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Leicester and Preston North End do have many players who have been in both camps. Daniel Iversen is the most recent to have played for The Lilywhites, being on loan for two seasons, adding up 67 league games while at Deepdale.

Going a number of years back you also find Graham Cross in this list, as he spent time with Preston from 1977 to 1979, playing a total of 45 league games, scoring one goal. Cross is the leading player regarding most appearances in all competitions at Leicester, on a total of 599 games from 1961 to 1976.

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Leicester will play Walsall in the 4th round of the FA Cup as we take a closer look of players with a life in both camps. Allan Clarke and Mark Wallington comes to mind, as well at Matty Fryatt.

Josh Gordon, who left the club in 2021 and joined Barrow, added up 107 league games while at Bescot Stadium, scoring a total of 21 goals. He was once signed by Leicester from Stafford Rangers, but never made it to the first team, nice to see that he is getting his career rolling at other levels.

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Leicester and Celtic do have a number of players with a life in both camps. Jim Melrose is one from the early 80’s, who was signed by Leicester moving from Partick Thistle, but later returned to Scotland for a couple of seasons with Celtic, again returning to play in England for several clubs, among them Wolves, Man City and Leeds.

Martin O’Neill made his management switch between the two clubs as also Brendan Rodgers have done, but the two made their moves in a different way to and from the two clubs. Both had tremendous success while at Celtic Park, winning Leauge and Cup trophies as well as taking Celtic into the Champions League group stages.

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