Kitchandro

The bit about Fatawu is spot on. He looks so painfully like a talented player who’s being coached appallingly.

Ranieri and Maresca were good appointments, Puel not a chance. Total waste of time. The Rodgers appointment can be separated into 3 as if they were all completely separate people (which reflects his personality) - 2019 (good) 2020-21 (inconsistent and frustrating, benefit of the doubt purely because VAR disallowed the Chilwell goal) and 2022-23 (diabolical in every aspect of management that exists and even in some aspects that he managed to invent). What we can say is that King Power have had no footballing insight, the appointments have had little imagination or research behind them and the few that worked out were lucky choices on that basis.

Does Top even check the results? I feel he has a monthly review from Rudkin that amounts to him telling Top everything is fine and his genius decisions have paid off once again.

It’s come to the point where if I ever meet a Leicester fan again I’m gonna ask them if they were KP in or out. Even in 20 years if they’re KPFC as far as I’m concerned they’re essentially a Cov or Forest fan to me. We don’t support the same thing.

Inevitable when billionaires with no connections to the area or the ordinary man take over football clubs. They don’t understand the psychology of supporting a football team and they don’t know anything about the sport, yet assume their own success is down to being more intelligent than everyone else. It’s a bad combination.

I think people are genuinely that thick that they can’t see why selling their ticket defeats the object.

The thing that really jumps out at me is how boring the kits generally are. Africa used to be the flag bearers for inventive kits that had cultural representation in their designs. Now there are so many single colour, plain kits. It sounds like a little thing but it’s just symptomatic of how sterile and anti-beautiful football and society is now.

I’ve never understood people calling for positive posts on football forums. Surely people come on here to vent or at best laugh at some gallows humour.

I’m not equating the two things or the two people. So regardless of what I might know about certain players not being great guys either, it’s not the point. The idea lifestyle shouldn’t bother people is absolute nonsense. There is a complete denigration of society and community and it’s rooted in the fact that the rich do not have a shared experience with normal people. Football, being a sport in which players are representing their community, is immediately less meaningful for this reason. They aren’t representing anything but corporations now. If Luke Thomas is drinking in his local it doesn’t make him a better person, but it absolutely makes him more relatable. It doesn’t make you a ‘loser’ to be poorer than a footballer and not be happy about it. Remember the days when people used to say those on the NHS workers were getting ripped off and footballers were overly privileged? Yeh, at least that sentiment was fair, even if you don’t blame footballers for it. People have a right to be enraged at the state of the world, and all this apathetic stuff celebrating people who want to rub in your face how rich they are isn’t going to fix anything. An awareness, a consciousness if you will, is at least a step in the right direction.

I agree with most of this but people don’t like certain footballers with good reason. The typical modern footballer; arrogant and completely out of touch with normal people. When people spend 8 grand on a weird rucksack it rubs people up the wrong way. And yes, I do have personal anecdotes to support this view of him. People are jealous of rich successful people yes, why shouldn’t they be in an unequal and unfair society? It’s not meritocratic. But that’s not the only thing. People want to knock them because they don’t find them remotely relatable. It’s a representation thing. People were always more forgiving of someone like Gazza because, in spite of his many faults, he seems like someone you might know. Maddison isn’t having a beer with you. If Thomas is I’m more inclined to like him in this day and age! Shame he’s rubbish.

It always matters who the manager is, that’s why clubs always hire one.

Every time something like this happens the official line is that it’s a ‘mistake’ and it always turns out to be some much more serious financial issue. Either way, horrible club.

Great example of a player who was absolutely awful for us but gets remembered differently because he was in a successful side.

Who said we were boring

Do you not think other Championship teams have bad strikers? We were 2-0 up, Daka’s lack of quality shouldn’t have been the be all and end all.

I think some of it is poor attitude from players, but I think it’s mainly to do with a cowardly approach from the manager. Sometimes we are too tentative to come out the blocks and try to score, other times we are scared of losing a lead and just think sitting deep and doing nothing will make it all go away. It’s common with professional football managers which I find very odd - losing doesn’t kill you it’s just a thing that happens in football. Being scared to lose instead of having the will and belief to win is pathetic when you’re on the money these people are on with nothing serious really riding on the result, compared with people in normal jobs. If people genuinely believe our fitness isn’t up to scratch then every single member of the coaching staff should be sacked and publicly laid into in a statement before their heads hit the pillow tonight. That’s the very basics of professional sport.

Support must be dwindling for him now surely. There’s not a lot of excuses when you’re 2-0 against Bristol City and can’t see the game out. That’s management flaws, not players being incapable. This guy doesn’t learn lessons.

When people say our players ‘just aren’t good enough’, I give you that first half. Up to the players but also particularly the manager to play like that consistently. Best performance of the season by far, we looked a different team.

Surely the second part of this proves he’s not the right person? Basically the argument for keeping him comes down to ‘might as well’ or in other words ‘cba’. It’s not like you, brookfox, has to do anything. We know the manager isn’t very good and we would like a better one. Better managers exist IF our club was willing to scout them like other clubs do. Everything else is irrelevant. Most of us know the owner won’t hire anyone good but we know they won’t sell up and we know they won’t buy decent players either. I ask this a lot, but if the manager offers nothing, or managers can’t make a difference, why have a manager at all? Shouldn’t we just let these unmanageable players manage themselves? Nobody ever suggests this which I find surprising. They are so sure that managers can’t make a difference when the players are average but want the club to spend money on someone who they admit is tactically inept, unwilling to change and doesn’t provide an ounce of entertainment.

The thing that this post reminded me of, being written by an outsider, is how it should have been a turning point in football and it wasn’t. My belief was that our success should have meant that no manager could ever again say to a group of supporters that their needed to play negative football to compete, and that the only expectation was survival. Allardyce, McCarthy, Pulis - they’d all been proved wrong. All football fans should have had renewed pride in their club and the sport, because they had a right to believe these things were possible and that entertainment, at the very least, was not determined by finances. Within a couple of years, the club that inspired that teared it all down. We let successive managers (Puel and Rodgers) tell us those very things. Our pathetic fans and board clapped along while they told us to be grateful, that we couldn’t compete with Wolves, that when they turned up we were happy just to survive. That’s the thing that annoys me most of all. We let these rich guys tell us what to accept again, rather than the other way round. That’s why the club is dead.

Marinakis is a horrible guy and if you think King Power are dodgy, well…speak to a Greek about him. Another reason I’ve turned off football is when you realise those lining up to own football clubs is one terrible person after another. Circus doesn’t even begin to describe this sport.

People will forget that the players got relegated to League One. Remember Richard Stearman? Played in the Premier League for Wolves soon after. Did anyone care Tielemans or Maddison got relegated? They won’t forget that Leicester got relegated to League One. It will be a stain on our history, the more years we spend in the lower leagues means more ammunition for us to be mocked and belittled, more ammunition for people to say we don’t belong in the Premier League and to be grateful to people like Top and Brendan Rodgers. The whole point of supporting your local team is about pride, this club is badly lacking that. Playing in League One for a few seasons will only diminish that pride further. There’s no guarantee it will lead to anything positive either.

I always laugh thinking about the clubs people must think we are smaller than if we were truly supposed to be a mid table Championship club. We’d have to be considered smaller than Portsmouth, Coventry, Brighton and Stoke 😂

King Power won the league - CHECK Several unnecessary ellipses - CHECK Meaningless philosophical sounding phrase - CHECK Stating the amount of years you’ve supported the club as if it adds more weight to the overall point - CHECK You missed out ‘we were in League One once’ though.

This has been the case 2020. We play football like we think we’re too clever to score a goal.