Kitchandro

Master of the backward pass too

Didn’t know Faes had played for us for so long.

You are mad. We were horrible today - no running, no closing down, barely strung any passes together. Buonanotte, who Ruud doesn’t rate enough to start, made the difference because we had nothing to offer until he came on.

It’s like we think we get points for going back to the keeper.

Are we trying to lose? We give them so much space. The basics in these games is getting close to them.

You’re kidding? He’s shocking.

Would be nice to see one of our players run occasionally.

Because it’s them and I am hoping for a miracle to ruin their season I’ll watch until we’re 2 down and not a moment longer.

It helps when the media serves it up on a silver platter for you. They are the definition of media darlings, along with Spurs. If you’re repeatedly given the narrative that you’re one of the big clubs, it’s easier to believe it - even if there is nothing tangible to back it up with.

I love Champion but Fletcher is pretty solid isn’t he? He’s not really offensive and he’s got a good shouting voice. I’ve suffered Pearce, Drury, Mowbray, Tyler, Matterface and worst of all, Weaver over the years. These are the truly annoying commentators. I can’t stand McManaman though.

This sounds like you’re talking about your kids or people that matter. The reality is ‘the club’ is just a load of millionaires / billionaires who don’t care about you and that’s reflected in every aspect of its operation. If they were relatable people passionate about the meaning of the club then I could still feel the emotional connection, but both KPFC and football in general aren’t like that anymore. I’d argue almost none of them have the fans’ best interests at heart nor any pride in the club or the community. Anyway, in answer to the thread question, I’ve not been in years due to this disillusionment (Puel and Rodgers cared as little about making football enjoyable as Ruud does). In that time I’ve taken a far bigger interest in music, started playing guitar and it’s completely changed me. For anyone saying they struggle to replace the passion and identity of supporting us, I would say some sort of artistic pursuit is worth trying for everyone; you can use it to find people to bond with and unlike football you also feel like you are achieving something as an individual. Being proud of something is important, you can’t always rely on this through people you don’t even know.

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.