Leicester's King urges team-mates to seize title shot

Nick Mashiter 04:08 03/03/2016
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  • Focused: Andy King.

    Leicester midfielder Andy King has called on the Foxes to finish the job and not let their title dreams end.

    King scored in Leicester’s 2-2 draw with West Brom on Tuesday as Claudio Ranieri’s side dropped two points in their Premier League challenge. And the Welshman insisted the Foxes cannot afford to blow all of their hard work during the run-in.

    He said: “We have to make sure we finish strong to actually achieve something rather than say, ‘We had a good three-quarters of the season and it fizzled out’.

    “It has been brilliant, it is hard to put your finger on it at the moment because we haven’t actually achieved anything this season yet. But we are enjoying the ride, I speak for everyone when I say we are playing full of confidence as you have seen but 10 games to go is a long way.”

    The Foxes have not dropped out of the top four since October and King dismissed suggestions only qualifying for the Champions League would be a disappointment.

    “No, I don’t think anyone in there is thinking that. We are absolutely buzzing where we are at this stage to even be considered in that conversation and that sort of breath,” he said. “People are saying Champions League football which is brilliant but with 10 games to go there is a lot of points to be won so we have to make sure we are there or thereabouts.”

    Tony Pulis says if the Foxes are crowned champions this season it will be more momentous than when Nottingham Forest achieved the feat.

    Forest, under the great Brian Clough, shocked the football world in 1978 when, in their first top-flight campaign following promotion, they won what was then the First Division title.

    Similarly, Leicester’s transformation in the past 12 months has been incredible.

    “It’ll be a little bit like Forest, with Cloughie when he took them up in the 70s. It’d be that big, I really do think,” said Pulis. “But it was different then, the divide then wasn’t as great as the divide is now between those who’ve got it and those who haven’t got it.”

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