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Praet FFS. He's an absolute nightmare. I think he's a good player but, similarly, I have worked with good staff in the past and managed them out due to infuriating lack of resilience due to hangovers or a mild cold or simply tired..

Agree. Let's rotate if necessary against Ipswich. I'd still back Souttar, Hamza, Vards, McAteer, Coady etc to find us a result against an exhausted Ipswich.

Troy Deeney is looking like Bo Selecta

I thought he looked less eager to please tonight. He comes across as such a nice lad he has seemed til now to try too hard. Instead, tonight, he looked focussed and meaner I ain't convinced of PL level but he's absurdly above championship level.

It's undeniable. There isn't enough of a middle class or aspirational community here. Those that are stick to their suburb or village and won't venture further than fosse park for a big chain shopping experience. The vast majority of those who frequent the city want foreign cheap shit. Chinese cafes. Dessert parlours. Cheap shit chicken takeaways. Shisha gaffs. Or a Turkish haircut.

No Praet on the bench. Jesus lord what is up with that guy?

The rise and infamy of the minibus was a another sub culture. I ever dared go on one. It was all quite 'who you know' and you needed to be recommended almost. I remember making enquiries at my local boozer as a nervous teenager, got hold of the number of the resident top hooligan and got a green light to be booked in. Was kinda showing off on the Friday night that I was in and a mate of mine who never bothered with games reminded me I'd be expected to stand my ground and that the bus went looking for trouble. If not at the game then on the way back. I (fortunately) bottled it and pulled out and never asked again. they always seemed to pull into somewhere like Banbury or Stratford and basically offer out anyone who fancied it or find a minibus of other lads en route back from whatever game they'd been to.

Agree. I had a similar red warning in my piss for the Hull game.And Swansea game. Let's hope this turns out like the Welsh version of events.. The thing is though, we have better players than every single team we play. Faster, stronger, taller, cleverer. Doesn't mean we will win tonight, but it does settle me down by a few %

About 250 left at a rough guess One social media message by City and it'd sell out. But, the message may inadvertently appeal to men with normal levels of testosterone - so city will keep firmly schtumm!

Fenwick's still going strong in London's Mayfair, Brent Cross and Newcastle. We were amongst good company nestling amongst those cities.. But, alas, they couldn't crack it here. Even paying zero rent (as they owned the building) Tbf, by modern retail methods, the place was laughably - but loveably - out of date. Beds and chairs and settees somehow crammed onto the third floor. Must've been a nightmare getting them up there. Pots and pans and spoons hanging here there and everywhere as you walked in, no room to swing a cat. Men's clothes - good brands - all squashed into a corner. Always liked the two fellas who seemed to work there my entire life, Canadian dude and a longer haired local fella. Always told you what you were trying on looked great, even if it was three sizes too big. Loved the place.

Good points. We need more of this. And the City needs to sell itself more. As an example, how comes I know Nottingham has boots, Raleigh, Experian and capital one? Aside from Walkers Crisps, could anyone in Nottingham name IBM, Next as being flag wavers for our city?

Well, that's the game isn't it? The City is dying on its arse so far as I can see. As someone else said, unless it's a nail bar or some bubble tea gaff, there's literally zero businesses locating to the place. Centrica pissed off to fosse park. Most major insurance companies had regional offices here once upon a time. Alliance + Leicester HQ in the past. All lost without a fight. Mercury had 200 employees. Tax office had hundreds. I'm not naïve, the business world has changed and mergers and cutbacks. I think the start is to hire in a consultancy firm to try and create a brand image for the place. The council has no money but as an organisation sloshing hundreds of millions around, it could be found with a will. Immigration usually is a marker of people who are hungrier and have a bit more about them. I don't think the city makes nearly enough of that energy. Instead, it just kinda lists with letting those communities scramble around for a living.

But other cities are doing OK. Tell tale giveaway though it's the ones where there's government or institutional infrastructure there.... Manchester BBC, Newcastle BT and Tax offices, Glasgow all sorts, Cardiff Welsh government, Leeds has got Channel Four etc etc Leicester needs an 'anchor tenant' ....a big well known name that pumps 2000 jobs into the city at a brush stroke (like Nottingham have with Capital One and Experian) The obvious industry to try and attract is clothing businesses. We have NEXT and Boohoo as major names on the edges

I can only imagine the city (and county) council need to recruit a town planner to literally go to town with experimental ideas.. Make them pitch for the work with as wacky and innovative ideas as they can. Somebody would fancy the job.

Went into town for a quick Xmas shop today. I have to admit I'm starting to worry for the place. It's in a real mess.. Firstly there about 1/5 of the people I'd expect to see..the type of crowd you might expect on a random Sunday in March. The busiest shopping Sunday if the year? Goodness me.. Second, whether people want to hear this or not, the amount of people who come from a culture that clearly don't celebrate Christmas is startling. The City desperately needs to think of a way to reinvent itself and quickly. No offices. No industry. No unified public transport. The DMHall, Curve, Vicky Park, Abbey Park, Phoenix, Little Theatre, Museums and main university are all separated from city centre restaurants and shops. The place needs a total and complete rethink of how best to unify itself, both with the extraordinary amount of low income immigration and its disjointed highlights. I'm totally proud of Leicester but it desperately needs help.

Marvelous how a train wormed its way down there, south of the river. I went on a normal service train to Ipswich once, rather than a special..two carriages. Maybe 50 us got on at Leicester and another 20 or 30.at Melton and Oakham. It wasn't the most pleasant of rides.for our fellow passengers!

One for the oldies. What's the most elongated trip you've been on? In my day, they were generally only chartered for midlands games. Stoke via Nuneaton and Tamworth. West Brom (sandwell, I think). Wolves. The games you really needed one - Newcastle, Sunderland etc they never did one. Tho I remember one down to Finsbury Park station for an Arsenal game in the early 90s. Think it went via Peterborough and Stevenage.

Nothing to do with this thread or anything in particular, but how would you classify Blaby? Wigston? Groby? Anstey? Thurmaston? Syston? Oadby? - all part of urban Leicester ...City or County?

My maths is that if Leeds and Saints perform at 2.26 (a 104 point season) for the rest of the campaign, they'll end up with 96/97 If we drop off and perform like a typical third place team (an 84 point season) that's 1.82 we'd get 97.

The most hostile atmosphere I'd ever experienced at filbert street. Those under 40 now would barely believe we could produce such an atmosphere. Though we've always done toxicity quite well TBF. I remember a punter in the old family enclosure terrace dumped a load of 'judas' printed a4s all over his bench as he took his place. Perfectly timed. Not only that, I think we won that day! Still hate of course is very closely related to love. And that's what it was. I'm glad time mellowed is both, Brian and City fans.

But sacrificed a game to get that point. Christmas won us promotion in our last two campaigns. Last time we did QPR away Saturday before Xmas and followed up with batterings of Bolton and Derby and a New year win at Millwall. It was basically all over.. I think the league one all those years ago we won late at Carlisle and that started a 20 game unbeaten run or so. We have the opportunity this Christmas to demoralise the chasing pack and force them all to give us up.

We will bum them alive

This Yates. Gotta be the worst regular starting player in the PL, surely. Probs the championship too actually.

I met his ex Mrs once at an engagement party (or similar) in Quorn. They'd split up by then. She didnt appear well and liked a tipple, bless her.

Brilliant,.innit? What a location too. It's never happen,.but with an iconic dockside stadium and a name change to 'Liverpool Everton' (in the way it's officially Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers) ...their profile and brand would be catapulted right towards the top of the tree