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Yahoo
21-05-2025
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- Yahoo
🎥 Kasey McAteer's coming of age Leicester story alongside Vardy 🦊
Ball boys up and down the country dream of getting on the pitch alongside their footballing heroes. For some, the dream does become a reality as Leicester's Kasey McAteer proved by breaking into the Foxes' first team in 2023/24 before making 17 Premier League appearances this season. Advertisement 10 years ago, the 23-year-old was a ball boy up in arms on the sidelines as club legend Jamie Vardy was scythed down inside the penalty area. Fast forward a decade and McAteer celebrated Vardy's final goal for the Foxes in front of the King Power faithful on Sunday. To cap a memorable afternoon, McAteer struck the decisive second to lead Leicester to a 2-0 victory over Ipswich. 📸 Alex Pantling - 2025 Getty Images
France 24
13-05-2025
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- France 24
Forest striker Awoniyi has surgery after post collision
The Nigeria international, 27, collided with the post in the 88th minute of the 2-2 draw at the City Ground as he attempted to get on the end of a cross from Anthony Elanga while under challenge from the Foxes' Facundo Buonanotte. "The club can confirm Taiwo Awoniyi has undergone urgent surgery following an abdominal injury sustained during Sunday's match against Leicester City," said a Forest statement. "Everyone at Nottingham Forest sends their best wishes to Taiwo. "The club will provide further updates when appropriate." Awoniyi, who joined Forest from Union Berlin in June 2022, had only been on the pitch for five minutes having come on as a late substitute for Ibrahim Sangare. He tried to play on following prolonged treatment on the field, but the full extent of his injury was only discovered by medical staff on Monday. The way Awoniyi's injury was dealt with during the game was cited by Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis as the reason why he stormed onto the pitch after the full-time whistle to confront head coach Nuno Espirito Santo. With Forest chasing a late goal which would have bolstered their bid to quality for the Champions League, Awoniyi returned to action but was unable to move freely -- and Marinakis was unhappy a substitution was not made. "Everybody -- coaching staff, players, supporters and including myself -- we were frustrated around the injury of Taiwo and the medical staff's misjudgement on Taiwo's ability to continue the game," said Marinakis in an Instagram post issued later Sunday. "This is natural, this is a demonstration of the passion we feel for our club." The draw with Leicester, already relegated from the Premier League, took Forest's bid to qualify for the Champions League out of their own hands but did assure of them of a top-seven finish that will guarantee European football next season. But if two-time European champions Forest win their last two league fixtures, including a final-day clash with Chelsea, it might not be enough for them to qualify for the Champions League unless at least one of Aston Villa, Manchester City or Newcastle also drop points along the way.
BBC News
03-05-2025
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- BBC News
Leicester 2-0 Southampton: Derby County watching on
The end of the season can not come fast enough for against the second-worst team in the Premier League, the Saints were outplayed and lacked any sort of cutting dominated and the game was put to bed when Jordan Ayew added the Foxes' second before before the is likely that many Derby County fans thought this was the game that would see Southampton move clear from their longstanding, unwanted points tally still the Saints stay on course to equal Derby's 11 points from the 2007-08 point will do the job, but where does it come from? Arsenal have been second-best in the league this season, while Manchester City have recovered from their blip and are chasing Champions League looks like the trip to Everton, who are winless in their last three, on the penultimate weekend of the season is the Saints' best hope to get that all-important whether they can do it or not is another story altogether. Interim boss Simon Rusk will certainly need his side to put on a better performance than what they showed at King Power Stadium.
BBC News
02-05-2025
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- BBC News
🎧 Looking to the future
The latest episode of BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast has Leicester City striker Steve Howard stops by to discuss the Foxes' final four games and how Ruud van Nistelrooy can best use them to prepare for life in the Championship next to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
27-04-2025
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- BBC News
Foxes hold their nerve to edge tense win at Gloucestershire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (day three)Gloucestershire 252 & 151: Holland 4-32Leicestershire 262 & 146-8: Cox 47, Goodman 4-33Leicestershire (20pts) beat Gloucestershire (4 pts) by two wicketsMatch scorecard A nigh-on perfect morning's bowling from Leicestershire's in-form seamers saw the visitors record an ultimately nerve-shredding win at Bristol and strengthen their position at the top of County Championship Division Two as they stumbled over the line amid high tension in their chase of 143.A ruinous period of play for Gloucestershire, starting on Saturday evening with the wicket of Ollie Price and continuing into Sunday morning, saw them lose seven wickets for just 31 runs, the home side's fall starting at 87-1 and ending with them in dire straits at 118-8 after little more than an hour of day three. A mini-recovery then took them to 152 all out, leaving Leicestershire 143 to lost nightwatch Dom Goodman for a duck in the first over of the day, bowled by the impressive Ian Holland. The former Hampshire man thus extended his lead at the top of the division two wicket-takers' charts with his 19th scalp of the season, later wrapping up the innings to take his tally to a round that early dismissal, there were a couple of close calls against Cam Bancroft before he fell lbw to the persevering van Beek for a joint innings-high 43, and the very next ball Miles Hammond was caught at second slip by Louis Kimber off Ben more key wickets came and went in the blink of an eye, first innings star James Bracey chipping van Beek to Holland at mid-on and then Cam Green beautifully caught off an inside edge by fellow countryman Pete Handscomb diving away to his left behind the first hour had seen outstanding bowling by three of the Foxes' seamers, who did not concede a boundary until 70 minutes into the day, at which point Graeme van Buuren dispatched a Josh Hull full toss for four in the beanpole seamer's first over of the day. Two balls later however, the former captain was caught by Ben Green at first slip at the second agricultural hitting from Zaman Akhter saw Gloucestershire stage a recovery of sorts, but Hull yorked him to limit the damage and Holland returned to wrap things up, leaving the Foxes' batters to face one over before was enough time for Dom Goodman to trap Rishi Patel in front off the third ball of the innings, the opener having returned to action after recovering from a thumb injury sustained when fielding in just the third over of the first match of the season. Patel did not much enjoy his return on an untypically lively Gloucester pitch, scoring just one run across his two innings and his dismissal meant nine wickets had fallen for 64 runs before was no easier for the batters after lunch, when Dom Goodman, fresh from five in the first innings, rattled through the Foxes' top order, including reducing them to 0 for 2 after the first over as Rehan Ahmed was caught at cover by Cam Green after a three-ball innings that comprised a play-and-miss, a near run out and a Hill and Sol Budinger nudged the score up to 26 before, Bracey snaffled Hill's feathered edge. And it was 35-4 when Price held onto a cracker low down in the slips to see the back of Budinger. Ian Holland, seven wickets and a fifty in the match, could not hang around long, falling in Josh Shaw's first over to leave the innings in tatters at 42-5 and 101 still Handscomb and keeper Ben Cox, who had been hit in the chest and taken to hospital for a scan on Saturday, steadied the ship as the sun appeared and the pitch eased. Ball by ball, run by run, they advanced, although not without their fair share of scares. They had reached 100 when Singh Dale breached Handscomb's defences to revive the home side's fortunes and van Beek hung around with Ben Cox to add another 18 before he went the same was taken with 22 runs needed and three wickets in hand, Cox holding things together on 41. The two Bens showed real composure on the resumption, steadily ticking off the runs until, with eight needed, Cox was caught behind, also off Singh maidens ratcheted up the tension but Green rounded off a good personal game by hitting the winning runs to complete a hard-fought victory, meaning Gloucestershire have still not won at Bristol since September 2022, a run that now stretches to 13 Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
