Soccer Leicester crisis Leicester City have refused to accept their manager Micky Adams's offer to resign following the events during the training break in Spain that resulted in the continued detention of three of the club's players.

Adams, meanwhile, was not only adamant that all his players are innocent until proven guilty but also insisted yesterday that two of the nine arrested have been wrongly implicated.

Keith Gillespie, Paul Dickov and Frank Sinclair have been held in Sangonera Prison, near Murcia, since Friday after allegations of sexual aggression and breaking and entering were made against them by three German women.

"At the moment they are guilty of nothing," Adams said. "They have been accused of certain things but I have not lost faith with any of them.

"I'm telling you that some of the players charged were not there and we have witnesses and statements to prove they were not there. So forget what you read. Out of the nine people who were arrested two of them were not there. Hopefully the truth will be told."

Of the six other players also questioned about the alleged incident, one was freed and five were released on bail pending further investigations.

Adams admitted he felt morally obliged to resign, especially after having persuaded the club's board to let the trip go ahead.

"I did consider quitting but I've never run away from anything in my life," he said. "This is a situation that has nothing to do with football and I'm not going to start now.

"I felt a moral obligation to offer my resignation if the chairman (Jim McCahill) and the board felt I wasn't the right man to take this club forward. Fortunately, I was assured I was the right man for the job and that gives me strength. Everything I faced last week had nothing to do with being a football manager.

"It's not new to me at this club because last season I had difficult times when the club went into administration. But nothing can compare with what happened last week."

Adams is credited with being a key influence in holding the club together when it came close to extinction 17 months ago; not least when he gave an inspirational talk to every member of staff at the Walkers Stadium.

He was in a similarly trenchant mood yesterday that signalled the club was circling the wagons in the wake of extensive media interest both at home and in Spain.

Faced by a battery of microphones and cameras at the ground, not once did the manager accuse his players of letting him down during the early hours of the Sunday before last.

"I told them of their responsibilities but a minority let themselves down so I'm disappointed with that," he added. "A small minority were drinking a certain amount in the early hours of the morning. If they are guilty of anything, they are guilty of being unprofessional 24 hours before a training session."

Adams, however, admittted he should have imposed a curfew on his players, even though he accepts this would not have guaranteed a trouble-free evening.

"Everybody knows that, rightly or wrongly, I treat my players as adults," he said. "But I can't be with these players 24 hours a day and curfews can be broken."

Adams along with Leicester's director of football Dave Bassett and the chief executive Tim Davies will conduct an internal club investigation into the events in Spain over the next few days.