What a time to have your worst day of the season. Leicester’s below-par performance on the field, compounded by a damaging blunder from a key player off it, will spark fears of another dip late in the campaign that could deny them a place in the Champions League for the second successive year.
A defeat to their top-four rivals West Ham was bad enough. Wins for Liverpool and Chelsea didn’t help, either. What really put the seal on it was three players – including their most creative in James Maddison – excluded from the squad due to a breach of Covid-19 protocols.