Frank Large's Black Book

Are you any good at album covers and TV programmes? If so I could recommend you to the media team - they need some help edit - I think they're great btw

Hmmm. I can see it would appear as a de luxe open prison stuck in the middle of nowhere to a 20 year old Italian lad. A bit like this in Quantum of Solace, but with golf

Guess that's why it's called a loan.

That's taking vilification to a whole new (and completely unnecessary) level.

Quite so. I blame the introduction of sickness self certification

Cheltenham Town are delighted to announce that Kevin Russell and Ashley Vincent have joined Wade Elliott's backroom staff ahead of the 2023/24 season. https://www.ctfc.com/news/2023/july/kevin-russell-and-ashley-vincent-added-to-backroom-staff/

Do they do fax paper too?

On a personal note I find that distinctly unappealing.........

Stop Press - Salazar (and Messi) not moving to Leicester Sportwitness Midfielder ready to snub transfer to Leicester – ‘Seduced’ by prospect of playing in Champions League By Lucas Sposito -11th July 2023 Leicester City today get a couple of mentions from newspaper O Jogo, as the outlet features an update on the race for the signing of Schalke 04 midfielder Rodrigo Salazar. The reason why the Portuguese newspaper is covering this battle is that Braga are one of the main competitors for the transfer. It’s claimed that Braga, Leicester City, Anderlecht, São Paulo, Vasco da Gama and Santos are those chasing the 23-year-old. And it’s exactly Braga who are said to have Salazar’s preference, and there’s a fair reason for that. The Portuguese club will be in the Champions League next season, and are the only offering him that, making him ‘seduced’ by their project. 0:13 / 2:39 'Caicedo? I've been saying his name in... O Jogo points out that Anderlecht haven’t even qualified for European competitions, while Leicester City will be in the Championship. The Brazilian clubs, despite an offer from Santos, aren’t expected to have big chances either. So it now looks like only a long-term project could convince Salazar to move to the Foxes, as the next season will apparently not be very attractive to him. The midfielder is valued by Transfermarkt at €4m, but recent reports from Germany have been claiming he could move for around €10m. https://sportwitness.co.uk/midfielder-ready-snub-transfer-leicester-seduced-prospect-playing-champions-league/

Just had an email saying (without a trace of irony) that the new kit is available.

So was £12.5m

I'm a bit ambivalent about this. It's all very well being nice cuddly Leicester but it grates a bit when it only works one way - Fofana springs to mind as does Chilwell and if reports are to be believed Barnes as well as others. Looked after by the club above and beyond, but happy to take the pieces of silver The Greedy 6 are there partly because they are ruthless and do not act as a charity. I do like it that we are held up as the acceptable face of professional football but look where showering players with contracts got us - albeit with a tw@t manager. Like I said. Ambivalent.

CBA to labour the joke

That argument falls down if there are multiple clubs interested. They will want their line up sorted before a mad rush rather than losing out at the end and disrupting their plans. That said, we have no bleeding idea what's going on, which agents are are playing silly buggers and which clubs might be. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Ish

Plenty of room on the shirt front now. Allegedly

Ric's made the Beeb https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/clm518vkp03o 'Rodgers outstayed his welcome at Leicester' Published 7 minutes ago Brendan Rodgers led Leicester City to successive fifth-place finishes in England's top flight, the club's first-ever FA Cup triumph, and a European semi-final. But by the time his four-year tenure ended in the sack, the Foxes were in a tailspin that culminated in relegation last season. Where did it go wrong? And what lessons might be learned as he returns to Celtic? Ric Flair, of The Big Strong Leicester Boys podcast,, external says Rodgers "outstayed his welcome" after two-and-a-half "phenomenal years". "Rodgers arguably goes down as one of Leicester’s most successful ever managers," Flair told BBC Scotland Sportsound. "That period from when he came in, March 2019, right through until the end of the season when we won the FA Cup in 2021. That was two-and-a-half seasons and we were up there with the elite clubs of the Premier League. "We were in the top four for nearly the entirety of both seasons but sadly dropped out to fifth in the last week of the season. "We felt like we let the pressure get the better of us. In the real crunch moments, pressure may get to him down the stretch. "The good times were great but to go from that to getting relegated inside two seasons is as jaw-dropping as winning the league under Claudio Ranieri. "The drop-off has been quite mind-boggling and Rodgers does have to take some of the criticism for that. He probably outstayed his welcome at Leicester. "He didn’t have the players to freshen it up and 18 months ago, after we got dumped out against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, he said we needed a rebuild. He was right, but the board neither backed him nor sacked him that summer. "The damage was done and he did make a lot of mistakes, playing Danny Ward for 26 games and admitting he did it out of loyalty because he’d been a faithful number two to Kasper Schmeichel was pretty horrifying considering we only went down by a few points. "There’s plenty to be conflicted about in your thoughts about Rodgers, he’s a fantastic coach but I think he has a shelf life. "Three seasons was his limit at Leicester and then we should have shook hands and he would have gone down an absolute legend, whereas now it’s tainted."

Not sure about his preferred formation. Or indeed his maths....

In the unlikely event that sanctions are applied it should be Everton + 3 relegated.

I do hope not. Parker is just........drab.

Well that's cheered me up

Can someone cheer me up and tell me we claimed it on the insurance

He'll be safe here then 😱

Those first four words deserve a much wider audience.

Ward - have I missed something or can't he even make the bench now

I don't watch the prem now. Can you name 5 reasons why I ought to?