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Regarding my earlier point about our city planners lacking imagination, we always seem to chase trends 5 or 10 years after they've already been done to death and ceased to be a unique selling point for a city. We just look at what other places are doing and copy it. The latest would be the boxpark plan off Green Dragon square. Looks lovely and will undoubtedly improve the area and connection from the market to St Martins, but other cities have had theirs for years. Hell, I had fish and chips in Bristol from one at Wapping Wharf this weekend, which opened in 2016. It's the sort of thing that makes you go 'ooh that's nice' once, but isn't a unique thing that makes you want to visit and revisit a city. When we put on events they're often carbon copies of better shows elsewhere - that Lights festival a couple of years back was fun, but it's something Nottingham do on a grander scale with the visitor numbers reflecting that. Another one that made me laugh was the council making a huge song and dance about those inflatable monsters being put up around the centre. Was fun and I thought for a short moment that we'd finally done something unique... Until I visited Manchester a few weeks later and saw the same identical monsters everywhere there too. It was just a company who do it in multiple cities at a time. 😅 Beyond that, it's the same old, same old. Slap a wheel up at Christmas, maybe put on a show in Viccy Park once every summer. Wonder why nobody goes to town anymore. Curve was a brilliant development but the way Soulsby goes on about it, you'd think it opened last week, not 15 years ago. The centre has a lot of potential and there are green shoots of recovery. For all the NIMBY grumbles I'm actually really excited for the market redevelopment, the old one was an eyesore and falling to pieces. But my God, there is more to making Leicester an attractive destination than blocking cars and copying other cities' homework.

In the short time I've seen him he's looked very assured in front of goal, and more importantly he often takes the shot early which catches the opposition out - he's had a few where he takes it first time on the turn and it's resulted in goals, blocks or the ball falling to others to net. I don't think a lack of pace is an issue in the varied system we play, if I have one criticism it'd be that his positioning seems hit and miss at the moment. But when he gets on the ball I've liked what I've seen.

Oh never mind, another shit day

Hold up just wanna manifest something here quickly Anass Zaroury is crap and doesn't know where the net is

Referring more to pivotal late goals - Dyer against Villa, Ulloa against Norwich, Vardy's late show at Southampton to name a few. And the comparisons to people expecting us to choke, which we never did. Whenever people expected the wheels to come off, we got ourselves through games somehow.

We've been waiting for that all season, it isn't happening, even when they do lose a game they go right back to making their own luck the week after. We won the Prem in similar circumstances.

I've found myself yelling Tony's titular catchphrase at the end of games most weeks recently

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Don't think Cov should even show up at Wembley, they already had their cup-final beating us at their place. Now officially in our rear-view thanks to two crap own-goals against the mighty Cardiff. Love to see it.

So confession time... thought it was a 3pm kickoff and completely missed the first half (they were coming out the tunnel when I got in the car). Not my finest hour. What's the big fuss? Routine 2-0 win, that.

From the position we were in, not to win the title would be as bad a bottlejob as either of the 5th place finishes under Brendan. Second would be achieving the goal, but the very definition of a pyrrhic victory.

I think a big aspect of why the centre feels so shit is the main approaches from the transport hubs. Whichever way you arrive, first impressions of the city are pretty terrible. Granby Street / Gallowtree Gate has some decent places to eat, but it's a dump otherwise. The planned station redevelopment isn't going to change how sketchy, crowded and dirty that main approach to the centre is, or the lack of genuinely interesting places to visit. Belgrave Gate / Haymarket is a dated, grotty redbrick dump and the new bus station is a crowded claustrophobic mess. Now it also has a burnt-down building to really complete the derelict aesthetic. And Churchgate is arguably the worst of the lot, because it's only just been 'regenerated' yet it's still a sketchy, lifeless dump with more and more units lying empty. St Margarets is a better place to arrive after its own rebuild but still placed in a really crap area, between the ringroad, crumbling buildings and a brownfield site or two. What's most frustrating about it is that these areas HAVE had money thrown at them, but the end result has been completely devoid of imagination and hasn't improved anything besides removing cars from the equation. All three are incredibly ugly approaches to Clock Tower and lack anything to make them desirable areas to spend time in themselves. That's reflected in the lack of interesting businesses moving in - Granby is the only one with even a hint of interest and even then it's just a few nice places to eat surrounded by a bunch of mid-size chain restaurants and soulless fast food places you can get in any city or even smaller towns. All three are also teeming with roadmen on deliveroo bikes hanging around in groups outside restaurants or weaving in and out of pedestrians at full speed, another thing not unique to Leicester but noticeably worse here than in many other places I've visited.

Oh yeah, I'd mentally washed the Cov away day from my mind in all fairness. It's hard to judge when the ground is so far on the outskirts, but being next to a scrapyard and having a Jobcentre built into the ground isn't a good look. My grandparents, now sadly departed, both survived the Coventry Blitz when they were kids and used to tell me they may as well have left it as rubble afterwards. 😅 I'd actually like to know what @Super_horns has to say about it, because I've enjoyed both my trips away to Watford but it's not exactly got a rep as a glamorous destination. What does a Watford fan looking in think about our city centre?

Fair, but we really don't have an excuse for how appalling our city centre is based on our population and supposed economic output. It honestly feels like we're 20, even 30 years behind other places in so many ways. Retail, nightlife, how safe it feels. Things to do. We're a city of almost 400,000, a county of over a million. There's absolutely no reason we can't be so much better. In recent years I've been away to Forest, Leeds, Bristol, Rotherham, Huddersfield, Watford, Bournemouth, Walsall. Various London clubs too, though that's not really a fair comparison so I'll exclude them from this. I'd honestly say that the only place I came out of thinking 'what a sh*thole, I'm glad I live in Leicester' was Walsall, which was bloody awful. In terms of the actual vibes of the place, even Rotherham, Bournemouth and Huddersfield were no worse than our own centre after some recent regeneration, especially Rotherham which really surprised me and is a pretty damning indictment of how far behind we've fallen. Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham, even Watford had more enjoyable centres to be in. I can get the argument for the first three as 'regional centres' but when I'm left feeling like I'd rather spend time in what is a glorified London commuter town, there's something seriously wrong with our offering.

Just back from Bristol and had to return to this thread because once again I return home from an away day thinking what a dive our city centre is in comparison. Nice waterside, friendly people, LOADS of pubs with a great variety, clean streets, cool art and some actual preserved industrial heritage - not many places you can ride a steam train to see a Brunel ship slap bang in a city centre. Even the curry was the best I've had in ages - gave Urban Tandoor a go after seeing it on social media and honestly it lived up to the hype. I was at Paddy Martens this time last week and honestly the one i had in Bristol was better. It's over, we've got nothing left.

Get Deano back til the end of the season (I'm joking it's a joke don't worry just a jokey joke)

VAR is so shite

Would honestly rather take a punt on a free agent or academy product than watch Soumare sleepwalk through games for us again. And yes, I know we've seen Vesty's redemption arc, but people skip the context of the fact he only played 10 times for us over 2 seasons before this year. Soumare was at the heart of our relegated midfield and produced one good performance (Wolves at home) and 25 shite ones. By the same token we might as well stick Danny Ward back in goal. 🫣

Well silver lining, a Leeds player blew it for them, and the squad is also packed with Forest and Ipswich players. Three lots of wheels coming off, please!

This is the good ending if it means we actually get some transfer interest for him.

Just came here to say that, good lord.

More of a 'did they forget us' - how on earth are we not on this list but Man Utd's treble is? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/68507536

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