Lunch with 96-year-old mother is important for Claudio Ranieri

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will not watch Tottenham Hotspur’s pivotal meeting with Chelsea because he is flying home to Italy to take his 96-year-old mother out for lunch

Manchester: Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will not watch Tottenham Hotspur’s pivotal meeting with Chelsea because he is flying home to Italy to take his 96-year-old mother out for lunch. Following their 1-1 draw at Manchester United on Sunday, Leicester will be crowned champions for the first time in their 132-year history if second-place Tottenham fail to win at Ranieri’s former club Chelsea today.

Claudio Ranieri

The 64-year-old Italian said he had a pressing matter to attend to. "Tomorrow night I am on a flight," Ranieri told reporters at Old Trafford. "Because now I go back to Italy, after I finish the press conference, and I come back at the same time of the match.

"I will be the last man to know the result. I want to meet my mother. (She is) 96 years old and I’d like to go to have lunch with her."

Asked where his mother lived, Ranieri flashed his inquisitor a smile and said: "I don’t tell you."

While Leicester could have secured the Premier League title with victory at Old Trafford, the odds remain stacked overwhelmingly in their favour.

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