Brendan Rodgers paid the price for Leicester’s drive to balance the books
F or Brendan Rodgers, it had been business as usual on Sunday. The Leicester manager called his players into the club’s Seagrave training ground to analyse the bitterly disappointing last-minute defeat at Crystal Palace that left them in the bottom three and he was fully expecting to take charge of the meeting with Aston Villa on Tuesday until the bad news was delivered by the chairman, Aiyawatt “Top” Srivaddhanaprabha.