Kitchandro

Perhaps, but if you’ve grown up with Leicester City, that’s the club you have an emotional attachment to. I mean I hate the club but I still waste my time posting about them, you never really change your club.

I’d almost prefer tbh. If it was fan owned and ran it would have infinitely more meaning. Maybe we could even get a nicer ground one day with a proper standing kop, banish gold from the kits, make it affordable for everyone and all have an actual say in important decisions.

It’s also quite lucky no civilians on the ground were killed for such a reckless disregard of safety. There was never a good reason for having a helicopter take off on the pitch over a busy area, it’s just something rich people do to make a point.

We League One long time

It’s the reason I gave up on any sort of positive change at this club years ago. No one cares, no one’s gonna do anything, no one’s going to protest or risk a ban or risk missing games against Bromley. It takes most people 3 years too long to see what’s going on - with Rodgers, with Rudkin, with Top. Meanwhile they mock those that see it sooner. Well everyone who did care and wanted change is apathetic by now. It’s just easier to stop caring and replace football with a passion you can actually contribute to. I’m mildly annoyed when we lose and that’s it. The fanbase has lost me as much as the owners have. They’ve made their bed. Collectively, our fans deserve this.

I don’t disagree with any of that. I was always a Pearson fan. My criticisms of him in 2014/15 don’t diminish that. What I take issue with is that he takes credit for Ranieri’s title winning tactics - which he didn’t generally employ himself. You don’t pull off what we pulled off, with largely inferior players, without being tactically astute. That was never Pearson’s strong point and as much as I love him, we’d never have finished higher than 7th with him. Just some respect on Claudio’s name would be nice on this forum. For the poster I was quoting to say that he didn’t ‘do well’ is obviously false. Seems a cultural trait that we just repeat this Pearson worshipping because it’s a comfortable narrative until it has rewritten history. Pearson had his limitations, and even for a long-time KP hater like me, I can accept Vichai made more than one correct decision (even if more by luck than judgement!). Ranieri did well, not because of what Pearson did, but because of what Ranieri did. It’s as simple as that.

There was that other bloke that won the Premier League, forgotten his name. It’s extremely weird that Pearson gets a pass for underachieving with a great side and being in a relegation scrap, yet the manager who masterminded the greatest overachievement in the history of English football doesn’t, and is even actively disrespected by our fans. Meanwhile we’ve got some trying to argue Puel was a success. Up is down, black is white. Disclaimer: This is not to be considered a defence of Vichai or any of his subsidiary children.

It’s more concerning to me that people would try to convince themselves all these excuses are valid just to do something that is obviously really unenjoyable. That’s the bit that gets me. It’s a rip off experience and people just lie to themselves. I find it almost offensive that people would accept this level of insult from what are essentially just a load of self-interested rich people. They are the same kind who simp for rich people in other contexts. They have no self-respect. It makes our fanbase look utterly embarrassing and our club small-time. The reputational hit to the club by accepting and supporting this level of decline makes us look a small club. It reduces pride in the whole institution, which reduces the meaning of the act of supporting a local club. Without pride it’s just paying rich people to bore you, annoy you, and even take the Mickey out of you. Anyone who retains that deep feeling of pride in the club they’ve had since childhood is ashamed to be associated with the fanbase for saying ‘we’re a small club and deserve to be below all these clubs that love mocking us’. There’s no rule that you can’t spend time with family outside the football. Or watch other football matches. There might be the odd person who is struggling so badly and they have found no other effective distractions despite trying, or those who can’t really get out of it because it isn’t their choice (such as the example on the previous page). But let’s be honest, these are a tiny minority. It’s not 10s of thousands of people. What it is for most people is a misguided belief that being a ‘proper fan’ means always turning up, a refusal to analyse the situation, or a force of habit. I don’t demand people protest. It’s perfectly valid to feel football has largely lost it’s meaning to you, that there are more important things than football to put such energy into (socially as well as personally), or that you wanted to protest years ago and have to begrudgingly accept we don’t have enough hard line fans willing to make a real impact. Protesting outside the ground for hours sounds a great idea, I support it, but I suggested it weeks ago and people decided to just attend the match and shout a bit instead. If you don’t live in Leicester, travelling there and hoping that our fanbase magically grows a pair would be a waste of your time. But the vast majority of people who make excuses to go (even those who convince themselves that a few disorganised and disparate bits of shouting inside the ground will send enough of a message) are embarrassing themselves and the club. The optics make us look a loser club. If people attend and there’s a real disruptive protest that the media and owner can’t ignore then brilliant. But nobody who attends genuinely believes that will happen, that’s not why they are going.

