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ne pas inspirer - The tale of Claude

In my life time there has been a lot Leicester managers, David Pleat was the first I can remember. He was fired in January 1991, managers come and go it's the life of a football club. Very few clubs in the world has a manager that lasts as long some like Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger. In October 2017, Leicester City decided that Craig Shakespeare wasn't doing a good enough and fired him. Shakespeare had effectively recovered the team from Ranieri's awful second season, continued the run in the champions league getting to the quarter finals and keeping City safe. The season after winning the league was a let down and Ranieri's attempted switch in tactics allied to poor recruitment had consigned  Leicester to suffer. Shakespeare wasn't perfect, his love of Andy King was baffling but Shakespeare had been a good servant to the club and was owed the chance after keeping City up. City looked and found their man in the form of Claude Puel. Puel had been rather successful...

Its not a game, its more than that.

I was born in 1981 in Leicester, an industrial town in the centre of England. Leicester has a Rugby Union team, a football team and a county Cricket team. I grew up in a household that watched sports. Football, Formula 1 and Rugby Union where constants in our house growing up, although my dad often watched a sport where someone threw a ball, yet it was called Football? The NFL was just starting to be broadcast in the UK. I watched F1 with my dad (when the remote control wasn't flying at me) and football seemed to be on alot. One of my earliest memories was of the Hillsborough disaster. It was the days of the old 1st Division and ITV had the big match on every Sunday. Then the world cup happened, in 1990, I was 8 during the world cup. I remember England playing Ireland, my Dad and my mum's friend husband watching England draw with Ireland. The World Cup went on, I was enthralled by England's game against Cameroon. England won! We were through to the semi finals of the World ...