In the opening part of a double header this week – with the first team welcoming Nottingham Forest to King Power Stadium on Friday night - Leicester City Under-21s suffered narrow Premier League Cup defeat at the hands of their Forest counterparts at a cold Seagrave on Monday evening.

As I sat in the stands at Walsall last Tuesday, even I – a self-proclaimed Leicester City rational optimist – was struggling to extract too many positives and had to admit that the general outlook was looking fairly grim.

One shining light last week, however, amongst this LCFC-induced commotion and subsequent fan meltdown, was the Academy.