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Currently working my way through everything Benjamin Myers has written. He is one of the great British authors of our time imo. His descriptions of landscape are beautful. The Perfect Golden Circle is a good entry to his work if you're not familiar. It's a pretty simple story of two blokes in the late 80s making crop circles in Wiltshire. But weaves in some lovely narratives about male friendship and the unique majesty of the English summer.

A few dilemmas for this one. Jannik has to play so one of Coady or Faes will drop out. Enzo has hinted before that Coady and Jannik can't play together because they're too slow. But Coady has played pretty well in his two recent games against Sunderland and Bournemouth, and Faes is out of form. I would play Coady and get Justin back in the team for his pace to cover the lack of it in the centre half positions, but I think he'll pick Jannik and Faes. Yunus as a number 8 doesn't work. Not only has he been poor but KDH has been dreadful alongside him. Ndidi isn't fully fit and looked way off it last night. The obvious solution would be to switch systems, play a 4-2-3-1 and get KDH in the 10 with Winks and Hamza sitting behind. Seems pretty unlikely Enzo will do that though, so we need another solution in the right sided 8. Honestly no idea who that could be with the players available. After Saturday, we have the best part of 3 weeks without a league game. We're carrying some injuries and a lot of very knackered players. Hopefully the likes of Winks, KDH, Mavididi, Fatawu etc who have played a hell of a lot of games can drag themselves over the line for this game and then we can take stock before the end of season push. By the time we play Bristol City on 29 March we could have Ricardo back and Ndidi should be fully fit. A draw at Hull would not be a disaster.

Lots of people saying Enzo isn't going to shift from the 2 number 8s in midfield. He's certainly been reluctant to so far. But with the personnel available I can't see how you retain the same system without hugely compromising KDH's ability to get into positions where he can influence the game. I would much rather see a standard 4-2-3-1 with KDH in the 10 until Ricardo and/or Ndidi are back.

Looks the business to me. Clean hands, confident on crosses, seems to communicate with his defence well. Not as good as Mads with the ball at his feet but he's in the right setup to learn on that front. Very impressed.

I enjoy BSLB more after we've lost. I'm not sure what that says about the psychology of Leicester fans.

Sheffield United are an absolutely atrocious team, one of the worst ever in the Premier League. And yet they've already beaten Derby's points record and it's only February. That's how bad Derby were in 07/08.

I lived in Leeds for several years and by the time I'd moved away was quite fond of Leeds United. It's a proper one club city, like Newcastle. As a result the fans can be quite intense in their support for the club and sometimes that tips over into parochialism and defensiveness. But I find Leeds fans to be generally quite self-deprecating and as you say the atmosphere at Elland Road is generally very good. That said I always enjoy beating them more than most. Shortly after moving to Leeds I watched the 'Steve Howard' game at the famous Brudenell Social Club. After holding it in all game I went mad when Stevie stuck that header in late on. Had to make a swift exit at the end of the game. It's a pretty friendly place but the locals weren't best pleased with some kid in skinny jeans celebrating their defeat.

He goes on for ages though. Looks like a proper stream of consciousness.

Midfield is a quandry for this one - Ampadu and Kamara bossed it in the home game. We cope ok without Ndidi for the games against the lesser sides but these are the ones where we miss him. I'd be tempted to play Choudhury rather than Praet to add a bit of muscle. He's not as good on the ball but his recovery pace is useful when we get hit on the break. He can also free up Ricardo to play a bit further up the pitch. Aside from that I'd not change too much and keep the faith with Daka up top.

Always wanted to meet Ormondroyd so I could ask him what he was saying to the crowd here. Does anyone know?

We also drew at home to Yeovil (who finished bottom and are now playing in the National League South) thanks only to a last minute Kasper Schmeichel goal (it definitely crossed the line). I recall plenty of our fans thinking we were going to bottle it after that game as well.

We were absolutely amazing in 2013-14 but can't remember us having as many games where we just cruise through in second or third gear as we've had this year. 2002-03 was much more of a slog. Once the dust settles on this season I hope people will realise how remarkable it's been.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but does anyone know if this is on Sky red button?

For those who think 'most managers' would have us in this position: Let's say we'd stuck with Dean Smith. No slight on the bloke, he seems a nice guy who did his best under difficult circumstances at the end of last season. He's shown himself to be a decent manager at Championship level. Does anyone really think we'd have won 26 out of 34 games under him? Or Scott Parker? Or Gerrard? Or Big Nige (peace be upon him)?

His shot power and ability to get one away with very little space are very good signs. Will score for fun against lesser opposition over the rest of this season.

Pretty good defensively last night but when he lofted a cross over everyone's head and out for a throw in rather than knocking it wide for Albrighton I almost threw my tv out the window.