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7 minutes ago, teblin said:

I don't read that aimed at the fans at all. "Demands the highest standards from each other and give everything every day" Thats aimed at players/staff.

 

There is so much negativity its easy to see it when its not there. I might be being naive, but I think if you read the 1st sentence its more taking resposibility.

 

Its not easy to ay too much when you are still employed by the club too.

I think he took responsibility but there's still undertones of we need to all be more supportive. When in reality we were too supportive of this regime for too long and some still are. 

11 hours ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Does the win yesterday mean we’re back in the prem? Saw we won on penalties so assume so 

Top definitely asked Rudkin this at some point didn't he 

I'd never say anything bad about Andy King. Adore the man. But reading between the lines on that last paragraph of the statement he's just put out, it's pretty obvious that theres this idea the fans have in part contributed to the downfall. 

Which is of course absolute bullshit. Not saying King is directly saying it, but Rebekah Vardy's little rant at us shows Jamie was saying similar. Fatawu mentioned fans leaving at Preston along with Hamza. 

I feel like we were gaslit for far too long and the achievements of years ago meant many of us who started to see the cracks earlier stayed silent. Then when it become too obvious and fans rightly aired their anger, the toxic culture amongst the players just shrugged it off as us being entitled. 

On 29/05/2026 at 14:08, AKCJ said:

Not sure I fully agree. We absolutely were well run as a club, even if he himself didn't always make sound football decisions.

 

Vichai did get lucky to an extent but he definitely made things happen to ensure he got lucky. You can't argue that he had a vision and sculpted an identity that saw the club reach heights it hadn't for 20 years. Clubs don't go up and stay up based solely on luck.

 

He also made difficult decisions when he needed to and his ruthlessness has been sorely missed. There's no way he doesn't sack Rogers early. No way does Rudkin get away with failure for this long. No way does the club continually let expensive players walk away for free etc etc.

 

He built a proper culture at the club where respect was a non-negotiable. King Power and Leicester are both much worse off without someone like him leading them.

 

He left the football to other people but made sure that things ran well. If there were snags in the chain then he would notice and act upon it. We don't have this level of authority and responsibility amongst the higher ups at the club now.

We weren't run well when he took over. The level of spending was so close to ruining us on all the same levels of Sheffield Wednesday. Literally identical. 

They went back and got Pearson on the advice of people in the club and him and his staff sorted the absolute mess. 

Then we got a non sacking of Pearson. Something I'm still yet to see replicated anywhere again. Like who the **** sacks a manager and reinstates him. The fact we went on and did what we did wasn't down to anything amazing at ownership level. 

Surprised to hear Owynn on the official club commentary after the way he summarised the decline. They're not totally like North Korea then 😂

8 minutes ago, Lestagirl said:

Same old vitriol here, was hoping for something better. I went to the match and it was good to see Claudio and the players. They put everything into it in that sweltering heat for the love of the fans. They cared. 
 Lots of laughs and positivity.. so glad the fans there supported the team from 15/16.

Back in the day we fund raised for the Vichai banner and took a lot of time and effort to get the banner up.  We went up to check on it today. He’d be proud of the lads who made an appearance today.

I'm sure he'd be more bothered about the club being in the third division than this joke of an event

If you know anyone who went today I hope you're doing Claire's law on them 

Is Top at this? When he couldn't come to actual ****ing league matches all season..

Any opportunity to flaunt when he thinks was an achievement by him and his Dad. 

11 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

Walking football I know  but give me Fuchs and Albrighton on that left 

 

Movements are there for Ulloa but just a bit slow and enjoying seeing Nugent in the hole. 

Blimey sounds a bit more entertaining than I imagined 

28 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

If charity was ever the real point. 

 

In reality, it's more likely a combination of things - all far from any noble charitable urge

 

 A cack handed reaction to some criticism that the club hadn't marked the occasion.

 

A vanity exercise for the owner, dreamt up by the of feeble, subservient staff

 

And a complete head-in-sand collective and systematic corporate wide delusion to avoid acknowledging  a gigantic scale failure. 

 

 

Ex players not being able to let go seems a big part of these kind of events too. Watching how serious some of them get for Soccer Aid is quite humourous. 

