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Love it! Can we have Tom and Serge backstage at every home game please?

The collective arses of bored posters.

He looks worryingly like the modern day Alan Young in that one.

As others have said, the Counting House is the best place for away folk. I went into Spur before Newcastle and there were plenty of Geordies in there too - not the best pint, but right next to the ground and nice enough folk in there.

Sing Ben Marshall's chant for Ben Hamer. Perfect fit, and would be good when taking goal kicks.

Oh, please let them do this. Danny is the sort to raise his game if that happens. Watch him net a ripper and start with the ear-cup.

http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/2f3dnl/leicester_city_1_1_arsenal/ Reddit remains a goldmine for crying Arsenal fans, and some nice praise for us from others.

Looks kind of like Ed Balls. On that topic, should we have a combined thread for all Leicester Gurns? Keep this thread pure, as an ode to Kingy's wonderful face contortions?

Foxoffderby, while the grammar was like something straight out of a playgroup finger painting, I did find that article quite funny, if lacking in any noteworthy information about, you know, football. I'm not sure if they're trying to be edgy by calling Vardy "Varney", or if they're really that stupid. Sorry to anyone from there, but that's gold.

Caulker maybe, Ferdinand, not a chance in hell. Looked a liability of epic proportions any time he played for Man Utd. last season. One of the big reasons Moyes lost his job were his pathetic performances, and LVG clearly wasn't impressed, or he would have made some effort to keep him.

Palace: We'll see how Pulis handles "second season syndrome", but they do at least have the bulk of the players that produced some brilliant football in the tail end of last year. They also signed a certain Mr. Campbell who this very forum were circlejerking over a fortnight ago, and if he and Murray link up together they could be a pretty fearsome strikeforce. Strengthened sensibly, I think they'll be fine. Hull: I agree somewhat in that their squad is pretty threadbare, but they do have some real quality - particularly their aerial threat from set pieces. Long & Jelavic up front, Davies and Chester at the back and Ince and Brady in midfield will form a decent spine. How they cope with the loss of any of those six through injury or suspension will be pivotal.

Fair point, but I've yet to hear a compelling reason why any of the following teams are more likely to survive the drop than ourselves: Burnley - Spent moderately, and think they'll do okay, but Dyche will constantly carp on about their meagre funds as an excuse for anything that doesn't go their way. BS given the Prem money now guaranteed to them, but if funds are being held from him, they'll struggle to strengthen in January if they're in a poor position. West Brom - Very thin on the ground up-front and have lost some useful players in the close season. Bang average last year and seemingly declining. Southampton - Very impressive since their return, but we all know their absurd transfer policy ripped the spine of their success out of the club, and it remains to be seen how they will cope without their talismans. QPR - 'Arry's disgraceful transfer splurges continue. It didn't work in their past foray into the Prem, only just edged them over the line in the second tier and makes the club a basket case doomed to ruin the moment Fernandes leaves. Regardless of their "soft" players supposedly being suited to the Premier League, the team still reads like a who's who of past top-tier failures, and I don't see that changing while they continue their absurd pursuit of quantity over quality. Sunderland - Wickham is their biggest asset up-front and looks in danger of leaving, which will leave them rather toothless - hell will freeze over before Altidore steps up to the plate. Rodwell may shore up an aging midfield, but I reckon he'll be placed under pressure to carry the team too often. Perennial strugglers these days. Aston Villa - Surely it's only a matter of time before what is somehow still Birmingham's top club is put out of its misery and faces the trap door? They've struggled to compete since their own O'Neill "golden era" and have the same issue Sunderland face - aging faces with a track record of top-flight mediocrity. Couple in a supposedly static defense unlikely to be helped much by Cissokho's arrival and Benteke seemingly being the only player capable of prolonged goalscoring form (unless by some miracle Darren Bent rediscovers his goalscoring knack) and I can honestly see this being the year Villa finally drop out and either get a chance to rebuild in the Championship or face a Leeds-style prolonged era of suffering. Swansea - Again, a fairly recent promotee now seemingly declining after a promising start to their life in the top flight. Gary Monk himself had admitted that the team requires strengthening, and again, the squad's successes are seemingly pinned on the performances of one player. Of the teams listed here, I feel that Swansea have easily the strongest midfield - the likes of Shelvey, Routledge, Dyer and Britton are all top players - but up front there's again the idea of hopes being pinned on one man - in this case Wilfried Bony, who blows hot and cold. It's a cliché, but unless the midfield step up big-time as ours did so well last season, Swansea will really struggle to score. So that's 7 teams I count with genuine problems going into the new season that are worse than our own. Our only real issues are a weakness at left-back, a back up for right back and perhaps a need for a bit more wing pace. Besides that, the only reason people have tipped us to go back down has been the absolutely rubbish point that our players are incapable of making the step-up to the Premier League, which is nothing more than a deflective excuse to avoid making any real analysis of the individual players. The recent past, particularly the cases of Swansea and Southampton, have shown how well players can do when given the opportunity, and I have no reason to believe that our boys can't do the same and do us all proud. Of the teams listed above, I'd probably say that Aston Villa, West Brom and QPR are the most likely to be relegated, though Southampton could take QPR's place.

