Some cities and towns are famous for sport, Barcelona, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Milan, New York, Sydney whilst other large cities do not have a great sporting tradition - Berlin and Oslo to name two.
Leicester can certainly be named as a City where sport plays a prominent role, Football (less said about the result or the display by Town the better!) was followed straight after and only a few hundred metres away by a top of the table Rugby Union match and in the evening Speedway was also on offer, with the recently formed Lions riding and if that was not enough you could watch 40 over Cricket match on the Sunday at Grace Road.
The area around the Walkers is a real sporting hotbed, with the neighbouring rugby Ground at Welford Rd and on the site of the old Filbert Street ground we even have a road named after a Leicester born favourite- Lineker Road, and even as we left the football we even passed a club cricket ground between the Walkers Stadium and the Rugby.
In the city centre, they even have a statue to mark a period in the 90's when Football, Rugby and Cricket all managed to win a cup or a title - a true sporting city.
p.s I did bump into Marcus Evans, seemed a decent bloke (for a Lib Dem supporter) so not sure he needs to keep up this idea of not having a public presence at the club- but maybe he should get rid of Clegg!
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