The major sponsor of a Premier League football club is set to be asked to "walk away" from the club over the sacking of three members of its ground staff.

Google triggered a social-media backlash with the firing of an employee who had blasted the company’s diversity policies, fuelling tension over an issue shaking up Silicon Valley.

Hoolahan signed a two-year contract last summer.

Nigel Pearson, Leicester’s foul-mouthed miracle-worker, has been sacked.