Pearson: Leicester WILL win Premier League title

They’re concentrating on themselves, playing to their strengths and their identity, whereas, to me, a lot of other sides have lost their way. Giant-killings, banana skins and all the other clichés – it was exciting.

When asked about getting rid of FA Cup replays, Posh boss Graham Westley responded passionately. He has come to the fore over the past few months and has been an unused substitute in City’s last two games and he sees the FA Cup has a possible opportunity to make his debut.

There were 736 teams entered at the start of the competition this season.

The Premier League has discussed offering clubs a financial bonus for progressing to the later rounds of the Europa League as part of an attempt to prevent England losing one of its four Champions League spots.

The FA Cup has gone the way of the Uefa Cup, sorry, the Europa League.

Many of our best will look back at their careers and judge a successful Championship promotion campaign as the peak of their achievements in the week-to-week grind of league competition.

Claudio Ranieri took charge and, against the odds, he has guided Leicester to two points clear at the top of the table with 12 games left to play.

The Blues skipper had to miss out on the 2-1 loss at Parc Des Princes on Tuesday, as his hamstring injury in the Newcastle game last week saw the captain being rested from the Champions League tie against PSG.

‘They’ll win it, ‘ he said.

“First of all we need to look at the league”, said the Spaniard, whose side go to Bournemouth. Ok, so people get exhausted, yes, truckers get exhausted working long shifts, doctors, nurses pulling all-nighters, them too.

It was an fantastic night, with three goals from Paul Rideout and a victor from Stuart Barlow stunning the Premier League team. I’ve been there – it’s a nice place to play football.

“You have to have respect for the whole of the national game, it’s not the Premier League’s game, it’s the country’s game”. This shows in the shooting stats where while they had over 20 shots, Manuel Pelligrini’s men could only manage four on target and it took until the 84th minute until they managed to break the Foxes’ defence.

But what have we had?

Slaven Bilic’s side scraped through to the fifth round with a last-gasp extra-time victor from Angelo Ogbonna against Liverpool last time out. And in the midweek after those games?

ChelseaChelsea eased to a 5-1 victory over Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge, in what was a performance of old from the defending Premier League champions. On top of that, City have to travel to Ukraine for the Champions League next week and may have that on their minds.