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Even a menacing look is asking a lot from Soumare. Perhaps a wry smile or blank / bemused expression

To be fair, none of our midfields work. Soumare winds me up the most though, so in lieu of a wet paper bag, it has to be Winksey and Skippsey

Hopefully no Soumare today.

Surely we have to win a match at some point

I expect our new signing, Woyo, will be the key today. We’ll turn our fortunes around with a 3-1 victory - Those early attempts we always have will actually go in today Vardy Woyo Vardy pen Son

Kent, usually park at the Holiday in. Can take 3-4 hours to get there and usually 5 hours to get home as it takes ages to get out of the city.

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Lower tier tickets sold out, they've opened the top tier. Plenty of tickets available.

Can’t remember exactly when it was, but the match was 90% Soyuncu and his partner (Faes? Vestergaard?) passing it between themselves at the back. We got tonked 4-0 and the train back into Kent was full of West Ham supporters - I was in my Leicester top 🤦‍♂️

I was in the upper tier last time I went. It’s miles back from the pitch and the lower tier seemed to be having more fun. There is safe standing in the upper, maybe that’s it? It’s a terrible ground. Designed for athletics not football, and there is a massive bit of dead space between the two away fans tiers.

Ange appointed Leicester manager by 6pm after RVN walks.

If anyone has a spare please let me know. Can collect at the ground or St Pancras.

Yep, blew our budget on him and he can’t even get in the team ahead of Soumare

Our midfield options are so poor - Winks, Skipp, Soumare, Ndidi, and Choudhury. 5 Championship level midfields, one of which is permanently crocked, and Choudhury is never going to make it in the PL. Its this area of the pitch which is causing all of our problems.

So not a Vesty then?

Can’t see where the next win or draw is coming from. 7 losses in a row in the Premier League, and we’re going through a supposed ‘easier’ run of fixtures. Our defence is woeful, our midfield is softer than wet bog roll, and we can’t score against bottom half teams at home. There is no philosophy of play or recruitment, no strategy for survival. No prospect of new signings to change fortunes, and an inexperienced manager that hasn’t been given the tools to succeed. Teams are routinely beating us 2 or 3 nil without having to get out of first gear. It’s as bad as it has been for the last 20 years.

This window really shows what a shambles the club is behind the scenes. 2-3 signings in the right positions could save our season and help us maintain PL status, but with a little over a week to go we’ve signed a backup right back.

You have to make your own luck. We don’t put the opposition under enough pressure to force them into mistakes.

You can’t blame Ruud for the subs. Our squad is so honking we have literally nobody above League 1 level to bring on.

The causal jog is his signature move. I cannot understand those who say he’s our best player because of the odd run forward. Time after time you just see him jogging casually around rather than closing the player down, and it’s criminal in midfield. He is the reason we are so porous. His causal jog has been on display since his first match 3 seasons ago, and it’s criminal that our squad building has meant he has somehow become a first choice starter when we loaned him out as crap in the Championship.

To be fair, we have bought this entirely on ourselves. 3 seasons ago we were competing for Champions Leagues positions. Chronic mismanagement of the club since then will instead see us locked out of the Premier League for the next decade. It will take a new owner, new board, and someone like Pearson to come in the knows how to build a squad for the Championship.

There is literally nobody else to play there. Skipp or Choudhury…

Top out

We’ll play some neat and tidy possession football in the first half, a few missed chances but never really making their goalkeeper work, and we’ll limit them to 2 or 3 chances forcing good saves from Stozlazck. Second half they’ll score 2 in the first twenty minutes, and then round it off on 80 mins with their third. Optimistically, we’ll get a consolation goal from Ayew in stoppage time. Leicester 1 - 3 Fulham Ruud to say ‘we need to be better in the important moments’ in his post match interview.

There must be a ‘no early termination’ clause otherwise why are we keeping him here? Surely the pecking order goes - Vardy, Daka, Ayew, Edouard, Cannon (recall). No chance he is getting even on the bench so why is he still here?