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“Foxes never quit” has become Leicester City’s rallying cry, emblazoned across the players’ tunnel at the King Power Stadium as well as on banners held aloft by fans. And evidently it is true because just as most observers had seemingly accepted that Nigel Pearson’s team would be returning to the Championship with their bushy tails between their legs, the Foxes have gone on the charge. They are now tantalisingly close to breaking free from the relegation zone, a solitary goal behind 17th-placed Hull City.
After each of their 19 league matches before this win over Swansea City, Leicester’s players had walked off the pitch to find that they were still bottom of the league. Only three games ago they were seven points adrift of 17th place. Yet despondency never took hold. Although they have lost more Premier League matches than any team other than Queens Park Rangers, none of those defeats were severe enough to convince Leicester’s players that they were out of their depth. Their performances were generally encouraging. Pearson maintained that results would eventually come – and most people at the King Power Stadium shared that faith.
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