Ulloa is an Argie, He's playing in the blue, Now we've got the Falklands, And Cambiasso too, He nuts 'em with his bald head, And leaves 'em for Big Was, But there's no chance in hell we're giving them the Malvinas! No, I'm not letting it go.

Well I can really, because aside from him, we haven't paid a penny for any of our signings this summer, and we hardly spent big to acquire our acquisitions before. Am I right in thinking that Vardy was the last player we signed for any great sum (£1 Million)? Even Drinkwater came for an undisclosed fee which was supposedly no more than a few hundred thousand, while James and De Laet came for a similar price as one deal. The likes of GTF, Was, Phillips and Hammond were all signed on frees and did a great job, while the magic pair of Mahrez and Knockeart only set us back around £1 Million between the pair of them, despite bogus reports claiming they cost more. You have to go back to the 2012-13 season, and the likes of Wes for £1 Million, and Wood for £2 Million, to find any Pearson signings bought with serious money. Likewise, very few of Sven's players survive - Schmeichel, Nuge and Konchesky, Konch's fee was undisclosed, but again supposedly only a couple of hundred grand, it was the same for Kasper, and Nuge came on a free. The rest of the squad are academy products. Yes, I can accept that we have an inflated wage structure compared to Burnley, no thanks to Sven, but even his surviving players were actually signed for very little, and have all taken pay cuts in staying here. The gap between transfers really isn't as wide as some people make it out to be. And compared to a good chunk of Championship clubs, we've been incredibly thrifty over the past couple of years. Our squad's total costs are paltry compared even to perennial Premier League strugglers like the West Broms, Aston Villas and recently-departed Fulhams of this world. Dyche's bullshit claims that his squad doesn't deserve scrutiny because it 'didn't cost much' was almost always aimed at us last year, when in reality the backbone of what won us the league was put together for next to nothing. It's not as if his squad magically spawned from thin air either - the likes of Trippier, Shackell, Mee and Kightly all cost them decent money by Championship standards. Even the pairing of Vokes and Ings, who have won many plaudits and who many mistakenly believe to be Burnley academy products, were signed for £350k and £1 Million respectively. And they've just signed Jutkiewicz for £2.25 million - which, Premier League or not, is a fortune by the miserly standards Dyche claims to be working under. He's spouting absolute rubbish. Actually, that's incredible - excluding Ulloa, Chris Wood is currently the most expensive signing we have anywhere near our first 18.

I kind of want Burnley to succeed too, because they have been put together on a shoestring, similarly to us (by Prem standards and excluding Ulloa). Unfortunately, Dyche is such a massive chode using his small budget as a rich oil for his daily ego massage that I kind of want to see them eff off just so we don't have to suffer his media persona anymore. QPR can sod right off. I'd rather tape my face to one of 'Arry's jowells than see them survive with their asylum for overpaid flops.

