Claudio Ranieri: Fulham sack chief having had 'sentimental dreams of Leicester'

Fulham's exhibition going with the arrangement of Claudio Ranieri after Slavisa Jokanovic was sacked in November named the Italian as "chance free and instant for the Premier League".

Those words were tossed back even with Fulham's proprietors by means of a pennant displayed amid the 2-0 misfortune at Southampton that finished Ranieri's catastrophic 106-day rule at Craven Cottage.

What's more, they are made to look practically ludicrous given Ranieri's inauspicious record of three successes from 17 recreations as Fulham now looked bound to assignment, standing 10 points from Premier League security with just 10 diversions left.