Martin O’Neill: Leicester give us all right to dream

It was Damien Duff, speaking earlier this week in Dublin, who floated the notion of Ireland perhaps ‘doing a Leicester’ at Euro 2016 — at least in terms of narrowing the gap with teams deemed to be their superiors, like group opponents Belgium and Italy.

As a former manager of the club, Martin O’Neill understandably retains a special interest in the fortunes of the Foxes this season but while he thinks a comparison with his Irish team has validity, he’s not about to stick his neck out and predict that they too are about to go all the way in France this summer.

“I think Leicester doing brilliantly gives people a bit of hope and hopefully they can go on and win it,” he said after his latest squad announcement yesterday.