I was quite taken aback by the hostility of some of those knuckle-dragging mouthbreathers on the Stoke forum. I respect their team for how it's established itself in the PL, but jesus christ, the way they're going on, you'd think they were a regular Champions League fixture. I doubt any of us are in question of how much of a challenge next season is going to be - it's the biggest test we've faced in a decade. But for them to think we're somehow arrogant for believing that this team is better than at least a handful of PL sides is ridiculous. For me, the litmus test was Fulham in the cup last year. Don't get me wrong, they were a farce last year, but nonetheless they fielded a pretty-much full strength squad, and we edged it. Beating PL strugglers is what we need to do to gain a foothold in the league. It's adorable that they actually believe the performance we put in against them in the cup was comparable to the standard we set last season. Apart from Brighton at home, it was our worst of the season, and we were still only edged out 2-1 by a Stoke side with a decent number of first-teamers in the line-up. Between that and Fulham, I've every confidence that we can hold our own, at least against the bottom half. Stoke are a good side, I won't deny it. They're a decent shout for a top half finish. But it's incredible to see the "big boy" mentality seeping into them, given it feels like yesterday that the Britannia saw their golden era begin, and our lowest ebb. Finishing above them would bring things full circle - wouldn't that be nice? It'll be tough, but I hope for the sake of karma that it happens. Piss off, Stoke.

If this is the view the average Prem fan has of the football we played last season, they have a nasty surprise waiting for them. Between Vardy, Mahrez, an in form Knockeart and Drinkwater, we've enough pace and flair to tear anyone a new arsehole on our day - and that's not even mentioning the newly-acquired playmaking skills Albrighton can provide on the left. I can't wait for the new season - I really think we're going to surprise so many people. Even if it's not the same as the emphatic success of last season, silencing our doubters and earning our place in the Premier League will arguably be an even sweeter moment for me.

Reading all these reports of fighting and general bellends, I'm wondering if I went to the same gig as a lot of you. I was in the throng for the whole thing and, aside from the piss-throwing (standard outdoors) the vibe was brilliant. Moshpits left right and centre, all self-policing when folks fell or dropped phones, no fighting - just a mental party courtesy of our city's legendary modern day sons! I'm guessing it was worse further back - the only fight I heard of was courtesy of a middle-aged skinhead (probably ex-Baby Squad?) way back behind the main rigging, but the "core" of the audience was wonderful. Tens of thousands chanting LSF was spine-tingling. The single greatest night the city has ever hosted.

Bless 'em - their big-club mentality coupled with the reality of them being the worst club in the area at the moment must have finally floored them in a sea of conflicting emotions.

Click the "squad" tab and note that we have the 4th smallest in the league. Then note that Billy Davies has the 3rd biggest in the league at his disposal, and consider his constant complaints about injuries. Suggests that he either doesn't know shit about a good signing, or is straight-up lying about his squad being stretched, but failing to admit that he doesn't trust his back-upto do a job. God, I love being a Leicester fan at the minute. If the worst we can bring on is the likes of GTF, who played a blinder today, we are in a wonderful place.

People seem to forget that Nottingham is a two-club city. In my experience, and this is totally anecdotal and not in the least bit scientific, County fans are decent enough folk, while Forest generally attracts the kn0bs. I could say the same for any city with multiple clubs - give me a Man City fan over an Man Utd. fan anyday, or a Sunderland fan over a Newcastle one. I'm currently living a stone's throw from Bramall Lane, but I've yet to decide which fans I prefer in Sheffield. United fans probably pip it so far - Wednesday fans seem to suffer the same delusions of billy big boll0x grandeur that Forest and Leeds do, from the few that I've met on this side of the city.

I was thinking just the chorus on its own would work well.

To the tune of you-know-what. I apologise for my lack of creativity. We've got de-ja-vu, We've got de-ja-vu, We saw you last month, We've got de-ja-vu Alternatively, a bit of Michael Jackson for when Forest show their tear-stained faces again: All they ever say is that they don't really care about us! (With feet stomping to drown out the ******) I actually wrote a full parody of that on the day, was gonna post it to youtube, but it sounds terrible.

Let's get this party started. PS: Henri Lansbury really does have the stupidest haircut I've ever seen. EDIT: Bonus shot of Harry Kane, surely worthy of the thread. Your captions on a postcard, please.