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| Nobody is a nobody if we quit excuses and fight Leicester-style |
According to a BBC
pundit, "They were a team of cast-offs and bargain buys written off before
the season had started, led by a manager who had been sacked in five of his
previous jobs."
But as the wise King
Solomon, once said, the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the
strong. The Foxes have proved that much is true by outfoxing their
opponents with a fighting spirit that adds sense to the motivational saying
that it's not the size of the dog but the fight in the dog that makes all the
difference.
Their never-say-die attitude saw them come from behind to
win, and in several contests won 1-0; endearing themselves to football lovers
with the knack with which they defended their narrow wins.
One of my favourite
preachers Clovis G. Chappell, once said that the very poetry of living is in
lifting the lower into the higher and changing the useless into the useful.
That is what Claudio 'Tinkerman' Ranieri has achieved with his team of
"cast-offs and bargain buys". They identified with him because he too
was a 'nobody' who had been sacked by many clubs for failing to win anything
worth winning. The Italian also rummaged through his bag of experience and
found many tricks that kept his players energised; he bought them pizzas for
wins, gave them quick holidays and turned them into his best friends.
They rewarded his faith in them with robust performances;
their fearlessness and hunger for success shooting through the roof match after
another. Now the underdogs are the new Premiership champions; a fascinating
odyssey that demonstrates that nobody is truly a nobody if they quit excuses
and 'do a Leicester' by activating a heartened fight inherent in every person.
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