The success of Leicester City will be pored over for management lessons
IN FOOTBALLING terms, Claudio Ranieri, an affable Italian, has found a way to turn water into wine. Mr Ranieri manages a club in England, Leicester City, which historically has not been very good. On May 2nd his team were crowned champions of the English Premier League, a competition more watched than any other on the planet, and reliably won—including in every one of the preceding 20 years—by one of four much bigger clubs. The Foxes had been 5,000-to-1 to win the title on the season’s opening day.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “What do the Foxes say?”
From the May 7th 2016 edition
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