urban.spaceman

Have genuinely met Spurs fans who have said they prefer top 4 to silverware. I mean there was a hint of a tear in each of each of their eyes when they said it but they’ve definitely been gaslit into being happy about not achieving anything.

Last night’s was a brilliant return to form IMO. Easily the best episode since Capaldi’s era. Very, very promising.

Me as a Leicester City fan.

Looked like a pen for me

Yet, I’ve never once seen ANY Pope wear appropriate attire, like a suit, or handcuffs. #TwoTierJustice

Not being funny but today would be an absolutely PERFECT day for the Spanish Inquisition to turn up. Literally nobody would be expecting it.

Expecting a Fox News meltdown over his attire at any second.

Nah he’ll be trying to get his (mum’s {our}) money back, for sure.

The irony here is that he’s literally more of a ****ing criminal than Ábrego García. THERE’S your ****ing two tier justice.

Laurence Fox turning up to court to plead not guilty to sharing upskirting photos of a woman without her consent, which he literally ****ing did: https://www.itv.com/news/2025-04-25/laurence-fox-denies-sharing-upskirting-photo-of-tv-star Billie turned the kids against him apparently.

Completely agree. The anger is totally justified. There HAS to be a change of personnel at the top THIS SUMMER. A fresh perspective, a new pair of eyes with new ideas to develop a new strategy within the confines of what’s happened to us. Top, Rudkin and Susan have been chasing their tails trying to put our the fire at the end of it and have managed to put us in a deeply, deeply troubling position. We are in serious existential trouble because of this. I want accountability as much as everyone else but for me that extents beyond the capability of the club too - there are blatant structural problems within this sport that have harmed us by design, implemented by a league that holds other clubs to far lower standards, has acted irrationally and maliciously towards us and have repeatedly broken their own rules while manage to prove we broke none of theirs - and they’ve literally just changed the rules AGAIN to make sure they can punish us even further. This is one of those very rare articles in which a British sports journalist actually tells the truth about our situation, written 6 months before we beat the Premier League in court last September. Well worth a read: https://archive.ph/PLO3k That’s why, for me, there’s no point in changing owners despite Top’s culpability. We’ll still have the same problems we have now and we’ll still be operating under the same insane rules. As Samuel says - Leicester City are not in any financial difficulty whatsoever. We’re owned by people with a CLEAR track record of investing their own money into the squad, into the club’s infrastructure, and into the local community. And they have a clear track record of achieving sustainable success. This is part of the statement the club put out last March, 6 months before they beat the Premier League in an independent panel: LCFC has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to the P&S rules through its operating model over a considerable period, achieving compliance while pursuing sporting ambitions that are entirely credible given the consistent success that the Club has achieved in that time, both domestically and in European competition. As we continue to represent the Club’s position, we will continue to fight for the right of all clubs to pursue their ambitions, particularly where these have been reasonably and fairly established through sustained sporting achievement. They’re standing up for the club against a hostile league that has forgotten what fair competition is. I’m furious with our failures but that statement (and our win in September) at least gives me that little bit of faith that things can be turned around. Cos this isn’t over, not by a long way.

