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I was at all those matches, including the Sheff Utd game, apart from the last one against Spurs. The only pitch invasion I took part in was the one at the end of the Oxford match. I can't remember the pitch invasion after the Shrewsbury match but no doubt one took place. Didn't the Chelsea fans also invade the pitch when we beat them 2-0 in April 1989 and temporarily stopped them getting promoted or is my memory playing tricks on me? Incidentally, that was the same day as Hillsborough.

Go to the top of the class.

Quiz question: Between Gordon Banks' appearance for England against West Germany on 30/07/66 and Kasey Keller's appearance for the USA against Germany on 15/06/98, who was the only Leicester player to appear in a World Cup tournament match?

Didn't Shilton, Whitworth, Weller and Worthington all play together in one England match? The only time Leicester had 4 players in the England team at the same time.

It's Northampton Town I can't stand. Delusional, glory-hunting fans supporting a tinpot team who think they have a god-given right to be in the Champions League year in year out because they were once top of the First Division for a week back in the 60s. Forever living in the past and talking about the great days of Frank Large and Roly Mills. The only thing they really care about is selling shirts in the Far East. I bet half of them aren't even from Northamptonshire. All in all, a load of cobblers.

When we play Forest it will be the 1st Premier League East Midlands derby match for over 20 years. For the record, these were the dates on which the fixtures were last played in the PL. Leicester v Derby 22/02/2002 result 0-3 Leicester v Coventry 07/04/2001 result 0-3 Coventry v Derby 31/03/2001 result 2-0 Nottingham Forest v Leicester 16/05/1999 result 1-0 Derby v Nottingham Forest 10/04/1999 result 1-0 Coventry v Nottingham Forest 09/01/1999 result 4-0

''What proof that these are Liverpool fans?'' Who else do you think they were? Are you suggesting that non-Liverpool fans have travelled to Paris in order to misbehave and discredit the genuine Liverpool fans? Paris these days is basically a permanent tinder box which could explode at any moment. They've had major riots, the burning of one of the world's most historic buildings and they have to put up with a state of constant low-level urban warfare. The police there are not going to suffer fools gladly.

Also, well done to the Parisian gendarmerie for dealing firmly but fairly with some very unsavoury characters tonight.

Thank you Real Madrid.

I hope Real Madrid win the game tomorrow.

I remember when Forest signed Trevor Francis for £1 million and it seemed incredible back then because it more than doubled the existing British transfer record. Yes, Francis scored the winning goal when Forest won the European Cup but apart from that goal he didn't do much else for them. I don't think he even broke the 40 goal mark in all competitions in his Forest career. Francis would have been about the same age when he joined Forest as Jamie Vardy was when he joined us for the same fee, only 33 years later after a lot of inflation, especially in the football transfer market. And Jamie hasn't finished yet. I can't think of a better value buy in English football history. And I can't think of a better value sell than Harry Maguire.

Lincolnshire is certainly one of the largest English counties by area (I think only Yorkshire and Devon are larger) so it's bound to contain its fair share of variation and no doubt the south west of the county where it abuts the Vale of Belvoir feels very different from the north east parts along the Humber estuary. My reason for disqualifying it as a Midland county is that it has a coastline, and a pretty long one at that, and I can't help feeling that a Midland county should be landlocked. I don't think I heard anyone question Derbyshire's status as a Midland county before though. Yes, it's a ''long'' county and projects quite far into the north but so does Nottinghamshire to an almost equal latitude.

I think the following counties can be regarded as constituting the Midlands: Leicestershire Rutland Nottinghamshire Derbyshire Warwickshire Staffordshire Northamptonshire Worcestershire Shropshire There are other counties that are sometimes described as being Midland counties, namely Lincolnshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire but I would place Lincolnshire as an East Anglian county along with Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. I would place Gloucestershire as a West Country county along with Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Oxfordshire seems to me to belong in the same group as Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire but there isn't really a geographical expression which unifies them. The 6 Home Counties are Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Surrey and Middlesex and the counties of the North of England are Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland.

I think it was better for us to finish 8th than 7th this season. Qualifying for the Europa Conference League is a poisoned chalice and I think West Ham will find that out next season. Tottenham had the right approach to that competition. They threw in the towel and were happy to be disqualified for it and now they will be in the Champions League next season.

I would point out that in a league history that goes back 128 years to 1894 we've only finished higher than 8th on 10 occasions. It's also the first time that we have ever had 5 consecutive finishes in the top 9, which I think is significant. It needs to be remembered that these days it's very difficult for any club outside the now traditional top 6 to break into it. Since our return to the PL in 2015 it's only happened on 4 occasions and 3 of those times were us in 15/16, 19/20 and 20/21. The other was West Ham also in 20/21. So on the whole I don't think 8th should be seen as a disappointment. From my point of view the biggest disappointments were the manner of our exits from the League Cup, the FA Cup and the Europa League. We came close to knocking out Liverpool in the League Cup but couldn't cross the line, put in a shocking performance against Forest in the FA Cup which we were the holders of and we should have done better against the motley crew of teams we had in the Europa League group. The positives have been winning the Community Shield against Man City and getting another Wembley victory under our belt, being 1 of only 2 teams to beat Liverpool in the league and the away performances against Spartak Moscow and PSV Eindhoven. We had a good go at the Europa Conference and ended up playing 13 matches in European football this season which probably emptied the tanks with an injury prone squad. Also we have finished the season strongly and scored a lot of goals and seen Jamie Vardy become our 3rd highest scorer. If he can stay fit next season we may seem him break 150 PL goals.

This match will be Ralph Hassenhutl's last ever as a Premier League manager.

Whistle for their suppers.

The pitch invasion was pathetic given that it wasn't their last game of the season. Even if they had lost tonight, it would still have been in their hands. Maybe there should be a tradition started now whereby fans invade the pitch once they are mathematically safe from relegation. So the likes of Man City and Liverpool can have their pick invasions in January and as the teams below them reach safety one by one they can invade the pitch as well.

Remember the Oxford game in 1991? I do.

Come on you Saints, save your annual 9-0 thrashing for Sunday and win tonight.

Very sad and at only 62. I wouldn't have thought he headed the ball a lot during his career though. Very much a bit-part player for us until the end of his City career when he played an important part in the 93/94 promotion run in and played his last game in the Wembley play-off against Derby.

Nigel Pearson. Seriously. Why not?

Chris Hughton.

Never forgotten his goal against Liverpool. After the game Jock Wallace's prediction that we would win the First Division suddenly didn't seem all that outlandish.

I was very disappointed to read in the newspaper clipping (the Mercury presumably) that Clifford Brown and Gordon Hinton had been arrested for stealing butter, lard, tea leaves, sugar and table jellies from the Evington Co-op. I hope they've learned their lesson by now and are ready to be released and to re-enter society. To those people who imagine that the 50s was some kind of golden age when you could leave your doors unlocked and safely walk the streets at night, let Brown and Hinton be a lesson to you.