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He does work incredibly hard at hiding behind opposition players when we're in possession to be fair. Can't be easy making sure you are literally never in a position to receive the ball from a teammate or do anything useful with it. Consistently shit on and off the pitch for years - the perfect captain for us.

The TNT pundits were a lot more impressed with that Arsenal performance than I was - typically good defensive effort but it looked to me like they got more or less what they deserved. Time wasting in the 46th minute, one shot in the entire second half. Fair enough if you want to play that way but the margins are mighty fine and there is always going to be the risk that you fall on the wrong side of them. Keown on the verge of tears talking about how it's such a shame because Gabriel's his favourite player top drawer stuff from Fletch and the gang all night as per usual

And here's the version that will end up being forwarded to Top by the comms team:

I know people will complain about literally any decision now and part of it is influenced by other, genuinely bad calls Celtic were the beneficiaries of, but I'm still surprised there are complaints about the second Celtic goal. That exact situation is something that happens fairly often and it's never called as an offside, because it isn't one.

I'd love white shorts back. Just feels right and properly Leicester to me in a way I can't really articulate. And yes, I know lots of our success has come in seasons when we had all blue home kits but so have both our relegations to League One (and consequently also our lowest ever league finish) so I reckon they probably cancel out at this point. Hummel blue and white kit sponsored by a company who actually exist/aren't a gossamer-thin front for organised crime is the dream. As we're still under the yoke of Adidas and King Power it'll more likely be some gash template that gets downgraded from bland to properly contemptible when they festoon it with gold and crypto logos.

I think if you're really not enjoying it then the likelihood is you're going to carry on really not enjoying it. You unlock new tools, move on to new maps, meet new characters and so on but the basic loop remains essentially the same throughout - doing deliveries to connect/strengthen areas, broken up by the occasional boss fight or very long cutscene.

16-year-old playing in an unprecedentedly bad team populated almost entirely by feckless bellends and devoid of leadership or standards, under the "guidance" of two historically shit managers who had next to no interest in using youth prospects. Restricted to three league starts in 2026 as we instead persisted with Mavididi, who was arguably our worst player all season and managed to beat Monga for goals + assists by just one despite a) playing almost three times as many minutes and b) not being a ****ing schoolboy. Hmm, I wonder why he struggled to stand out and looked sort of demotivated? Mystery.

Looked the right decision to me and pretty clearly as well. If it weren't for the fact that it helped Arsenal and Spurs I don't think there would be too many arguments.

All the more impressive when for half the season he was being badly and obviously misused by Amorim. His chance creation numbers compared to everyone else in the league are ridiculous

Makes for a grim spectacle but they are undeniably very good at what they do unfortunately

I can quite happily do without an apology, personally. Wouldn't mean anything, or change anything. If they are sorry for their litany of avoidable failures then they can express that by actually doing something about them. I need another insincere, likely AI-generated missive from our glorious leader and his underlings like I need a hole in the head. People are always asking for more communication which I understand but every written or verbal statement that comes out of the club and its figureheads only serves to make me less confident in them. Ideally I'd like them to all just say absolutely nothing for the foreseeable future because I don't think they have anything worth communicating to us at all.

It does feel like we might need to take a chance on someone like this because I'm not convinced we'll attract (or target) anyone genuinely impressive and going for a safe, "proven" option at this level seems like a good way of getting someone who's "proven" that they aren't actually very good. Not necessarily an endorsement of Fuchs specifically, and after hearing the way the likes of Huth and Albrighton talk about us I'd be very wary of bringing anyone from that era back at a time when we badly need to become less sentimental and more ruthless/meritocratic.

Now?

At his peak a genuinely outstanding footballer and I'd agree there was a point when he was up there with the very best in the world in his position. A sorry way for him to go and of course as the captain of this shambles he's by no means blameless but I think I'll still ultimately remember him fondly as one of my favourite players in recent years. The early days when he'd just replaced Simpson were very funny - people absolutely bewildered by the sight of a right back crossing the halfway line and running with the ball. "Definitely not a right back".