Ranieri will not ‘break’ Leicester dressing room with star names

Federation Internationale de Football Association president Gianni Infantino echoed the most common and apt description of the “beautiful story” as a “fairytale” after the 5,000-1 outsiders, who performed a miraculous escape from relegation last season, were crowned champions on Monday.

“I was only sure of the win after the final whistle of Chelsea-Tottenham”.

“Looking at the Leicester players celebrating on Twitter on Monday night, you could be forgiven for thinking that drink was about to be taken, so who knows how hard they have been partying this week”, the former England global wrote on Colossusbets.com.

“Gutted for @SpursOfficial but congrats to @LCFC, wonderful season! Love Football”, the Welshman tweeted.

11th-placed Everton face relegation-threatened sides Sunderland and Norwich City after Saturday’s trip to Leicester.

“The biggest sporting shock of my lifetime, and it’s only my team”.

Leicester go into this game as Premier League champions, making them the 24th team to win the English top-flight title.

“All season long people kept saying they’ll lose the next one, lose the next one but they kept winning and churning out results”, said Chelsea skipper John Terry after the outgoing champions’ fightback from 2-0 down ended Spurs’ hopes.

The Foxes had just survived the serious threat of relegation past year when they were made 5,000-1 outsiders for the title in August.

“It will be good to see them in the Champions League, it’s tough in there, but with a couple of good quality additions they could do well and I can see them in the top four again next season”.

“I never expected this when I arrived”.

He explained: “When Claudio was appointed I was open minded, I knew I had a contract for 18 months and was quite prepared to honour that if Claudio wanted me to still work here”.

Martinez, who continues to face opposition from Everton fans who have seen their season derail since the turn of the year, has urged his players to deliver a strong showing against a side who are likely to play with “a certain swagger”. Their focus, their determination, their spirit has made this possible.

“Their professionalism was fantastic because some players don’t play but when I did call on them the players did a fantastic performance”.

But it was achieved without the midweek demands of European soccer, which Leicester will have next season after qualifying for the Champions League for the first time.

The renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will set the tone with pre-match renditions of “Nessun Dorma” and “Time to Say Goodbye”, honouring a recent promise to his countryman Ranieri.