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Lord, what fools these mortals be
Leicester’s owners have proven as wily as the Foxes’ namesake, argues ROGER DOMENEGHETTI

Here we go again, eh? Another week another set of clueless trigger-happy owners giving a manager the bullet. Makes you wonder how these people made their money in the first place.

This time it was Leicester, and Gary Lineker didn’t hold back. “Was always a miracle,” he tweeted from the warmth of the TV studio, or perhaps the comfort of his La-Z-Boy, “but it’s even more remarkable really that Leicester won the league given the ineptitude of those that run the club.” You tell ’em, Gary!

Yet, whatever Lineker — a man who, lest we forget, has never run a club — might spout from his electronic soap box, a dispassionate assessment of the Srivaddhanaprabha family’s ownership of Leicester City shows they’ve hardly put a foot wrong.

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