The Fox Covert

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.

11 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

All this about being excited by an appointment. It means nothing. Nigel Pearson was the least exciting appointment ever in League One. 

 

 

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.

On 03/06/2023 at 13:40, weller54 said:

Get the to**ers running up the Jock Wallace slag heap!!! 

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

5 hours ago, An Sionnach said:

He poisoned the club and Smith's antidote was sadly too late. We won't be building him a statue.  Even Clode was better liked at the end.

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.

On 07/05/2022 at 10:56, Lako42 said:

Wtf happened to his thumb 

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

17 hours ago, Silva Fox said:

And Wardrobe to replace Vestergaard?

or lamp post?

4 hours ago, Winstonthedog said:

First game vs Leatherhead in the FA Cup... hooked from that day ... supporting them is not something you escape from ... its a life sentence... but there's one thing missing from the KP ... it has no soul no feeling of belonging no going from sitting on the wall in pen 4 ... moving on to the kop ... ending up in the main stand ... Happy days 

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.

On 14/04/2023 at 13:00, Bordersfox said:

Not thick, well maybe she is, but she's certainly fond of a dog whistle which is what this is all about from her point of view.  

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.

1 hour ago, davieG said:

 

 

 

Made In Leicester

Rob Hubble  ·   · 

Photographs from a Daily Mail Article.

The Slums of Leicester. Colourised by Made in Leicester. - probably colourised.

 

 

Terry Jones

They all appear in "The Slums of Leicester" by Ned Newitt mate....Tells the stories with the photos.A must have book to read with loads of piccies and info...And not expensive...Brand new 13 quid but used copies half price....Really good book that`ll take you ages to read...The one with the 2 kids on the bed reads..."In 1951 five people slept in this bedroom.Mr and Mrs Frank Smith and their 3 children.Two girls aged 14 and 9 and their brother aged 11.The kids slept in the bed on the right and their parents on the left one".

 

 

 

 

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? 

15 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Rodgers' European record stops him from being "elite".

 

Only Pep and Klopp are the "elite" managers in the league this season.

 

But back on your point, quite right defensively, even when Rodgers finished 2nd with Liverpool they conceded 50 goals. The goals of Suarez, who was also a genuis, and Sturridge allowed them to outscore the opponent a lot of times.

 

On topic though, I don't rate Vestergaard and will be surprised if he turns into anything for us. Never seen such a tall player unable to head a football.

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.

22 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

Sounds like bull shit to me

Bull shit may be, but true bull shit none the less! I am not really a farmer but I am all at home walking across a muddy field.

20 hours ago, davieG said:

Used to be across the road

 

Born and Raised in Leicester

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Wyvern Hotel: The London Road hotel was designed by architect Arthur Wakerley to complement the city's new railway station.
It was hailed as one of the most up-to-date commercial hotels in the country when it opened in the 1890s, but it shut down in 1933 and the building was eventually demolished in 1974 to make way for Elizabeth House, a high-rise block of flats

Interesting post. I don't remember the Wyvern Hotel but I can picture Elizabeth House in my head. A pretty dismal piece of seventies brutalist concrete architecture and putting coloured panels all over it does not make it look any better. There is a Wakerley Road in Evington which is presumably named after this man. This stimulated me to a little bit of lunchtime research.

Arthur Wakerley was a Leicestershire man, born in Melton and became Mayor of Leicester. He has his own Wikipedia page and there are fourteen buildings in Leicester that he designed which are now listed buildings. Not just large and impressive buildings but the 1920s council houses, pretty revolutionary for the time, in Highfields and Knighton Fields. YouTube video linked. I will give it a watch later. 

2 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

How have I managed to have missed that?

If you remember what the canal was like when I was at school, a watery rubbish dump full of car tyres, shopping trolleys, traffic cones, mattresses, Honda 50 mopeds and other stuff too horrible to mention you will know what I mean. The school fishing competition once yielded 3 tiny fish as the total catch, with the largest a stonking 5 grams! One day it will be tidied up as far as Frog Island. It's getting there.

1 minute ago, Voll Blau said:

Exactly. And you hardly walk out from Temple Meads straight into any of the nice bits you mention, is it?

I might sometimes walk out from Temple Meads if my town still had a railway. It once had two! The area round Temple Meads is dreary and much less pleasant than the walk from Leicester London Road Station down Granby Street to the city centre.

I used to tell the Nigerian scammers that I was a farmer from Somerset, and I can't keep my slurry on my land any more because of the protests from the middle-class incomers from London and the Ramblers Association, and all the other self-centred do-gooders. I told them if the scammer would let me keep it on his land I would let him have half!

13 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Agree there's still plenty to be done and, you're right, there's a lot of potential with a bit of imagination like the idea you mention there.

 

I always walk as far as Belvoir Street from the station every matchday and it's nowhere near the junkie-addled shithole people on here are so often quick to portray it as. As usual with Leicester, we're just too harsh on ourselves and don't think about how we compare to similar-sized cities elsewhere. Hopefully this plan with the station leads to further investment over the road and beyond.

Completely agree with this. I live twenty odd miles south of Bristol which is my nearest city. Bristol has its good bits, a waterfront (which Leicester also has) and College Green, but the streets nearest to the main shopping streets are a traffic nightmare and the traffic congestion generally is officially recognised as the worst of any city outside London. Bristol's public transport network is also desperately haphazard and although the city now has a ULEZ in the centre I bet it has not made a jot of difference to the level of air pollution in the city centre.

I have had several of these in the last week or so. And a follow from an 'Elon Musk'. Righto! There's always someone who was born yesterday.