Claudio Ranieri is the third manager to be fired directly following a championship season in the last five years. Despite that unprecedented success, the 65-year-old still fell victim to what appears to be a trend: win Premier League title one season and get fired the next. It happened first to Roberto Mancini in 2013, a year to the day after Manchester City took home the 2011-12 title. My little homage to somebody who wrote the most beautiful history in the Premier League,” Mourinho continued. “[He is] somebody that probably deserves to have the Leicester stadium named ‘The Claudio Ranieri [Stadium].’ And he’s sacked.

Source: Washington Post February 24, 2017 19:18 UTC