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Everything posted by Manley Farrington-Brown
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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to davieG's topic in Leicester City Forum
I mean, as long as he wasn't in the fourth row from the front of the double decker when he was thrown over three rows of spectators, this all sounds like good clean fun. Boys will be boys and all that. -
The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to davieG's topic in Leicester City Forum
This is why right now we can be excited for next season. Right now we could start next season with a new manager, new coaching staff, an entirely new team and, who knows, new owners and a new director of football. -
The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to davieG's topic in Leicester City Forum
Wolves went from first to fourth division with three successive relegations in the eighties. But yes, it's very rare. -
Foxes Trust End of 25/26 Survey
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
In all honesty yelling at anyone isn't usually the way to get them to listen to you and do what you want. Shake him by the hand, thank him for what his family did for the club in the past and tell him it's now time for a change of ownership. -
Foxes Trust End of 25/26 Survey
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
Done the survey. (But was disappointed to get to Q26 and see that 'less' has been used instead of 'fewer.' You can't expect to be taken seriously if you can't use English correctly.) -
Ricky P deserves a decent send off too, he was pure class for us once upon a time and it's not fault he has no legs now. He should play and be subbed off so people can applaud him.
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The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to davieG's topic in Leicester City Forum
I can understand that, kind of, from their point of view. Pretty much everyone loved us winning the league, and literally everyone loved Ranieri. Then because they're not Leicester fans they're unaware of how badly we're doing the next season and the next thing they hear about us is that we've sacked that lovely twinkly Italian man who won us the league. So from an outsider's view it probably looked cruel and ungrateful. -
How do we resolve the fan divide issue
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to Jabbaranks's topic in Leicester City Forum
This. This is how we do it. Talk. -
The Board must be in cloud cuckoo land
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to Glovermagic555's topic in Leicester City Forum
That's a real shame. I watched exactly those highlights the other day too! But they brought back all the feelings of that glorious time and made me very happy. I'm just like Forest; I live in the past. -
Relegation, League 1, financial implications
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to splinterdream's topic in Leicester City Forum
So we might have been able to survive either losing the Premier League money or failing to sell a player for a huge amount each summer or King Power having major money problems in Thailand, but probably not two of those at once, and certainly not all three at the same time. Add in some poor signings and hit-and-miss managerial recruitment, and it's the perfect storm. People have been warning for years now that the way football's gone, some big clubs could literally disappear if they make a mistake or two. If we're the first, we won't be the last. -
The worst season in our history
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to when_you're_smiling's topic in Leicester City Forum
I'm all in favour of all that, and it's sorely needed (although good luck with the 'players that want to wear the blue shirt' thing. With the possible exception of local lads who grew up as fans, for all players it's just a job). I just don't think including the team being crap in the reasons for not going makes anyone's case stronger. Stick to the owners. It's fair enough for real fans to stay away to protest the owners; real fans don't stay away because the team's rubbish! -
This is certainly true for some, but not all. I genuinely don't think Daka or Ricky P deserve booing. Daka does his best, bless him, and Ricky P just has no legs anymore, which isn't his fault.
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The worst season in our history
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to when_you're_smiling's topic in Leicester City Forum
Yes to the regime, absolutely, 100%. Boycotting is probably the only thing, short of rioting, that might have an impact. But not going because the manager and/or team are crap? That's just fickle fairweather fan stuff, so leave that out. That's not why I don't want to give the club my money. The ownership is. -
Who cares? Nigel Pearson told a fan to eff off and die, and we all love him. I don't mind when players and managers give a bit back, at least it suggests they actually do give a sh*t. And no, Winks hasn't played well enough, often enough, for us since the Maresca season, of course he hasn't, but if anyone actually thinks Winks (or Luke Thomas, or Ayew, or any of them) is what's wrong at the club, they're an idiot.
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The Premier League Archive
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to jammie82uk's topic in Leicester City Forum
There wasn't just one single reason we won the league, but Kanté was the closest to it and it absolutely wouldn't have happened without him. -
Relegation, League 1, financial implications
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to splinterdream's topic in Leicester City Forum
Jesus. Why was this obvious idea not done ages ago. Sell it for housing Because apparently there are restrictions/covenants on the Belvoir Drive land which mean it can't be used for housing. -
Relegation, League 1, financial implications
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to splinterdream's topic in Leicester City Forum
Well, we started by finishing 11th in the Midland League in 1891-92, so if you're going by where we started, just being in the Football League is an improvement, and we have at least two more seasons of that (assuming we don't fold completely in that time, or get kicked out of the league for something...). -
Championship 2025/26 Season
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to Foxin_Mad's topic in Leicester City Forum
Add Mansfield Town and Cambridge Utd Cambridge are hardly the same level historically as Bromley or Salford. Once upon a time they were in the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League! -
West Brom - Potential PSR breach
Manley Farrington-Brown replied to The mullet of Phil Gee's topic in Leicester City Forum
Not to me, not in the least. Two pretty evenly matched teams can produce a match that's enormous fun to watch at whatever level. I've watched U11 matches that I've enjoyed way more than some Premier League ones. -
I'm as against anything that isn't blue or white being on our home kit as anyone is, and I loathe the gold, but that ship had sailed long before King Power arrived. There was yellow on the 1994(?) shirt, and there had been red bits back in the eighties, I think? Still no excuse for the gold, but this problem isn't exclusive to King Power.
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They probably won't win two of their four games left. They're down near the bottom for a reason, that reason being that they're basically crap. Unfortunately exactly the same applies to us, and we need to win two of our last four. (If we did we might well stay up, especially if one of the two was Portsmouth, but it's hard to see happening. Stranger things have happened, of course...).
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(a) it wasn't his dad's club, it's our club. (b) what he's done is continue his dad's scattergun, hit-and-miss approach to hiring. The luck of landing on Pearson and his staff, and the miracle of 2016, tends to make people forget what a chaotic succession of varyingly unsuccessful manager and player signings has been the norm under King Power. As has the family cult. 'Happy Birthday Mister Chairman' and chairman's face all over the programme started long before Top.
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You think any players anywhere really care about the clubs they work for? Apart from perhaps local lads who come through the youth system, hardly any of them do. The only one I can think of in recent years who actually genuinely takes an interest in the club he plays for, and keeps that interest after he leaves, is Maddison, and he just got pelters on here because he had a daft backpack and screwed up a penalty.
