CRAIG SAYS READY TO BE FULL COACH

Leicester, Feb. 28: Leicester City caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare said he was ready to take on the role full-time after overseeing an impressive 3-1 win against Liverpool in his first game.

Shakespeare was promoted from his role as assistant following Claudio Ranieri’s sensational dismissal last Thursday, nine months on sfrom Leicester’s Premier League title triumph.

Leicester looked a team reborn in Monday’s game, prevailing through Jamie Vardy’s first-half double and a sweet Danny Drinkwater strike, and Shakespeare said the experience had whetted his appetite.

“Do I think I’m capable of it? Yes. Does it faze me? No,” he told reporters when asked if he wanted the job.

“But it’s the owners who decide and they’ll do their diligence and look. I think it’ll take its course. They’ll sit down and I’ll try and prepare the team as rightly as I can for Hull unless told otherwise,” he added.

Asked what Ranieri would have made of Leicester’s dramatic return to form, Shakespeare replied: “Knowing Claudio, he’ll say, ‘That’s football’.

“He said that to me on Thursday night and reminded me of that on Friday morning. The performance you saw tonight, I saw it against Man City (who Leicester beat 4-2 in December). We have done it, but not often enough,” he added. —