Leicester missed their chance to secure automatic promotion to the Barclaycard Premiership when held to a draw by Rotherham at Millmoor.
Alan Lee gave the Millers a second-half lead before Trevor Benjamin netted the Foxes' equaliser with 15 minutes to go to put the celebrations on hold for now for Micky Adams' men.
An early shot was fired across the Rotherham bows when, with less than two minutes on the clock, Muzzy Izzet won the ball in the left channel and squared for Paul Dickov, who side-footed wide from 18 yards with his first touch of the game.
But the promotion-chasing visitors were forced to reshuffle on the quarter-hour when central defender Gerry Taggart was replaced by Andy Impey who moved over to right-back with Frank Sinclair filling the veteran Irishman's
boots in the centre of defence.
Impey came close to making an immediate impact when his dangerous cross from the right came down on the roof of the Millers' net.
Rotherham goalkeeper Ian Gray was called upon to make his first save of the match moments later when cute play from Izzet took him in off the right flank only to see his shot denied at the near post.
Home defender Martin McIntosh came within a whisker of opening the scoring in the 20th minute when his head-first lunge narrowly failed to make contact with a Gareth Farrelly cross from the left-wing, the Millers skipper back in the thick of the action just short of the half-hour when his wayward header from Farrelly's corner-kick provoked a heated inquest among the Leicester rearguard.
Benjamin ought to have broken the deadlock as the game swung again, the Foxes frontman being put clear into the Rotherham box by Alan Rogers' quickly-taken free-kick but he was only able to produce a weak shot which Gray easily plucked out of the air in training ground style.
With 10 minutes to half-time, Chris Sedgwick's 18-yard effort curled inches wide of the woodwork following a wicked deflection off Sinclair who was fortunate to survive a 44th-minute penalty appeal after tangling with Lee.
And the hosts continued to pour on the pressure after the interval with Sedgwick again the supply line and Lee heading onto the City crossbar ahead of Rotherham taking the lead in spectacular style.
Lee arrived unmarked at the back post in the 54th minute to convert McIntosh's left-wing centre with a thunderous header.
James Scowcroft's shot on the turn fizzed over Gray's crossbar before Leicester introduced striker Tommy Wright, who netted in the 1-0 midweek victory over Nottingham Forest.
But after Mark Robins had spurned a glorious chance by blazing over the Leicester crossbar, it was Foxes strike duo Dickov and Benjamin who combined for the equaliser with the Scotsman producing a pinpoint cross from the right which
the latter converted with an unstoppable header.
And with eight minutes remaining, Gray came to the Millers' rescue by palming away another Scowcroft effort.
Teams
Rotherham: Gray, Shaun Barker, Swailes, Branston, McIntosh,
Sedgwick, Woodhouse, Daws, Farrelly, Robins, Lee.
Subs Not Used: Mullin, Richard Barker, Byfield, Warne, Hurst.
Goals: Lee 54.
Leicester: Walker, Sinclair (McKinlay 72), Elliott,
Taggart (Impey 15), Rogers, Scowcroft, Izzet, Davidson,
Stewart (Wright 67), Benjamin, Dickov.
Subs Not Used: Flowers, Summerbee.
Booked: Impey.
Goals: Benjamin 75.
Att: 9,888
Ref: M Halsey (Lancashire).
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