5 Signs That Leicester City Are The New Blackburn Rovers

3. An Unfashionable Place To Live

Like Blackburn, Leicester has never been a place you want to visit on holiday. Both places have respectable service stations, strong shopping centres and good transport links to infinitely more exciting places like Manchester and Birmingham, but beyond that there's no real draw for the outsider unless you like either a good cathedral or a solid Nando's. In the dressing room players don't come much more unfashionable than Robbie Savage, who turned out for City and Rovers, although it's Leicester who can boast the bigger locally-produced names. The careers of former England internationals Peter Shilton, Gary Lineker and Emile Heskey are well-known but Rovers have churned out a few hometown heroes in their time. Ronnie Clayton played for 35 times for England and has a stand named after him at Ewood Park, Bryan Douglas played in all of England's games during the World Cup finals in 1958 and 1962 and FA Cup hero Billy Townley became the first player to score a hat-trick in the final back in 1890.