Newport chief was in the toilet for his side’s first goal but he saw the rest as Rodney Parade went crazy over Leicester scalp EVERY LOOSER

NEWPORT chairman Gavin Foxall was flushed with embarrassment when he thought he had missed the club’s moment of history.

The League Two side’s top guy was in the loo answering a call of nature when Jamille Matt stunned Leicester with a 10th-minute goal.

And for so long it looked like the big striker’s powerful header was going to be the thing that decided this thrilling humbling of their Premier League opponents.

But the chairman shouldn’t have worried – there was plenty more where that came from in a dramatic last-gasp finish which saw Newport clamber over the line.

They had taken a bit of a battering in the second half but looked like holding out, until Leicester grabbed a late equaliser when Rachid Ghezzal thumped home a ferocious 20-yarder.

It would have been enough to finish off most sides but not Michael Flynn’s Welsh battlers, who had one more throw of the dice quite literally handed to them.

Leicester’s Marc Albrighton stuck his arm out to handle the ball in the 85th minute and ref Chris Kavanagh pointed straight to the spot.

Padraig Amond stepped up calmly, as if he hadn’t a care in the world, though it couldn’t have escaped him that history was in his hands.

He sent keeper Danny Ward the wrong way and the Foxes skittling out of the FA Cup.

The packed Rodney Parade crowd went wild, and who could blame them for this battling FA Cup victory?

It hadn’t taken too long for Leicester’s worst nightmare to look them squarely in the eye – just 10 minutes to be exact.

That was when the underdogs sprang an attack and completely took them by surprise.

It had seemed to be going to plan for the Premier League side in the opening exchanges when they came close to scoring.

Newport keeper Joe Day was called into action virtually from the off, first doing well to throw himself in the way of Ghezzal’s curling shot.

Shinji Okazaki forced Day to save again in the eighth minute, and then Ghezzal was denied again by the keeper, as the Foxes showed all the signs of trying to get the job done early.

But they were forced into a major rethink when Robbie Willmott launched a lightning raid down the right flank.

He sent a superb ball right across the six-yard box and Matt rose impressively to take Wes Morgan out of the equation and send a header in off the inside of the post.

Suddenly, you could sense in Leicester’s players that this was a problem they could really have done without. And who could blame them for that?

Albrighton thought he’d equalised only to see his shot strike a defender and fly over and Okazaki headed a great chance wide of the post.

As the second half wore on, it became like a game of attack and defence, with Leicester throwing everything at the minnows.

They did – but plucky Newport came up with the answer to book another big fourth-round pay day.

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