The Fosse Way

The key question here, as always and forever, is whether former Blackburn and Man United chief scout Mick Brown remains very well-connected within the game.

https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-non-league-reconnection

Shape the future? Seven changes please Stolarcyzk, Coulibaly, Coady, Okoli, Thomas, Braybrooke, Skipp, El Khannouss, Evans, McAteer, Vardy (or some slight variation) https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-shape-future-southampton

Last night was evidence you won’t get an angry reaction if most of the angry people have stayed at home.

“These fixtures have a surreal air to them. It’s like tasking ChatGPT to put together a Premier League football team. In a literal sense it has achieved that goal. This is a Premier League team playing Premier League games. On Wikipedia in 20 years time, it will describe Leicester City as having participated in the Premier League in the 2024/25 season. Every match is designed to pass a cursory test. Pop this one into your AI checker and it’ll soar through with flying colours. Manchester City 2 Leicester City 0, a perfectly normal scoreline. Chris Sutton isn’t going to shout about it on TalkSport, no one is going to call anyone a disgrace. It’s just going to drift quietly away, never to be spoken about again, just like Leicester City 0 Manchester United 3, or Chelsea 1 Leicester City 0, or Leicester City 0 Arsenal 2. In fact, to complain about them would actually be a sign of unreasonable expectations at this stage, a sign of your own failings, not ours. Why would you be angry at this set of entirely reasonable results. We stole a record of every result in Premier League history and rubbish teams always lose to good teams, what did you expect? Possibly this is Van Nistelrooy’s masterplan, a genius tactic to perform such feats of dull mediocrity that the most basic acts of competence look like historic success. To flood the market with mindlessly boring results so no one notices that he’s pouring out defeats on an overwhelming scale.” https://www.thefosseway.net/matchday/leicester-city-match-report-manchester-city-away-25

We’ve set up a WhatsApp channel purely to post article links (so usually max 3-4 messages per week) to try to solve this. No chat, replies, waffle. Just the links straight to your phone. Follow the The Fosse Way channel on WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbAQS8HCBtxBn82ln12s

You can understand why 99% of non-Leicester think we should be eternally grateful for 2016/2021 and not kick up a fuss about the long decline since. It heightens the fairytale even more if we slip into total EFL anonymity for the next two decades. But for so many of our own fans to care what anyone else thinks is ridiculous.

Cheers. Since Musk took over, the traffic from there dropped like a stone anyway to be honest. Most people either go to the site direct, go via NewsNow or if a link gets posted on here. We’re lucky we don’t have to chase ad revenues so if we’re uncomfortable with something we can just bin it. Always welcome anyone sharing stuff wherever they like though. Especially at the moment when it feels like a lot of us are trying to make the case for change to other fans.

Billionaires don’t like being laughed at https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-the-winds-of-change-are-howling

Her name is Kate

The owner interacting with the players is meaningless if you keep buying crap ones on long contracts. When it was Vichai tweaking Riyad’s ears because he’d told him he was staying for another year then fair enough. When it’s Top walking round the pitch at Preston celebrating winning a league we should never have been in, it’s not the same thing.

Of all the hills to die spectacularly on.

You can’t expect any supporters’ group with minimal backing from the fanbase to start getting regular wins out of a club that doesn’t listen, that isn’t interested in being a trailblazer in anything, that treats fan engagement like a tickbox exercise. It’s not the Trust’s decision to make meeting content confidential. We know that dealing with the club is a nightmare and often seems pointless. I do often wonder what the point of the Trust is, not because of the Trust but because of the club. How do you have any kind of influence over an organisation that treats you with disdain? But you can’t just give up either. For that reason, the Trust clearly needs a win as much as the team does, to justify itself and to show it’s worth reforming in the first place. And it’s still going to sound weak sometimes because it’s one of these organisations where you need sign-off to do anything, so I assume people get nervous and stuff gets watered down before it goes out. You can applaud Union FS statements for strongly condemning the club. But the club is taking the piss out of them on a regular basis, posting photos of their section on social media to try and make the ground look like the Bombonera while simultaneously banning their members without evidence of any offence being committed. Surely hundreds if not thousands of people are furious about stuff like that. Not everyone, or even the majority of fans maybe, but still a lot of people. And that fury should be channelled into strengthening the collective voice of the Trust, Union FS and anything else that comes along like Project Reset if that sticks around, rather than constantly laying into the Trust at the exact time we’ve started to try to drag it into the 21st century. That’s going to take a bit of time, just as Project Reset didn’t look like the Spurs protests today. The Trust badly needs a rebrand in my opinion, as I still associate even that logo with an antiquated way of doing things - which hopefully will change with the new co-chairs, board members and doubled membership numbers. But let’s keep plugging away.

I’ve noticed your arguments seem to be based entirely on things that haven’t happened (getting terrible new owners, Brighton getting relegated).

Spectacular goal