Golden Fox

Thought this was going to be another silly brain game, but couldn't resist once I'd clicked on!

Feel this is the most likely explanation. McCarron has come in, worked with our setup for a few months and seen its not working and not what he (or Enzo) would have expected coming from Man City, so has told thd board this is a position we are missing. Probably be equivalent to the wages of a reserve goalkeeper and might add far more value.

If you hate that, just go all in with "Bang Bang Niner Gang" (5-0, but I'm getting Deja Vu of last season, where they battled through injuries, had a good road win in Seattle early (with Seattle 3-2), and then it all fell apart at the business end of the year, so not remotely getting carried away)

What we need you lot to do is come down here and show us how to protest. We need Martin sneaking out the back door as he's too scared to face the fans. FFS, if Rangers had lost at home to Burton, Oxford and Peterborough in the space of 4 home games, their fans wouldn't be moaning on a forum, they'd be outside his house with pitchforks...

What about Bradford Park Avenue? Pre-WW1, they were a top flight club and had bigger attendance than us... Until they folded completely. (the recent blip is a phoenix club that gets less than 500 people)

A good afternoon at the football in League One... Got tickets from work for Cambridge v Blackpool, so took my lad this afternoon. A thumping game. Nobody had a second in possession without getting clattered. A red card after 6 minutes. Plenty of direct football with ball after ball belted into the box and goalmouth scrambles. A winner in the last 10 minutes, with one side in raptures and the other flat out on their backs destroyed. And no sideways passes until you are in the opposition half. I didn't watch our performance today (obviously), but football at this level is different. It's raw and you need to fight, and from the updates and peek at the match thread, it so apparent our club, our manager and our players haven't woken up to where we are, and we need this idiot out and a manager in who does get it ASAP.

I can see it in a year's time after Martin is poached by Chelsea: McCarthy will he the one in the nightclub holding up the "Russ I Miss You" sign. (Either that, or Martin will be out of work and McCathy will be taking home a nice fat wage from Leicester while not playing at all...)

Something familiar about that design. Just can't place it...

I'm quite tempted by that... they are wearing it on Saturday and work have given me free tickets fir the game. Will be good to forget about Leicester for day and watch a higher standard of football.

Just read an interesting article about Antonio Conte in the Athletic. The guy has succeeded pretty much everywhere he has coached, but it didn't work out for him at Spurs: I think he has just nailed our last 4 or 5 years there.

I'd imagine its that, but also due to price, as NFL keeps increasing the tickets, and due to people having their own teams to support and just aren't interested in teams like the Colts and Commanders. I went to a couple of the early games as a neutral, then the 2 49ers games, but probably won't go back until the Niners are back. Although if we get our own team, I think you'd see season tickets snapped up, and very few spare seats.

Yes - and although I appreciate he wasn't talking about that season's expenditure exactly, he is using that article to link that dodgy deal to our "miracle" so it amounts to the same thing. And the more I reflect on it, the more the whole "back in our box" thing infuriates me. Football is about the pyramid system and any club being able to dream. I grew up in an era when the likes of Everton and Leeds could win the league. And someone like Chelsea could come along and gatecrash it, and force other clubs to raise their level to respond. It is the fact these boxes have been created in the first place that is the fundamental problem, and his righteous attitude misses that completely.

What a load of horses**t. He talks about morals. To my mind, the absolute number 1 rule of any sporting contest is that it should be a level playing field, and once one set of teams start enforcing different rules for different teams, that is where the moral standing breaks down completely. Giving teams in the same league different operating budgets is a complete anathema to what a sporting competition should be. Our squad value that year was estimated at €161m https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/startseite/wettbewerb/GB1/saison_id/2015 compared to Chelsea at €554m, Man City at €499m and another 4 teams over €370m. We won that title facing an uneven playing field. To make an argument that €161m was an overspend and was unfair on the other clubs and so that takes away the feelgood factor is nonsense. It is a little different with Man City as whereas our spending was still nowhere near those clubs, Man City overtook them all. Which is quite amusing as it was these old money clubs that put in the rules to give themselves a baked in advantage, and now they are upset because their rules weren't followed and they didn't get that advantage. I would love for some mechanism to come into place to help level up that playing field (e.g. more even ditrubution of European money - won by clubs that the English FA put forward to represent the league): its not going to happen, but articles that comlpetely ignore there being an uneven playing field and start spouting moral opinions just piss me off.

Harry Kane with over 200 goals sorts of helps towards a big score... And 5 ex-Leicester in there...

Love those helmets. Perfect alt look amid a sea of ever more uninspired and unneeded unis. But the grey is awful. Blue tops and red pants would make that look like a funky Bills uni... Grey is just another team in a colour they should not be wearing.