Kitchandro

Cup your ears all you want mate, we’re in this league because you’re rubbish.

Absolutely shocking decision 😂

What the hell is he smiling at

Jeremeh Monga Stay a little longer Don’t just take the wonga Score and we’ll do the conga No idea what tune but the lyrics write themselves

But when footballers do it and only get a few games ban…?

It’s about power imbalance though. If one person makes a political statement, that’s expression of free speech. If a group of individuals agree on something and decide to make a group statement, that’s the same. This is a powerful company, ran by billionaires, using a football club as a platform to support a state (not a cause or opinion, a state) that we don’t even live in without the consent or endorsement of the fans. We as a club are now associated with this, they have used us a way of spreading a message that we may or may not agree with. The fact that it’s related to the military actions of a state has all sorts of moral complications, especially as we have impressionable kids going to games and following them on social media. I’ve also got a problem with the phrase ‘it’s their club’. If that’s your attitude you can’t complain if we end up like Sheffield Wednesday, or support the Russian government or whatever. They have a responsibility that we are supposed to be holding them to.

But he only did that well for a short period. As a defensive midfielder everyone will forgive you as long as you keep your shape and don’t give the ball away. He did alright at that for a bit, but it’s no coincidence that we were completely outfought by any team who didn’t just let us play. He was hardly a dominating midfield general, and he’s been anonymous for large parts of his time here. Teams cut through our midfield unchallenged because he wasn’t doing his job. It’s been at least 4 years since he’s shown any sort of consistent form. He’s an incredibly lazy player as well which makes it very hard to warm to him.

This is really, really bad. If anyone is still forking out for club merchandise, there’s no excuse for continuing to do so after this. It’s one thing to run the club poorly on the footballing and financial side, to allow the fans to be insulted, to make the fans feel unwanted, ignored and ripped off, etc. But this is way beyond that. States have enough of a stranglehold on the world. To use a local football club as a mouthpiece for military propaganda, that’s absolutely shocking. Personally I wasn’t that outraged by the whole shirt sponsor thing even if it was a bit dodgy, but this is unforgivable.

Harry Kane is obviously a good footballer but I dislike him as much as any player. He was awful for us, incredibly lazy whilst our season was falling apart and then massively gave it the big’un when he came back with Spurs. I always suspected he was massively influential in the England setup when none of our title winners could get in the team for some inexplicable reason whilst somehow Dier managed to be a starter. I don’t know how any Leicester fan can like him. Selfish player, overrated and treated like a golden boy despite going missing in big England games whilst Vardy, a better player (with a better chance conversion rate) couldn’t get a look in because he played for Leicester. Maddison and Mahrez are the other ones who stick out.

‘Over the moon’, ‘special day’ 😆 Just say it’s a good career move and leave it at that.

I don’t think I’ll ever get back the excitement. When I went to my first game in the late 90s football was still perceived as a community activity for the average person and footballers were just people who had particularly good jobs. But sometimes they still had a drink in the local, you saw them in the shop, they were your neighbours. Even when I was 18 I remember we started the season under Sousa and I was buzzing. Over the years football has felt more and more corporate to the extent it’s lost all meaning. VAR, the financial gulf between clubs, players earning a disgusting amount, Sky Sports creating narratives, diving being accepted instead of stamped out - all this played a part in showing me football for the way it really is now. At our club there has been a combination of KP rebranding (the kits and stadium especially), clappers, ticket prices, goal music, stewarding, the treatment of fans and groups like Union FS, lazy players who have no connection to the area and managers like Rodgers and Puel who were clearly here for their ego and the money respectively. I just can’t trick myself into believing it means anything again. It’s a business, not a community sports team. I still care a bit and have some emotion towards the results some of the time, but I don’t get excited beforehand, don’t often watch and rarely enjoy watching.

I don’t know whether we will end up like Sheffield Wednesday, but the fact something like this can happen to a club as big as them means it could happen to anyone. That’s what we should be taking from this. Transitioning to fan-owned clubs is absolutely necessary in the long run, no other industry is protected by the government from billionaires and this one will be no different. The sport is rapidly heading towards complete ruin, and with the recent stats about how many Leicester fans feel completely disconnected from the club, I’d say we’re halfway there.

He was a promising player in his early days with us and had some patches where he looked good in a decent team in which his job was very basic: move the ball on 5 yards and hold position as a defensive midfielder. It’s the easiest job in football bar substitute goalkeeper. Nobody even expects you to tackle. He has been awful for about 70% of his time here but he plays in a position which rarely gets singled out for criticism. Look how Eric Dier thrived despite being completely useless, it’s the same thing. Ndidi doesn’t help himself by being really lazy. Watch him - rather than tracking runners in case there’s danger he’ll only do it once it’s obvious they are going to get the ball, and it’s astonishing how often players just run unchecked towards our back 4 as if we have no holding midfielder at all. He’s been here ages yes, but that doesn’t mean he’s been a particularly great or likeable player. He’s a rich man’s Amartey, in that sense. EDIT: just realised I’ve replied to an old post but still think it’s worth saying.

