Kitchandro

So you’d think less of him for playing for any other English league club but not if he sportswashed for Saudi Arabia? 😆

Sorry, but this just isn’t true. Other teams away ends have a much lower percentage of older fans. The bigger or more fashionable clubs are much more attractive to younger, male fans. Even Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, the Sheffield clubs - and these haven’t won anything in ages. Ladies didn’t really go to the football in the 80s so it doesn’t add up we’d have so many 70 year old women who have been supporting us that long. This is not me criticising older fans, but I will criticise the club for making it a ‘family club’ and being overly corporate instead of trying to make the club something cool that younger male fans will support. It’s just common sense that this demographic is the most vocal and lairy and that lifts the atmosphere. Also, I hate to say it but football naturally means more to younger people without families or a sense of direction in life. It’s an escape from disillusionment and pride in a local team which they are less likely to have found in themselves yet. Again, not a criticism - as I’ve got older I’ve realised football is less important than it used to be. What isn’t good is thousands of people turning up just out of habit and respecting the owners more than the historical institution that is the football club. There’s no pride in that and it dilutes the experience for those who see the club as a meaningful representation of the community.

I don’t think it can be both. Any Vardy-positive stuff would be highlighted by the media and anything against the owners would be ignored and swept under the rug. The media likes its single narratives and the Vardy narrative is more powerful than ‘entitled Leicester fans don’t remember they were in League One once’. In an ideal world, we get battered by Southampton in an empty stadium. The last home game against Ipswich could still be a Vardyfest (would be nice if he could score a goal these days).

Being hammered by Wolves (again) should tell you we’re going to have a shocking time next season as well. We are a terrible side with no fight and could easily get relegated again if we don’t hire a very good manager.

He’s not a player. The entrance to the ground is for footballing figures. He has a statue because he died, therefore it belongs in the memorial garden.

Statue yes, but I hate this retiring shirts thing. There may be a young Leicester fan who works his way through the academy one day, wearing the number 9 should be a motivation. Besides, number 9 is kind of an important number in football.

Yeh, but I didn’t expect that to mean Chelsea. Real Madrid I could have stomached. Convinced that was the beginning of the end for Ranieri. At least Vards didn’t go to Arsenal straight after we’d just trounced them by 10 points. I remember the night we thought he might, there was about 7 of us at a restaurant and we barely spoke all night 😆

The last remnants of what I liked about football. In a few recent seasons I’ve hated our club but Vardy has represented enough of Leicester to keep me caring. When he was played out wide or not at all by Southgate or Hodgson for England, it felt personal. He was massively underrated and largely because he played for an unfashionable club. In the Premier League, his conversion rate was better than any other English striker. But his finishing statistics don’t do him justice either. It’s hard to explain how central he was to our style of play when we got promoted and then won the Premier League. We could press, we could play on the break, we could play a bad pass to him and he’d make it into a good one. No other striker would have had that sort of impact - not Kane, not Aguero, not Shearer. That’s why he’s the greatest.

I can imagine Vards leaving is good news for Top. Means the crowd will stay placid and onside for the rest of the season, grateful to see Vardy play a couple more times. (Not that that wasn’t the case anyway, but it’s a distraction that lifts the pressure).

Is this a joke? Bilal 😂 Getting promoted from a league we should never have been in, playing football most people thought was dull 90% of the time despite having the most expensive squad ever at that level etc. That’s not putting things right. Re-establishing us as a PL regular, putting a long term plan in place, hiring managers who they’d done research on, might have been a start.

He’s a billionaire. You’ve got every right to hate a billionaire, even one with good PR.

No thanks then. Reminds me of Rodgers and ‘death by football’. I’ll take your word for it but Spain is a different division to England. You can’t beat teams with possession football in England unless you have similar quality players, it’s as simple as that.

Time to start a phoenix club.

Are we really gonna have this guy in charge of the Forest match when he doesn’t care at all? We could ruin their season purely with a new manager bounce. Even if that manager is Andy King in a caretaker role. He’d have Vardy on side at least. But no, let’s get humiliated there again, why not.

Why would you hope he goes to Saudi? If you like a player, going to Saudi should sour your feelings towards him. Wrexham are just Wrexham after all, they’re not particularly controversial or disrespectful to normal people.

If it was me making the decision, I would listen to what Sheffield Wednesday fans think of him. It’s the most accurate indicator of how we’ll feel about him, and when all is said and done that’s all that will matter. If he’s as hated as Puel or Rodgers, for example, it won’t matter what the results are or what league we are in. People will stop caring. I don’t know why I’m even taking an interest myself as I just know it’s going to be Martin.

And yet he was well below Cooper in the table. is it cos he’s got a nice ‘aura’?

The only thing that still annoys me is that our demise is not being faithfully covered by the media. No attention on the banner, Sky saying we’ve no problem with the owner, BBC not reposting negative Leicester texts/tweets but focusing on Liverpool and Monga being 15. Other clubs are allowed to be upset about being midtable - but the narrative for us is that this is ok for Leicester. It’s almost as if there is an agenda against genuine reporting of the situation, they can’t claim they aren’t aware.

We're going down without a shot on target, we've brought on defensive subs, and our owner and DOF are sat laughing...sums up this club

Nope, that’s not how it works. The board is not the manager, nor the players, nor the scout. It’s those people who make successful football teams. Unless, of course, the owner is so much richer than the majority of clubs that spending power alone is the major reason for success. If the club had consistently hired the right managers, the right scouts, the right directors of football, and had made changes in these departments as soon as things started to go south - you might have a point. But their strike rate has been extremely low in these aspects; and the dramatic difference in some of our seasons suggests their longevity here was not the main factor in any success - which certainly wasn’t constant. Pearson had to undo the mess they created in their first two years to get us promoted. We won the league in between two seasons where we were nearly relegated. People gave up their season tickets as we stagnated under the dreadful Puel, we had Champions League form, followed by bottom half form, followed by relegation form under Rodgers (some of that mixed into single seasons), and the less said about this season the better. There’s no evidence that there was a consistent plan or way of thinking that led to success. The board aren’t making the football decisions, but can easily screw up a club due to being responsible for the money, hiring and firing - which we are a perfect example of.

We haven’t scored at home this year. We are entitled to see one goal in 4 months.

Why, because he drew one game?

These criticisms are fair but it’s a not Vichai who solved those issues it? Pearson left only because of non-footballing reasons. We only ended up with Ranieri for circumstantial reasons and both managers had a comparatively small budget. We wouldn’t have won the league without Holloway or Sousa taking over based on the butterfly effect but that doesn’t mean they contributed anything positive. Vichai made some good decisions and some very poor ones, he was extremely lucky things fell into place with two managers and great scouting on a budget.

What don’t you get? They were battering them until those subs. Completely killed their momentum and the flow of the game. PSG are very poor defensively and a decent team would have hammered them tonight. Being good going forward isn’t everything.

McGinn as well. I mean I don’t rate him but he was central to everything in this half, taking them both off was criminal. I guess that’s why he’s only managing Villa.