Saturday’s 1-0 victory at Queens Park Rangers in the Sky Bet Championship has earned City the League Manager’s Association’s Performance of the Week Award.
The LMA’s five-man panel, comprising Chairman Howard Wilkinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Joe Royle Dave Bassett and Barry Fry, were in agreement that the Foxes’ impressive showing at Loftus Road – where they became the first visiting side to register a league win this season – was the pick of the week’s displays across English football’s top four divisions.
Manager Nigel Pearson will receive a specially engraved crystal football in a presentation to commemorate the award ahead of the Boxing Day clash with Reading at King Power Stadium.
Leicester’s win was clinched by Jamie Vardy’s fine goal from an acute angle shortly before half-time.
After the match, Pearson was delighted with the result: "We did well, and it was needed. Results haven’t gone the way that we would have liked of late.
“It was always going to be important to get something out of the game, so to get away from here with three points is a very good return.”
It was an excellent result earning a well-deserved award.