His players.. if they can stay up

Leicester players with pizza whenever they kept a clean sheet but is planning a different meal while also claiming they must defend like “pirates” to stay up.

“I have to promise something more. Pizza is not enough now. I don’t know. Let me think. It’s better everybody goes to McDonald’s,” smiled Ranieri.

“Fulham concede a lot of goals. I’m an Italian manager. For us Italians it’s important to maintain the clean sheet.

“Now for me it’s important to put in the brain of my players this philosophy.

“Play football, play well, but when you lose the ball I want to see you with an anchor, like pirates.

“The players must show me this – heart.

“Now we have our family on the pitch.

“They must think this, ‘Our families are on the pitch and we have to save our family.’

“I will ask them how they want to save the family.

“It is clear. Very easy.”