Leicester wants Tuesday’s Carabao Cup match postponed

Leicester City which apparently lost its owner to the helicopter crash on Saturday, want Tuesday’s League Cup tie with Southampton postponed.

The team on Sunday cancelled a scheduled light training

session after owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s helicopter crashed outside King Power Stadium.

As it stands, they are due to host Southampton in a Carabao Cup round of 16 tie on Tuesday night. However, in light of the potentially tragic situation, Leicester are set to seek to postpone the fixture.

They will need permission from the English Football League and the Saints before it can be pushed back. Leicester will argue that the players and club management, who were still in the stadium when the crash occurred, are in no fit state to compete following the helicopter crash.

The team are also due to travel to Cardiff on Friday for their next Premier League match although there is no suggestion as of yet that they are seeking to postpone Saturday’s clash as well.

Leicester Women have announced that their game with Manchester United Women will be postponed. They tweeted: ‘In light and in respect of the recent events at King Power Stadium our @FAWC_ fixture against @ManUtdWomen has been postponed. A newly arranged date will be communicated once confirmed.’

The seriousness of the situation was left in no doubt when footage of the wreckage emerged on Saturday night, showing the helicopter engulfed in flames after it lost control shortly after clearing the King Power Stadium.

Witnesses described the aircraft taking off from centre circle before hovering above the south eastern corner of the ground near Filbert Way before spiraling to the ground and erupting into a fireball.