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Haven't been so wound up about a match the next day since Leeds away in 2024. Such a wasted opportunity.

Felt like a teenager watching us defending on our 6 yard box against Portugal in 2004 & 2006 all over again. How many serious warnings did they need before these goals? Honestly sickening.

We had all of the tools at our disposal to get a result there against an Argentine side who've been shown up in every knockout match until now. Got everything we deserved from breathtaking cowardice. Even more gutting having been such a fan of how Tuchel's conducted himself until now.

Last 30 mins was like a living hell, feeling almost resigned to a typically valiant effort in defeat when up against it. Absolutely delighted for them. Hope Jude Bellingham has an outstanding week.

Looking back, I think this is more down to the culture at LCFC over the years than him personally. Should never have been allowed to happen. Crap seeing him thrive for Villa of all clubs though.

Sky Sports had a decent series with Rob Mackenzie called "The Science of Scouting" back in 2014. His posts provide an insight into how we operated while we built the foundations for the most successful era in the clubs history.

This is just the latest stage of the usual LCFC merry-go-round/death spiral. The exact ordering of events may vary slightly, but overall here is what we can look forward to again: Summer Break After abject failure, the key positive is the club has over 3 months to rectify the situation ahead of the new season Club responds by shutting down and going on holiday. Weeks are wasted. Eventually they return to an underwhelming manager shortlist highlighting glaring lack of data and footballing knowledge within clubs hierarchy. Inevitably appoint resulting underwhelming candidate, on unfavourable terms. Disjointed approach to signing players. Lack of preparation and strategy is obvious again. Promising potential signings compare LCFC to alternatives and run a mile. Our only bargaining tool throwing more money at them. The only incomings are either below the level we should be aspiring to, convinced to sign on unfavourable terms by agents who see us as an easy ride, or both. Fans wonder why we have a scouting department and what they have been doing for the last few years. Club position undermines the squad value of our remaining assets, who are sold below market value. New season starts. Fans remain fed up and know what's coming. Yet are urged to "give them a chance" / "get behind them". Players look unfit and turn in underwhelming performances. Transfer Deadline day comes and goes - Aforementioned lack of club preparation and strategy sees panic signings. Agents are laughing at LCFC. Fans not allowed to complain because we "needed bodies through the door". Tedious weeks and months pass. Home games see mediocre clubs bring 3000, take the piss, celebrate like they've won the league after a "surprisingly easy" victory at our place. Poor performances and results persist. Second half of season January window. A difficult time to do business. Much better to do so in the summer (so lets blindly hope the club decide to prepare properly for the next summer window). 1 or 2 panic signings through the door if we're lucky. Agents laughing at LCFC again. Fans who care about the club eventually lose their patience, the atmosphere becomes toxic (by LCFC standards anyway). Certain fans performatively clap and show positivity to display what wonderful supporters they are after 90 mins of silence. Our glorious leader returns after a few months. If the result is negative, he may sack the manager before buggering off again, with no strategy or plan in place. Another significant financial blow is dealt. Inexperienced caretakers are forced to take over and are themselves blamed for individual negative results by people who cannot see the bigger picture. Club doesn't bother to appoint a proper manager for weeks. Another season drifts towards failure. End of Season Our glorious leader persists with no meaningful change. Still immune to the deserved e criticism he deserves. Another year passes of watching former favourites like Barnes and Tielemans play European football for clubs we were far clear of while they played for us. Lack of Media scrutiny persists. Only tiresome tropes such as "If given this choice in 2015, Leicester fans would've still taken it." As if that's how football works. Another year wasted. Another year plummeting to new lows. Club pushed closer towards financial oblivion. Fans contemplate again how we squandered the significantly unfair financial advantage that comes with being an established Premier League club, where even mediocre leadership would've seen us remain exactly that. It's all desperately tiresome and they deserve everything coming to them. I'm delighted that life circumstances have seen me move abroad & give up my ST, because I couldn't imagine facing another year of this right now. It's already gone too far, but reality will hit us harder in the years to come. At this stage, hoping for us to enter administration to rid us of our "leadership" is just about the only hope we have before we actually cease to exist.

An all timer for me. My first proper Leicester match and as a local at the time.

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I'm on the brink of doing this myself. The majority of my work is remote and I can easily make it to any UK / mainland Europe engagement when needed. My employer is mostly supportive, just need to work through the finer details with our HR department. Which I'm sure we'll overcome soon as there are a few different ways around it. Moving to Latvia with my OH (where she's from) for a couple of years initially and will see which options appeal afterwards.

This league is gash. We look right at home here. Edit: Still pleased to see the youth getting more minutes in any case.

It honestly feels like they've been saving their wildest and loosest swings for when Starc is bowling. It's nonsensical.

HAMPSTEAD HEATH

Thanks for being thoroughly useless and preventing this, LCFC.

I called the ticket office earlier to snag a last minute ticket as I'm now working down south and it turns out I could make it. But was told I can't buy one "because it's the day of the game". Honestly cba to fight it at this stage, they're not worth the effort.