One of Leicester City's 2016 legends takes a trip down memory lane as Robert Huth opens up on Claudio Ranieri's coaching team and the game that he started to believe
11:12, 28 May 2026Updated 11:22, 28 May 2026
Robert Huth and Leicester City celebrate with the Premier League title
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Robert Huth and Leicester City celebrate with the Premier League title(Image: PA)
Robert Huth quickly established himself as a fan favourite among Leicester City supporters after joining from Stoke City. After helping keep the club in the Premier League, he went on to be a leading figure in the side that pulled off sport's greatest ever miracle.
The Foxes made history 10 years ago as they went from relegation survivors to champions of England within the space of 12 months. Leicester pipped Arsenal and Tottenham to the title under Claudio Ranieri, with the likes of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez establishing themselves as Premier League icons for their individual seasons.
Huth, who signed permanently at the King Power Stadium in the summer of 2015 following a loan from Stoke, played 35 times throughout the league campaign, missing the other three due to suspension. The German centre-back scored three goals for the Foxes, two coming in the 3-1 win at Manchester City and the other being the winner away at Tottenham.
"It’s absolutely flown by," he told LeicestershireLive. "If you said to me it was three years ago, I would believe you, that’s how quick it’s gone.
"I still think I could do a job! Clearly I can’t. It’s gone crazy fast. 10 years, it’s nuts. But we all move on from things, it’s gone too quickly for my liking.”
"For me it was the West Ham game at home," he added when asked when he thought they could actually do it. "I was always scared of letting success get to my head. The fear of losing was always greater than the joy of winning, that’s just me.
"I never got too carried away after the Man City game, I know a few of the players thought that was the game for them to make their mind up. For me it was West Ham, we had four games to go [after that] and the whole day, how it played out.
"We played on Sunday, things went against us, Vardy got sent off so he’s going to be suspended. Then he got an extra suspension. Leo [Ulloa] came on, scored the equaliser with the last kick of the game and all of a sudden, you’re losing 2-1 with one moment to go, to draw 2-2 and it felt like a win.
Robert Huth celebrates scoring a brace against Man City
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Robert Huth celebrates scoring a brace against Man City
"I got into the changing room and went, ‘why am I so ******* happy?!’ The way it went, Jon Moss had a bit of a stinker, he gave some decisions that on another day probably go our way. Afterwards, I can remember getting back into my car and thinking, ‘we’ve got four games to go and we’re five points ahead. That’s a big turnaround’. I couldn’t see a way of us not doing it.”
At the time, the centre-back was one of the most-experienced heads inside the dressing room alongside Marcin Wasilewski, Wes Morgan and Gokhan Inler.
However, his 'no-nonsense' approach on the pitch that supporters fell in love with during his time in LE2 was something he maintained with his teammates. “I see things as a professional," he explained.
"I don’t look at a changing room from a romantic place, you know, 'we’re all best mates'. There was always a huge amount of respect for each other, a lot of time was made for each other and there was genuine care.
"I always looked at changing rooms as work. I loved the guys, I got along with them, but that was a by-product of it all. But when you’ve got to go to work, you go to work and you have to push each other and say something uncomfortable every now and then.
"I found it easier to take someone out if they were my mate, it was professional. Sounds negative, but I just found it to be the case and easier.”
The coaching staff inside Belvoir Drive a decade ago consisted of faces that had worked for the club for some time. Behind Ranieri, who replaced the popular Nigel Pearson, was Craig Shakespeare, Steve Walsh, goalkeeping coach Mike Stowell, Paolo Benetti and Matt Reeves all made up the team behind the players.
Robert Huth
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Robert Huth lifts the Premier League trophy(Image: Getty Images)
And Huth believes their individual roles helped the players. “When you have a coaching team, each personality has to fill a different role," he explained. "Obviously we had Claudio, the boss, you just wouldn’t speak to him in a way that you would speak to Stowell or Shakespeare, rest in peace.
"Everyone knew their role in a way that teams work differently, sometimes you just need to let off steam. You’d go in, say it how it is, sometimes that’s the job of being a No.2 or goalkeeping coach. We lost and you steam in, all you want to do is let steam off. You don’t want to hear an answer, or a solution, you just want to call them whatever comes to your head for a few minutes.
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"That was one of Nigel’s success stories, he got a team together that had the ability to deal with different characters and confrontation at the time. The one thing you will have is fights on the training pitch and changing room, so it was important that the staff knew their roles and how to deal with stuff like that.”
This Saturday, Huth will reunite with his teammates from 10 years ago as the club celebrate the achievement with an Anniversary match against Premier League players of the past. LeicestershireLive will be at the King Power Stadium as fans attend to see their 2016 heroes in the flesh.