Leicester are a good-footballing, pacey team who sometimes fall away as a game progresses and under normal circumstances I think City couldn't handle them.

But today is not a 'normal circumstance' and I wonder how they will react to the tragic loss of life last weekend. Vardy in particular seemed shell-shocked by grief when interviewed yesterday.

Will they have an extra stimulus to perform well in memory of their owner? Could this result in their trying too hard?

I don't remember how Chelsea players performed after the sad death of Matthew Harding in similar circumstances, but I do recall the national outpouring of grief after the Man Utd plane crashed at Munich. The club bought several new players to replace the stars who had perished on that terrible night and seemed to play every other day to fulfill their fixture obligations, but they were not the force they had been despite the attention and support of the media and the public.

Whatever happens today, the game is going to be poignant and unsettling.