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LEICESTER GOING DOWN THE DRAIN?

CHAMPIONS CONTINUE ROT


The monumental story that captivated the entire world is fast becoming a proverb. Leicester City’s steady decline is  bringing the ghost of the catastrophic title defense of Manchester City, who got relegated from the First Division in 1936/1937. The foolish dream Leicester nursed that became a loud reality last season, now really looks foolish as the foxes are looking doomed for the drop.

With no premier league win or even a goal this year, Leicester is on a free fall and another 1-0 loss to Millwall in the FA cup, ahead of a gargantuan test at Sevilla now leaves them with a very big battle to avoid the horrid story of a sham of a season after a campaign of grand achievement. Leicester City has been tad unrecognizable this season and Claudio Ranieri’s men are in deep trouble especially after losing 2-0 in a six-pointer against fellow relegation fighters, Swansea City. The morale seems to be out of the window and the decline has been staggering and monumentally embarrassing.

Leicester city now have a big job ahead of them and the next couple of games are quite difficult and they need to start getting points on the board. The stark loss of form of the likes of Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy has to be considered, while N’golo Kante’s switch to current leader’s Chelsea in the summer, continues to be a very glaring reason for the foxes’ grand capitulation. It is inevitable for the defending champions, who they are still until May at least to begin to face the reality of actually getting relegated as they are so in there in the relegation zone. Stuck in 17th place with a paltry 21 points from 25 games, just one above the relegation zone and a whopping nine adrift of safety, the reality could not be any more glaring.

Some questions have been filtering around the club about the future of the man that engineered the realization of the foolish dream, Claudio Ranieri. Should he be sacked? I would not know and besides, he too is beginning to appear as bereft of ideas on how to nip this brewing catastrophe in the bud as he has reverted back to the “Tinkerman” we knew at Chelsea, changing the team every other week. What I think though is that they should rally round and heed Ranieri’s clarion call for them to become gladiators. It is time to forget how they accomplished that foolish dream last season and remember how they surprisingly beat the drop the season before last else, a loud disaster is in the offing.

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