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May as well use this bump to just promote this channel - must admit I haven't taken much care of it over recent years. Has as many VHS tapes of season reviews and magazine tapes. Might need to reupload anything that's been removed. https://www.youtube.com/@LCFCArchive/videos Might help remind people of happier times in the 90s/00s whilst our financial inferno rages.

This is very key. I'm not here to argue about the rules because people seem to be attacking them despite being strangely quiet when Everton and Forest for their letters. The point is that we didn't break our necks to stay within the limit and fell foul of PSR by a few quid. We didn't break even but the rules mean break even isn't good enough. They give you a ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE MILLION pound buffer to meet over three years. We didn't just crash through that, we backed up and ran over the limit again and again until we more than DOUBLED the allowed losses. We obliterated the threshold. I feel like it's someone complaining about an impending fine for doing over the speed limit on the motorway. You didn't get caught doing 78, you've been caught doing 150 mate.

Went to Hinckley last Thursday and stopped for a drink in The Bounty about midday. £5.50 for a Moretti and large diet coke was banging (happy hour I think) Felt like a celebrity on the way out with the stares from the regulars. Strikes me as a bit of a "local" pub? Would go back though, the lady serving was friendly and it was no frills, which is right up my street.

Maybe they'll have competent plans in place which don't include spending more than 100% of their revenue on wages and chasing the dream by overpaying and overspending on mediocre players

KPFC fans talk like Top was some 17 year old doing his A-levels and prepping for his gap year backpacking around Australia when Vichai died. He'd been second in command for eight years, and at a high level in King Power for years too. If he wasn't ready and he's still inexperienced now then I'm not sure when he will be.

I just don't get why there was no plan b? It's like we forgot relegation and the FFP rules didn't exist. There's being risky with a strategy of bringing in people on huge salaries with hope of cracking the UCL places, but what was the backup if it didn't work? Was it pure arrogance to think that we A) wouldn't get into the top positions and B) that we wouldn't get relegated? They have stuffed this up, just like we did after the title win. The only saving grace for them then was the enormous money we earned from UCL, meaning we posted a £90m profit, as well as keeping up our "sell a good-un once a year" strategy keeping us in check. The owner is culpable, the board are culpable, those blindly following KPFC are culpable and make no mistake, if we don't get promoted this season we could be languishing in the shitty echelons of the Championship yet again as we work to redress the financial implosion we have bought upon ourselves.

We really do need to finish top two because the 3v6 playoff semi is the same night as the Quickly Kevin final show in London that I've got a ticket for, and I'd quite like to go to it instead of an agonising, future defining football match

It's nice to see some fans firing their ire in the right direction. You know, we might successfully appeal this embargo or any points deduction, but the simple plain fact is we absolutely should not be breaching these rules in the first place. That is on our ownership and senior management structure. We know there's no accountability, but in my Disney dreamworld I'd love them to say "you know what... We gambled and it didn't work, we made mistakes that led us to this position. We don't agree with the rulings but we're sorry we let it get this bad in the first place." But no, deflect, defend, bed in and pretend like the EFL and Premier League have spun a wheel on who to penalise next.

It's not a gear grind so putting it here, but the whole England kit thing genuinely makes me a bit sad. The desperation to argue, bicker, find fault, pick a fight and make a huge debate over seemingly every tiny thing, which ultimately suffocates airtime from real problems affecting real people in this country is sad. And it's not just the fact it's an England shirt. The next thing will be along soon enough, and we'll engage in warfare over X being wrong, with the inevitable backlash as people from the other side as people double, triple and quadruple down on their views. It's so tiring, it's so sad, it's the disintegration of us as a country. Genuinely disheartening.

List is clearly based on moments that 5Live were broadcasting live themselves. Talksport had both the Spurs-Chelsea game on the night we became champions, and they had the Leicester-Everton trophy lift game as well. Would urge people to realise this before they wet the bed about omitting us too much.

Those who've had the flu recently, did you get a flu vaccine in the winter or not? No agenda or vaccine propaganda incoming, genuinely interested to see if you got it bad even with a vaccine, which would suggest it's a pretty damn nasty strain.

Be interesting to see if that's possible. As I understand it only UEFA FFP is CAS-able. PSR only has the appeal process Everton have been through, it's not possible to go to CAS based on how it's written up.

The people who run the league are the member clubs. If they want rid of PSR call a meeting and get 14/20 clubs to vote it out or change it so that the loss trigger point is higher. The Premier League senior staff carry out the wishes of the member clubs. The conspiracy bullshit being spouted on here is as scary as it is hilarious. It is literally within the PL clubs wish to modify or scrap this. It's not FIFA, It's not UEFA, it's not the illuminati, it's not the media, it's not a cartel of suits who hate Everton, Forest and ourselves. Why aren't PL club fans lobbying their ownership hard to get this changed? Why?

This was inevitable, though. The comments and posts we've had around how Forest and Everton fans have been bitter and crying, and then it turns on us and we're wailing into the abyss, it was so predictable. It was 2013 but 19/20 clubs voted this through. All it takes is 14/20 to scrap these rules. The Premier League are enforcing something their members voted through. Maybe it should've been revised earlier, but the critical thing is that these rules have not been a surprise to us. Clubs like Wolves have bust their arse to comply with them and we, along with other clubs, have just mismanaged our way spraying money about like it's confetti. I'm so sick and tired of clubs not complying with rules that knew were in place crying victim every time they're charged. Get the fvck together and propose a change or scrapping of these rules at a PL meeting. Get organised. 14/20 kills it in its current format. That's all it takes. It's not come Richard Masters overlord nonsense, it's member clubs crying because of the rules member clubs voted in. We've been utter idiots and we're paying the price. We knew these rules and restrictions were in force, why weren't we more fiscally responsible? Why weren't we more prudent, cleverer, wiser in the transfer market. It just emphasises how hugely we have ruined the one incredible opportunity we were gifted in 2016.

