Jonny Evans still gets stick from his Leicester City team-mates for a two-year-old celebration. The centre-back went wild when Wes Morgan headed in a last-minute winner for 10-man City at Burnley in March 2019, Brendan Rodgers’ third game in charge. Evans celebrated like he had scored the goal himself, and he has said it’s still a topic of conversation among the squad, even a couple of seasons on.
Jonny Evans said: “It still comes up quite a lot. We were playing Burnley away and it was a horrible day, really windy, Harry Maguire had been sent off about four minutes into the game. We ended up winning the game and Wes has come on and got the winner right in the last minute. As he’s running off celebrating, I’ve cut in front of him and given it my all in front of the fans. I think I might have done a knee slide. The lads haven’t let me live that down. I think that was one of my best victories and best moments in a Leicester shirt.”
Evans and Morgan are two of the players in City’s leadership group, along with Kasper Schmeichel, Jamie Vardy, Youri Tielemans, and James Maddison. They discuss matters with management on behalf of the squad.
Jonny Evans added: “Brendan set up this group that he put members in that covered the age ranges and demographics of the squad,” Evans added. Youri’s the voice of maybe the European-based players, and James Maddison is in there for the younger lads and obviously, there’s a few of the senior boys in there. It was just a chance for the manager to throw out ideas that the squad might be interested in, like travelling and details around the training ground about how we want things organised, and we were the leadership group with the boys coming together to make those decisions on behalf of the lads. Vards is actually top-drawer with stuff like that. He’s got plenty to say and he’s smart. He knows what the boys want and he knows.”
