Claudio Ranieri has a delicious plan to force Leicester to keep a clean sheet

If there are two things that Italians know it's football and food.

And Claudio Ranieri is combing both in an attempt to try and get his side to keep their first clean sheet of the season. Leicester have been the surprise package of the new Premier League season, and are riding high so far as they and Manchester City are the only two unbeaten teams left in the league. The Foxes are currently second in the table after last week's thrilling 3-2 win over Aston Villa, but are yet to perform 90 minutes without conceding. So at today's pre-match press conference ahead of the game with Stoke, the former Chelsea boss has revealed that he has a unique way to try and motivate his players

"I want to pay a pizza. But my players don't want pizza and maybe don't love pizza." "I said: 'When we make a clean sheet I pay for everyone to have a pizza'. Maybe they are waiting for me to say a good dinner instead." “I told them a clean sheet, I will pay a pizza to everyone but maybe they wait for me to improve with: 'OK a pizza and a hot-dog'!”

It sounds a like a bargain too good to be true. Now if only our junior coach had thought of something like that we may not have conceded 38 goals in one season. If only.