The Fosse Way

Well, we can all just make up names. Have we heard anything from Ludovic Splaz, Destiny Moopflugel or Kasper Flobgren?

The atmosphere at the ground was surprisingly positive under Rowett until we inevitably conceded / lost. It also felt like we moved past the toxicity of the Rudkin chants during the most recent Premier League relegation season to a real apathy because it was clear protest wasn't going to achieve anything. That's despite these past couple of years being unparalleled at Leicester City (and most other clubs). Even when we went down to League One beforehand, that was off the back of several mediocre seasons in the Championship where we'd got used to being average/poor. This has been two straight years of freefall. Regardless of where you start the timer on the decline (and the 10 years since the PL title was a total media misnomer - think more Roma to Bromley in 4 years), a certain amount of toxicity is inevitable because people want their football club to win matches. As others have said, the club's lack of accountability or communication plays a massive part in this but is it really that toxic when we're still selling 23,000 season tickets in League One? If there were any positives to discuss, that would be happening on here but people are wary of being positive when we've never been more than a few weeks away from the latest sledgehammer of doom ("here's the most unpopular managerial appointment in the club's history, now all get behind him for 30 seconds before the news breaks that Leeds want to sue us for £40million!")

Well, we had a friendly in this country against opposition from the same league in August 2021 but not quite the same vibe...

So relegation to League One coincides with two people holding similar job roles and the more senior, experienced staff member leaves while the more junior, newer and presumably lower-paid staff member remains to do the job... can think of another situation where that might be a better idea.

That first LCFC XI hits like crack. Gets to the point where the team and year comes up and you know it's a waste of time looking. Ian Walker Frank Sinclair Michael Keane Damien Delaney Mike Whitlow Harry Winks Matt Oakley Mark Davies Riyad Mahrez Jason Wilcox Emile Heskey Finished 6th.

Rare to see such a well-used analogy. Hats off to you.

The birthday announcer might discover at the first game that Cifuentes married Brenda Nout over the summer and took her surname

Sounds ideal, if he can cut out the starting well.

We’ve posted a three-part review of the season over the past three days - the final part is here: https://thefosseway.net/2026/05/28/the-big-leicester-city-women-2025-26-season-review-part-3-looking-to-the-future/ It’s interesting covering both the men’s and women’s teams. The numbers are pretty small in terms of interest in the women’s side but even running the site, it’s been tough to find the enthusiasm to watch the games or read the contributors’ match reports sometimes when it’s another chunk of the weekend dedicated to watching a Leicester defeat. We’re going to try to keep it going next season though, as outside of this thread there’s very little critical thinking about LCFC Women out there, even when it seems like a parallel of the kind of lazy approach to scouting and strategy that’s affected the men’s side.

Frankly, they deserve to be in a catch 22. What we're seeing here is Leicester fans demonstrating we still care what happens to the club in the present and the future, that we're not content to wallow in the past as if it doesn't matter what happens from 2016 onwards. It is insane to think tens of thousands of fans are choosing not to go to a charity anniversary match for the greatest sporting story of all time, but the club is 100% responsible for that - particularly around the lack of consistent communication. If there was humility in their comms, accountability in the decision-making or clarity around the long-term strategy, a lot more people would be willing to entertain attending this match. There were numerous ways to avoid this - don't get relegated, ensure the big names can be there, have a very public survey about how fans would like to celebrate the anniversary, announce it further in advance, get better guests - but what we've ended up with merely reflects the state of the club at the moment. It's entirely fitting that this is a mess.

This didn't go to plan but happy with the outcome.

On balance, probably still worth supporting, eh? https://loros.co.uk/about-loros/news?category=patient-stories

Three-man shortlist: Dick Schreuder, Lee Johnson and Willy Caballero.

Assuming the All-Star XI will be Troy Deeney, 6 YouTubers, Conrad Logan, Serge from Kasabian, Filbert Fox and Apichet

European semi-final is a good way of charting the decline rather than a particular achievement. But actually, not having teams knocked out of the CL/EL means you can't really compare the two. The other semi-finalists in our year were Roma, Marseille and Feyenoord. Palace's other semi-finalists are Strasbourg, Rayo Vallecano and Shakhtar Donetsk.