BenTheFox

The Dog & Duck and The Red Lion would be embarrassed had served this up. Absolutely horrendous standard of football.

Shouldn't be an unpopular opinion. Deeney is a ***** but people seem to have conveniently forgotten that he was an effective player in the Premier League for a few seasons. Him playing alongside Vardy would have been horrible to play against. He did very well playing a supporting role to Igalo at Watford in 15/16 and could have done that effectively for us.

It's sad how much our fans hate Ben Chilwell, a player who came through our academy, has played for England and we sold for around £50 million. You can point out how he celebrated goals against us, or the goal that never was in the FA cup final, but that was just him giving it back.

Jonny Evans at his peak was the best all round centre back this club has ever had.

Yeah, I know that. It's just the concept of people turning their noses up at him is bizarre.

Which was incredibly bizarre. He was easily the most qualified person available for the job.

We'll obviously never know. Let's not act like there weren't baffling things that occurred at the club while Vichai was chairman. Giving Shakespeare the job full-time (I have sympathy on that one. Had they appointed someone else instead and it gone badly, people would have asked why Shakey wasn't just appointed), the Pearson sacking and immediate reinstatement in 2015, the Adrien Silva saga, the summer recruitment of 2016 etc. I do truly believe that it wouldn't have gotten this bad though. I'm with you on that.

What is interesting about this is that through much of the King Power ownership we saw the club becoming more sanitised and much less resembling the Leicester that many of us grew up with. Whether it be King Power being plastered all over the stadium, the elephant statues that were outside the club shop just over a decade ago, clappers, light shows, charging families hundreds of pounds for their kids to be mascots, tickets not being available for general sale for games that were not sold out, Thai flags being on club merchandise, a club produced tifo with Vichai's face on for his birthday, gold being on the home kits regularly, messaging for the new Thai king on the scoreboard etc. These things are understandably more widely tolerated and even embraced/celebrated when things are going well on the pitch. However, when things aren't going well on the pitch you suddenly realise that the club has become very sanitised and a bit soulless and ultimately, not very likeable. I'm not going to shit on the King Power ownership completely. They gave Nigel Pearson time and allowed him to put his plan into action they wrote off millions of debt in 13/14, players of the title-winning era have said that the ownership helped create an atmosphere that allowed them to thrive, and although it hasn't bared fruit as of yet, they invested in a new state of the art training facility. What is interesting is the good things the King Power ownership had done that I've mentioned came pre-October 2018. I know we had a good few years after that but those foundations were already in place. Rodgers was on their radar while Vichai was still alive and plans for the new training ground were well underway.

The only thing they've done recently that I liked was making the ground look a bit more like our home with the trophies that we've won throughout our history posted around the exterior of the stadium. It's a very very small thing, I know.

The signs were there before but Forest away in the FA cup was when I really knew that this club was in decline. The last three games against already relegated Norwich & Watford and a Southampton side who really couldn't be arsed made that season look far more respectable than it really was. We were in the bottom half all season and had we finished 13th or 14th, it would have been a much fairer reflection. I watched the Under the Cosh interview with Marc Albrighton and he was still playing the victim card about that season. "We finished 8th and got absolutely slaughtered". We conceded 20 goals from set pieces in the league, crashed out of the Europa League at the group stage from a group that had Spartak Moscow and Legia Warsaw who were both in the bottom half of their respective leagues at the time, were humiliated in the FA cup by Forest and didn't lay a glove on Roma in the second leg of the conference league final.

****ing no chance mate. Sorry. If they were that committed to the style of football we saw under Maresca, then there's no way that they would have appointed Steve Cooper and then RvN. I know we were a hard sell with everything hanging over us but with all the professional football managers world wide, they could have at least taken a chance on a manager who was inkeeping with that vision.

There were Leiceater fans on my train back singing about Reform, Farage, small boats, Starmer dying etc. Deeply embarrassing and tragic. I was a bit pissed so I showed how annoyed I was and some lad said "are you happy for p****s to come and rape your daughter?" to me. His mate told him to leave it. I can't believe he said that word out loud on a full train.

Was on the train to Glasgow on Thursday and there were loads of their fans coming back from Birmingham after they'd played Villa. The uniform is either a khaki North Face jacket or head to toe in the contents of the club shop. They shag the club shop Arsenal style.

It's so funny how Americans refer to Europe as one entity and not many countries with vastly different architecture, cuisine, languages, climate, culture etc. Seville and Stoke-on-Trent have very different vibes.

I'd be surprised if there was no one interested. We're currently a premier league club with a successful recent history, a modern stadium which can be expanded, a world class training facility and no other professional football club within a 25 mile radius.

Having lost his best player from last season too.

And btw, this isn't me being biased. I didn't vote Labour at the most recent general election and I have many criticisms of New Labour.

It was the aftermath of a global financial crisis. There was an opportunity to borrow to invest in infrastructure projects that could have kickstarted the economy when interest rates were at their lowest. Instead he implemented a program which stripped services to the bare bones which resulted in overcrowded prisons that in turn meant that prisoners were having to be released early, an asylum system where claims were not being processed, a health service with waiting lists going through the roof and was left badly unprepared for a pandemic, and crucially is believed to have been responsible for over 300,000 excess deaths while in office.

George Osborne takes that crown imo. We are still massively suffering the consequences of it.

I find that people who claim that politics should be kept out of football effectively mean 'keep YOUR politics out of football'. They suddenly fall silent whenever their political position is represented in football.

'Keep politics out of football' is an incredibly stupid statement. For starters, just like with everything, football and all sport is directly influenced by government policy. Also, football clubs such as Barcelona, Celtic, Athletic Bilbao etc. are naturally deeply entrenched in politics due to the circumstances of their formation and/or events that have occured throughout their existence.

They should both be banned from getting promoted after serving that up.

Unless they make serious additions, then both of these get slaughtered in the Premier league.

I find it hard to get on his back given the much bigger problems at the club. I had a greater issue with Cooper's appointment more so than his ability as a manager, which I still don't think is great at this level.

Frank Lampard isn't as bad a manager as he's made out to be. Not saying he's great, but Cov have picked up under him. He also got Derby to a play-off final where they lost to a Villa side in red hot form that had Grealish, McGinn, Abraham and Mings, got top four with Chelsea in his first season with a transfer embargo and kept Everton up for a season. His managerial record so far is a mixed bag. He certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Wayne Rooney.