Colin Sheridan: Beleaguered Rodgers may have given up the battle

The Leicester boss will do well to survive the current crisis.

FOX HOLE: Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers shakes hands with Harvey Barnes. 

There exists a lexicon that breathes only in the oxygen of sports and political commentary…an ocean of verbiage obsolete in everyday conversation, but flourishing on the front and back pages of broadsheets and redtops alike. 

We’re talking “beleaguered” and “besieged”, and yes, we’re talking “embattled”. You’ll never hear words like these atop a high stool or in a college canteen, but you will read them, usually describing a cabinet minister three weeks into a crisis that will inevitably end in apology and resignation. Or a Premier League manager who has just received the dreaded backing of the board.