Leicester City fans denied chance to watch remaining away games on big screens at King Power Stadium

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The club are allowed to screen both matches within the hospitality areas of the King Power Stadium and announced they would do so on Saturday. But the Keith Weller Lounge, Walkers Hall and 1884 Sports Bar are only able to accommodate 1,600 fans per game.

Tickets for the screenings cost 5 for adults and 3 for under-18s and include a free bottle of beer or a bottle of water, with all profits donated to the LCFC Foxes Foundation.

Saturdays announcement followed a petition set up by two supporters, Kris and Donna Robinson, for the club and Leicester City Council to erect screens outside the King Power Stadium or elsewhere in the city to show the teams matches for the rest of the season.

A spokesman for the council said: LCFC has decided to show the two away fixtures on screens at the King Power stadium. Also, many pubs both in the city centre and other, neighbourhood family pubs, have paid very high commercial rates to screen the matches.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/25/leicester-city-fans-denied-permission--to-watch-remaining-away-g/

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Tennis podcast: Why Angelique Kerber is the Leicester City of tennis

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A year ago, Angelique Kerber was a solid but unspectacular player who scored the occasional impressive win, but seemed unlikely to threaten the very best players in the game for the biggest titles.

Now, after beating Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka to win the Australian Open, and arriving in Stuttgart to see her face on every poster, Kerber extended the impression that she is the best player in the world this year by winning the Porsche Open title.

In the Telegraphs latest Tennis Podcast, presenter David Law wonders if Kerber is the Leicester City of tennis, and will take the fairytale and run with it, winning further big titles along the way.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2016/04/25/tennis-podcast-why-angelique-kerber-is-the-leicester-city-of-ten/

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Martin O"Neill thinks Leicester City can become the most unexpected English champions since Nottingham Forest

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Former Leicester City manager Martin O"Neill believes Saturday"s stunning victory over Manchester City could spur the Foxes to become the most unexpected English champions since his Nottingham Forest side of 38 years ago.

Forest won the league by seven points in 1978 in their first season after promotion and went on to triumph in the European Cup in the following two years.

O"Neill, currently manager of Ireland, compared Leicester"s 3-1 away win over title rivals City to an equally stunning success just before Christmas 1977 when the Forest team he played in under Brian Clough won 4-0 at Manchester United.

"We scrambled up from the old Second Division in third position and up until Christmas time people were saying our bubble would burst," he told BBC radio"s Sportsweek programme.

"It never did. The Old Trafford game was really something special and you can compare this great result for Leicester at the Etihad." Rated as 5,000-1 outsiders before the start of the season after avoiding relegation last May, Claudio Ranieri"s side now top the table by five points with 13 games to play. "While the other teams are faltering, as well as being involved in other competitions, they just keep going on," said O"Neill, who is in San Francisco with his Ireland assistant Roy Keane to watch the NFL Super Bowl.

"When you are opening up a gap and games are running out, you"ve got to give yourself a chance. They are winning games with less possession than the opposition but that has continued month after month. "If ever there was an opportunity, this is it. And it should give hope to every other team." Leicester, managed by O"Neill from 1995-2000, play away to another of their title rivals Arsenal next Sunday.

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-martin-o-neill-thinks-leicester-city-can-become-the-most-unexpected-english-champions-since-nottingham-forest-2175052

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