The city of Leicester lies on the Fosse Way, the long Roman Road that runs roughly south west to north east from Exeter to Lincoln through Central England. Its professional football club, Leicester City, which competes in the English Premiership, was during the first few decades of its existence known as Leicester Fosse and it is from this that its supporters became known as ‘Fosses’, which over time became ‘Foxes’. An alternative explanation for the fox becoming the local mascot is that Leicestershire is infamously renowned for fox hunting, the barbaric ‘sport’ in which a fox is chased by a pack of hounds, led by people on horseback, so that those hounds can kill the fox by tearing it apart. As you drive into Leicestershire, as I have done on numerous occasions, you'll see a road sign illustrated with a fox. Leicestershire County Cricket Club has adopted the fox as its mascot and because football and cricket fans now identify as