The Hammers' meeting with the Foxes on Sunday could decide which African stars make it into the Champions League next season
Only in this, the most surreal of seasons, would Sunday’s Premier League meeting between West Ham and Leicester City have Champions League implications.
It is a marker of the twilight zone reality which the world has lived over the last year, constrained as it has been by the outbreak of Covid-19 and the reaction to the pandemic. However, to speak of it only in those terms would be to downplay the brilliance that has characterized these two sides’ campaigns.