foxile5

This club has had more than half a decade of the most pulled together fanbase in our history and they've treated us like morons and with contempt. An eagerness to be in the stadium has been met with hiked prices, a literal gatekeeping of the turnstiles, and untruthfulness. They've also closed general sale to a whole generation of fans. King Power have enjoyed a whole era of full-throated and unconditional support. It isn't what's going on in the stands that's the problem and not having dissenting voices is doing more harm than good at this point.

If he's here on the first day of the season it's almost certain he'll play. Outwardly, as in for people who haven't closely followed up over the last 18 months, he looks like he should be central to the club's plans. Martin will be no exception. We as fans know differently - the board should too - but Martin will see an ex-England international and a player with Champions League experience.

I'd never be a member of a club that would have me as a member etc. I''m right, though.

I think the suggestions you make are accurate however it ignores one salient part - only one of the three is here forever. The owners and the players aren't equal stakes, I'm afraid. Both make money FROM the club. That's their major driver. They exist BECAUSE of us, not adjacent or equal to us. The club belongs to me, to you, and to our group. The players and owners are custodians. They're not stakeholders, I'm afraid. I know that this is freighted with nuance because of money but if you stripped all the profit from football who else remains? Top's gone. The players are gone. We remain. So no - I reject that. They owe us something not the other way round.

An extreme disappointment. Had high hopes after his debut at Villa and he's progressively got worse. One of those players who coveted a move away and Enzo referred to after relegation. A bad egg by all accounts - happy to shit on the floor but unhappy to have to clean it up. Several relegations under his belt. Bottled it during games. Fell out with some of our better players (Maddison, Barnes, et al) and got a sympathetic view. Actually, you must just have been shit, Viktor. He won't ever read this but if I had the opportunity I'd tell him as follows : you are one of the worst signings that the club has ever made, you've contributed less than nothing, and any ideas you have of being better than Leicester City FC ring hollow in the ears of anyone you've ever seen play. All you've had from this club is unearnt and hopefully it'll be the peak of you career so that you truly know you aren't good enough at the level we were at and are responsible for the level we are at.

Topuria is such a ****ing brilliant fighter. For Gaethje to pummel him into submission like that is nothing short of jawdropping. That knee to the rib at the end of round 4 was totally vicious. The damage that Topuria is having to deal with today must be staggering. Sean O'Malley was another good fight; I love watching him go about business. Hokit's battering of Lewis was also thoroughly entertaining. I know that there was a lot of negative press surrounding the politics of this event but the Main Card delivered. If that was any numbered event people would be talking about it for decades.

Are we even stuffing up his announcement? Is he just going to appear at Seagrave with no communication from the club.

Total disregard for the fans of the club. We're not in their thinking at all - we've been an inconvenience for years.

It's baffling, isn't it? Why not try emulating a club that's doing well. Or continue doing what we were doing when we were doing well. I can't think of a single reason for continually going for Southampton's cast-offs. Joe Aribo. What the hell were we thinking?

Graham Potter has some success behind him. Russell Martin has left a trail of disaster in his wake. We've not even managed to tempt the best of a bad bunch.

I'll bet Rudders is delighted. He's been after completing the 'crap Southampton exes' boxset for a while.

It's odd, isn't it? Vichai was obviously a great man to them and they think a lot of him but you can't help but wonder why they can't be bipartisan and observe that the club isn't in a good shape. He's not dependent on the club.

My word, this is terrible, diabolical stuff.

There were plenty of spares when it's full, Raj. Have a look when they've got back from their prawn sandwiches.

Isn't this event dynamically priced with tickets? You've got to assume that all the empty seats must have led to super-cheap tickets. Unnlleeeesss dynamic pricing just means raising it on a whim.

That's an iron will you've got there, friend. I thought corruption was not so much an open secret as a component part.

I'm looking forward to seeing how PSR gets involved here.

It's like an AI that has consumed the football rule book but doesn't have any working knowledge of the game.

Extremely pertinent point from the comms there - he's made that tackle because it breaks up the play and there's no way it's a red card. We're drifting towards contactless sport with those type of decisions.

SHAMBLES! IT'S A SHAMBLES!

To appease our colonial brethren? To be all open and accepting? God knows - but with a competition of this status and magnitude it really ought to be the best of the best analysing it. A bit of a sad let down from ITV.

I'm still fuming over this weird insistence that we now have to call Turkey Turkey-yay. That's not how it works. I can't go and tell the French that they're not to call us Angleterre anymore and need to say 'Ingurland'.

The reverse. Impromptu VAR checks to suit the mandatory advertisement schedule.

It's like she's read the rule book but hasn't actually ever played or watched the game.

That 'refereeing expert' is utterly devoid of contextual knowledge, isn't she? 'He's raised his hand so it's a red card' is essentially her input.