LEICESTER TO JUSTIFY LINEKER’S BT EXIT

Getting time off work for midweek games abroad is tricky, so Leicester nut Gary Lineker has decided to simply pack in the night job. The poacher turned presenter says he’s given up his role as BT Sport’s Champions League frontman in part so he can follow the Foxes with his sons in the Europa League, for which they qualified by finishing fifth last season.

“It’s time to do things that I’ve always promised myself I’d do... how many opportunities will we have?” Lineker pondered on Twitter. This, though, will be his beloved side’s third season in European competition since 2016- 17, when they made it to the Champions League quarter- finals after seeing off Sevilla in dramatic fashion. Leicester will now take their place in the Europa League group stage for the second season running, hoping to fare better than last season’s run to the last 32 and their limp exit to Czech champs Slavia Prague. Better dust off that Romanian phrasebook, Linksy...