Brendan Rodgers probably wasn’t trying to channel Leicester’s other most successful manager since Martin O’Neill when he said that his target for the season was 40 points. It was Claudio Ranieri’s regular refrain in 2015-16, too, even up to the stage when Leicester had 38 before Christmas of what proved a title-winning campaign.
Ranieri’s tongue was increasingly wedged in his cheek but he under-promised and overdelivered to an extraordinary extent. Rodgers’ FA Cup win gives him a case to be ranked as Leicester’s second greatest ever manager, behind only the Italian, but he risks under-promising and still underdelivering.
