When 2-0 down at the Lane last weekend, Leicester fought back bravely to make it 2-2. At 4-2 they did the same thing, but this time they fell short.

Losing the game 4-3 isn't the end of the world, and maybe after the International break, Leicester will come back full of hope after their exploits. Maybe it was a moral victory to some extent.

But that game almost sums up their season.

The Foxes did wonderfully well to gain promotion, and on the back of a wonderful season, Nigel Pearson gained an awful lot of respect and well-wishers. But he also gained the full backing of the Leicester board, who allowed him to spend big money on club record signing Leonardo Ulloa, and break it again to sign Andrej Kramaric.

Even with the club deep in a relegation battle, the Leicester top brass dug into the club's coffers to give Pearson the money he needed to bring in one of Europe's stellar youngsters, Kramaric. The Evening Standard had linked him to Chelsea and Juventus, but it was the Foxes who took a gamble the player in the hope he could score the goals to keep Leicester up.

But with nine games to go, the situation is now looking desperate.

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Pearson presumably still has the backing of the board. If they were considering giving him the chop they'd have done it when he argued with a fan in the stands, got in a ruckus with Palace's James McArthur, or lambasted the 'arrogance' of a referee.

No, the board seem happy to stick with their man, and may even now stick with him through relegation.

After 10 straight defeats before Christmas, Leicester looked dead and buried, but they managed to stop the rot with a win away to Hull. Since then they've been close to those above them, but never actually managed to pull themselves to safety.

Now they are firmly at the bottom again, and although they do have a game in hand over the teams above them, that game is against Chelsea. It doesn't look good for the Foxes.

But if the rest of the season is anything to go by, they'll fight manfully to stay up. It's not just the players who have given it their all this season in an attempt to survive.

The fans have stuck by their team, the board have done all they can by giving Pearson money to spend, and the manager himself has protected his players admirably.

The Spurs game at the weekend typified Leicester's attitude. The team looked dead and buried only to give themselves hope. Then they looked dead again, but they still kept fighting until the end. It was a case of too little too late, though. And their season is dangerously close to mirroring this one game.

If they do go down you can bet they'll go down fighting, and although they look dead and buried right now, they might be closer to safety than you think come the end.

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