Kante, perhaps, best sums up Ranieri's triumph.
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N'Golo Kante - with a "pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts" - Christian Fuchs and Shinji Okazaki have each added high-octane presences. Marc Albrighton and Danny Drinkwater seemed to be bit-part pieces shunted into Pearson's 3-5-2 system, but are now key components in the Large Hadron Collider of a 4-4-2 that has won the Premier League. The received wisdom that Ranieri has succeeded by merely aping last season's approach is far from true. Though it is easy to become swept up in the comedy of Ranieri, he has extracted all of the nous that comes with a near 30-year managerial career to perfection this season. Out of context, the latter quote appears straight out of the Pearson playbook of trembling fear, but it was delivered with a tongue-in-cheek bonhomie that has become Ranieri's trademark. "We have a training session and I ask them when they want to eat pizza. Kasabian are a fantastic rock band from Leicester and I think the guitar man, Serge, is Italian," went one soundbyte. "I want to see them as warriors for the fans. That is not to say Ranieri has been any less prolific in filling newspaper columns with his musings as he has built and built and built until Leicester have hit the very top. Inspirational, indeed, and far more humble than the abrasive Pearson before him. All beautifully held together by the canny, inspirational – yes, inspirational – Tinkerman." A team with a spirit and togetherness the like of which the game has seldom seen. "A collection of individuals who couldn't win a football match for love nor money a year ago have turned into an invincible force. "Oh how wrong I was, how wonderfully, spectacularly, blissfully wrong," the former England striker wrote in The Guardian in March. Now Ranieri is a champion and Lineker faces the prospect of presenting the UK's 'Match of the Day' highlights show in his underwear thanks to a mid-season Twitter wager. Greece's football chief Giorgos Sarris even went as far as to apologise for hiring Ranieri in the first place: "I take full responsibility for the most unfortunate choice of coach, which has resulted in such a poor image of the national team being put before the fans." "Claudio Ranieri is clearly experienced, but this is an uninspired choice by Leicester," club favourite Gary Lineker said upon the appointment, which followed the Italian's sacking as Greece boss after a four-game winless reign lurched towards the sack with a defeat to European minnows the Faroe Islands. Ranieri landed back on English shores in July after 11 years away as Leicester sought to build on last season's miraculous escape, only without the "I think you are an ostrich" madness that came with Nigel Pearson. Hazard wins the Premeir League for Leicester City!
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From the "uninspiring" proof that the managerial merry-go-round is a closed shop, to the Kasabian love-in and pizza-buying viral clip goldmine, to a bona-fide Premier League great - 2015-16 has been the making of Claudio Ranieri's legend.