The derby nerves are already kicking in four days before the event but thankfully Moussa Sissoko has made me laugh out loud this morning…even though I almost also choked on my Cocopops.
Leicester 1 Newcastle 0: A positive team-sheet was named with no real shocks. By positive, I mean that neither Riviere or Gouffran started, nor did they get on the pitch (progress).
Rafa Benitez didn’t change much at Leicester but one change I would like to see on Sunday is for Andros Townsend to come in for a player who was entrenched in McClaren’s line-up, Moussa Sissoko.
In what proved to be the very final disastrous Steve McClaren selection, Siem de Jong was left out of the entire 18 man squad and saw the likes of Emmanuel Riviere start, whilst Yoan Gouffran, Henri Saivet and Seydou Doumbia made the bench ahead of him.
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has now been issued with a formal summons by parliament to appear before MPs to answer questions about his running of Sports Direct.
Leicester City are top of the league, with a team to be proud of…and he wanted to talk about the canal that runs through his village and the various pros and cons of that.