All Credit To Foxes For 'Free Goal'!

Last updated : 19 September 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor

Some of the foreign players in the Premiership could learn a lesson from them.

However ... back home ... all credit to Leicester City for an amazing piece of sportsmanship last night in their Carling Cup tie at the City Ground.

The Foxes gave Nottingham Forest a "free goal" before winning their League Cup second-round tie 3-2.

The unusual act of sportsmanship came about after the original tie between the clubs last month was abandoned at halftime when Leicester player Clive Clarke suffered a heart attack.

Forest were leading 1-0 at the time and Leicester's players decided that when the match was replayed they would allow Forest to score straight from the kickoff.

Goalkeeper Paul Smith dribbled the ball towards goal unopposed to put third division Forest 1-0 up.

New Leicester manager Gary Megson: "We just felt it was the right thing to do.

"The first game ended in tragic circumstances with Clive's heart attack but the rules say that Forest would have been perfectly entitled to play out the game.

"I wasn't at the original game but I was told that Forest were well on top and it could have been all over at halftime."

Megson, who joined Leicester last week, said Smith was only told he was going to be the player to score when the coin was tossed to start the game, ruling out any chances of improper gambling.