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Ricky at no. 8 and Hamza at RB. If KDH is unavailable (which will be bad bad news) then Praet all day long assuming he can actually walk. Worst case, I'd seriously rather play JJ as an emergency number 8 and bring Doyle over Coady in for his defensive spot

Benefit of doubt, don't think it's all gear. It's amazing how people are stripped of confidence. As kids would say now, zero rizz.

Despite a modest recent improvement from shocking to moderate, if Casadei is anywhere near this it'll be a defeat.

Premier League football being shown almost exclusively in the UK on sky

Exactly that. The notion that, say, Dion Dublin in his youth living on Filbert Street itself could nip over and stand on the Kop was absurd. Heskey was the same - had to follow Liverpool as a kid as it was easier to do that remotely than hsi parents subject him to the abuse thrown at black players. Conversely,.black players were much more readily accepted in local football circles in the 80s. A classic case of when people actually get to know one another, they see a person and not a colour

Haha, as with anything and anyone in life Broadway, Fairway Manor Road are the extraordinary.... gorgeous area. Tbh, I've never seen such extensive quality housing stock in any city outside of London - regardless of the owner ethnicity. My sights are more accustomed to the ordinary 1960s housing stock of semis. The classic little England. It's gone downhill. Poorly maintained. Just functioning and functional. Anyways, we digress. Just in case you had any doubt, I like Leicester people following Leicester. Rich. Poor. White. Hindu. Female (well less so them...jokes!). Gay. Muslim. Polish. Students. Tourists. I naturally have a distaste for anyone living here and not backing us. It's a colour blind dislike.

Think I'm gonna come out of my main stocks and shares ISA fund and take a 5% cash ISA for at least the next 12 months. 5% sounds appealing atm

I get ya, and don't be over sensitive. Couple of points. Asians, yup, is a lazy/easy to use catch all term. In the way 'City fans' or 'Man U fans' is a catch all term. Second, yeah, makes sense there isnt the generational ties. But not is there to Man U. You will know as well as I do that there's a leaning towards winning in life with British Asians , more than say a white British family has. Thirdly, housing stock. Some of the previously nice houses are ****ing dumps. Single glazed, gardens all over the shop, hideous extensions. It's degraded the area. Tis what it is. It's not a race thing, just observational. Like I might say that Leicester city centre has taken a turn for the worse with Vape shops.

Oadby was, as you'd expect for a large suburb 4 miles from the centre, a City stronghold. They had quite a few boys back in the 80s and 90s too. The place has changed beyond recognition, down to the mass Asian influx, obsessed initially with enrolling the Kids at Beauchamp school. I'm not shy to say it. It isn't anti Asian to say so. The housing stock has been absolutely butchered. Though, funnily enough, the town centre is thriving. And large portions of the Asian community prefer to follow Liverpool and Man Utd. I've always guessed it's a deep rooted cultural thing to be perceived as successful and obvs the winning odds (long term) are stacked in Liverpool's and Man Utds favour

Enlarged prostate? Or is his lizard tail growing back?

Fair enough. We were a championship team who'd contrived to get into league one (sounds very familiar to now, albeit a level higher) whereas they were bankrupt I suppose. The club looks broken though. Their dear lovers forest have moved on. We are in every sense on a other planet, team, fanbase, profile, finance. Their profile outside of Derry is literally non existent. Kids today wouldn't differentiate them from Blackpool or Plymouth or even a Port Vale. The world has moved on and hopefully left them behind. Edit; even autocorrect prioritises ,Derry' over Derby hahab

Definitely. Heart says we aren't quite as dominant as the table suggests. Head says, as others have pointed out, that we could bumble through against the 15 weaker teams without breaking sweat. And despite our indifferent form against the better sides, we outclassed Southampton, Leeds had 0-0 all over it, we outplayed Ipswich for 45 and looked untroubled by their second half improvement. We were cruising against Cov. We were way better than west Brom even though we Were lucky in the end. We beat Sunderland on playing at 20% Two more mini 4 game winning runs against a succession of garbage.... the rest we can stumble through

I don't think the ticket office will ever be happy until crowds are down back at COVID levels.

The Pools lady (or man). I guess Avon lady falls into same category. The Club book. The shellfish seller in a boozer People hailing cabs (outside of London) TV repairman

Great point. Off on a tangent, fro this thread, but the timing element was the opposite for Tigers. Their first John player cup final v Gloucester in about 77 had thousands from Gloucester and only hundreds of Tigers. Very much the underdog. Two or three consecutive finals later, Tigers had transformed themselves into the big team.

There is absolutely no way we were this bleak in league one. They look horrendous, irrespective of the final scoreline.

It is. I suppose it's a bit like us playing Shepshed or Nuneaton

Wow, just popped on the 5 mins before half time and that was a surprise. Grim..real grim. Looks a dying club to me, though they don't yet know it. I suspect Derby will go they way of other old traditional football names; Preston, Blackpool, Huddersfield. Might bum the occasional season in the top flight once every 30 or 40 years but apart from that, that's about it.

Happy to be corrected!

Just watched it. Basically same film as talented Mr Ripley,.right?

Norfolk has always had a few, but generally Leicester exiles who've moved or retired out there. Obvs the club want a closed shop of supporters for its own unfathomable reasons, but assuming we can get back up and stay up, this season should be a lesson to us all that the brand image / perception of the club is unrecognisable to what it was a decade ago. And with that, is the opportunity to grow the base beyond the county and the occasional traditional isolated enclaves (Kettering, Nuneaton, Stamford) and grow support into areas an hour or so away- Northants, South Lincs, Daventry, MK, Banbury type areas - all lack a local PL club

Oadby Sikhs are almost all Liverpool, 80/20 split between Liverpool and city there.

Villa are funny one as urban Brum and south Brum they aren't like particularly strong. But get out to Tamworth,. Kidderminster, Worcester, Redditch, Sutton Coldfield and yep, Ashby, it's a big ol' catchment area

Northampton rugby has a much more working class following than tigers.

One of the reasons I can't stand them (even tho i do try to like them)