Finnegan

No offence mate but has literally anything you've said is happening actually happened?

Probably yeah. When he does I'm going to pin this topic to the top of FoxesTalk and teabag the whole forum.

They're playing rock paper scissors for the captaincy.

Head coach saying he hopes at least one striker arrives before the season start. That's a new one, we haven't heard that before...

It's quite common for Roma to do offer sponsor-less versions of their kit. You'll quite possibly be able to get one of that.

Maybe I'm extremely naive but I have a hard time imagining every single vape shop, every single Turkish barber and every single nail salon is an illegal business. I don't doubt that some are but I also can't help but feel the extent to how many are largely gets exaggerated for fairly typical anti-migrant scaremongering and dog whistling.

"I've been banned from posting in General News so I think it's probably a good idea if I really blatantly flaunt stepping round this rule by escalating the conversation about migrant criminals by listing every migrant group in Leicester and what their alleged crimes are in an adjacent thread instead." I'll see you in the Forum Help & Support section next week for your new thread where you pretend to be oblivious and incredulous about the fact you got a wider forum ban

LGR hadn't just been rushed in in the last week. It's been a large part of Labour policy right from their manifesto for the last election. To be honest, both parties have attempted to modernise and re-organise local government areas for decades. It might get politicised in the modern era when people are apparently incapable of working across the aisle and being bipartisan but generally anyone with a brain will agree England needs quite a bit of reorganisation. We have way too much geographical and administrative entities that are shaped by ancient feudal border gore. Why on Earth do the million or so people that live inside the borders of geographical Leicestershire need a city council, a county council and about a billion different parish, borough and district councils? Why do tax payers need to pay for each of these entities to all have well paid executive officers and overlapping staff when they can be rationalise and managed far more efficiently? I know people are generally quite change phobic but LGR is pretty sensible at its core. It's already been stated his position will no longer exist after LGR. He knows this. This government doesn't really want elected mayors, it wants local councils to elect their own leaders to work alongside the apolitical chief execs which is the standard traditional structure. That'll be the case for all councils who don't currently have a mayor and any new councils, which we'll count as being in a way because we'll be inheriting a new area which would make Soulsby's post redundant. He's obviously free to stand as a councillor in his own right and if the elected councillors want to nominate him he can still be the council leader.

Narh. It's just business as normal. We needed to do this. I imagine the timing has something to do with the fact that the rules in League One and the Championship are slightly different. There's a bit more emphasis on our wage bill at this level and the player by player book values and in-year profit/loss on sales isn't as significant this year. If you're gonna cut your losses, mutually terminate a contract or just shove them out the door for cheap to get rid then now is the time.

Can we avoid personal comments please. It's not like Declan Rice can help how he looks.

Well obviously. Have you met you?

Equating football shirt perverts with MAGA incels is an oddly suicidal burn for you isn't it

Please, a German second division club's third kit? That's basically mainstream selling out.

I don't know of this is amazing or awful but I know I'd absolutely wear it. If I still played regular 5 a side this would probably my shirt for the year. Can't even explain why.

I'm obviously biased but I think you get a much better level of service from the City Council than the County. The County is a classic conservative, small government idea of a local authority which means all it really does is have a handful of staff managing contracts for services that are dished out to private sector businesses. This generally isn't a good thing when you need good public services and proper access to them. It's less regulated, it's too competitive and it's generally a mess for everyone except the corrupt sleaze bags making money off it. And now you've got Reform running the County it's even worse. Complaints to Leicestershire County Council have risen - no hyperbole - 1000% since Reform took over haha. They don't have a clue, they let literally anyone stand as a councillor, they had a 20 year old that doesn't believe depression is real in charge of social services. They have councillors that want to spend public money finding UFOs. They are not in any way serious. Soulsby isn't the City Council. He's a figurehead that gets to dictate some higher level policy and decide some of the City's big projects but the vast majority of the work and services are done by apolitical local government officers and a handful of lifelong councillors who, for the most part, do generally care about their constituents. I'd much, much rather live in a City Council area especially if I was a vulnerable person that actually needed council services.