I was on YouTube the other day watching the full Sky Sports coverage of our Coca Cola Cup final against Boro at Wembley. As interesting as it was looking at the difference in presentation, analysis, pre-match entertainment, the moment the teams walked out was especially brilliant. Balloons, confetti absolutely everywhere from our fans. Was a sight to behold.

Mate, come on. Why is Wembley more expensive than a trip to Manchester? Anyone with half a brain cell can find a decent pub outside of Zone 1 pre-match, and it's a 100 mile drive max. Two or three of the suitable alternative stadiums are in London as well! I'm sorry to say but if there's one thing Wembley has done is set ticket expectations for the semi-finals. Yes, the final allocations are pathetic, not gonna argue on that, but Coventry have been given 34,000 tickets for their semi. That means the standard is set, unfortunately. Rolling back to 15,000 allocations at Villa Park would be ridiculous, both for fans and financially for the FA. 19,000 fewer tickets in revenue is mind-boggling a bad decision. And to repeat, the meltdown on this forum (as other clubs) would be of epic proportions if after years of Wembley semi finals they said "yeah actually we're at Villa Park this year and your allocation is 15k tickets. Especially if the other semi was at a much larger stadium. Tbh even taking them to Emirates or Spurs would mean you're looking at 25,000 tickets, so 9,000 Leicester fans would miss out compared to what we'd get now.

I agree that semis shouldn't be at Wembley necessarily (though we'd all have been buzzing for it had we got there) but we are now seventeen years into them being at Wembley, and still another 13 to go from the original pledge of 30 years to help pay off the stadium. It's a bit "grumpy old man" of me but it's dead boring hearing it now. Notwithstanding, your proposal above I'd argue is grossly unfair. If semi finals are going to be played at neutral venues they'd absolutely have to be in comparably sized stadia. The Millennium and Villa Park at more than 30k difference in capacity. Imagine if we won yesterday and were allocated 17k tickets for a semi at Villa Park, and the other teams in the other semi got 31k each? We'd be in absolute meltdown.

I've been following football intently since I was about 10-11. Watch everything I could, record hours of shit off TV, invest in all our games hugely, play football video games, post across various forums. That's nearly 25 years for me and in that time my likes and priorities have changed. In that same period football's moved to being truly inescapable and suffocating 24/7. From games, tactics, transfers, finances, fandom etc. I had to accept a few years ago that not only could I keep up with it, I just didn't want to anymore. I genuinely rely on a quick scroll on social media a couple of times a day and my TFS/Guardian/Price of Football podcasts to inform and educate me on football now. I can't, and don't want to be glued to football anymore. I want to watch games that mean something these days, too. I'll sit and watch a proper Super Sunday like last week, I'll watch the playoffs and latter UCL games. Outside of LCFC, football from August-February feels 90% processional and without much meaning. A lot of the above applies to Leicester too, tbh. There are times I've been to home games and not known who was playing until the line up is read out. I wish I was more inspired. I wish I was as sparked as I was after Cov at home & Huddersfield away in August, Mavididi's leveller yesterday. I've just felt no "proper" spark in this team for years, maybe since 2017. Covid didn't help, because it stunted that 19/20 season and whilst the FA Cup win was insane, it felt flat in a weirdly empty stadium after attending none of the preceding games.

Made a bet with my other half in January 2016 that I'd propose if we won the league when it was still an outlandish thought. Now I'm married. So yes, a lot of trouble

Also a complete waste of time, effort, energy and £ for fans for the three previous games in the cup leading up to this. If you're gonna lob yourself out of a cup competition do it at the first hurdle, don't get to the quarter-finals and then think "nah sack it" I also think people underestimate the joy of football. I was one of the lucky ones at the 2021 Final. I'd love a day out at Wembley with 25,000+ other Leicester fans. It would be incredible, it would be memorable and fantastic. What it won't do it guarantee we'll cost ourselves promotion. The whole "promotion or FA Cup" is such an artificial debate because they're not connected really. The FA Cup isn't going to cost us promotion, and promotion won't cost us the FA Cup. Clickbait nonsense really.

Yep, that's completely understandable. Then don't go on the show would be my militant response if you're so worried. Why go on a show with that ending if you're not going to partake in that ending?

Anyone else listen to Fighting Talk? It's a niche thought but it's irked me just how bad the contestants are at Defend the Indefensible these days. Aside from the old school and the odd person who is 'game,' people's inability to join in with the premise and refuse to defend the indefensible is really frustrating. Yesterday's saw Paul Dickov given the statement to defend that he wished he'd played for Man Utd rather than Man City. Instead of making a humorous and obviously false claim he just said "nah not defending this don't care if I lose." Which wouldn't necessarily be an issue in itself, but it happens loads now and frankly it completely ruins the finale of the show. It's getting to the point imo where they might need to change something, or give constant reassurance that this is a JOKE and not reality.

This thread's gone well shit hasn't it

Me too. I do prefer upper tier at Chelsea personally. I assume there's only a handful of us doing this so shouldn't affect ticket sales too much...

Can't really say much more than this. We had a fantastic 2019/20 up to Covid, we won the FA Cup. Two fifth place finishes (should've been fourth) but we'd seemingly solidified ourselves as one of the "other" teams just outside of that "big six" Our senior leaders panicked on that nine game winning run at the thought of him leaving, pumped him with a five year megabucks deal and more power to ward off interest which ultimately led to him sitting on that contract playing 'sack chicken' as things turned sour.