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I would love to see Sevilla go through
at 11:13 15 Mar 2017

It's a complex issue and there is far more to it than people "downing tools" as the press would have you believe. This all stretches back the summer really... the club as a whole was still on a lap of honour when the season started, awards and adulation being thrown at us. Up until a few weeks back Ranieri is off every week collecting one award or another.

There was just a sense of, that was the greatest moment the club will ever witness... what now? With a bit of thought the club should have put the trophy away as soon as we got it and gone back to being Leicester. Preseason against non league teams etc rather than hobnobbing it with PSG and Barcelona etc all around the world.

I came into the season as a fan of 35 years with no hunger or desire. A weird sensation, going from last seasons drama where every game was massive... to Hull away and starting all over again. It was hard to find that motivation again. I don't blame the players for feeling the same, they are human and like me experienced the best thing they ever will. The manager and club should have done more to get them hungry again and protect them from limelight.

So we came into the season like that, then Ranieri does all the things I've mentioned which just makes matters worse. By the time the desire comes back we're just drained of confidence because we've been smashed left right and centre every week.

What changed when he went was that everything behind the scenes was re-set. Training and diets went back to normal, staff who'd been pushed to one side this year came back into the equation, tactics changed and we were allowed to press and chase people down again, we still played direct, but under Ranieri he'd become obsessed with just punting it long constantly, it was totally aimless... and the biggest thing of all was the press battering the players got.

I've never seen the team so fired up as they were against Liverpool. I felt it as well... for the fist time in a long time the fire was in the belly again. Yes people will argue they are pro's and it should be like that all the time. But the real world isn't like that, I can't have a go at them if as a fan I'm feeling exactly what they are.

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I would love to see Sevilla go through
at 10:41 15 Mar 2017

Look, can we get this right. Nobody sh*fted Ranieri, he sh*fted himself.

People seem to forget that before he arrived over the last third of the season we were in top 4 form and the last third we were in league winning form. This all started before he arrived.

That's not taking everything away from him, he added a few crucial elements. But anyone thinking he was some miracle worker are wide of the mark. When he arrived he was told to keep the staff and work within our old framework. Which he said himself he did... he admitted not changing much.

This season the club gave him some rope and he started sacking backroom staff, changing training, changing diets, changing tactics. Weird selections, weird subs, shi* signings.... I could go on. He hung himself with the extra rope the club afforded him.

Nobody shafted him, the reality was he was no longer capable of getting the best out of this team. The more influence he exerted, the worse we got.

He'll be admired he forever, but there were few tears from match going fans when it happened. Because it was plainly obvious to anyone who watched us that we were in deep deep trouble, the sort of trouble that's hard to come back from if you go down.

The club made the correct decision. I'm sorry that upsets neutrals, but you were more Ranieri fans than you are Leicester... you're not the ones paying to watch us. No one man is bigger than the club and no one man was responsible for what's happened to us.

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