Freeman's Wharfer

That stadium clapped our team to the most disgraceful relegation ever and round the pitch after it had just been confirmed. A bit of accountability is fine by me.

Are the club going to hold a memorial service annually for the rest of eternity? I mean, after 6 years it’s a bit weird to be doing it every year. Almost a bit cult-y like he was some kind of deity. I’m sure everyone who knew him, personally or professionally, has the ability to remember him and pay their respects however they wish to. The whole ‘Forever In Our Hearts’ orchestrated stuff I find a little bit exaggerated now.

That’s the thing. I don’t think it was. 99% of our fan base couldn’t pronounce Vichai’s surname, couldn’t pick his voice out of a crowd, couldn’t tell you anything about him other than he owned King Power. They did a good bit of PR by giving charitable donations and giving the odd freebie (at a time when other clubs were also giving freebies such a free coaches to away games), but was it not just more the case that they benefitted from the success on the pitch and appreciation by association? Now, of course, they took some financial decisions that massively helped the club, and it gave us the platform to achieve what we did, but there’s been many a sign of ineptitude along the way and I think everyone just got a bit carried away with the nice story of a fan-owner relationship that wasn’t really there. A tragic event which stirred the emotions only served to exaggerate that. In the same way as when Princess Diana died.

Won’t be missed I gather. How bad can the replacement be? Over to you, LCFC!

You’re a kid from a disadvantaged background. Maybe not so far away from the stadium - somewhere like New Parks or Braunstone. Of course you can’t afford a season ticket or membership but a walk, bus or bike ride down the ground during half term is achievable… LCFC do not give two craps about you. So unnecessarily sad to see. Shame on you, LCFC.

In the big picture it was a brief showing, but it’s still possible to show a bit of willing and effort in a brief cameo. Looked lazy and half-arsed to me.

Yep - that’s exactly the point! Was perfectly capable of noticing who was on the pitch at any given moment

Never known a manager pick players in offensive/creative positions based on their defensive ability. Ndidi and Ayew in the 10. Refusal to play Mavididi and Fatawu on the wings in favour of the likes of Decordova Reid and Ayew. It’s boring, dull, negativity.

Completed but it felt like a survey for a new stadium that has been built in a new area. There’s been a football stadium in the vicinity for more than 100 years so there’s no resident impact that shouldn’t have been known when choosing to move into the area.

So many decisions at the moment just stink of absolute desperation. Desperate times, desperate measures and all that. They must know that £10 for a pre-season friendly is objectively obscene. But if it’s one of your few chances to milk the Foxes Player revenue now you’re back in the Prem and can’t sell it weekly, and no one’s really going to check or know how many people paid to watch the friendly, and you might even be able to bang a bit extra on some income stream to meet some financial rules that are looking a bit tight… Ok, maybe there’s not anything shifty going on here and they are just completely tone deaf at the moment. But it just all seems so wildly off that surely, surely, there’s more to it than someone thinking this was a good idea that would be well-received.

Leicester “have boots will travel” City. Sacked off the US tour at the behest of Maresca - having clearly not consulted him on the plan before signing up - only to then lose Maresca a week later. It’s led to us travelling to France and Germany to play anyone who will have us and now a random game in Chesterfield. It’s a make it up as you go along pre-season schedule. Second summer in a row the man in charge of the first team has to contend with an off-pitch operation blundering their way through things.

I guess they might have felt that your experience at clubs like Brentford and Doncaster in the lower leagues wasn’t applicable for a club that sees itself as Premier League or even pushing for European football on the regular.

I just don’t feel we have any less chance staying up next season with a new manager than we would Maresca. That for me is the acid test. I shouldn’t feel that about a manager that has just got us promoted and won the league, but I do.

Let him talk to them. If he wants to go and they want him then the price is the price. If he doesn’t, or they don’t want him, on we go. No new contract just for meeting what was expected of you last season. Maresca showed so many signs of inexperience last year. Things only picked up when the players locked themselves in a room without him to discuss. Someone will pay the price for that inexperience next season whether it’s us or Chelsea.

No ticket collection in Moscow. Ironically, it was as simple as a pdf sent to our phones!

Another step, after the wave of Americans investing in the English game (which isn’t getting anywhere near enough attention), towards a turn en masse to non-league for thousands of English football fans.

I get the sense he’ll not get this opportunity again. Putting Albrighton on the spot re. retirement and asking Vardy to give an exclusive about staying or not is not what the control freaks in the club Comms/PR department would want.

The stadium MC guy is having a shocker. Can’t help just being an old fan with a microphone and asking the players either poor questions or ones they’re not meant to be answering without the go ahead from the club/their agents.

Not sure who’s more shameless, Top or Danny Ward. Both should show some humility and fade into the background knowing they put us down in this league and then did nothing to get us back out of it.

Glad others are commenting on the deluge of Thais in amongst this title celebration. If the ownership had been doing their job properly we wouldn’t even be in this league to begin with but the majority of Leicester fans clamber to fawn over them at any given opportunity. Hundreds of them on the pitch yesterday so you couldn’t see who’s who and replacing the usual framed picture walk round of the king of Thailand with Vichai like some martyr. Top throwing cuddly toys to the peasants whilst his club charges them £25 to keep a season ticket card. Four buses for the parade because associates of the family are driven through the streets of Leicester fans there to see the people who actually did something to achieve the success. The optics are all so wrong. Get them gone and get us back to some form of normality with owners held to account and the on-pitch success credited to those who have actually stepped onto the pitch.

What a day for @Union FS. Another superb tifo and the players making a concerted effort to celebrate with the trophy in the corner where they are. They also did more for Albrighton than the club could muster given it’s almost certain he’s leaving. If you’re grumbling about what they do, or fail to acknowledge what they bring to the stadium, then you’re beyond help at this point.

Agreed. Young Leicester fans should grow up feeling that promotion from the second tier to the top tier is to be expected not celebrated. If recent history hasn’t been a catalyst for us lifting standards then nothing ever will be unfortunately. Too many happy to be little, yo-yo Leicester City.

I’ll flex a Moscow knowing there’s only about 15 others that can

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The flip of this question is early on last season Ian Stringer tweeted a ‘would you take 17th now?’. Many said ‘no’ but those people were not wrong because we ended up getting relegated. Both 17th and any of the relegation spots was an utter disgrace for that squad. We were right to have higher expectations. This season it’s the reverse. Yes many would have taken top 2 at the start of the season and being in with a shout right at the death. But that completely misses the fact our expectations were too low to begin with once you saw the gulf in class in the early part of the season and that we were on record-breaking pace. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but for anyone to claim we’d had a great season based on the final position in the table would miss so many nuances. The question, albeit an interesting one to ponder, is too cut and dried for the context.