foxile5

Lying to managers. Damaging the reputation of the club. Getting us relegated to save face. Treating fans like criminals. Ignoring fan voice. Taxing fans. Raising ticket prices to horrific levels. Using the club as some kind of rewards venture for people detached from not only our city but our entire culture. It's amazing - staggering even - how slowly but assuredly we've walked into this. Suddenly, you take stock of things and think : this club actually doesn't want me - a supporter of 30 years - at the ground. They think I'm a criminal in waiting and hold me in contempt. Death by a thousand cuts. After these last few seasons I can't think of a club-led piece of activity that hasn't left me feeling jaded and distant. We can't MAKE KP leave but I think recent developments have really damaged my opinion of the way that the club is ran and who it's ran by to the point that I would support any fan-led efforts to remove them from the club. As fans - we were here before KP. We were here before this stadium, in most cases. We deserve SO much better than to watch community members be priced out of watching our football club EVEN if we can afford it ourselves. We should be demanding better.

I am both unsurprised and sickened with this. The club don't want locals and regulars at the game - that much has been clear given their gouging and poor treatment of STHs and Members as well as treating the match-going fans with contempt and as though they are criminals. They want to position themselves with Arsenal/Chelsea/Man City etc with grounds full of premium paying tourists who also splurge money at the club shop. They won't get that from people like myself and other 'regular fans'. However, this is coupled with rank incompetence at boardroom level. Who do they see as the tourists that want to pay top dollar to travel to see Leicester when we're a failing club ran by detached owners with a manager nobody knows/wants?! I've been very, very cagey about calling for heads to roll knowing the grass isn't always greener but I think it's time that the fan groups/Trust start the process of trying to remove the current ownership. They're not fit for purpose. They don't want fans in the stadium. They're pricing out normal people from a community club. They're making a laughing stock of everything that we should - as a community asset and football CLUB - hold dear. Start the protests during game 1 and don't give up until it's on Match of the Day or similar. Get these greedy charlatans out of the club.

Whichever manager we end up with it is just a further shambles in approach. We've become a poorly ran club. Look at the way the media are reporting on us. Either - A) the media is accurate and we're switching wildly between targets or B) we're leaking information to the media and looking an unstable outfit. The irony is we're trying to attract a manager to us when, just 3 years ago, we were in such a position that we were attractive. Who's looking at this mess and thinking 'I'll have a bit of that'. There's more than a touch of the Watford about the way we're being ran right now.

The unchecked piss poor behaviour of the young generation isn't a case of 'we were all young once and we're just older so it seems worse' but actually degeneration of society. It needs addressing.

The prevailing opinion on here seems to be 'if he's not going to the tournament then sod em' It's a bit difficult for me to understand; I'd be looking at it as an honor to play for my country and a chance to force his hand.

No. I think that I'd want to represent my country whatever the weather.

Given the 'I was just a boy dreaming of representing his country' spiel we got with his first cap it's either hypocrisy or arrogance. I also agree with Rooney. It's a bit insulting to the players that have made it ahead of you to just walk away. Plus - at the very core. It's an England cap.

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2024/06/12/james-maddison-criticised-for-reaction-to-euro-2024-squad-snub/?utm_source=rsn&utm_medium=rsn&utm_campaign=gac0032 Maddison getting dug out for leaving the England team camp after being told he wasn't going to go to the Euros. He was reportedly going to start against Iceland so pretty poor form.

For the desire to see an upset - great! However, as everyone else has said: it simply shouldn't be handball. He's running full tilt and being forced by a defender. How is he supposed to ensure a ball bouncing towards him doesn't hit his hand when someone else is moving his arm.

SCINTILLATING.

Yeah. I understand. Not the issue at hand as you point out. This has been a joy to watch.

This has been compelling.

This isn't too diminish her experience of racism - I'm well aware of how poorly she was treated at the Olympics and beyond.

She's referred to 'you white boys' a couple of times. If we change the race to 'you black boys' it would be deemed highly inappropriate and border on racism. I don't see that there's a distinction, personally. I know some people are willing to look past stuff like that as some kind of restorative acceptance but I don't find it okay.

God knows. She's pretty much an objectively poor pundit. She's also made some commentary in the past that is very unpalatable drawing on race. I'm not sure what is seen in her as a good shout.

It's happened to better managers with - arguably - better squads. I think English managers get paralysed with fear and overwhelmed by the occasion and expectation. Absolutely no reason for Southgate to be ultra-defensive beyond the train of thought "drawing is as good as winning because at least it's not a loss". We're also seeing the issue of needing to shoehorn all of the perceived best players onto the pitch even to the detriment of the wider team. TAA playing central midfield is a baffling move but it gives that little bit of relief that GS can always say he didn't drop TAA for someone 'lesser'. It's the Lampard/Gerrard conundrum. There's also a wider picture coming into focus with this tournament, though. Unlike club football where you're playing anywhere between 30 and 40 games a season - there isn't a premium being placed on possession based football. It isn't lots of idle passing with snap attacks being played. Perhaps because teams have more of an immediate pressure to win. Perhaps because international managers are beholden to the same standards as domestic. But there does seem to a be a focus on scoring goals and attacking that's missing in club football. Gareth needs to pick up on that. Get the ball forward to the attackers and get scoring. That seems to be how teams are succeeding at this particular tournament. I could be wrong, though.

It's because the club and staff are populated by non - football fans who are unaffiliated to Leicester. They know the phrase 'he's one of our own' and that it's important for some players. They don't know what it means or the context of it. Utterly soulless.

Return to type for England, in many respects. We go into a tournament with a very, very good team and right up there with the favourites. The management structure can’t handle that and try to A) play defensively and B) put everyone very good on the pitch regardless of whether or not it works. Alexander Arnold in midfield SEEMS a good idea to 12 year old lads and FM managers. He’s got passing 18 and pace 16! But the reality is that this is an international tournament. He’s played a handful of games in that position. It’s a triangle peg in an oblong hole and we know that doesn’t work. Foden looked out of sorts and not with the pace of the play. It’s probably because we’re trying to shoe-horn that midfield together to work (Lampard and Gerrard anyone?) rather than looking at a balanced midfield. We’ve ended up with the imperious Bellingham as the great hope to lead us to victory. It’s another Rooney of 2004. Yes, Bellingham is brilliant. Yes, he played well yesterday. No, he shouldn’t be the leader of the team. A very, very cagey 1-0 win over Serbia has all the indicators of ‘Golden Generation’ England’s almost paralytic response to International success. I’ll watch on in interest to see how this develops.

No way. Be complete farce to be pursuing any manager at the Euros - even with our recruitment and business policy as it currently is.

In less than a month too. Some top mouth foaming.

We were warned and clearly warned by social commentators in the early twentieth century it would end this way. Unfortunately, it seemed that people liked the concept.

Honestly the small -but overall significant- steps we've taken into a dystopian hell society over the last decade have been remarkable. I'm not old but the world is SIGNIFICANTLY worse off than it was when I was young.

That's our lot right now. We're not an attractive proposition for anyone capable of doing a great job with us. Reverted to type.

Get that guy in without a coaching license. Would fit our financial model to be paying fines for our manager every week

The irony being is that will lead to long term financial insecurity and bigger margins of financial risk. Look at Fofana. A club our size could make that mistake but once and end up in a real hole over it.