It was more than just “sell a player a year” - we would sell one big asset every year in order to fund the growth and improvement of the squad. The rules at the time - short term cost control (STCC) - meant that a club couldn’t spend more than 7% on transfers and wages than the previous season. So despite being the actual reigning Premier League champions in 2016, we couldn’t attract better players that would have instantly improved the squad because we had to spend as if we were still a newly promoted club who’d finished 14th. STCC was between 2013-2019, which is why Newcastle were able to go and spent so wildly from 2019 onwards despite being recently promoted and struggling pretty regularly. So we had to develop the team over several seasons by player trading. Selling Drinkwater to buy Iborra, Iheanacho and Silva Selling Mahrez to fund Maddison, Evans, Soyuncu, Ricardo, Benkovic, Ghezzal and Ward Selling Slabhead to fund Justin, Tielemans, Perez and Praet Selling Chillwell to fund Castagne and Fofana Every single one of those players, except for the crossed out ones who proved to be utter disasters, added something to the squad that we were missing at the time, and were signed on wages the club felt reflected their value as part of a squad attempting to progress from mid table to challenging at the top of the table. And it succeeded. Rodgers took the squad Puel and Macia had built and within his first season, set an English football record for biggest ever away win in the top flight, reached the FA Cup quarters and the League Cup semis (and might have reached the final if the ref had spotted that handball), spent most of the season in the Top 3 before failing on the final day during COVID. The next season - FA Cup winners, and again most of the season in the Top 3 before failing and qualifying for the Europa League* on the final day of the season. Again. Then the Super League debacle happened (four years ago last Friday to be exact). The big clubs (plus Tottenham) were attempting to protect their spot at the top of the pyramid by making sure no other club could ever achieve financial stability or ever compete with them again. It would have been a complete closed shop. The Premier League bent over for them instead of actually punishing them (they still haven’t paid that £3.6m fine) and adopted far, far tighter PSR rules that meant a club’s spending had to be within a certain percentage of their income. And worse, after spending a decade ignoring Man City’s blatant crimes and at this point 3 full years investigating them, they decided to actually start implementing those rules far stronger than they had before (7 of Man City’s 130 charges are PSR rule breaks). 4 years later and that case STILL ISN’T OVER. As we’d been spending so much money in trying to reach the Champions League, within the already unfair system that had prohibited us from progressing as Champions, the new rules meant that we would drastically have to reduce spending on players transfers and wages due to the reduced income of playing in the Europa instead of the Champions League**. Players on high wages had to be shifted. By the man who had put them on the same high wages and also had a clear track record of failing to shift players from the squad. That self sustaining model that we’d built - while imperfect and involving a lot of shocking waste - was now our kryptonite, under new rules that literally punished the clubs trying to play by the pervious rules; to satisfy the clubs that didn’t. We couldn’t sign high profile/quality players and we couldn’t replace players who left (Kasper, Fofana) with like-for-like players of the same quality. Shifting players on high wages was even more impossible because nobody else could now afford the wages those players were on. TL;DR version, courtesy of TwatGPT: We had a smart, self-sustaining model—sell one key player a year to build a stronger squad. STCC rules stopped us from spending like a top club even after we won the league. Then PSR rules tightened post-Super League, hitting us just as we dropped out of the CL spots. Now the Premier League’s punishing us for following the rules that kept us competitive. *Reminder: we finished 5th in the two seasons Manchester City should have been serving their UEFA ban so would have qualified for the Champions League if CAS hadn’t overturned their ban. Literally none of this would have happened to us otherwise. **Basic participation prize money in the Europa League is roughly 80% lower than the Champions League; income from broadcasting, sponsorships and merchandising would have been much higher in the CL too.

Richard Masters

You might change your mind in 12 years time (which according to ChatGPT is the modern average)

How often do you get to see a dead Pope though? Apart from fairly regularly.

Patson Daka

START THE PETITIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

The new Kevin and Claudia from the Canada series!

I grew up watching ER with my mum. It was a phenomenal show for years. I’m also a massive fan of 24 (at least the first 5 seasons) so hopefully I’ll love it.

HOW DARE YOU

Completely and totally agree. Recruitment over the last 6 years - especially since Rodgers arrived with Congleton - has been mostly appalling. Even the signings that were a success for a while became a millstone around our neck because of the absurd wages. But again, that is what it took to compete at the time, and was a successful strategy under the previous rules. What’s happened in the last 3 years is a combination of two major factors. 1. Terrible recruitment in terms of players and their contracts (wages/length), both in successful times pre-COVID and awful times afterwards and 2. Appallingly written rule changes that made our previously successful strategy our biggest weakness; by a demonstrably corrupt league that not only doesn’t hold other clubs to the same standard, that STILL hasn’t punished the Super League clubs for a far, far greater crime, that has repeatedly broken their own rules while failing abjectly to prove we broke any of theirs. Everyone on here is rightly angry about the former. So am I. But it baffles me that people seem so reticent about the latter. For me it’s the biggest cause of where we are now and it’s not even close. People should be ****ing incandescent about it.