1972 Fox

10 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I swear something like this gets written about Brazil in every tournament. 

 

What do these journalists thing the real Brazil is? I mean, look at their players. They're a bit mid. 

 

Correct. The press always want or expect them to be vintage Brazil 1970. The 1982 Brazil was the closest they ever came to the 1970 side but they went out in the QF's.

3 hours ago, davieG said:

Apologies - AI reckons it's fake was on a link in Facebook

Fake as it is, I imagine it's more or less reality.

27 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

What do I win? 

You have an unfair advantage on everyone else as you manage to tweet any LCFC announcements before the club itself. 

Shame the Government can't extend the u16's social media ban to LCFC.

9 minutes ago, AjcW said:

World Cup semi final evening that. Could potentially be no one there if England finish second in the group and get through to the semi's  

Australia vs Ghana SF. We'll be without Souttar and Fatawau.

Draw would be a good result!

The incessant non stop talking of the main commentator on the stream is unbearable.

10 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Quite miss John Motson and Mark Lawrenson..

Agree on Motty but never rated Lawrenson on co-commentary.

2 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

So, despite the evidence from 2022, I still think 4 points will mean qualification. I reckon 3 points will mean qualification for some, but elimination for others.

 

So, to qualify I reckon Scotland need either another point or, at the very least, to only lose very narrowly (could be a nailbiter).

Agree. Some teams will go through with 3 points, but unlikely to be Scotland as they only achieved the narrowest of 1-0 wins. I think Scotland will probably need 4 points to progress.

4 minutes ago, Donwebbio said:

He might have changed his mind for all we know and left. The club is a total shambles. 

Yes possibly, @CruzNoir has not posted on here for nearly a week now.

It would be totally unsurprising for us to announce Martin as our new manager before any statement that Rowett has left the club.

Maybe we want to keep Rowett as part of Russell's back room staff. 

3 hours ago, NAKC20 said:

I have just heard from a family member who has a close friend within the club that Russell Martin IS the new manager and i have seen photos of the presentation he has given. Only saying what i have been told but the source is usually very reliable

3 hours ago, Holly B said:

This

Ramadaone concurs . Thank you.

1 hour ago, FOXYTALK said:

Still want Hassenhutl.

Would keep our Southampton obsession going.

Alan Ball or Chris Nicholl would be better options than Russell Martin and they both passed away some years ago.

6 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

You're being unnecessarily harsh here on @ClaphamFox - Martin didn't get the job in 2025 reportedly after fan reaction so it's not a leap to say he wouldn't be in the running this time, especially given the unpopularity of the board. It's wild they're making such a divisive move. 

 

I think most of us are now trying to find any positives here given the appointment seems inevitable! 

There will be no positives until KP, Top and Rudkin are gone.

With regard to my other point, he should change his user name to ClaptrapFox with some of the recent nonsense he's been posting.

4 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Well I meant in the more limited sense that he managed MK Dons and Swansea for two seasons each, and both clubs finished higher in the second season. 
 

I don’t want him. I wish we were going for someone else. I just think the suggestion he’ll take us down to League Two is probably a bit overblown. He’s a solid enough EFL manager—no more, no leas.

On 03/06/2026 at 20:10, ClaphamFox said:

Russell Martin is not going to be our next manager.

Your tiresome opinions are waffle and inaccurate.

More changeable than the recent weather.

2 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

Know you're joking but would expect Braybrooke will be key to Martin's style of play - he's exactly his type of player. 

Yeah but you can't beat the experience that the likes of Winks, Skipp, Smallbone and Aribo have.

Stokes is a goner over this. I think he'll fall on his own sword.

