{"id":393685,"date":"2026-04-23T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:11:08","slug":"leicester-city-wes-morgan-sad-as-foxes-relegated-to-league-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393685\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City: Wes Morgan &#8216;sad&#8217; as Foxes relegated to League One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Jamaica international Morgan made 324 appearances in his near decade-long stay with the club, having joined the Foxes from East Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was part of the team that won promotion as Championship title-winners in 2014, led them in the &#8216;great escape&#8217; as they narrowly avoided relegation a year later and then went on to skipper them to the famous Premier League title win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his time at the club, he featured for the Foxes in the Champions League quarter-finals and played in the Europa League before finally calling it quits after they claimed the FA Cup for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan says he treasures those years of success and feels they &#8220;need to be enjoyed&#8221; &#8211; even now, when the club is at one of the lowest points in its existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure the memories of our successes are still quite fresh in the minds of fans, so it is difficult,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me, the time we had 10 years ago, the special moment, needs to be celebrated and talked about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Jamaica international Morgan made 324 appearances in his near decade-long stay with the club, having joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-393685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}