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I've been dying to post this all day but didn't want to come across as a bore. Just the worst phrase in modern sport.

I want an obscure skinny English lad with a troubled childhood and questionable social media posts in his past.

while crying bitter tears that once again I have been unable to stop myself from eating an entire packet in one go

He appears to be married to Donald Trump, so hope you went easy on him

Absolute work of art, Hogarth esque

04/04/15 - 02/05/16 will really never be matched will it.

Off the top of my head, in reverse order 5) vs Birmingham in the cup last season, just because I only go to one game a season with my Dad now, and to witness a Vardy goal from an Albrighton cross was quite a lovely moment. 4) Sunderland away 15/16 3) Liverpool home 2016 - both goals. I actually cheered the second one even more because first of all it confirmed the win but also just felt like "this is really on now". 2) Man United home 2014, still gives me goosebumps watching that fourth goal 1) WBA great escape. Will never ever tire of seeing it or forget the moment he was bearing down on goal. Will leave out 11 heaven because it's been played so so many times now and it's kind of a standalone moment

It was just the title winning XI. Apart from Okazaki

Imagine if he went WBA for a season

selling tickets

He's played a huge part not only in the history of our club but also our own lives. Think about where you were in August 2012, as he was scoring his first Leicester goal on a balmy evening in Devon. All the things that have happened in our lives and in the world since then, his goals have been a constant. 13 years of rustling jimmies. The Vardy epoch.

Oh ****. Really hope he can get to 200 before the end of the season.

#WhenTaken #422 (24.04.2025) I scored 656/1000 (💡x1) 🎗️ 1️⃣📍4.7K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥉119/200 2️⃣📍💡414 km - 🗓️33 yrs - 🥉90/200 3️⃣📍1.4K km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥈160/200 4️⃣📍18.7K km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥉89/200 5️⃣📍5.5 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200 https://whentaken.com

None at all, only coffee. I was given my moniker by an ex girlfriend who thought I was warming but too salty.

There have long been strains of oikophobia and xenophilia in some quarters of English polite society, as well as an aversion to tradition, especially religious tradition. A lot of that is down to specific historical events and processes. That's been added to in recent years by a greater unease around the role of majority national identity in an increasingly multi-ethnic country. You're right it's baffling to outsiders. My partner is Bulgarian so celebrates St George's Day (13 days later). I remember the first year we lived here her coming back from work on April 23rd and describing to me the office 'discourse' around St George like she was a 19th century English explorer recounting some utterly esoteric and mystic traditions of a just-discovered tribe in the Congo.

I was thinking more of a wicker man type sacrifice after the final home game. I'm sure the plane guy can fix something up. Bit of crowdfunding maybe?

even Presbyterians celebrate Saints' days more than we do

I can only really have one in the morning, if I have one in the afternoon I'm in danger of a bit of reflux (though after a big lunch I often give in). So I know I have to really savour the morning one. Sister got me some Ethiopia coffee from F&M for my birthday and it's so good, and finishing the cup in the morning is so hard. It's definitely the one thing I would find almost impossible to give up, even if I were strongly advised to.

I always thought it was the period of Henry V and Agincourt when St George was truly promoted as patron saint but it may have been Edward III, lots of chivalric stuff goes back to him. I know that Richard II, who succeeded Ed III, really venerated Edmund.

Our true patron saint.

When a really good morning coffee finishes. I wouldn't say it 'grinds my gears' but it's always quite a sad moment.

#WhenTaken #421 (23.04.2025) I scored 908/1000 (💡x1) 👑 1️⃣📍55.4 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇195/200 2️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈152/200 3️⃣📍481 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇181/200 4️⃣📍555 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇182/200 5️⃣📍1.4 km - 🗓️💡2 yrs - 🥇198/200 https://whentaken.com

I think it's difficult to explain tradition and belief to someone from England, but perhaps imagine church and nation as a big NHS, and the saints as like Captain Tom.

Happy St George's Day foxestalkers! May you slay all of life's dragons!

I hope Villa finish 7 and then slide into obscurity just for the mental health of some foxestalk posters