NOLBERTO Solano has completed a move to Leicester.

The Peruvian, who has made over 300 appearances in English football for Newcastle, Aston Villa and West Ham, has recently been on trial with the Foxes and trained with the first-team squad yesterday.

Leicester are trying to obtain clearance to allow Solano to play in the FA Cup at Cardiff. But if he does miss out, he is likely to be available to face former club Newcastle in the Coca-Cola Championship meeting at the Walkers Stadium on January 30.

■ England fans have not taken up 6,000 of the 29,000 World Cup tickets allocated by organisers to the Football Association for the official supporters’ club.

The FA confirmed that almost all England fans will receive tickets for the games they applied for – but a number of tickets for particular categories and games for the tournament in South Africa will be returned to FIFA.

Around half of the 6,000 returned tickets relate to a possible third or fourth place play-off appearance.

FIFA insist that many England fans will have bought tickets via general distribution and say they are not worried about overall ticket sales.

Only one match has been oversubscribed by members of the official supporters’ group englandfans - the last 16 match, should England qualify - and the FA say they are hopeful of securing the 150 outstanding tickets to satisfy that demand.