48 Hours: Our pick of the weekend

One day, many, many years from now, when commuters zip over the rooftops of Leicester on their jet packs, grumbling about the snarl-ups by the Belgrave Road sky-roundabout, someone will stumble across an old edition of the Mercury from Monday, September 22, 2014, and wonder if the staff of the sports desk had suddenly developed a collective crack habit.

First, there was Leicester City, coming back from 3-1 down to Manchester United to humble the most-famous team in England 5-3.

Five.

Three.

Then there was the Tigers, on the wrong end of a scoreline so comprehensively one-sided it looked…