Steve Walsh
Steve Walsh is a living Leicester City legend. An uncompromising central defender and inspirational captain, Walsh was an influential member of the Leicester defence during the club's golden years of the 1990s.
Foxes faithful will always remember Walsh’s play-off final clinching efforts against local rivals Derby County in 1994. Other highlights of his City career include lifting the 1997 League Cup and guiding the club to their highest ever Premiership finish of 8th in the 1999/2000 campaign.
Walshy also played for Wigan Athletic, Coventry City, Norwich City and non-league Tamworth.
Steve has recently set up a soccer academy with former Leicester team-mate Muzzy Izzet, to coach young footballers in Leicestershire - find out more about it here - www.futurefoxes.com.
As well as writing a column for The Leicester Mercury about The Foxes, Steve is a regular visitor to The Walkers Stadium on matchdays and runs a successful events and memorabilia company.
Relegation crunch time
It really is crunch time in the battle for Premier League survival and it looks as though West Brom and Middlesbrough are pretty much down.
They’re both a little too far adrift and even if The Baggies manage to get a couple of results, which is a big ask bearing in mind they play Liverpool on Sunday, their goal difference will probably cripple them. Middlesbrough have the look of a team that are completely demoralised. That defeat against Newcastle would’ve been a huge blow and they just haven’t got enough goals in the team to fire themselves out of the drop zone.
The final relegation place is between Hull City, Newcastle and Sunderland, and, at the moment, you have to say that Hull look the most likely to go.
It’s amazing really, the way they’ve slipped down the league after such an impressive start to the season, they really were flying. Phil Brown’s come in for some criticism for taking his half-time team talk against Manchester City out on the pitch, but I didn’t think that was a bad thing at all and I really rate Brown. He was heavily involved in the good work that Sam Allardyce did at Bolton and he’s worked miracles since taking the Hull job.
I’d like to see Hull stay up, but I think Newcastle now have the momentum. The win against Middlesbrough was a massive result and I’m sure they’ll get one more victory, which should be enough to guarantee another season in The Premier League for the Geordies. Their North East rivals Sunderland could yet be dragged into it though as their last two games away to Portsmouth and at home to Chelsea look very tough on paper.