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The navy is surely the training kit that the team has worn the last couple of friendlies. Genuinely don't think the design of the home or the pink are that bad at all. The home could be and has been a lot worse imo. The third kit is going to be navy and jade isn't it? I thought that was the conceived wisdom on here. But, to reiterate, the sponsor can get firmly in the fvcking bin.

I don't mind those shirts from those pics. Absolutely detestable sponsor of course.

I think it's quite difficult to fairly judge a guy who was parachuted into multiple areas of responsibility that he just wasn't prepared for at a time when he should have been grieving the tragic loss of his father, while also knowing that any point he could have lost other members of his family or he could have been in that helicopter on any other day. The squad we had at the time, the one that knew and loved both him and Vichai, will have helped him through this process both personally as people he had close relationships with, but also with their performances on the pitch. It is no secret that Top is/was less level headed than Vichai. The sacking/non-sacking of Pearson is proof of that, and testament to Vichai's steady hand as that situation was smoothed over at the time. To expect Top to be as successful as the man who built his company and juggled multiple interests is quite fanciful. I can see why Top would have wanted to do it, but in hindsight I think perhaps he should have appointed somebody else as the club's chairperson in order for him to fully focus on doing justice to King Power, and for someone else to do the same with Leicester City and someone else with OH Leuven. Expecting Top to emulate a man of Vichai's years in terms of wisdom, business nous and experience is unfair, I think. Now, he put all of this on himself, and ultimately he must bear responsibility for how the club has declined under his stewardship with its failure to adapt to changing Profit & Sustainability Rules and how it abandoned the sell-to-buy model to appease Brendan Rodgers, a coach that the club undoubtedly thought would lead us through a sustained period of success, perhaps winning more than the solitary FA Cup that he did, reaching or even winning a Conference League or Europa League final and tasting Champions League football again. All signs currently point towards Top not being able to arrest the slide, with the following issues proof of that: - Veering from one type of manager to the next with no coherent plan, including being linked to vastly different managers in the same recruitment process - Letting multiple prize assets leave the club for nothing - Two relegations in three seasons - Too much loyalty shown to people in high positions who are not performing - Always operating right on the edge financially, worming our way out of PSR sanctions on technicalities, and risking it all on immediate returns to the Premier League and the chance of staying there There is, quite rightly, a lot of goodwill among our fanbase towards Top for what he was a part of before his father died, how he handled a period of personal heartbreak in the public eye, the way in which he took on responsibility for the club afterwards, and how he continues to support not just the club but the city as well. Also, arguably, we're now really seeing the investment made into Seagrave bear fruit, with multiple young players coming through at the same time who are good enough to play for the first team and possibly help us achieve promotion. And there aren't many better feelings as a fan than watching a young player graduate from the academy and become an important first-team player. These young kids each have the chance to become club legends, or at least engender a lot of goodwill through their big-money sales, giving the club the chance to overcome its current financial woes. I'd be happy for Top to remain the owner of the club. But huge changes are needed whether he sells the club or not. If he stays, we need an overhaul in senior positions. Proper proven performers in a football environment who understand what it takes to build a team and take a club forward. People with their fingers on the pulse and who will rely on proper analysis in the recruitment of managers and players, and who will keep the club on an even keel financially, providing a sense of optimism whatever happens on the pitch. I'd be happy for Top to relinquish his role of chairman, too. I imagine that would be a difficult thing for him to do. But I think he should focus on King Power and come back to the club when he's a bit older, wiser and savvier, and let others take the club to the next level so there is something wonderful for him to come back to in years to come.

Great finish!

That's fair enough. Totally legitimate reasons for falling out of love with the game. I do find myself distracted during games a lot more than I used to be. It isn't the same as peak Barclays for sure.

To be fair I think it's widespread. One of the guys from the Football Ramble has said a few times that there are people who support their team but aren't football fans. They don't have any interest in anything else to do with the game and they're so one-eyed that everything else in the game falls outside of their radar. I think every fanbase has a good number of those types of fan.

