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04th Apr 2016

There’s one big problem with Harry Redknapp’s plan to get Wes Morgan to Euro 2016

Kevin Beirne

Leicester City’s rise to the top of the Premier League caught everyone off-guard.

When this season started, the Foxes were tipped for relegation, not a title. But under the leadership of club captain Wes Morgan (and a few goals from Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez), they have defied the odds.

With six games left, Leicester have a seven-point lead and bookies are already paying out on the champions-elect.

Sunday’s game against Southampton was supposed to be a potential banana skin for Claudio Ranieri’s men, but captain Morgan fired home a header to give the Foxes all three points – and Harry Redknapp thinks the defender should be rewarded with an England call-up.

While it’s a nice (if somewhat reactionary) thought, there’s one massive problem with this. Although Morgan was born in Nottingham, the 32-year-old has been capped 25 times by Jamaica and is therefore ineligible for England duty.