Leicester City (1) 2 Claridge (17), Heskey (79)
Newcastle United(0) 0
Att: 21,134
Leicester: Keller, Grayson, Whitlow, Watts, Walsh, Prior, Lennon,
Izzet (Lawrence 90), Taylor, Claridge (Marshall 55), Heskey
Subs Not Used: Poole, Parker, Hill
Toon: Srnicek, Watson (Kitson 69), Beresford, Albert, Peacock,
Batty, Lee, Clark (Asprilla 69), Beardsley, Ginola, Ferdinand
Subs not used: Hislop, Elliott, Barton
In recent years Leicester City have been up and down more than the proverbial whore's drawers and I think I know why. Everything about the club is neither First Division nor Premiership, they're a club that can swing both ways.
Some teams just belong to a particular Division - Everton are positively Premier, Barnsley firmly First, Rotherham solidly Second and Doncaster thoroughly Third. Leicester are not, they seem destined to endure an eternal Premiership purgatory. Their stadium mirrors this. Two stands would not look out of place in the Vauxhall Conference, one end is OK but their new main stand has true Premiership pedigree. Their team is also a mixed bag. You've got a couple of carthorses who have obviously just been in the right place at the right time, a few First Division stalwarts that are good honest servants and then a few real gems that could hold down a place at any top club.
There were three players on Saturday that I'd put in that last category; Steve Walsh who is a tower of strength at the back or as a centre forward, Emile Heskey who looks like a huge talent in every sense of the word and the there's that American keeper who you used to play for Millwall - Kasey Keller. It was just our misfortune that on the day the carthorses looked like thoroughbreads, the stalwarts were like stallions and the gems really sparkled.
...to be continued... (got distracted by the Lennon thing)