Rediscovering the Leicester Way

He was Leicester’s performance psychologist when the Foxes won the miracle Premier League title. But looking in from outside the camp this season, Ken Way reaches past distance covered or pass completion or expected goals for an unusual metric to get to grips with a collapse.

“I’ve worked at many clubs and I had never seen a team spirit like we had. Christian Fuchs said they were just friends having fun on the football pitch. And that really epitomised the team spirit, the guys were just having fun.

“YouTube is full of wacky, and dare I say puerile, videos that the guys put up showing the ridiculous things that they got up to, just the fun and games.