Leicester's Marc Albrighton says any expectation of retaining the Premier League was "a bit naive."

The Foxes were only a point above the relegation zone when Claudio Ranieri was sacked and replaced by Craig Shakespeare in February. But they have since won seven league games out of 10 to move up to ninth in the standings and also reached the Champions League quarter-finals in their first-ever campaign 

"We wanted to finish a bit higher than we will do but we've clawed it back from a bad situation," said Albrighton. 

"If we can finish in the top half and with what we've achieved in the Champions League, I think we can say it wasn't a bad season."

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All over in Madrid, Robin Haase has beaten battling Briton Dan Evans 7-5 6-2 in their first-round meeting. The match lasted an hour and 19 minutes.

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Les Hems: Coventry City FC continues to explore how bad things can get. 16 years of fearing & then experiencing the worst.   

It is not looking good for Britain's Dan Evans at the Madrid Open. Having lost the first set 7-5 to Robin Haase of the Netherlands he is 4-0 down in only 15 minutes of the second.

In 2002 Sylvain Wiltord scored the winner as Arsenal beat closest rivals Manchester United 1-0 to clinch the Premier League title at Old Trafford.

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England coach Paul Simpson has lost three of his intended Under-20 World Cup squad - but Everton duo Ademola Lookman and Dominic Calvert-Lewin have been named for the tournament in South Korea later this month.

Celtic forward Patrick Roberts, Manchester United defender Axel Tuanzebe and Chelsea forward Izzy Brown, who is on loan at Huddersfield Town, are staying with their clubs.

In addition, Bournemouth midfielder Lewis Cook and Middlesbrough defender Dael Fry will join the squad in South Korea after next weekend’s Premier League games.

England meet up at St George's Park later today before heading to Osaka on Tuesday for a six-day training camp.

They open their campaign against Argentina in Jeonju on Saturday, 20 May.

Full squad: Freddie Woodman (Newcastle United), Dean Henderson (Manchester United), Luke Southwood (Reading), Jonjoe Kenny (Everton), Callum Connolly (Everton), Fikayo Tomori (Chelsea), Jake Clarke-Salter (Chelsea), Rico Henry (Brentford), Kyle Walker-Peters (Tottenham Hotspur), Dael Fry (Middlesbrough), Lewis Cook (AFC Bournemouth), Josh Onomah  (Tottenham Hotspur), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal), Kieran Dowell (Everton), Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool), Ovie Ejaria (Liverpool), Adam Armstrong (Newcastle United), Dominic Solanke (Chelsea), Ademola Lookman (Everton), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Harrison Chapman (Middlesbrough).

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Lancashire have signed experienced Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene for this summer's T20 Blast, which begins on 7 July.

The 39-year-old, who helped Sri Lanka win the World T20 in 2014, played for Somerset last season.

"I can't wait to watch him bat," Lancashire head coach Glen Chapple told BBC Radio Lancashire. "He has a massive amount of experience in T20 cricket, in cricket all around the world and great captaincy experience. He'll add in all areas for us."

It was a brave fightback from British number four Dan Evans but world number 45 Robin Haase has taken the opening set of their Madrid Open match 7-5 in 47 minutes.

Amrish Rajdev: Peterborough relegated on the final day of the Championship 2013 after being ahead twice that game and then losing to Palace.

John Wells: Middlesbrough being deducted three points in 1997 and then relegated. Lost Juninho and Ravanelli. Got Paul Merson in mind you. Also 1986.

Andrew Webb: Leicester dropping down to the third tier after drawing at Stoke in the Championship - yes the high points have been recently but many remember the low points - then Nigel Pearson came in....  

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We've heard about one veteran manager, the venerable Harry Redknapp, well former Rangers and briefly Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat is reportedly set for a third spell as manager of the Netherlands.

The 69-year-old, who coached the Dutch side from 1992-94 and 2002-04, is currently at Turkish club Fenerbahce but a return will "most likely will be completed this week", his business manager Rob Jansen told the ANP national news agency.

