Freeman's Wharfer

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

There were a few articles on The Fosse Way last week about people’s motivations for joining here The season ticket price increase and £25 charge for a physical season ticket card provide another timely reminder that an effective Foxes Trust that can hold the club to account on issues like these is so important. That can only happen with weight of numbers. If you haven’t already, please come and join and help us to better represent the voice of all Leicester City fans. Annual membership costs Adult: £10 OAP, unemployed or students: £5 18 to 21 years old: £3 Under 18: Free Join here

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.

I’ve defended and backed him for ages but I don’t think I can do so any longer. He’s played his way into being our third best striker this season behind Vardy and Cannon over the last few weeks.

We haven’t got a manager, we’ve got a ‘plan’. Unfortunately for us that plan is some other guy’s plan and it took the league by surprise at first. But once you’ve played against the plan once, and it’s not being executed by the best players in the world, it’s easier to nullify the second time you play it. If it doesn’t ever change, and there’s not a manager who can deviate from the plan when needs must, then that also helps massively. I used to hate this phrase but we’ve been well and truly ‘found out’.

Winks just edging Hermansen for me. And yet another year of me plucking a women’s player at random due to having no knowledge of who genuinely deserves it…

It’s not really, unless those 40 people are part of an organisation/body that you are expected to engage with by whichever governing body sits above your company. Now granted you might just tick a box and go through the motions (which the club is doing now), but if that group of people become thousands and were like-minded individuals prepared to push for change…. Not so easy to ignore.

Trust membership fee doesn’t go to the club. In reality there are a myriad of fan issues that affect supporters who never even set foot in the stadium that the club could and should be held accountable to. So you can join the Trust and be part of pushing the club for change without giving a single penny to the club. The two things are not co-dependent on each other.

I’ll DM you!

I probably shared some of your views and frustrations about 6 months ago. But ultimately, there’s only one way to change it isn’t there? It became apparent to me that, whilst I felt the Trust had lost some clout with the club, if fan groups didn’t get themselves in a position where they could have a louder say then we’d continue to pay the price (whether that was on tickets, atmosphere, safe-standing or anything else the club has sidelined or ignored fans on). The one thing you miss about “just another supporters club” is that this is the official supporters trust. The club will not want to be seen to be sidelining them and they hold a bit of official weight with that. They just have to have the numbers and the personalities ensuring that’s used to maximum effect. You sound like exactly the type who should be part of that - will you come and join us?

Have you joined? It sounds like you care about exactly the type of issues the Trust should be focusing on in future and that you’d have a lot to offer in helping the Trust have a greater impact.

You can either sit back, criticise, complain about the club and the Foxes Trust. Or you can join and be part of a push for a more effective Trust that represents us all better and holds the club to account. The Foxes Trust can hold weight due to its official supporters trust status. But that weight relies on a good number of us getting involved. It’s time, people.

He’s at his best when the game opens up and becomes a bit more of a basketball match. He’s not a technician but he’s got an engine and he can stretch teams with his running when it gets a bit chaotic.

He made a switch at half time that won the game for us today. I think it was going man-to-man. In the first half Norwich were playing out from the back at will with Daka running inside a triangle of the two center halves and their keeper. He simply couldn’t stop three of them single-handed. Second half we had them pinned in their own half and made quite a brave/risky decision to leave Vestergaard 1 Vs 1 with Sargent because the rest of the team were pushed up man for man on Norwich. That was difference so credit where it’s due for making that switch. A minor gripe from me that if Coady doesn’t get on the pitch with 10 minutes left defending a one goal lead then what’s the point in having him? But signs of learning and adaptability from Enzo today and that clinched the 3 points.