Personally I’ve always thought him extremely lazy and unprofessional. You know like when he can’t be bothered to show any urgency to close down shots or track back. That’s aside from his poor behaviour off the pitch.

As an aside, blue shorts were almost never a fixture until 1992 and white socks were used for so long they could definitely be considered traditional. Personally I still hate the all blue.

Sorry but that’s just not correct, you could argue 1994/96 has a goldy yellow / yellowy gold. We had some yellow away kits, again some at a stretch could be considered yellowy gold. No other home kit had gold on it. This metallic gold colour was purely introduced by King Power in 2013 and I entirely associate it with them.

It seems to be getting worse these days. For a spectator sport it’s kind of a big deal. I can’t imagine it helps the players either, not that I’m making excuses for us.

Perez against Chelsea just after we beat them in the cup final is another one. He had so many horrific games for us where he was the weak link, but that one stands out for missing the absolute sitter in the last minute which cost us the Champions League place. Also Nathan Dyer had a really good start with us but there was a home match where he kept kicking it straight out of play, after that we didn’t really see him until he was front and centre for the trophy lift 😆 Musa and Kane stick out as having some of the most anger-inducing performances for us but I can’t remember which games. Kane because he was so lazy on top of being poor and Musa just because he was so embarrassingly bad on a technical level.

The badge should always be the colours that are on the badge. It never looked odd in the old days when we had the same badge on various colour kits, it looked like our badge was on a kit. Sometimes, it’s like football changes things purely to wind fans up. The colours are the badge should be sacred because those are our colours. Blue and white go with any decent colours anyway.

Do you actually think this? I ask because it’s a constant narrative parroted by the media and message boards that’s completely false. It’s what they call a ‘straw man’. People want to see the ball passed quickly, not hoofed. It’s very difficult to score without moving the ball quickly and impossible to win without scoring. It’s entertaining to see the game played at pace. The masses want entertainment and goals. Keeping possession does not decrease the chances of conceding and it does not get the ball in areas that statistically generate the most chances. You’ve seen enough of Leicester to know that passing it around the back for 5 seasons is not the area where you create goal scoring chances. Most goals are scored within 3 passes, statistically - making the obsession with possession football not backed up by the most important and directly relevant data. That statistic also indirectly suggests something we also know from watching football, that pressing high and winning the ball in the opposition’s half leads to a lot of goals. So, keeping possession at the back, against high pressing teams, gives you a larger risk of conceding than scoring, unless you are far superior to them both individually and as a unit. Speaking of false narratives and overused phrases, there’s this constant black-and-white argument that the long ball game is pragmatic and possession football is beautiful and some managers don’t strike the right balance. Long balls aren’t pragmatic unless there’s a specific plan that goes with it, and possession football is the most dull, ugly thing on earth if not done at a fast tempo. I’ve said before, better players make better teams, better players win more games and better teams will invariably have more possession. The latter is not fundamentally a bad thing. But moving the ball slowly is a flaw. Inviting teams onto you, assuming they are going to both press and be bad at pressing, is not the most likely way to score or win games. Getting promoted last time was down to having the best players and the same ideas got us (under Rodgers with a squad that should never have gone down) and Southampton relegated (in double quick time). And let’s not even get started on Puel. How can the defence of slow possession football still exist?

Unless of course they are top managers who haven’t made it to the top yet. I know little about this guy and I’m willing to see how it pans out and what kind of football we play, but there aren’t many people suggesting he has loads of potential. Again, maybe we just don’t cast our net wide enough or do enough research (not maybe in fact, we definitely don’t). If we all thought we left no stone unturned to find the best up and coming manager all the replies would be a lot more positive even in the exact same circumstances.

If that’s the case I would be inclined to think Rohl would have been the right choice.

Perhaps, but signing for Forest would be unacceptable. I mean he’s untouchable but let’s not take the Mickey.

I can’t say this excites me, but it makes me a lot less angry than the idea of O’Neill, Wilder, Martin and Dyche. And that’s purely because I don’t know how good or crap he is. If our club was reliable and thoughtful about hiring managers I would be more optimistic that they’d really done due diligence. But I’m more inclined to believe he’s being hired because he’s cheap and recently managed in the division. Since everyone on here believes we should walk the league with the squad we’ve got, I won’t be expecting a load of excuses for this guy if we struggle. I’m not nearly as confident, but as always I just want to see a manager play positively and bring some enjoyment to watching football, which we haven’t had a commitment to for a long time.

I’ve said it before but this only applies if you are trying to hire a name. Well run clubs don’t hire names with experience. They hire people based on talent, potential, ideas, philosophy. You know full well a German 2nd division manager, South American coach in their mid 30s or a Spanish assistant coach doesn’t think we are an unattractive proposition. Otherwise Wilder and O’Neill wouldn’t even be on the shortlist. They’re on the shortlist because we’ve not tried to hire the best manager, we’ve tried to hire the best known manager.