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp claimed he was “amazed” by the appointment while one journalist labelled it “baffling” and stated that if Leicester wanted someone to keep them in the Premier League, they’d gone for the wrong guy.
Even the bookies were against the Foxes, who were given odds of 1/20 to be relegated and 5000/1 to win the Premier League on the opening day of the season.
Everyone knows what happened next – against all the odds, thanks to a combination of smart signings like N’Golo Kante, unsung stars such as Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, a solid defence and a blistering counter-attacking style, Leicester ended up winning the Premier League is probably the biggest upset in the history of football.
While the fairytale came to an end in the following season – Ranieri was fired after a poor run – the argument put forward by so many, that he’d take them into the Championship, was proven wrong in the most dramatic way possible.
