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The Title Speech
Leicester, 2016 — The night he told them they could win the league
Nobody remembers Claudio Ranieri's team talk before the final whistle blew on Chelsea. What they do remember is a man in a Canada Goose parka — replica, obviously — who appeared in the dressing room at half-time, uninvited, smelling faintly of duty-free cologne and absolute certainty.
The Gozfather: "Lads. I've sold fake Rolexes to worse odds than this. You're going up."
Vardy looked at Mahrez. Mahrez looked at Schmeichel. Schmeichel looked at the door — which was locked from the inside, somehow. The security footage from that corridor shows nothing. Just a brief shimmer, like heat haze, and then an empty hallway.
Leicester won the Premier League. The Gozfather was already on a ferry back to the Isle of Man. His work, as always, was done.