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As always, the solution is simple... win it at the first time of asking and you won't have to play any replays.

Both sets of fans arguing about their "group" being better - despite both of them outsourcing their designs to the same company to print off for them. Honestly, how could anyone be proud of that?

Yeah, he was definitely among that clique. Think it'd be a culture shock for him as much as anyone else if he came back. The club's moved on.

I now have an image of 100 pissed-up Leicester at the top of The Shard ruining everyone else there's engagement/anniversary/"boy done good"/"LDN with the girlies" Insta photos.

Remarkably good ton from Markram, given the circumstances.

No doubt they will... if India lose.

Love seeing a UFS tifo banner on the Kop.

It's an expression of how the people singing feel. Plus, they always let what's going on on the pitch lead what's sung, whether that's a break, a corner or an individual player doing something good. Everything in between is about trying to keep that going when nobody else can be arsed.

Excited to hear which three chants we should all be singing over and over... Should be easy enough to get a mob of more than 20 of you together in a crowd of 32,000 if you want to put that theory into action?

On a tin of Clwb Tropica. Happy New Year to all on FT's best thread.

Good point. People are drank up and a 5/10 min drive from the ground on the Derby buses, which tend to leave after 2. Bit harder if you're taking it out to the county towns, I guess, but "dry" city and suburb boozers close enough to our ground could still capitalise.

Reinforces the point I made in this thread about home games being an event. Keeps people going back in good times and in bad (to paraphrase a song started by UFS). If Leicester area pubs cotton on and can make a scheme like work with the club, then it could do wonders - might even stop the mass 80-90 minute exodus if people know a bus is waiting for them at a set time.

Hate to say it, but pubs in Leicester could learn a lot from Derby in that regard. Loads of boozers, both in the centre and suburbs/villages, run buses to their ground on matchday.

I'm talking about that as a general supporter issue in England, especially when it comes to games being rearranged for TV. That said, i think Leicester (as a city, not just the club) could definitely do better in terms of public transport initiatives for fans.

Fans managed to get rid of Monday night kick-offs in the Bundesliga. It can be done if the required level of willpower and organisation is there.

Off the top of my head: Cheaper ticket prices, more convenient kick-off times, better transport to and from games, the campaign for General Sale to be reinstated, better policing/stewarding, the ongoing fight against the Euro Super League, greater representation for fans within the structures of the clubs they support, introduction of standing areas etc.

Been some rollercoaster. Never dreamt it'd have this lifespan, or be able to achieve some of the things it has, but it really is hard to think of matchdays without the group there now. Every home game feels like an event - something worth going to. It rarely did for quite a few years before that for me. I really do wish we had more of an organised fan scene at Leicester (and in England overall) - and I'm talking independent fan clubs (based on locality, pubs, areas of the ground or whatever) as well as groups based on active support like UFS. The sense of camaraderie would be so rewarding for many fans who just attend in ones or twos right now - plus it would greater strengthen our ability to collectively fight for our rights as supporters. We could achieve so much together if we organised better.

If you seriously thought it necessary to condemn and apologise for any vile, bigoted or whatever social media post from some herbert with '@LCFC fan' or similar in their Twitter handle, after someone else had publicly called them out, then you'd exhaust yourself within 24 hours. Same goes for fans of any football club. Any reasonable-minded person knows that opting not to do that is nothing like tens of thousands of fans of a particular club sending out "a clear message of tacit approval" for the behaviour of one single individual.

I'm not convinced trying to get an in-game tribute going out of guilt for the actions of a single dim cvnt on the internet (who happens to support the same football team as you) is really doing it for the right reasons, to be honest.

The final piece of the puzzle is someone upsetting the Old Firm duopoly and winning the league. Think that'd really make more people sit up and take note. Hard to see how that happens after it never occurred when Rangers went bust though. That was the big chance.

So good. Always a derby I try to make a point of watching - definitely one of the best on this island. There's always some entertainment.

The stupid thing is they could easily use it as a chance to attract disenfranchised fans of bigger clubs ("come and enjoy real football with us instead" type stuff) but instead everyone has to go for the social media banterlikes. Their loss, but a shame nonetheless.

Missed pens from both sides already too! Always seems to be a very end-to-end fixture whenever I watch it.

Big up aunties who Christmas shop for their nephews at garden centres near Enderby. Yeah, will be sure to pop in after work when it gets up and running!

I think they're on about Kungs through the PA.