Leicester ready for a ding- dong title fi nish

JAMIE VARDY sat blithely playing Call of Duty while Leicester’s north London rivals tried to hunt them down in midweek. But after the events of the weekend, the shoot ’ em up suddenly seems very real.

After Leicester drew with West Brom on Tuesday the leadership was theirs for the taking, but Vardy sat glued to his PlayStation as Arsenal and Tottenham misfi red the following night against Swansea and West Ham respectively.

“I heard a lot of people saying the results on Wednesday night went in our favour but I was playing Call Of Duty on the PlayStation,” said Vardy. “I had

‘ The manager just likes to have a laugh and a joke’

the football on in background, but it Liverpool v Man City.”

Vardy did join several teammates to watch the start of the game from White Hart Lane on Saturday at the team hotel as they prepared to face the Hornets in the evening kick- off.

As it was, for the fi rst time the north London derby was won by Leicester as the Foxes’ closest rivals cancelled each other out in a 2- 2 draw.

Harry Kane’s sublime goal might have been a winner, though equally Arsenal deserve credit for fi ghting back with 10 men to share the spoils.

It was Kane’s fi rst goal for fi ve games and broke the duck he has suffered since a broken nose turned him into a masked gunman last month.

“The mask doesn’t really bother me, but with all the rain it kept slipping off my face and I had to tighten it,” said Kane. “You could see by my goal it wasn’t the was