It was a Premier League game against Liverpool where it all began for Craig Shakespeare.

He won that match in February - his first as Leicester's manager - but as he prepares for a reunion with Jürgen Klopp on Saturday, even he cannot have envisaged the drama of the seven months that have passed since.

Shakespeare has endured the ultimate crash-course in management after succeeding Claudio Ranieri, a chain of events for which the best coaching manuals can never prepare anyone.

As he settled into a chair in a suite at the King Power Stadium on Friday, he is still struggling to take in the tumultuous 23 games which have flown by since Ranieri's departure.

“That first Liverpool game feels ages ago now and when you sit down and analyse everything that’s happened in that time, it can be frightening,” he says.