“I used to cook, mainly Italian dishes. My wife always said that she fell in love with me because I cooked at the beginning. Not now, because there is no time.”
The last six months have been full-on for Enzo Maresca. No time for indulging his love of cooking or listening to one of his favourite Italian musicians, Pino Daniele.
He has been mostly living at the Seagrave training ground, devoting his time to rejuvenating the Leicester City squad he inherited and revolutionising the way they play following their shock relegation from the Premier League.Â
When he does get the chance he relaxes with his wife and four young children and, on the rare occasions they go out, he might enjoy “one, two, three, four, five glasses of red wine”.
“It’s the moment that I like.”
There will be little chance to relax this Christmas with the games coming thick and fast as Leicester look to cement their place at the top of the Championship after a record-breaking first half of the season. Saturday afternoon’s 3-0 win over Rotherham Birmingham United meant that Leicester moved on to 58 points (six points clear of second-placed Ipswich Town and 13 points clear of third-placed Leeds United), with 19 wins from 23 games, becoming the fastest side to reach that tally since the division’s…