19 minutes ago, davieG said:

This was our highest ever finish before 2016

 

Club Historian John Hutchinson revisits the 1928/29 season, when Leicester City finished runners-up in the old First Division, one point behind The Wednesday (now Shefield Wednesday).
Until we lifted the Premier League title 10 years ago, the closest that we’d come to winning the top-flight trophy was 87 years earlier. That season, we were runners-up in the old First Division, failing by one point to become champions of England.
The 1928/29 football season was the 10th season after Leicester Fosse had been reborn as Leicester City. Four years earlier, in 1924/25, the recently renamed club had won the old Second Division title for the first time. Adapting to its new status and anticipating larger crowds, the Filbert Street ground was developed to hold 42,000 fans. The Main Stand, which had been built in 1921, was extended and a new Double Decker Stand was erected in 1927 on the south side of the venue.
In the first three seasons in the top-flight, we finished 17th, seventh and third. The side already contained the likes of the Scotland international Johnny Duncan, prolific goalscorer Arthur Chandler, speedy winger and future England international Hugh Adcock, classy full-back Adam Black and the ever-dependable centre-half George Carr. It was further strengthened by new signings. These were future Manager, the inside-forward Arthur Lochhead, goalkeepers Kenny Campbell and Jim McLaren, and future England internationals Sid Bishop, Ernie Hine and Len Barry.
This meant, that by 1927/28 and 1928/29, when we made two serious attempts at becoming champions, the Manager Willie Orr, building on the foundations laid by his predecessor Peter Hodge, had assembled the most formidable side in the Club’s history. Fans flocked to see the team. In February 1928, a record Filbert Street crowd of 47,298, with another 5,000 locked outside, watched our FA Cup Fifth Round tie defeat against Spurs.

 

More here - 

https://www.lcfc.com/media-article/remembering-the-old-first-division-title-bid-of-1929?fbclid=IwY2xjawSTzGJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3TlaAD47V_Kz3oMkysen-_E1mzQWJBl-FCv-YshU6z4VNVNJ3y1pTzn0kj0_aem_Xs34IUIrpi6_SYG5J6Dw3w

We beat Portsmouth with a club record 10-0 victory at Filbert Street, but then lost 1-0 to them in the return fixture on the last day of the season, costing us the title by one point. The ever obliging Leicester City!  

Edit: It wasn't quite the last game of the season, but still.....

4 hours ago, FLAN said:

@Foxes_Trust apologies if this has been covered but do you have any confidence the results actually reach Rudkin or Top who are really the only (in)decision makers ?

A very good question. As a paid up member of the Foxes Trust I am appreciative of what they have done with this in trying to hold the club to account, but I imagine that the club will treat the survey with disdain in their normal arrogant way.

Action number 1 on the survey is the removal of Rudkin, which the vast majority of us want. Do @Foxes_Trust believe the club will even acknowledge this demand, let alone act on it?

4 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

They were bullied out of appointing him last time (mainly by those heroes at Bournemouth away) and we know they aggregate sentiment on social media etc.

 

Need to kick the anti Martin content online up a gear if we don't want him in the absence of any opportunity to voice it in person.

3 hours ago, Dames said:

It only didnt happen last summer because Martin went for the Rangers job because he viewed it as a bigger job. Make no mistake fan power played 0 part in that. 

Completely differening opinions. FoxesTalk in a nutshell.

I'm hoping @Sol thewall Bamba is correct but I'm leaning towards @Dames.

23 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

Do you have to go through Drakes Passage 😅

Ooh Matron!

7 hours ago, Dan said:

The worst run club in the country continue to be the worst run club in the country.

 

From day one next season it should be protests against the ownership. Every single game until they're gone. Even friendlies.

Particularly away friendlies. They would have much less control over KP out fans protesting at away games with chants and banners.

I'm almost certain that this is why they are very late in announcing away preseason friendlies. They don't want our fans there in case there is unrest.

2 hours ago, hackneyfox said:

Do you have a problem with Top?

 

7 minutes ago, Guppys Love Child said:

Yes... Don't you also?

Probably not. His posts seem to indicate that he's a KPFC supporter and that you should be careful what you wish for.

3 hours ago, StanSP said:

Any links to when/where we might be playing? 

 

Pre-season is probably only about 6 weeks away... 

No, but plenty of tweets about 'our' World Cup players and the 5000/1 match.

It's only June, heaven forbid that we prioritise the important issues like organising our preason schedule and appointing a new manager.

31 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Russell Martin is not going to be our next manager.

You often speak with a certainty that you can't back up. I don't think you're any more ITK than the next man.

Obviously you're entitled to yor opinion and I hope you're right that Martin will not be our next manager but you're just speculating.