Kasper Schmeichel: More pressure at the bottom than the top

Kasper Schmeichel says the pressure of trying to win the Premier League is nowhere near as bad as the 'catastrophic' experience of trying remain in the Football League with Bury.

The 29-year-old goalkeeper has played an integral part in Leicester's rise to the top of the Premier League table this season.

However, he says the pressure he felt 10 years ago when he was trying to prevent Bury from slipping out of League Two, and into non-league football, was far worse.

Schmeichel has spent time on loan at clubs such as Darlington and Falkirk, and says the most extreme pressure he has felt was playing on the final day of the 2005/06 season when Bury faced a pressure cooker contest against Carlisle, with the Shakers' Football League existence hanging by a thread.

He said: "Relegation with Bury was on the line at Notts County. That would have meant Bury going into non-league and that would have been catastrophic.

"There's no pressure now, this is what you play football for. Those games were where absolutely everything is on the line, that's proper pressure.

There's no pressure now, this is what you play football for.

"When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and glamour, there's nowhere near the amount of money there is at the top level.

"People's livelihoods are on the line, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people."

Leicester go into Sunday's match at Sunderland with a seven-point lead at the top of the table, with just six game still remaining.