Martin Allen is getting his Leicester players ready for the new season by making them clean toilets.

The eccentric former Brentford and MK Dons manager set his team to work this week behind the scenes at the Walkers Stadium.

Allen — once nicknamed Mad Dog — said: “They have been in all the different parts of the ground, from IT, security, the shop, ticket office, maintenance — and cleaning out the toilets.

“When I told them what they had to do, it was a kind of a test. But not one of them whinged, pulled a face or gave it ‘I don’t want to do that.’