Demarai Gray’s cool finish had just put Leicester City on course for a victory that would edge them over the fabled 40 points mark. In times gone by, that was the main target for a club like Leicester and the travelling fans acknowledged that, with tongues pressed in cheeks, with a rendition of “We are staying up.”



Of course, City are a very different beast now to their days as perennial survival hopefuls. The aim now is to compete with the best in the Premier League and qualify for European football. They remain on course to achieve that goal.



However, making Europe can stretch a club’s resources to the limit, as they found out three years ago when they ventured into the Champions League as surprise title winners. They reached the quarter-finals then but it came at a cost as their league form suffered to such an extent that Claudio Ranieri was sacked in the February with a relegation battle looming.



Marc Albrighton, who scored...