No one way happy that Claudio Ranieri was sacked as manager of Leicester City after their first leg loss to Sevilla but much of the reaction was over the top. Especially to those fans who sent death threats to Jamie Vardy.
The reaction to Ranieri's sacking was an outpouring of angry emotion from everyone. People hadn't cared about Leicester so much since, well they cared about them winning the title.
But in all seriousness it was the reaction of mainly non Leicester fans that blew up on social media as an unfortunate event of sacking a man who'd won the most unreal Premier League title became the death of football and something to be angry about.
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And some people took it even further. Talking to The Guardian Leicester striker Jamie Vardy revealed that Ranieri's dismissal, that had been blamed on the players, led to him getting death threats:
"The story [Vardy being responsible for the sacking] is out there, then people pick it up and jump on it and you're getting death threats about your family, kids, everything.
"I try to get on with it but when people are trying to cut your missus up while she's driving along with the kids in the back of the car it's not the best. It's happened plenty of times. It is terrifying."
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Vardy said that the threats had taken place "on social media, walking down the street, you name it"
And the England man went on to dispel the rumours that were issues between the manager and his players and denied that any meeting had taken place that got the Italian the sack adding:
"Basically if there was an issue you went and did it in the gaffer's office, man to man. Or you did it on the tactics board because he was happy for you to come in and put your opinion across.
"Apparently the meeting that got him sacked I read one story that said it was straight after the Sevilla game. Absolute shambles. It said I was personally involved in a meeting when I was actually sat in anti-doping for three hours.
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"The stories were quite hurtful. A lot of false accusations were being thrown out there and there's nothing us, as players, could do about it."
Vardy was the last player to score under Ranieri, the away goal against Sevilla, ending a run of 10 games without a goal and he's scored three times in the four games following the sacking, all games that Leicester have won.
The players deserve some blame of course but not death threats!
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