Advocaat has "a verbal agreement" with the Royal Dutch Football Federation (KNVB), Jansen said. 

Danny Blind was sacked in March with his side fourth in their World Cup qualifying group at the halfway stage.

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Let's look ahead to tonight's 5 live commentary match at Stamford Bridge, where Middlesbrough will be relegated if they are beaten by Chelsea.

The omens are not good for Boro, they have gone 18 league matches without a victory at Stamford Bridge - dating back to 1975 - and have failed to find the net in their last seven visits to the ground.

A Diego Costa goal was enough to separate the teams when they met at the Riverside in November.

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Wigan will be in League One next season but on this day in 2005 the Latics were promoted to the top flight of English football for the first time after a 3-1 win at home to Reading secured second place in the Championship.

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British number four Dan Evans is in action at the Madrid Open. It is the world number 58's first meeting with Robin Haase of the Netherlands, ranked 45, and he lost the first two games, but the 26-year-old from Birmingham has just held serve in game three.

Andrew Neill: In recent memory it's probably when Newcastle appointed Steve McClaren and the inevitable decline that followed. Bit cheerier now!

Harry Hainstock: Letting Bradford City use our home end as they fought for the play-offs while we faced relegation from Division Two #hcafc, external

Tom Wright: Coventry relegated to League Two after 58 years. I made a vow years ago to stay away until Sisu are gone. Voting with my feet.

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Should be interesting in the locker room tonight at the Madrid Open where Maria Sharapova takes on Eugenie Bouchard in round two - and you can follow it live on 5 live sports extra from 19:00 BST.

Bouchard, 23, labelled Sharapova a "cheater" in an interview last month, said she should have been given a life ban and that the WTA was setting a bad example to youngsters in letting her back into the sport.  

Sharapova, 30, returned to competitive tennis last month following a 15-month doping ban and is a win away from securing enough ranking points to guarantee her an automatic spot in Wimbledon qualifying.

BBC Radio 5 live's Football Daily Podcast has all the reaction from a busy Sunday of football, that saw Newcastle win the Championship title in dramatic circumstances, Blackburn get relegated, James Milner miss a penalty for Liverpool and Arsenal beat Manchester United.

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News from Warren Gatland now and the British and Irish Lions' coach has defended the scheduling of their first squad get-together, just days before Saracens and Gloucester both take part in European finals.

Saracens boss Mark McCall has branded the timing of the Lions' meeting "unbelievable" ahead of the Champions Cup final against Clermont on Saturday. 

Saracens cancelled training on Monday with their six Lions at Gatland's squad meeting, while Gloucester duo Greig Laidlaw and Ross Moriarty had to be diverted from preparations for Friday's Challenge Cup final with Stade Francais.

 "If it had been last week it would have potentially affected 22 clubs," Gatland said. "I understand it's a massive week for them. But Mondays tend to be a recovery day. This date has been communicated months and months and months ago."

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More on N'Golo Kante's Football Writers' Association Player of the Year award and his Chelsea colleague Eden Hazard was second, with Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli, the PFA Young Player of the Year for the last two seasons, third.

Between them, Blues duo Kante and Hazard collected more than 65% of the votes, which were spread over a record number of 17 different players. 

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New Zealand will not consider Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor, external for the Rugby League World Cup, external starting in October, amid claims they took cocaine following the Kiwis' 30-12 loss to Australia in Canberra on Friday. 

Bromwich stood down as New Zealand captain and has been suspended for two games by club side Melbourne Storm, while Proctor announced he had relinquished the Gold Coast Titans captaincy.

Colin Cross‏: Watching how Francesco Becchetti destroyed Orient in just a couple of seasons.

Jan Holmes: Hull City starting the 2016-17 season with a five-a-side team of fit players. The Allams are a disgrace, more lows than highs in the past four years.

Oliver Ward: Ipswich Town finishing in lowest position in 58 years and getting thumped against relegation candidates.

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