Leicester City’s rise to the top of the Premier League caught everyone off-guard.
When this season started, the Foxes were tipped for relegation, not a title. But under the leadership of club captain Wes Morgan (and a few goals from Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez), they have defied the odds.
With six games left, Leicester have a seven-point lead and the impossible is beginning to look very possible.
Sunday’s game against Southampton was supposed to be a potential banana skin for Claudio Ranieri’s men, but captain Morgan fired home a header to give the Foxes all three points – and Harry Redknapp thinks the defender should be rewarded with an England call-up.
While it’s a nice (if somewhat reactionary) thought, there’s one massive problem with this. Although Morgan was born in Nottingham, the 32-year-old has been capped 25 times by Jamaica and is therefore ineligible for England duty.
Here's what Harry Redknapp says today about multi-capped Jamaican international Wes Morgan in the Telegraph 🙈😂 #lcfc pic.twitter.com/mNMLuwCggn
— Mr Geoff Peters (@mrgeoffpeters) April 3, 2016
It’s reminiscent of that time John Giles wondered why then England manager Fabio Capello had not yet called up Wales international Gareth Bale.
