The EFL will make a decision on whether to go ahead with Leicester City's cup match on Tuesday.

The Foxes are due to play Southampton at the King Power Stadium in the Carabao Cup fourth round - the last 16 of the competition.

Leicester City have already postponed their Women's Championship and reserve matches which were due to take place today.

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BBC Radio Leicester commentator Ian Stringer on BBC Radio 5 live:

"Being around the Foxes fans, love is the best way I can describe their feeling for their chairman. Not just because he will give them a free pie and a pint now and then, some cake to celebrate his big birthday, or doughnuts. He is certainly one for giving gifts, he’s donated £2m to the local hospital here.

"Because he’s quietly and dignifiedly gone about building this football ground from the ground up. He’s done an incredible job and of course they won the Premier League title under his guidance.

"The chant ‘he’s one of our own’ for players who come through the academy of a football club is a popular one. Somehow the Thai owners from thousands of miles away have created a bond, a love, a close relationship with the fans of this football club."

Sven-Goran Eriksson
Former England and Leicester manager on 5 live

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I know the whole Srivaddhanaprabha family and the father, and what he has done for Leicester is incredible. He took the club from the second division up to the first division, winning it, and made them a big Premier League club.

He was always there with his family. I think he saw every game during my time. The whole family were there, at training, talking to the manager, talking to the players. They are fantastic.

When I came to the club he said that he wanted to make it a big Premier League club, there were no secrets about that. He sacked me but I think he did well because I bought the wrong players, I failed. It was fair of him to do it and the result has been great for Leicester.

When you know him as I do, and of course the whole team and all the staff, you know that he is a very, very generous man. With the players, with the staff, with the people working for him, with the fans and with the community, he is an extremely generous man.

The Reuters news agency is reporting that, according to a source close to the club, Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was among five people who were on board the helicopter which crashed.

The BBC has been unable to verify the number of those on board, but we have been told by a source close to the family that Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter.

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Good afternoon. If you are just joining us, we are bringing you updates and reaction to the terrible news of a helicopter crash at King Power Stadium after Leicester City's draw with West Ham last night.

The police investigation is under way but here is what we know so far:

• Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes outside stadium at about 20:30 BST
• A source close to the family has told the BBC that owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board
• It is unknown how many other people were in helicopter
• Leicester City say they are assisting police and emergency services and would issue a more detailed statement in due course.

On last night's Match of the Day, former Leicester striker Gary Lineker spoke to commentator Alistair Mann who was at the King Power Stadium and said there was "a very quick reaction" to the tragedy.

BBC Leicester commentator Ian Stringer is down at the King Power Stadium this morning, where fans from other teams have been showing their support too.

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Match of the Day floor manager Andrew James working at Leicester v West Ham:

“I would estimate the helicopter landed not much more than 100 yards outside the boundary of the King Power Stadium and whatever is there. For the first two minutes it was grey smoke billowing up into the air but within no more than two minutes there were thick flames.

“There was fire and two policeman ran down the road towards me. I was in the car at the time and I just pulled over to ring in. These policemen were shouting at everyone to get out of the way. I did hear one bang which sounded like a canister exploding.

“I didn’t personally see it come down. I saw it in the air, I saw it hovering 50 feet above the stadium and thought nothing of it. But it wasn’t on fire at that point. I’ve heard some people say it was in flames in the air. I don’t think it was. It was normal in the air but after it spiralled to the ground and hit the deck that’s when the flames started."

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Pete Ripley, associate director of operations at East Midlands Ambulance Service, said: "We received a call at 8.38pm on 27 October to reports of a helicopter crash in the car park of King Power Stadium in Leicester.

"We have sent a doctor in a car, two paramedics in ambulance cars, a crewed ambulance and our Hazardous Area Response Team, with the first resource arriving within two minutes of the call."

Eyewitness accounts of what happened at King Power Stadium last night paint a desolate picture.

Freelance photographer Ryan Brown, who was covering the game, saw the helicopter clear the King Power Stadium before it crashed.

He told BBC Radio Leicester: "The engine stopped and I turned round and it made a bit of a whirring noise, like a grinding noise.

"The helicopter just went silent, I turned round and it was just spinning, out of control. And then there was a big bang and then [a] big fireball."

Leicester City supporters were in shock last night as they discovered news of the crash involving the club owner's helicopter.

Former Leicester City and England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was among those who witnessed the helicopter crash last night at King Power Stadium, and has been paying his respects this morning.

Shilton was born in the city and began his career at Leicester before earning a record 125 caps for England.

If you are just joining us, we are bringing you updates and reaction to the terrible news of a helicopter crash at King Power Stadium after Leicester City's draw with West Ham.

The police investigation is under way but here is what we know so far:

• Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes outside stadium at about 20:30 BST
• A source close to the family has told the BBC that owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board
• It is unknown how many other people were in helicopter
• Leicester City say they are assisting police and emergency services and would issue a more detailed statement in due course.

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BBC Leicester commentator Ian Stringer is a stalwart at King Power Stadium and lived the ride of the 2016 Premier League triumph. He is a man who knows the club inside out and was there last night commentating on the 1-1 draw with West Ham.

He says: "The routine I have seen hundreds of times is the chairman walk out in the middle of the pitch, sometimes with a guest or family, or his son. The chairman would then get in the helicopter and take off and up it will go. When I left the stadium, the helicopter was there glistening and white in the middle of the green turf under floodlights as it always is.

"This is a very close football club. Remember they pulled off the greatest sports story ever at this stadium when they lifted the Premier League trophy. The Thai owners brought success. It is a tightly knit club and the possibility of injuries to any of their own are going to cause massive amounts of stress."

We should point out that today's Women's Championship fixture between Leicester City and Manchester United has been called off following the crash at King Power Stadium.

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Former Leicester winger Matt Piper on 5 Live breakfast: "I was at the game on Saturday. I do the summarising for Radio Leicester on match days. The chairman was there.

"It is the darkest day for our football club at the minute and we are just waiting on news now and praying that everyone who did board that helicopter is all right. We only talk about the huge things that the chairman has done for the football club but, on a day-to-day basis at games, him and his son give out free pies, beers, cakes, clappers, doughnuts, T-shirts – they are a shining example to other owners of football clubs.

"The connection they have with the people of Leicester - not just its fans - because him and his son and the King Power empire support local charities, hospitals. It's a real dark day if you’re a Leicester fan and for the wider community."

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As reported earlier, the BBC has been told by a source close to the owner's family that chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board the helicopter that crashed outside King Power Stadium at about 20:30 BST last night. This news has not yet been confirmed by police.

But who is he and what impact has he made on Leicester? Former Foxes manager Sven-Goran Eriksson calls him "an extremely generous man".

Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester in 2010, with the club winning promotion to the top flight four years later and claiming the Premier League title in 2015-16.

The Thai billionaire is worth $4.9bn (£3.8bn), according to Forbes. Srivaddhanaprabha owns the King Power duty-free chain, which lends its name to the club's stadium.

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Sam Fisher, BBC News, at the King Power Stadium: “There has been a steady flow of people wearing Leicester City shirts and hats this morning. Despite the number of fans gathered here, it’s very quiet.

“Lots of children are also here with their parents laying flowers outside the ground.

“Many people have been in tears as they approach stadium and they’ve all been consoling each other.”