By COLIN NEWBOULT

THE Tigers’ incredible 14-year run of qualifying for the play-offs is effectively over – yet it almost seems churlish to discuss the Midlanders’ superb record when Newcastle are on the cusp of achieving something remarkable themselves.
It was in Leicester that the impossible happened, as the football club stunned the sporting world by winning the Premier League, and there are comparisons with this Falcons side.
Fiscally underpowered and written off at the start of the campaign, they should be nowhere near the top four but, with excellent coaching, team ...