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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.

Have you tried it without the www?

Picking the third best player of the season https://thefosseway.net/2026/05/01/you-picked-your-third-best-player-of-the-worst-leicester-city-team-in-history-and-it-speaks-volumes/

The reasoning for it is right there and makes perfect sense. Our club is a great example of why, if you have the money, this is a good idea. Unless you just don't want any money to be spent on women's football.

Thanks dG, your shares and support are always much appreciated by everyone involved with the site.

Harry Winks has had the last laugh. We usually get most of our clicks via NewsNow, which has blocked this morning’s match report because of the inclusion of his words to a fan at Portsmouth. Our second biggest source of views is when people post links on here so here you go: https://thefosseway.net/2026/04/22/leicester-city-r-2-hull-city-2-a-thoroughly-deserved-relegation/ Will use this thread to post the occasional link to the site from now on. Our traffic had gone down steadily across this season as people have given up and drifted away but it’s spiked massively again in the past few weeks. There seems to be a shift from apathy back to anger again. If anyone ever wants to write something for the site, let us know. It can be very cathartic: https://thefosseway.net/contact/

Thanks for putting this together, interested to see the results especially for the questions where it's possible to benchmark against the last one.

Here's the section of the chapter in question. -- 'All these one-nils are agony,' says Jon Holmes, a leading football agent and lifelong Leicester City fan. 'I was watching the Watford game on television and I was a bloody nervous wreck.' Holmes was briefly chairman of the club in the eventful 2002/03 season that saw administration, the threat of liquidation and eventual promotion. He gives a brief appraisal of Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, the father and son whose millions have helped transform Leicester City from Championship also-rans into Premier League title contenders. 'They've bunged a load of money in and you can't knock it.' There have been more glowing tributes to the Srivaddhanaprabhas, who spent £39million to purchase Leicester City in 2010 and have invested over £100million in total in improving every aspect of the club, but Holmes tells it as he sees it. 'Nobody much from outside the club has had any football dealings with the owners,' he says. 'They keep themselves to themselves. Susan Whelan's a very capable chief executive even though she knew three parts of nothing about football when she arrived.' The decision to replace Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri was initially met with scepticism from large sections of the City support. Shortly after Ranieri's appointment, Whelan told the assembled media: 'We don't talk about our business in the public domain every day. I am confident and sure the majority of the fans will have trusted in the judgement of the board. 'Claudio is a man of vast experience and knowledge. We are very pleased to have him here at the club and he is going to lead us into the next chapter of the club's history. 'We are very proud to have him.' The decision has proven to be perfect but Holmes believes the process that led to Ranieri's arrival was unnecessarily lengthy. 'The owners have twice got rid of managers without any clear idea of who would replace them,' he says. 'Martin George [City chairman in the mid-1990s] always said to me you need to have two in reserve because your manager could lose eight on the trot or he could get poached. 'You need to have that backup plan. Twice they haven't and twice they've got away with it. With Ranieri, suddenly they hit the jackpot. 'A lot of successful people don't know how lucky they are.'

Jesus, this thread is humiliating.

5 on the website at the moment

KPFC final boss level when the Trust gives out free donuts and beer before a home game.