EX-SAINTS Nigel Pearson and Dean Hammond are on the brink of promotion to the Premier League.

And Leicester manager Pearson is not fussed when his side go up as long as they do it after Hammond's header earned the leaders a 2-2 draw at Wigan last night.

Hammond, who won promotion to the top flight with Saints two years ago, scored with three minutes remaining to earn the Foxes a point and keep alive their hopes of securing automatic promotion from the Championship this weekend.

If Leicester beat Sheffield Wednesday on Friday night they will be promoted if QPR fail to beat Bournemouth on Saturday.

Even if QPR do keep the Foxes hanging on Pearson's men could secure their top-flight return at home to Brighton - another of Hammond's former clubs - on Tuesday, but the manager has no preference when the confirmation comes.

"I'm not taking anything for granted. We are still on track if we do it at home we do it at home, if we do it away from home we do it away from home, I'm not bothered as long as we do it," he said.

"It was another good night for us any positive result for us tonight would've put us in a slightly stronger position and that's what we've done.

"You can see why they are on a good run because they played with much better intensity than when we played them at our place and they have good players but I thought we dealt with the set-backs well.

"The most important thing was that we responded and we responded very, very well.

"I've spoken many times about this group having moved on from last year. They come on and we've become a better side because of it, so we've put ourselves in a good position."

Wigan took the lead through Ivan Ramis' powerful header after 37 minutes but the Foxes replied four minutes before the break through Andy King.

Rob Kiernan looked to have won it for the Latics on 62 minutes but Hammond extended Leicester's unbeaten run in the Championship to 20 games.