Snodgrass stuns champions

Leicester City began their Premier League title defence with a 2-1 defeat to Hull City at the  KCOM Stadium on Saturday lunchtime.

The Tigers opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time thanks to Adama Diomande’s spectacular overhead kick, only for Riyad Mahrez to equalise from the penalty spot at the start of the second period.

However, the Tigers recorded a memorable opening-day victory when Robert Snodgrass scored with a well-struck shot from the edge of the box just before the hour-mark.

Hull boss Mike Phelan opted to field midfielder Jake Livermore as a makeshift centre back for his first competitive game in charge of the club.

Meanwhile, the champions gave record signing Ahmed Musa his Premier League debut, although fellow new boy Nampalys Mendy was absent after his wife went into labour overnight.

Claudio Ranieri also opted to field another summer acquisition, Luis Hernandez, to partner Wes Morgan at the heart of the visitors’ back four, with Robert Huth still serving the final game of a three-match suspension.

It was the newly promoted Premier League team, though, who made the more assured start, with Hull’s players passing the ball around nicely in the opening exchanges, clearly not distracted by their own fans’ protests against the owners.

Captain Curtis Davies had the first good chance of the contest after just six minutes, but the central defender’s header from …

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