Dilly ding, dilly dong. Jamie Vardy’s having a party. Or he was a decade ago, anyway. Then Leicester, in the words of their director of football Steve Walsh, played three in midfield: Danny Drinkwater in the middle with N’Golo Kante on either side of him. Then, in the words of the club's Twitter account, for those just tuning into their away game at Manchester City, Leicester were 3-0 up and centre-back Robert Huth was on a hat-trick.
Premier League winners then, relegated to League One now, Leicester City have defied sporting logic and footballing finances again. They were the 5000/1 shot who won the title; scarred by that, the bookmakers can be far less generous to outsiders now, but Leicester have provided a different kind of surprise. Ten years on from the best season in their history, this has been the worst. After surely the greatest feat of overachievement in English football, one of the most ignominious instances of underachievement.
