The Fox Covert

Andy King?

I just have asked ChatGPT 'Why is the former footballer Dennis Wise so detested by supporters of Leicester City?' It came up with this grotesquely non-committal statement, which is not even truthful. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, there is no widespread or specific animosity towards Dennis Wise among supporters of Leicester City Football Club. However, it's worth noting that fan sentiments can evolve over time, and there may have been developments or incidents since then that have contributed to any potential change in fans' opinions. It's always a good idea to refer to up-to-date sources or engage with current Leicester City supporters for the most accurate and current information on this topic.

ChatGPT generates completely unreadable gash most of the time. Not because anything is grammatically incorrect, but because it is generated by a computer program, which is completely devoid of originality and personality. I tried it out by asking it how many children Boris Johnson has fathered, and then I asked it whether Boris Johnson is a liar. Both times it came up with 'answers' which were unbelievably anodyne and non-committal. I think I will go away and ask it to write something on why Dennis Wise is so detested by Leicester City supporters.

Another week has gone by and 10 weeks is now 8. Really good analysis of the situation and for me the only thing it misses is the longer this vacuum goes on the more likely the club is to lose key players for next season. If a new manager was announced this week and there was news of key changes at senior non-playing management level this would very likely help make up the minds of players the club would like to keep. The club needs several players who might otherwise move, to decide that they will throw in their lot with trying to seek promotion with the club they know, rather than jump ship and risk the uncertainty of moving to a new club.

So Foxes Trust need to be put in the bin along with all senior management and coaching / /physio / medical staff who are not doing their job. The statement from Foxes Trust was beyond pathetic, given the circumstances.

I wouldn't like Shakey to be offered the job. It didn't work when he replaced Ranieri, and he does seem to be a natural No. 2. He was respected by the players and it would be good to have him around at least until the new management team, whoever it is, is fully up to speed before the new season. I wasn't excited by Smith coming here but I really think that if Top had dismissed Bodgers with 15 matches left rather than 8, Smith, Shakespeare and Terry would have kept us up. The continuity with the success in the past might also clear the way to get rid of Sadler and Stowell, who many people seem to think are stealing a living.

Just a joke. At the moment Bodgers probably wouldn't even be considered as manager of Partick Thistle.

Top, Whelan and Rudkin should not be having holidays this summer. They have a great deal to do, and the second two have to prove they are worthy of their jobs. If City are top of the Championship in November then they will have earned a week off but the January window will be just round the corner and I don't believe for a minute that a promotion-ready squad will be completely together by the end of August.

And in the early nineties, Brian Little did not enthuse the fans with hope. He was the board's fourth choice for the club, and he built a promotion-winning team with pennies.

Good call. I would bring them back a fortnight early. So a week next Monday, all report back for pre-season training.

If Rodgers was judged purely on this awful season he would be down there with Peter Taylor.

Pitches were pitches forty years ago, rain or shine (but mostly rain). City v Southampton at Filbo.

I think Ranieri is a closet button-box accordion player. Nifty fingers required!

or lamp post?

I was there and I remember the Kop chanting for Leatherhead at the end of the match. Serious sportmanship from a non-league team who gave it a real go!

I always thought Puel would have been a better DoF than a team manager. He had a clear vision and strategy, knew how to pick a player and apparently was liked by the younger players coming out of the academy system. But not such a good team strategist and he did not inspire the players to give their all. Replace Rudkin with Puel? I don't know who would be the best to manage the team. I don't think Pearson should come back but we do need someone of that ilk who will stop at nothing to get the team to play as he wants.

I have the chilling thought that she knows exactly what she is doing, dog whistling to stoke up race hate. She isn't thick, but she is oblivious about the consequences of what she says, and sooner or later she will say something which will make it impossible for Sunak to keep her in the Tory Cabinet. She might encourage some knuckle-draggers to vote Tory instead of BNP, but she will also scare off the middle-of-the-road floating voter who is not particularly bothered about the skin colour of their neighbour. And these people are thankfully much more numerous.

I have this book and when I got it I lent it to my mum, who still lives in Leicestershire. Every time she had a visitor, if they were from a Leicester family with family members who had grown up in the streets pictured in the book, they wanted to look to see if the house was shown in the book. The pictures in this post are pretty typical of the conditions in which so many people lived. I sometimes wonder if conditions in working class districts outside the city were even worse, because the district councils before the 1974 reform of local government were much smaller and had far fewer resources than the city council.

My last pint - won't ever be in a certain pub in Essex, embroiled in controversy because of the golliwog display behind the bar. I am really heartened that the police took a complaint from a member of the public seriously and visited the pub, confiscating the golliwogs. The landlord has posted racist content on social media and is alleged to be a member of neo-Nazi Britain First, which he denies. I am more disgusted than ever with Cruella Braverman, who has said that the police have better things to do than to investigate racist hate crime. Is she that thick that she doesn't realise that racist imagery appeals to the basest reactions of some people and might actually encourage racist attacks on innocent people?

I always thought Vestergaard was Ian Ormondroyd reborn as a central defender. However that is probably unfair on Ormondroyd, who always made an effort whatever position he was put into.

I may be making a left-field comment here but I hope Terry and Evans get on and are on the same wavelength. Even though I can't see Evans playing again he is one of the remaining senior players who is a serious influence on the squad. If the two of them can stop the defence leaking stupid goals they will give themselves a chance of scraping the points they need. Pearson always spoke about the importance of having a British core to the team and the current squad has drifted away from this. The defence communicating properly with eachother and the goalkeeper is critical. Maybe Faes is a better English speaker than Soyuncu, who apparently spoke no English when he arrived?

I was busy all yesterday and only found out much later, in a pub, when a mate who supports West Ham messaged me on Whats App. He is pretty gloomy about Moyes and was on the point of betting on which of the two would get the push first.

How about the BBC shows where it really is and who pulls the strings behind the scenes. No Lineker, no Shearer and no Wright. Tomorrow' MotD will be presented by Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage.

A company called Opton Telecom based in Croydon, South London, is cold calling people to persuade them to switch their account. They have a host of bad reviews on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.optontelecom.co.uk Their filing history on Companies House, with a paltry annual turnover and just one director, based in India, does not suggest that they have the resources to deliver the service they claim to offer. They caught my mother by calling several times early in the morning until she eventually gave in, however we have now cancelled the transfer. I am fairly certain that you need an operating licence to provide telephone and internet services to domestic customers and although I have searched quite extensively I cannot find any evidence that they have any kind of licence. I think the next step would be to report them to the local council trading standards, Ofcom, or the police as appropriate. I have stalked the director, a Mr Avishek Dubey, on social media and he seems to be quite ready to dip his finger into commercial activities that he has no experience with. For example, when Covid hit and schools were closed he was touting an online automated school admission application program. Yet he has barely any more followers on his Linked In than I do, and although I have been a member of it for years, it has always been a social media platform that I have never bothered with very much. Their 'services' are quite definitely a scam so if you hear from them just put down the phone. Or get the information you want out of them and do what I am shortly going to do.

I was quite sympathetic to the idea of going back to Fosse. There are any number of Cities and I don't like that (Man) City seem to think they are the only one. However Fosse just seems to have too much potential for mickey-taking by rival fans. Fun fact: Obviously the Fosse Way goes through Leicester and I now live less than a mile from the Fosse Way as it passes through the West Country. Part of it has degenerated into a muddy track and the modern road is about half a mile to the west, but if I am driving up to the Midlands and I have seen that Brizzawl or the M5 is chocker it is often quicker to drive up the Fosse than the motorway route, which is actually thirty miles further than the direct route up the Fosse.