Watching that on DVDs as a kid I was convinced the commentary was added in after because it sounds so strange.

Think watching it back now he just didn't expect it to go in.

6 minutes ago, Soar Fox said:

Would love to know what went on regarding the 149 consecutive games. Was it a Brendan Rodgers decision or had it come above him and he was told to bench him. 

Whenever Schmeichel has spoken about Rodgers since he's always spoke highly of him. Then he joined him at Celtic. So a lot of the stuff about him being annoyed at him was clearly not true. 

It was bizarre though. Very typical of Brendan too. Always liked making decisions that never really made sense but gave him all the attention. 

9 minutes ago, Corky said:

There is a video on YouTube about this (not brilliant sound quality) and one fan wants a formal apology and our old friend Cliff makes an appearance.

I want an apology for ever having to see Cliff

A team I've always never minded because of our mutual hatred for the other lot. 

Sure all that's about to change. 

34 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

When the club is in the financial mess it is in, and the fact we're going to be making a loss on a vanity event says it all. 

Really hope he has had some advice for once if he is even thought about letting hundreds of Thai influencers attend this. 

His turnaround here was like the Vardy of goalkeeping. Had so many ridiculous comments about him because of his Dad. All the same competition winner comments. "If I was called Banks or Shilton maybe id get a game".

Our best ever goalkeeper for what he achieved here. Simple as that. 

13 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

What’s really sad is that so many want this to be a humiliation and embarrassment just to satisfy their hate for Top and Rudkin, and are happy for Leicester City and some of the title winning players, to be included in that scenario. Why do you keep carping on at and abusing those who want to acknowledge this event whilst venting your venom on anything to do with City. In this instance, you should be ashamed and embarrassed. Many have already stated that they no longer care for the club so why don’t those ex fans p…. Off and follow someone else.

 

King Power have only agreed to this as a reminder of what they think they did for us. Anything before King Power, like Gordon Banks' death for instance, is barely recognised. It's always been about them. 

It's because we do care that we want this to fail miserably. Maybe those ex players who have done nothing but praise KP because of the shower of gifts they once got will start to air their real opinions when they see their Q+As and events like this are not what we want. 

Just now, reacher said:

To my point earlier……

The club are in a catch 22!

 

Don’t celebrate the amazing achievement (“can’t believe they haven’t celebrated it). Do celebrate it (“we just got relegated””)

 

And before you think I’m mr Rudkin - I hate what’s happening and we could be in big trouble if we don’t go up first time. I just think wasting our energy and anger on this game is a bit silly 😜 

I've heard this argument and I don't understand it. 

You could have done a few things to celebrate it whilst being respectful to the predicament we are in. Q+As, a few social media posts, maybe an interview with Ranieri. 

I don't remember anyone for the last year saying let's hope we get to see Wes Morgan barely fit into his old XL or Ulloa out of breath after 15 minutes. What a fitting celebration that would be.

It's a bit like your Mum dying but everyone deciding to still go ahead with your birthday bash in Ibiza a week later. 

2 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

For comparison, Steve Walsh’s testimonial was against a Brian Little all star team featuring Gazza, David Seamen, John Barnes and Chris Evans.

 

30 years later and we can’t even get Stephen Mulhern for our title win anniversary.

 

Because everyone asked him to make Ruskin disappear 

24 minutes ago, reacher said:

Out of interest what team were you all expecting the old guard to play? While I get the frustration around the club at the moment (and rightly so), I don’t get why everyone kicking off over a charity match. You’re not going to get pirlo, zidane and Rooney playing! 

The anger comes at them even attempting to celebrate in this way after the most disgraceful season in our history.

At this point we are just mocking everything about it, including the morons who want to attend. This pathetic line up just tops it off. 

They've been that ashamed of the line up that they've announced no one from it for weeks. 

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

What do we reckon those has-beens are being paid?! 

Probably taking our club to the cleaners just for a little kick about. 

I'm half expecting to see Wes Brown and Gareth Mcauley on our retained list after Saturday. 

Just think Marc Albrighton, Andy King and Jamie Vardy never got testimonials but an All Star team being made up of Erik Pieters, Wes Brown and ****ing Troy Deeney were given the green light to "celebrate" in the summer we got relegated to League One.