Yes, N’Golo Kante still has his Mini. You’d marvel at Leicester: emerging from the training ground would be Jamie Vardy in his personalised Bentley, others in Lamborghinis and 4x4s, the owners’ helicopter parked on the grass. And out would pull Kante in his plain little car. He seems surprised his vehicle was famous. “Yeah?” he asks. “Me, I never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn’t have the ambition of a car or something like that.
“But, uh, my Mini, for the beginning, was good to learn to drive on the left. I got it in Leicester. And I still have it now. But it’s good.”
There’s something he particularly likes about being at its wheel. When he ventures