Footballwipe

Then that's an issue with the system. Struggling clubs being reliant on the top teams for income is precisely why they've managed to gain more and more and more power, making those teams cling onto the scraps they give them. Football needs to be sustainable, teams need to stop spending 200% of their income on wages to chase the £200m dream. I don't understand why we give teams a free pass for being fiscally irresponsible when paying players if they can't sustain it.

I really don't get why so many people care about the top clubs taking the money with them if they did go. So what? The finances would settle back to a proportionate level for the clubs that remain. If TV income dropped 75% so what? Wages would adapt for those who are playing in that league. Some seem so obsessed with money they're terrified of losing out on the mega millions when we could actually have a great financial reset if they pissed off.

Wikipedia says it's Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij? Is that correct, I know wiki can be unreliable?

We take it for granted now but I genuinely fear for the future of the £30 away ticket cap. I can see more and more teams wanting away with it so these prices that have ratcheted up will spread to away fans too.

Podcast related - but the new EMR advert that's plastered all over the pods I listen to is so insanely patronising it's unreal. "SMASH A HIGH TEA AT THE SHARD" "SHOP TILL YOU DROP ON OXFORD STREET." I tell you what'd lure me to take a train to London - the guarantee of on time trains and cheap fares. I'd focus on that than generic nonsense. Also on pods but the latest Football Cliches pod was absolute guff. Rubbish MHD fascinations and irritations and the listeners voice notes were even more insufferable than usual. Think I listened to about half of it after skipping.

"Why is the city centre dead and everyone goes to Fosse Park these days???? " Well, notwithstanding the general shift in consumerism, the way people weirdly but gleefully shit on the city centre online probably put so many people off going. Well done for being part of the problem.

I really enjoy this show. It's silly, it's ridiculous in the games but Mulhern is fantastic with the public and, importantly, the public they choose are fun to watch for so many different and unique reasons. Some people bang on about TV shows being shit like we've still only got four channels though. I think the one thing about this is that a lot of the shows people will angrily shout they'll never watch again just aren't for you. I remember when Supermarket Sweep came back. I loved it as a kid in the 90s but about 10 mins in to the Rylan reboot I realised it wasn't aimed at me, my demographic or my tastes. That's alright though, cos it does cater for an audience and if it doesn't, it'll get canned. My main reasons for never watching TV shows again is either over exposure, contrived, complex plots or my natural shift in TV tastes.

Bang on. 98, 02 and 06 are mine. Was 8, 12 and 16 and each one for different reasons resonates with me in such a nostalgic way that subsequent ones could never, and never have.

"Kick it out, unless one of our players suffers as a consequence of their racist antics."

It's also going to be blowing a gale and pissing it down, too. What a day for us all.

Lots of talk about Chapman getting it and he's the obvious successor , but there were a few mentions of Gabby Logan. A timely reminder that Gabby Logan is probably the most criminally underused football/sports presenter of the last 25 years by a distance. She is absolutely brilliant and a crying shame she never got the #1 gig on a major TV outlet. Even when Lynam went from ITV in 2004 she was shoved aside a couple of years later for Steve Rider.

A Leicester fan's opinion of Lineker really outs someone politically. Are you a rabid right winger, or are you a rational human being who, even if you don't agree with him politically, can appreciate everything he did for us, and his esteemed broadcasting career. The same hypocrites who worship at the alter of Peter Shilton and Sharron Davies because the expression of their political views is - astonishingly and coincidentally - absolutely fine.

Da da de daaa this thread is getting lockedd sooooon

A certain poster having a breakdown on here in real time at the thought of Max doing something well and legitimately well is quite humorous tbh

This is the bit that annoys me most about him tbh. you can just about deal with idiot fans who think refs are on the take or blaming them for losing, but the constant excuses from this manager are tiring already. The win over Southampton masked pulled the rug over so many people's eyes. It's not even that he shouldn't be here, it's that we shouldn't have been in the position where we're recruiting crap and hiring bang average managers. Whilst the big clubs are at Harrod's and other clubs are at Waitrose, we're shopping at Lidl and B&M. Not many clubs have spurted away the hope and opportunity we've had. First in 2016 when we spunked money on crap, then we got a second chance in 2019 and managed to fritter that away, too.

