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Something's happening in the away end. Looks like someone's fallen ill

Good journalism costs. Especially local journalism. This is clear from the state of local newspaper websites over the last 15 years. Unfortunately the state of those websites has ebbed away at the good will people have for most local newspapers and their trust in the content they're going to put out.

If you're lucky you'll also get a steward to stand aimlessly at the top of the stairs at the safe standing section like in SK3/4, doing absolutely nothing all game other than get in everyone's way

Tbh I think the whole "only league winners should be in" is a bit outdated now. Fact is people want to see the best teams. I'm a casual football viewer now compared to when I was younger and this is what I want if I'm honest. Viewers and money will drain away from the competition if you had the champions of European leagues only. The game has moved on so much, maybe caused by the UCL's format admittedly. But if you have me a choice of seeing second place Man City v third place PSG, for example, over first place Pafos FC v first place Celtic in the UCL, I know what I and the majority want to watch That being said, all these games to just eliminate 12 teams is a bit silly (until the WC this summer says "hold my beer"), and I'd be up for what others have said that this knockout round should be one leg jeopardy. Let those who finished 9-16 have home advantage, and make 17-24 work for it properly.

Things change but ultimately stay the same. This is from April 2007:

He has worked in the finance sector for decades, including working within administration/liquidation of businesses, which has included football clubs. The man has years and years of experience of looking at, analysing and deducing balance sheets, accounts and information. He has advised several prospective owners of football clubs on valuations, he has spoken to a parliamentary committee and is respected as someone who has excellent football finance knowledge, and can explain it simply. He actually has utmost respect for someone like Swiss Ramble and Swiss has featured on his podcast. If you'd take some time to research someone rather than espouse such a ridiculous take then you might have learnt something. I'm sorry he isn't telling you what you want to hear. I'm sorry he can't say Top is doing a spellbinding job and everything is okay. It's quite amazing that rather than digest his analysis (which a lot of us were aware of, admittedly) that we are up the shitter financially, and instead focus on his qualifications to say such analysis. I reckon your head should come out of the sand and stop avoiding the issues we have at hand tbh.

A great end to a great season. CFP NCG was a brilliant watch and Indiana completing their Leicester-esque title was superb. Also didn't have a photo of Matty Fryatt scoring a penalty against Southend in 2009 being featured on College Gameday, but we are in a strange world these days.

We win this and he's 100% staying here at least until the end of the season, and they put out a DVD of the game in the club shop.

But isn't it a no win situation? You underplay it or don't go big when you think something might happen, it DOES end up happening and then people whine that they didn't get warned. Maybe we should be pleased that we were warned it might be bad, but it turned out not to be 100% of the time.

Yep - really terrible long-term planning alongside a bloody determination to retain it for athletics use. In the day and age where making a stadium a 365 day money maker Spurs a leader in this. Whilst WHU owners were penny pinching to pay just £3m rent a year and get taxpayers to pay £250m to renovate the stadium as they had LLDC by the balls, Spurs were splashing £1bn-ish on a brand new stadium that makes them so much money in matchday income, deals with the NFL, prime concert venue etc.

There must be an ungodly amount of performance-related break clauses in that Rosenior contract, or he's madly incentivised. No way does he get a full payoff on a six year contract. Especially when we all know he won't be there in 18 months.

Apparently Rodgers was also CEO/Director of Football/Chairman and Finance Director all in one. No wonder his severance package was so pricey!

Not even the club have the gall to announced the tickets sold attendance tonight, surely they won't make that much of a bozo of themselves

I was thinking this. I'm expecting it to be 90mins of non stop noise with the hard core, most loyal lad backers in tonight. Sky have probably turned the microphones down. Must be.

Look at the language in that post, they're as down the rabbit hole of cult as we are "Our home for over 120 years will see a significant investment made by our owner, Evangelos Marinakis, to deliver a sustainable and iconic design which increases the stadium’s capacity to over 50,000."

I suspect some actively relish it. A chance to go back to being little old Leicester, a chance to go back to sitting in a pool of superiority as you enter year 34 of being a season ticket holder. Basking in the glow that you were there, and will always be there "for the good times and the bad" for they will "always back the lads" As I think everyone will agree. There's nothing inherently wrong with being "little old Leicester" in principle. Unfortunately we were given two absolutely golden opportunities to solidify ourselves as one of the top ten clubs in the country, we even got another go after messing up the year after 15/16. Two chances, two opportunities, and we completely mucked it up. You have to ask yourself why are we back here? Back to the level and performance we were putting in 20 years ago as if nothing happened. There are no external factors at work here. This is pure, unadulterated mismanagement, inability to show weakness or accountability and years and years of taking us fans for a ride. Many of whom are seemingly happy to carry on that ride. We all want the club to do well no matter what division we're in, but the current ownership and senior staff have driven away many supporters through their behaviour, blockage in access to games and lack of help to support people back the team the way they want to. They've made terrible decisions on players, managers and a refusal to make changes when we were sinking. When you've wasted as much money as has been quoted above, done nothing to try and rectify the situation, kept stoney silent with zero plan whilst watching us flounder you get this. You get people that are resentful of making a hash of things. Unfortunately that's not enough for some, and I think many of us would like to know how low would it take. Another relegation? Five years in this division? I'm not sure.

He struck me a bit like Ten Haag, and this is only an impression rather than hard facts, but he always seemed to manage pulling a job-saving win out of his arse when his future was looking edgy. There's a current Leicester manager we know who seems to be an expert in pulling this tactic off, too!

"Cheers on the lads as loud as they can" They love this boast, but we've all been to home games and we know how loud they are. Clap the teams out, cheer the names when read out, sing when you're smiling and sit down for 90 mins, cheering only if we score. The absolute gall of this lot to claim they're vocal and actually support the team. They think we don't have ears

Open question and this isn't Littler hate, to have a stranglehold on an entire sport at such a young age is an incredible achievement. But when does his domination become dull? Soon? Few years away? Or is the standard of darts below him so high people will enjoy the spectacle outside of him winning everything? It's a fascinating time.

I'm thinking of driving over to The Offie today to have a look and get some beers. Heard good things. Has anyone been themselves to recommend/review?

In any such scenario I bet the blame will fall on those who have been vocal against the ownership. Those who boycotted, stopped going, stopped spending their money. Those who were negative and didn't support Top. It'll be our fault, not the board's.

Any idea what caused the blue on blue as reported today? Remember it being bad back in 14/15 away at Man Utd just before the great escape. You can always tell when times are rough when we start fighting. Anyone know if it was pro KP v anti KP? Or just a few having had too much to drink?

We'll beat WBA with an underwhelming, scrappy performance and all will be forgotten yet again. Anyone negative will be lambasted and it'll all be fine. We are circling a drain and so many of our fans don't seem to give a monkeys.

Hope you're working hard on this list @hackneyfox, genuinely intrigued to learn about the positive bits I've missed. Educate us.

Were th KPFC brigade like this during the Pleat Out/Shipman Out protests at the start of the nineties? Were they witnessing hopeless mismanagement and just shrugged and pretended like everything was okay? Sitting there saying they'll just always back the lads no matter what.