{"id":408548,"date":"2026-04-20T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:04:08","slug":"leicester-city-are-foxes-doomed-in-battle-to-avoid-back-to-back-relegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408548\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City: Are Foxes doomed in battle to avoid back-to-back relegations?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leicester City are on the brink of relegation to League One and could go down as early as Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Foxes need to beat promotion-chasing Hull City to give themselves any hope of survival, but, even then, results elsewhere this week could still seal their fate.<\/p>\n

Relegation would complete one of the most unwanted full-circle moments in sport, with Leicester’s 5,000-1 Premier League title win of 2016 coming just seven years after they ended a one-year stay in League One.<\/p>\n

The demise that has them on the cusp of dropping back to the third tier a decade on from being crowned English champions, and just five years after lifting the FA Cup, has been alarming.<\/p>\n

It would be their second relegation in as many seasons and third in four years, having previously yo-yoed between the Premier League and Championship.<\/p>\n

Defeat by relegation rivals Portsmouth on Saturday<\/a> has the Foxes eight points adrift of safety with just nine points left to play for.<\/p>\n

The situation is dire and has Leicester fans angry – with one exchange with supporters provoking Leicester’s former England international Harry Winks to return a foul-mouthed verbal volley at supporters, external<\/a> as he boarded the bus back from Fratton Park at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Foxes goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, speaking to BBC Radio Leicester<\/a> without knowledge of his team-mate’s confrontation outside the ground, said he “can understand the frustrations” of supporters.<\/p>\n

The former Chelsea, Bournemouth and Stoke City goalkeeper says frustrations about this season are “shared” by the players – although acrimony among fans runs deeper than dismal results produced by a squad with one of the biggest pay packets in the division.<\/p>\n

Begovic says Leicester “will keep fighting” and argues that “everything is still possible” with three games left.<\/p>\n

“The belief is still there,” the former Bosnia-Herzegovina international said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a big game against Hull, and if you win that, things can look a lot different. Of course we need a bit of luck and a bit of fortune on our side, but we keep pushing as much as we can.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester City are on the brink of relegation to League One and could go down as early as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-408548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}