Players that get poached by the elite clubs like this, we should be tracking their development and trying to pick them up again if we think they're still good enough but just getting squeezed by that bottle-neck that happens at academy level. Absolutely no need to for sour grapes if he could become good enough. Tyler Dibling went from Southampton to Chelsea and back and could either end up making them a mint, firing them straight back into the Prem, or both.

Multi-club ownerships are sh!t - including ours. They're disrespectful to all clubs involved imo.

So they want the name to reflect the local area's culture and history and yet that local culture and history will then forever be associated with a prison? A bit like Strangeways and Feltham will forever be associated with prisons. Why don't they just name them after decorated members of law enforcement or something?

I want Rohl. If it's between Dyche and Wilder I'm going Andy King. Then Wilder. Then Dyche.

I wonder if he'll go straight into the squad for a Champions League qualifier tonight!

If you need a rigid CF at Championship level I can see Adams being of interest. But I do wonder if we even need that kind of player. We have an abundance of attacking talent coming through. I think with the following players in the squad, we can play a fluid front three with even a creative player behind them, using a combination of any of them and sharing the goals around the squad: Mavididi Fatawu McAteer Alves Monga Page Evans Ayew (assuming he stays) El Khannouss (assuming he stays) Golding I may have missed one or two more.

I liked the cut of Kingy's jib before the game as well. He spoke excellently about the first week of training. I'm not saying he should have the job or even that he will be a future Leicester manager, but he simply has to remain involved to some extent. He's not only a club legend but a consummate professional. His achievements with this club also demand respect from any player who puts on the shirt. Maybe one day he'll get a chance in the hot seat, maybe he'll have to go away again to be able to come back and get that chance, but right now he needs to be a real part of the new manager's backroom staff, whoever that may be.

I know he used to be a coach, and of course this is not the worst thing he's done, but does any other club's director of football constantly wander round in the training clobber? Is it not a bit weird?

I'm doing 70 in the inside lane of the southbound M1 last night. The road is very quiet, it's an easy drive. I'm approaching junction 22 and about start going past the slip road when a car in the middle lane pulls alongside me, suddenly indicates and drifts into my lane, causing me to brake heavily to allow them across so they can leave the motorway at junction 22. Clearly someone wasn't paying attention and only just realised that their junction was coming up, but it just baffles me why they couldn't have just eased off and let me go past instead of suddenly trying to sideswipe me off the road.

Yeah I pop in every now and again, pick up the odd Christmas or birthday present, or something for running. Pretty handy actually. I've never took plunge on a football shirt from there though, despite being tempted by a Belgium or Colombia shirt in the past.

A few weeks ago I saw the 23-24 home and black kits being sold for £52 at the Adidas outlet in Pear Mill, Stockport. I didn't bother. I already have the black one with the blue sash and I didn't like the home kit enough to shell out £52 for a top that'll be two seasons out of date next month.

Northern Monk's Holy Faith is nice. Lucky Saint's lager and hazy IPA are both good as well. Guinness 0.0 is probably the one I drink most often.

Normally I don't mind Macron and I generally quite like the idea of being more out there with an away or third kit but that Stoke effort is about as bad as it gets. Proper poke-yourself-in-the-eyes-so-you-don't-have-to-see-it bad.

I wonder if we'll enter a team into the National League Cup instead

Dyche was involving Everton in a relegation battle with three of the worst Premier League teams in a long time. Says all you need to know about him that Moyes was able to move them away from that scenario with relative ease.

Oddly enough one of my favourite memories of Filbert Street is being taken there every now and again on non-match days by my grandad. Turning the corner and it just being there. This great hulking thing that is so busy on a Saturday but is currently peaceful, waiting for the hordes in blue to descend, anticipating the next big occasion. Then just wandering into the small club shop that seemed big to me at the time and looking at all the kits with awe. So, so good.

Going as infrequently as I do, I remember the first time I went since the border around the pitch has been painted blue. It just feels really off to me. It doesn't feel like football. It's like my senses have been turned down and everything is just slightly less than it was before. Obviously that isn't all down to a simple border around the pitch, but it is emblematic of the general feeling. I feel like I can't smell the pitch anymore. All the players celebrate in the same way. Fan celebrations on selfie mode. Maybe it's just because my childhood is decades behind me now