Drew Peacock

I’ve struggled at times to listen to him in the past, but I gained a lot of respect for him after what he said yesterday. He seemed almost apologetic at the end, possibly regretting what he had said, but it was the truth. I hope he gets lots of good feedback and RL don’t try to reign him in.

There were some rank post New Year’s Eve party smells on the terraces tonight, but none stank the place out more than his performance. He’s unplayable at the moment surely. Might as well put a shirt on a traffic cone and it would stop more crosses. Admittedly Mavadidi was horrific too and gave no support.

I was in the away end and did the same. Obviously not as big a shadow as yours.

Exactly what we are doing. Going to the other 2 games but not Cov.

Took me a minute. Thought there was a high profile Scandinavian boxer I’d never heard of live on Sky before our game.

I presume if anyone queried the price with LCFC they would say ‘Nothing to do with us.’ Quite rightly you might say. However, Swansea are paying these prices for their game against Cov. Their owners are providing free travel for a much longer journey, presumably because of cost of tickets, although admittedly it’s on Boxing Day when travel by train is more difficult. I appreciate that some of our fans don’t travel from Leicester, but for a lot of our fans this would then make this away game cheaper than most. Fan engagement, if it’s not just lip service and politics, really is not that difficult. Surely an easy win for LCFC highlighting the greed of Cov more. Is no one at the club thinking of this?

Agreed. It was goal of the month for 35 minutes and ended up not even being goal of the game. 🤣

In 25 years time when people are talking about Fatawu’s goal, I wonder how many people will say ‘I missed it as I was queuing for a crap drink and crap pie.’?

If it’s a 15% allocation then will be around 1000 tickets I think.

13 tickets now available on LCFC.com

CrossCountry train staff are now on strike on December 6th. I don’t know if that affects East Midland’s Railway service, but presumably it will.

Loved this last night. It feels a while since we’ve had a repetitive type song really take off. Hopefully this can be loud and long at Norwich on Saturday.

I was in there today. I said to a bloke stood near to me, after the game, that I couldn’t believe people around us were clapping the players off. He nodded in what I thought was agreement. A few seconds later, some players passed by, and he started clapping them off! It really is now LCFC Zombie Nation amongst some of our brainwashed fanbase. ‘A mass number of people in a fanbase become so fixated on total positivity, that they are willing to ignore (or can’t even see) any problem issues, apart from the corporate agenda fed to them. This creates a toxic environment on a large scale, whereby facts are not recognised and lies are ignored. The people are said to be in somewhat of a zombified state of mind, brainwashed to the single agenda item.’

Couldn’t agree more with this. He should have been taken out of the side a few games ago, before one of the worst individual defensive performances I’ve seen in years. He simply cannot start the next game. I don’t care if we don’t have a decent natural left back replacement. If it’s not Kristiansen then Marti needs to use someone else out of position like he did at Millwall.

Yes fair point. I was just replying to the specific point raised that it isn’t just about singing. So many of our fans are just not fully engaged with the game or team, which also doesn’t help atmosphere. The game is just a side show to some. More generally to your point, clubs in England, especially at the higher levels, are more anti-ultra culture right? The continued sanitisation and preference for the higher value, safe, middle class tourist customer. The obsession with knowing exactly who is inside the ground and ticket pricing generally here. Strict regulations inside grounds which mean you might get banned for just standing near a pyro. Plus club-led displays rather than embracing fan led ones, which add to the sanitisation. Just lots of other underlying issues here, which add to the difficulty, alongside people not singing.

Some very good points here. I think in life generally there is so much information overload people aren’t engrossed fully in anything. How many people can watch a TV programme for an hour without being distracted by their phone or other device repeatedly? It’s a good job you can rewind TV now. The Portsmouth game had a feel to an early round FA Cup fixture to me. A dead atmosphere and it was very noticeable there were a fair few new people around, which is great. But they spent lots of the game up and down, coming back with boxes of foot long hot dogs or whatever they were, taking selfies in the aisles in big groups and filming most of the game. Seemed to be a few organised tourist groups, engaged more in just being there as vloggers and the focus being them, not the game. Of course people can do what they want at a game, just as the perpetual late arrivers and early leavers can. But you’re right. The problem with atmosphere is a lot deeper than just singing.

Although I can’t see the selling order, I’m sure block H will be unopened, rather than sold out. Madness not to open all the blocks when there’s only 2000 tickets.

Forest might have a vacancy soon. Russell knows The Championship well.

Whenever you do the next episode, can you say a few words about Brussel please? Sounds like he’s had to have a police escort away from the Falkirk ground today, in a separate vehicle to his players, with a coat over his head like he’s on his way to court for a heinous crime. Unsavoury of course, but reportedly he nearly came to us, and I need your musings as therapy for what might have been.

Ausden coaches have now had to stop because the drivers are over time. 3.30pm ETA at the earliest. 😭

I’ve just had a quick look after the 8.00am rush which didn’t appear to be much of a rush. I’d say around half of the allocation is still available. It’s a fair trek of course, but a rare 3pm kick off and a really slow seller.

I watched mostly just him after the game, to see his reaction. Looked like he came over out of duty. Hid behind the other players, zero emotion and I didn’t see him clap at all until a half-arsed couple of claps as he turned away to leave the pitch. We look a better team when he’s playing, but he needs to get over himself.

We’ll certainly be nowhere near the top 6 if it does. I guess at least Hamza reacted and I don’t mind seeing some rare fight and emotion from the players, even if it was off the pitch. Most players looked like clapping zombies with lots of clapping zombie fans returning the meaningless applause. No idea how the connection gets restored though until there’s massive changes. Too much history and nothing ever changes.

Yes, something was going on. He didn’t step off the pitch, but clearly got triggered by something. He walked away from the rest of our players, towards a section of our fans, gesturing and saying something and I saw he was pulled away. There is zero connection between the players and fans and between the fans and club now, unsurprisingly. I’ve tried to stay positive longer than most, who are less delusional than me, but these first 3 games have been more toxic than I ever imagined they would be, again probably unsurprisingly.

His agent, Karima Ben Aissa, probably has his best interests at heart more than any other. She’s his mum.