Football: Cottee Double Offers Welcome Relief ; Leicester City 2 Cottee 22, 58 Wimbledon 1 Gayle 21 Half-Time: 1-1 Attendance: 18,255

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SOME OF the stares exchanged in the hospitality rooms must have been as icy as the wind whipping across Filbert Street as another explosion of hostilities rocked strife-torn Leicester, but Tony Cottee continues to warm the cockles. Two goals from City's evergreen striker, who narrowly missed notching a hat-trick in stoppage time, ended Wimbledon's unbeaten run and maintained Leicester's position on the heels of the Premiership leaders.

Both goals were of the kind in which the 34-year-old specialises, punched home from close range after others had done the spadework. They brought back distant memories for Egil Olsen, the Wimbledon manager. "I remember taking Norway's …