Martin Keown savages Craig Levein for Leicester City 'torture' as he reveals what ex Scotland boss was 'useless' at

Arsenal legend Martin Keown has savagely labelled Craig Levein’s time at Leicester City as “torture” and claimed his training sessions were “absolutely useless”.

The former England international hasn’t missed the former Scotland national coach in his stinging new biography ‘On the Edge’. The veteran defender played under Levein when he moved from Hearts to Leicester City in 2004 but was left far from impressed.

Keown said: “The (Leicester) board made the decision to make the change. Craig Levein was the next man through the door. He had done well managing Hearts in Scotland and I was determined to give him a chance, but it was torture. After each match, the next day before training, he would take the whole squad into the video room and sit for an hour watching the weekend match back again. That was fine in theory but he would just batter everybody for their poor performances.

“He was very good at telling us what we couldn’t do. He was a black belt in finding fault but absolutely useless at putting on a training session to develop a style he was looking for.”

Keown claimed the basis of Levein’s approach was to run and if he didn’t like it then you knew where the door was. The treble-winning Premier League star added: “We needed to improve with constructive coaching but it never arrived. We just ran our bollocks off.

“There were no intense sessions with the ball. Just repetitive runs backwards and forwards, full doggies. There was never a concession for anybody who was 38 or 39. Everybody was running the same distance. If you couldn’t keep up then off you go, we don’t want you here.”

Keown also claimed that Levein forced him out the door in bizarre circumstances when he tried to get him to play when he had taken a head