Stoopid

You said it was my turn next!

We are playing like a team totally shot of confidence. Odd really, considering the start we've had. Don't think there's too much wrong with the players or the manager. But this mental timidity (so to speak) can be difficult to overcome. I think Brendan recognises this, and his relentless positivity is his way of tackling it. But clearly, t's failing to engage the players.

Especially when he was warming up. Used to produce some amazing touches & routines before the game. An inveterate late arriver, I used to get there early just to catch the show. Frankie had talent and charisma to burn. Happy birthday to the most gifted player to ever pull on the blue shirt. (Riyad who?) Hope he's well.

Our defending at corners - Jonny's no-look header and Mr Under more than living up to his name - wouldn't have looked out of place on any given Sunday on Vicky Park. Another example of LCFC being the true people's club.

Like the team in general, he's a bit too easy to intimidate. Not saying he's a luxury player, but too often he fades from sight when things are not going well. Not the only one of course - as Liverpool so painfully emphasised last night. The nature of last season's collapse is more evidence of our fallibility which unfortunately our good start does not really disguise. I find it slightly worrying, but still think we'll have a decent season.

Every time I hear Pritti Patel speak, I'm irresistibly reminded of Alf Ramsey. She's got the same habit of cuttin' off the g of words endin' in 'ing' and generally bein' rather pompous and too careful in speech. Used to crack me up when Alf did it - with her I find it slightly sinister. That's not a judgement incidentally, just an observation.

I was an 11 year old kid too. Great time to be alive. The World Cup, The Beatles in their pomp, and Doog smashing them in for City! Remember the dismay when we sold him that season. Almost as if we were to sell Vardy now. Banks too. For the first time I had the feeling that maybe the people in charge didn't know what they were doing. Especially when they sold the brilliant Jackie Sinclair the season after (I think). My favourite player at the time. Great winger with a real eye for goal. I played with his cousin in a team in Manchester for a while. Top bloke who didn’t want to leave, but then, as now, money talks.

I had a Vauxhall Vulva in the 70's. It wasn't that bad. Bit snug, maybe.

She is such an easy target and predictably attracts a lot of rancour. I always felt she was a prime example of someone promoted a fairly long distance beyond her ability, but so what - she's hardly unique in that. But when I saw some of the flack she was getting (online especially), I actually felt quite sickened by it. And while it's true that kind of abuse reflects much more on the deficiencies of the poster than anything else, it's still hard to stomach. She at least adds to the gaiety of the nation, and as such I'm all for her.

Strange one really. First noticed this fashion (stemming, I believe on a kind of badboy cool based on police removing belts of prisoners) about 30 years ago at least. So if it is a fashion, it's a very backward-looking one. Or is it a symptom of a certain lack of imagination among the young? To a casual observer there seem to have been hardly any cultural innovations this century. Bit weird when you weigh it up.

I'm slightly offended by the fact that people are offended by things they decide may be offensive to the easily-offended. What offends me is that people who offend me have decided I may be offended by things they find offensive. I mean, are they trying to offend me or what? No offence...

Seem to remember that we'd just been beaten by Exeter in the FA Cup when we went to Anfield in 81 and ended their unbeaten home-run (which I think was even better then). One of the best away days I can recall, made even sweeter by the fact that we were bloody awful back then.

You've got to love the Austrian Fox. He really seems to get the club, the city, the whole culture here. He'll be a big miss when he finally decamps to Manhattan with his family and dodgy T-shirts. As for Talk Sport, I rate H & J. Good double-act. And as for unintentional comedy, Mike Parry every time. When I first heard him, I thought it was an elaborate piss-take. If it is, it's a good one...

So it's the medium rather than the message? It's just people talking however you access it.

Yeah - I actually listen to the radio from time to time. Old school or what? (Tried watching it for a while but nothing much happened). Tried listening to my own music on Spotify as well but all Jimi Hendrix talks about is Liverpool's injury crisis...

Clarkie's last-gasp winner against WBA in the semi at Hillsborough prompted wild scenes in our end (Leppings Lane). Lost my train ticket home and ended up thumbing it. Took hours to get a lift (from Tinsley), and I was broke hungry and cold. Don't think I've ever been happier!

I'll never be convinced that the Fox & Crops in the 4-point shield has ever been improved upon. That's just to do with when I grew up probably, but the only quibble I had with the title win was that the - to my eyes - rather bland modern incarnation was the one that found fame around the world. But I've gradually got used to it, and reading this thread it's clear that it means as much to subsequent generations as the shield does to old gits like me. Seems pointless to change it again, especially for something as dull and lacking in imagination as this.

The fact that the highest goal scorer in the history of English football was a Leicester player doesn't seem to be enough to confer legendary status any more. Probably because it happened before our time (even mine), Arthur Rowley rarely gets a mention. But if you've got a couple of minutes, look at his numbers. The bloke was a phenomenon.

Interesting point about Shankly - he said in his book that when Liverpool were promoted in the 60s he took Leicester as a model of how to play the game. He had massive respect for Gillies the way we played with Cross, McLintock & Gibson especially.

In the mid 70s I was in a proto-punk band and we used to do a shocking version of 'This is the Season'. Every time I got to the 'for Leicester City' part, the drummer used to shout out 'for Queens Park Rangers! - crashing the cymbals to drown me out. Did everyone a favour really.

Yeah - think you're right. Thanks.

Who's the bloke 3rd from the left, between String and Rod Fern? Thought it was Munro, but maybe not...

Hard to compare really. When I first started going to Filbert Street he often played further forward than he did later. Him and and McLintock used to interchange constantly which used to baffle opponents in those days. That midfield fluidity was a real innovation that City brought to the game, and Cross was fundamental to it. As he became older he dropped back more, but still moved well further forward. As for modern equivalents - hard to say really. Bit of Maguire maybe in his forays forward, but a Crossy was a better defender. And faster. I often think we took him for granted a bit at Leicester.

Luton away 1974 - even when Covid's a nasty memory, it's unlikely we'll ever see this kind of thing again!

Mind you, there was a spell in the 90s when Gazza had some shockers for England. Right up to the Scotland game in 96 a lot of the media were calling for Tel to leave him out. Luckily he ignored them.