Ron Combo

The podcast embraced everything that we are thinking. The club is rudderless. Glad Top's position/attitude was discussed. Here in Italy they say the fish rots from the head down. Need new owners, nothing more, nothing less. Rudkin and Whelan are going nowhere whilst King Power are there. Thanks for everything chaps, you gave us more than we can ever have imagined but now it's time to start not a new chapter but a new book. Impressed with restraint shown by @Ric Flair on the bevy front

Jamie Vardy. We will never see his like again. We have been so lucky.

One can but hope.

Oh come on, don't be so harsh. I'm sure I saw him clapping for a couple of seconds after Vard's goal.

Came last, 15 lengths off the leader. Is this a portent?

Enzo Maresca is a 33-1 shot with Bet365 in the 6.15 at Bath. With most other bookies he's around 20s. One to lay?

We've had our time in the sun, now we need to brace ourselves for a couple of cold winters. We'll be back, that's for sure, but whether we ever achieve again those sunlit uplands of 2015-16 is another question that is better being parked for the moment.

Here in Italy bookies have us as slight favourites (2.40) but only just, Fulham are 2.80. Fingers sodding crossed for this one. Only one result is acceptable and it ain't a loss or a draw.

I love Jamie Vardy. Fvcking LAD.

Good word, febrile.

Mate here in my town in Italy is a f****t fan (worked there for years in a restaurant). Wants to watch the match with me. It’s going to end in tears isn’t it? FFS. Thanks a bunch BR.

Expecting the sack?? He WANTS the sack, he WANTS the £10m. If he had an ounce of decency he'd fall on his sword, he doesn't need to work another day in his life, he is set up. And if anyone can tell me what Kolo Touré does all day I'd be most grateful. Can't be anything football related,

If BR had an ounce of decency he would resign tonight. He doesn't need the money. Will get another job, citing LCFC"s lack of investment for the failure. Just disgraceful.

One can but hope.

Obviously coming to City. Incredible he's gone before BR.

In a piece of artful deflection, Brendan Rodgers made it clear the blame for Leicester City's tailspin rested squarely with the club's owners, not him. “This isn't the club that it was two years ago,” he lamented. The suggestion was that a tepid home defeat to Manchester United reflected poorly on the parsimony of his employers, who had waited until transfer deadline day to bring in a single signing, Reims centre-back Wout Faes. And yet if he seeks the fullest explanation for the crisis at the King Power, the manager might want to look a little closer to home. For all Rodgers' protests that he is being let down by the Srivaddhanaprabha family's reluctance to improve his squad, it is worth remembering that he has, since his arrival three-and-a-half years ago, spent more than £223 million in the service of that very cause. Four players – Ayoze Perez, Dennis Praet, Patson Daka and Timothy Castagne – account for almost half that outlay. But for a critical match against United, Rodgers left all four of them on the bench, entrusting them with a combined total of six minutes’ game-time. So, does responsibility truly lie with the Thai benefactors' refusal to recruit players? Or is this more a question of Rodgers' inability to develop them? Few doubt that when Rodgers is first appointed to a job, his hurricane-force exuberance sparks an instant uplift. We saw as much at Liverpool, where, within two years of an eighth-place finish that brought Kenny Dalglish the sack, he came the closest of anybody in nearly a quarter of a century to return the league trophy to Anfield, as his Luis Suarez-propelled team scored 101 goals in a single season. But there is the finest of margins, with this wired and relentlessly earnest character, between splendour and oblivion. Rodgers' Liverpool reign disintegrated almost as fast as it had peaked, with his side sinking to sixth the year after their title charge, then to 10th before a restless Fenway Sports Group finally pulled the trigger. When the rot set in, it seemed as if he was powerless to stop it. The same pattern is being played out at Leicester. One moment, Rodgers is on the verge of perfecting his masterpiece, winning the FA Cup. The next, he finds himself presiding over an apparently inexorable decline. Leicester are bottom of the league after losing to Manchester United on Thursday CREDIT: REUTERS Granted, the financial situation hardly works in his favour. The wealth of Leicester’s owners is estimated by Forbes to have shrunk from £4.5 billion in 2018 to £1.47bn today, with the wipeout of global air travel during the pandemic grievously affecting the family’s empire of duty-free stores. Except the impasse at Leicester is not solely the product of economics, but of a clash of philosophies. In his programme notes for United’s visit, chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha argued that the consistent aim over the past 12 years was to “build your club up for long-term, sustainable success – we simply will not risk setting it down a path we don’t feel is responsible or in Leicester’s best interests”. The problem is that Rodgers’ prescribed solution is for the club to spend their way out of trouble. Lashing out at a perceived lack of ambition at boardroom level, he declared, after a fifth defeat in six: “With the greatest respect, we have not had the help in the transfer market that this team needed.” Is this truly a fair charge, though? Until the brakes were applied this summer, Rodgers had been lavishly backed. Indeed, a year earlier, he had the support of the largest net spend in Leicester’s history, strengthening through the acquisitions of Boubakary Soumare and Jannik Vestergaard, not to mention Ademola Lookman on a season-long loan. The return on investment has been patchy at best, with Daka an especially expensive misfire. Look through Rodgers’ history and you detect a similar pattern. While he deserves credit for enlisting James Milner and Roberto Firmino in his final months at Liverpool, so many of his other purchases, from Fabio Borini to Mamadou Sakho, Luis Alberto to Iago Aspas, are perhaps best forgotten. As a motivating force for the players he inherits, Rodgers can be a revelation. But as the builder of a dynasty, he is proving again at Leicester that he leaves much to be desired.

Game is so bad I applaud your correct use of the apostrophe.

They ain't selling. Thanks for posting.

Not that I'm bitter and twisted or anything but I really, REALLY wanted him to fail the medical. Oh well, fvck it and especially fvck him. And just fvck off and do a ligament or two in your second match.

Our batting is beyond a joke, beyond parody. Fvcking hell.

Yup

Last July I took out International Membership for the 21/22 season. £25 seemed reasonable, the benefits were not exactly massive but good to feel part of the City Family, eh? In November an email arrived apologising for the delay in the shipping of the welcome pack due to 'supply chain issues'. Yesterday the welcome pack arrived. A pair of socks, a pen and a membership card. No promised personalised message from a first team squad member but heigh ho, whatever, Covid and all that. The box was smart 'though. But is this decent value? Maybe it is. I've been out of the country for so long... What really irks me 'though is that in November I contacted the club, quoting my membership number, to see if I could buy a ticket for the Napoli match that would enable me to be with the other City fans. Oh no, came the reply, for that you need to take out full membership. I mean, really? Look, I know that International Membership doesn't confer ticket rights but it's not as if I'll be flying into England every two weeks for the home matches is it? Having said that I did fly over for the Norwich match in the New Year and we all know how that ended up... Moan over. Good luck tonight lads.

Sodding bastards. Flying tomorrow, friends had got me a ticket, would only have been my second match at the KP. Bollocks.

And I got 17/2 on City. Just gets better and better

Only 5, Klopp will be furious