People will make excuses like ‘we should protest instead!’ or ‘I can’t possibly bond with my second cousin anywhere else’ when in reality they are just as spineless as the players.

I hate these threads. Just pointlessly sadistic shite.

We need someone with a particular set of skills to keep us up. Now I’ve not actually watched Taken but my understanding is that Liam Neeson just kicks everyone’s arse for 90 minutes. So if we hire him to manage these cretins I’ll be happy. Plus his mind games and man-management of Ralph Fiennes when he was causing problems was Fergie-esque.

I’m sure this thread was a parody but it’s difficult to tell on the internet. We do need a proper manager though.

This was the vital thing that season, something we’ve almost never had before or since. It’s a rarity for clubs like ours. Ranieri was the only manager who could have won us that title. And that doesn’t get said enough.

I’m confused people saying about his work rate. Perez spent most of his time on the floor because he’d tripped over the ball. I don’t remember him being an energetic high press merchant at all. I’d agree with Stadt that signing him arguably cost us the Champions League. Massive weak link, waste of money and wages, missed that sitter at Chelsea. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was completely unsuited to English football due to a lack of physicality, but his touch was also awful so I don’t know maybe we just signed his twin by accident.

I mean I’m not going to be watching him either way. Let’s just be honest with ourselves and say he’s gonna be shite. I’ll be shocked if he isn’t.

Can’t we just split the club in two. KPFC can keep this one, we’ll secede FC United of Manchester style and claim all the club’s history anyway (they can argue with us all they like we’ll just ignore them). Not interested in supporting the same club as these people.

Except there are about 20 teams above us with less time in the top tier and smaller fanbases. Including several in the Prem.

I’m guessing there was no boycott or protest.

Imagine you’ve just broke up with someone. You’re low on confidence and ugly as fvck so you just scroll through your old numbers for anyone you already know who’s desperate enough to have a go with you. I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Am I on the wrong forum?

The thing is, surely businesses have accountants etc who know the ins and outs of stuff like PSR. I imagine it’s fairly basic stuff for a professional. The CEO isn’t likely to be doing it himself. To me, it’s obvious there are people around him who can explain things to him and advise him and he either ignores them or minimises them if it doesn’t fit his narrative. He surrounds himself with yes men instead, people out for themselves who aren’t necessarily even qualified. Anyone who had any self-awareness or care for the club wouldn’t have put it in this position. It’s not hard to get a consensus or listen to more knowledgeable people. The only explanation is that he’s actively chosen not to. Saying he’s just thick is giving him too much credit.

I have a sneaky suspicion they will do this though. Because it’s easy and he’s popular with the fans.

Honestly someone like Warnock would suit me. Not actually Warnock, but someone who can motivate the ones that can be motivated and scare the ones with an attitude problem into submission. We need to stay up this season and all that requires is a bit of grit and togetherness.

The fact that this isn’t on the top 10 football stories on BBC shows how far we have fallen, and that combined with Cifuentes saying our expectations are too high makes me feel no sympathy for him. I’ve had it with people belittling the club until we become little. Professional pride is badly needed. The club is a shambles but that doesn’t excuse the attitude of some of our managers.

Inevitable from the very first match.

‘Delusions of grandeur’ was after we lost 2-1 at home to Barnsley in 2012. Safe to say we weren’t much better that season than we are now and rightly had higher expectations. It’s not abundantly clear what he meant but my interpretation was that the fans expected more but the team was crap. Needless to say the squad had major changes and thus reality started to meet our expectations. He wouldn’t have said we should accept lower midtable like this melt is.