Telegraph

Milan Mandaric, the former Portsmouth owner, expects to complete his takeover of Leicester City in the next couple of days although watching this extraordinary game will have done nothing to disguise the vagaries of investing millions of pounds in football clubs.

Leicester did succeed in halting Colchester's remarkable 11-match winning streak at Layer Road, held the lead through Iain Hume's smartly taken first-half goal and had a couple of efforts ruled out, for a push and offside.

However, the central figure in the game was not Hume, or Colchester's Chris Iwelumo — who equalised with a penalty shortly after half-time — but referee Danny McDermid, a man fast developing a reputation for turning small fires into large conflagrations by applying liberal quantities of petrol.


Independent
As first-time visits go, this was a particularly memorable one for Leicester City, except for the result. Two disallowed goals and two late saves denied the Foxes the advantage they deserved after Iain Hume's first-half strike. It also left them vulnerable to the increasingly unconfident handling of the match by Danny McDermid


Times

The game’s seven yellow cards hardly represented a match of little ill-temper or bad tackles where Colchester lacked the punch which has made them contenders for the promotion play-offs.

In fact, Leicester never allowed them to. Watched by the former Portsmouth owner Milan Mandaric, who is days away from completing a £25m deal to buy Leicester, they became the first side to leave Layer Road with at least a point since Barnsley on the second Saturday of the season.

They prevented Colchester from making a rapid start, quickly blocking their attacking intent on their favoured right wing, and taking the lead in the 18th minute when Gareth Williams found Iain Hume who scored from 12 yards. Iwelumo’s 14th goal of the season salvaged a point but Dean Gurken had to make three fine late saves to deny Alan Maybury, Matty Fryatt and Hume from snatching a win which Leicester probably deserved.