The fetishisation of individual awards in a team sport. Not for me, Clive.

This was one of the few away games I missed after doing about 90% of them from 2009 to that point Sat at home with a few drinks smiling wryly as the camera cut to the rain battering into the away fans on that torrential night, justified that I'd sacked off this inconsequential Friday night game. And then the game kicked off

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/oct/26/newsstory.sport3

Have heard this one a lot, though never been able to find a source for it. Do we think he'd have chosen us over Chelsea though? One thing I always wonder. On a tangent and to make us feel even more "what if" here's a list of strikers who moved that summer/winter for a fee paid similar to the one we paid for Akinbiyi. any of these would've been miles better, though I understand at the time the likes of Bellamy and Lua Lua were probably in the same promising bracket as AA and Benjamin at the time. Sutton to Celtic - £6m Viduka to Leeds - £6m Hartson to Cov - £5m Bellamy to Cov - £6m Kanoute to WHU - £3.5m Lua Lua to Newcastle - £1.5m Wanchope to Man City - £3.5m Ferguson to Everton - £3m ish

The over analysis of one commentators independent opinion of a penalty is absolutely insane. To compare it with another commentator, on a different game, in a different circumstance and with the biased opinion an LCFC fan has, is also part of the insanity. This place is a hoot half of the time. You've all lost your collective minds. Let it go for god sake 😂 Edit: I used to be as fragile minded as many of you on here. Freely admit. Then I got a sense of perspective on life, what truly matters and, critically, grew up to be an adult. One day I hope you all will too. Until then, remain Fabergé eggs.

Just what we needed that season as well, a player aged over 30 who'd seen his best days behind him... "The 33-year-old midfielder, who was released by Sunderland, arrived at the Walkers Stadium yesterday to finalise a contract. Manager Micky Adams said: "It is disappointing we have not been able to conclude a deal. Unfortunately, there was a last-minute hitch and sometimes these things happen in football." McAteer said: "I am gutted really that things haven't worked out. Having spoken to the manager and seen the set-up at the club, I was really looking forward to becoming a Leicester player and helping them try to regain their Premiership status."" "LEICESTER CITY manager Dave Bassett has confirmed that the club have failed in their bid to sign Chinese international striker Zhang Yuning, but he remains confident that he can seal a deal for Middlesbrough hitman Brian Deane. Yuning has failed in his efforts to attain a work-permit to play in The Premiership and was currently appealing against the decision, but Bassett has pulled the plug on the deal altogether as he was unwilling to hang on any longer for the Asian striker. Talking before Leicester's game with Everton, Bassett said: "The Yuning deal is Chop Suey, it is completely dead. "In the end I felt it was all getting too complicated and it did not seem right. "We learned that any decision over the work permit would take some time and I was thinking, hang on, it will soon be Christmas. "There was also the fact that the player would need to go back to China for an international in March so eventually we decided to withdraw from the talks. "That is not to say that we might not try and take him at another time but for the moment it is not going to happen.""

The conspiracists are strangely quiet today. Maybe that agenda doesn't actually exist. Unless PGMOL/PL/FA/Illuminati are trying to balance it out to not make it so obvious.

Isn't half the issue here that if there's just an innocent explanation it'd be better to release something thanking him for his service than create this vacuum? It's not like this is some random HR administrator - it's someone whose voice we've become accustomed to for over two decades. We're going to notice if he suddenly disappears and when there's no reason, goodbye or message as to why people will speculate.

Must admit this podcast did drift a bit in the second half - felt like they were just listing random Premier League games in the end! I think a lot of this depends when you're born/era, too. 5-2 for me would definitely be Sunderland, though 4-0 might be Luton in the 1974 cup match. 1-1 could well be the Man Urd Vardy 11 in a row game, though again there are probably lots of contenders for 1-1. Other "without thinking about it" ones, 3-0 Watford 2013 as we exorcised the playoff demons, 5-0 Cambridge in the playoff semi

You raised this horseshit line back in June when the fixtures were announced, so I'll repeat the logic here. See if you can process it this time. See also the PL's own website We're ripe for taking on teams in Liverpool, Manchester and Ipswich because of our central location and the distances.