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I fear that this season could be the old Mighty Boosh mantra - "Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either."

200 in total. He's on 190 at the moment.

Would love him to reach the magic 200 goals for us. Arthur Rowley was the last player to do this scoring in a 3-1 defeat away to Bury on 10th March 1956.

We've now done the double over 12 teams. That's more than in 2013/14. Not sure if it's an all time record though.

The Southampton game last Tuesday was one of the best and most joyous games I've ever been to. I think the only comparable ones would be Liverpool and West Ham in the title winning season and Drinkwater's last minute thunderbolt against Watford back in 2014. What are some of your best home games over the years?

Ten years (and a week) ago today. Let’s hope for a repeat tonight! Bolton 0 – 1 Leicester (Dyer 62) April 22nd 2014 Schmeichel, De Laet, Konchesky, James, Wasilewski, Morgan, Mahrez (Dyer), Drinkwater, Nugent, King (Wood), Knockaert (Hammond.)

THE FIVE PREMIER LEAGUE PROMOTIONS It's thirty years now since Leicester won the play-off final of 1994 to finally return to the top flight after seven seasons away. Football has changed massively since then, but the Championship remains an exciting and unpredictable league, if sometimes a little low on quality. So how does this promotion rank alongside the other four? 1993/94 - After knocking on the door for the previous two seasons Leicester finally sealed promotion in the play-off final. Strangely this had probably been the shakiest of the three seasons with only 2 wins in our last 12 in the league, but we perked up for the play-offs and beat Tranmere and Derby in what was amazingly our first ever win at Wembley to seal promotion. Unfortunately the squad wasn't strong enough for the Premier League and we were soon back for another promotion tilt. 1995/96 - Leicester had such a good start and finish to the season that it's easy to forget how dismal the mid section was. Martin O'Neill replaced Mark McGhee as manager in December, but his new ways were not instantly successful and after a wretched run of just 4 wins in 22 there was the infamous fan protest against O'Neill after a 2-0 home defeat to Sheffield United on 30th March 1996. That seemed to bring us to life and a late season burst of form saw us squeak into the play-offs with a Muzzy Izzet goal on the last day. After which a win over Stoke set us up for Claridge's legendary late winner against Palace at Wembley. This began O'Neill's highly successful four season spell in the Premier League with Leicester always hovering around 8th and winning two League cups to boot. 2002/03 - This is very much the forgotten promotion, though its importance is undeniable. Leicester were in administration at the time and not going up could have had very serious consequences. Though they were often dominant in games and went up comfortably in second place, the season was not without controversy. In those more lax days, Leicester suffered no points deduction and were allowed to keep all their best players after relegation the previous year. This was rightly questioned in several quarters and tighter rules were soon brought in. The Foxes had most definitely dodged a bullet on this one and while we only had one subsequent season in the Premier League, the cash injection was a life saver. 2013/14 - It's only in hindsight that everyone realised quite how good this team was. Many of the major players in the miracle season of 2015/16 were already in place - Vardy, Mahrez, Schmeichel, Drinkwater and Morgan and with only one defeat in our last 27 matches promotion was sealed with six games to spare. The next three seasons were quite remarkable as the Foxes did the great escape, won the Premier League and reached the quarter finals of the Champions League all on a relatively low budget by modern standards. 2023/24 - After a miserable relegation the previous season and a huge turnover of players Leicester still had a strong squad, but despite good results in the first half of the season Maresca's slow, possession based tactics weren't universally loved amongst Foxes fans. Cracks started to show in the second half of the season and some poor results threatened to push us into the play-offs. Plus Leicester were charged with overspending and would have had a transfer embargo placed on them had they remained in the Championship. Thus promotion became even more vital and thankfully a couple of good games plus the poor form of our promotion rivals finally got us over the line with two games to spare. Leicester will still have to sell some players to balance the books and may well face a points deduction in the Premier League, but the alternative would have been much worse. It's been a curious season, but it certainly feels a lot better than this time last year when we surrendered our Premier League place rather too tamely for many people's liking.

There was one slight flaw in the plan. It was bollocks. (Blackadder Goes Forth)

Was there a minute's silence at the game last night? No, just the usual hour and a half. (Frank Skinner)

We definitely need to get Inspector Grim to do the team talks. It's how most of us are feeling at the moment!

Paige Spiranac - American golfer.

This was pretty much the team that won the Championship ten years ago - K Schmeichel, R de Laet, M Wasilewski, W Morgan (c), P Konchesky, D Drinkwater, M James, R Mahrez, A King, A Knockaert, J Vardy - Subs; D Hammond, L Dyer, C Wood, D Nugent. I know football has changed a lot since then, but I'd still back this team a lot more than the current one to finish in the top two from here.

9 years after the Great Escape began on the Easter weekend, Leicester continue the Great Decline. As many others have said, this would arguably be the worst and most damaging collapse in our history given our financial state and the FFP problems. I was quite looking forward to going to the King Power on Monday. Now I might as well just watch a few Carry On films. At least that's enjoyable farce!

On a slightly off topic note Jamie Vardy reached 300 career club goals last night. Stocksbridge Park Steels - 55 Halifax - 28 Fleetwood - 34 Leicester - 183

A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, high chief of the Vikings accidentally ordered 80 thousand battle helmets with the horns on the inside. Blackadder Goes Forth

Exactly. The BSLB podcast made an excellent point that there's a complete lack of ruthlessness at the club on and off the pitch. We never kill off games when we're ahead, concede too many late goals and can't fight back from behind. On top of this, we can't seem to sell or buy players without a 20 year saga and Seagrave just seems to either treat players like royalty or injure them. If the play off final ended up being us versus Southampton, I think both teams would be so utterly fed up it would be a weird spectacle.

2019/20 - 4 wins in our last 17 2020/21 - 5 wins in our last 13 2022/23 - 4 wins in our last 23 Will there soon be four blue bottles hanging on the wall?

Bottling it yet again. How many more seasons will tail off? I don't fancy our chances in the play offs, if it comes to that.

It's starting to get very worrying. Suddenly we can't hit a barn door or see a game out. My mind goes right back to 1994. Exactly 30 years ago the Foxes began a run of just 4 wins and seemingly endless draws from their last 16 games and just made it into the play-offs. They did of course finally win at Wembley, but it was a rather wobbly road! If we don't get promoted this season it'll be a ridiculous failure, but something just doesn't feel right at the moment. We need to find the spark again very quickly!

Leicester seem incapable of playing two good halves of football. One of them always looks tired and flat.

Yesterday I ordered Oasis soup. You got a roll with it.

I think it stems from an 8 game run with only one win from 1996 to 2003. We did play Arsenal twice and Liverpool once, so they were understandable. We beat Sheffield Wednesday in 1998, but lost to Leeds and twice to Ipswich and probably most galling of all conceded an injury time equaliser to Newcastle in 2003, when we were absolutely desperate for points in a relegation scrap!

Did Leicester ever really have a Boxing Day curse or is it just more annoyingly memorable dropping points over Christmas?