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Ha! I chose to just assume Bucks Fizz meticulously researched their lyrics. A foolish choice, as it turns out.

Not for all the tea in China. Or the corn in Carolina. Never. Never, ever.

There is something so beautiful and satisfying about the way this happens every time he plays there...

The players look like they do not buy into Puel's ideas and do not want to play for him (edited to say: well, SOME of them don't ).

Anybody booing is basically saying that their emotional need to 'vent' is more important to them than the team doing well. It's utterly retarded.

It's now being reported that the deal almost certainly won't happen as Man City aren't willing to offer anywhere near our asking price.

Another transfer deadline day, another day of frenzied speculation about Mahrez coming to precisely nothing.

I actually believe this as I know for a fact that in Manchester supermarkets they have entire aisles selling peroxide.

Personally I'd have an averse reaction to that.

Their decision was understandable and probably correct. However, it doesn't explain why Le Tissier feels it is necessary to respond to some mild teasing from opposing fans by losing his rag on twitter...

He's responded on twitter to some football fans singing a song, and in the process has revealed himself to be a humourless bore and a moron.

It's scary to think that anybody would think they are being serious.

100% this. I love our fans, but the traumatised paranoia you hear from some of them is astonishing to behold. It's as if they're only happy when they have a sense of grievance about us being criticised or ignored.

He won't be given until December.

For getting us out of League One at the lowest point in our history, he deserves our eternal thanks. For his subsequent achievements too, he likewise merits our sincere gratitude and respect. Personally, I would not want him back because of the limitations I mention above. If he really has the managerial quality that many on here ascribe to him, he'll rise to the top anyway and I'll happily admit I was wrong

He wasn't. He was made accountable for his own response to his son being sacked.

The key point being we won the league after he'd left.

We were bottom of the league for most of the season after we got promoted to the Prem with a team that should never have been down there. It was his tactics that did that. Yes, we survived, but I'm not convinced that was wholly down to him - there are credible reports that player power of one form or another played a major part in the change of tactics that eventually proved so successful. Besides, there's a difference between having reservations about him and saying he's not capable. I think he's a moderately capable manager equipped with the undoubted ability to motivate a team and create a very strong infrastructure behind the scenes - good qualities to have. I also think - and have always thought - that he's weak tactically, has little ability to change things around when the team is struggling and makes terrible substitutions. So a mixed bag overall, but not somebody I'd ever want back in charge of us.

I wasn't suggesting that all 'true' fans have reservations about Pearson - many (including yourself) clearly don't! I was just taking issue with the suggestion that you can't be a true fan if you have your doubts about him. To be honest I always find it a bit weird when people suggest that having a certain view makes you more of a true believer than those who think something else. It's akin to religious folk competing over claims to greater orthodoxy.

He really didn't. He proved that he's a manager of limited ability, as he has done in his other jobs. He may well be a good fit for OH Leuven, but no club with serious ambition would touch him with a barge pole.

Ridiculous comment. He has his strengths as a manager, but also serious flaws - and I'm not talking about his media presence. Plenty of 'true' Leicester fans have very real and justifiable reservations about him.

Good post. The tactical issue is a worry. It was encouraging to hear Shakespeare say that he brought in Iborra to give us greater tactical variety as it implied he understood that we need different ways of playing; however, it was less encouraging to see us show up at Wolves with the same formation, tactics and players (barring Maguire) as last season, and playing as badly as we did in the final days of Ranieri's regime. The lack of creativity is also a real worry - and that's assuming Mahrez stays. If he leaves and we don't find a very good replacement, it will become a serious, serious concern. We badly need a genuinely creative central midfielder, and if we can't find one we need to start looking at other options from the squad, including Lawrence. Drinkwater is not a creative midfielder in any meaningful sense. Hopefully in a few months' time those of us who are concerned now will look back and wonder what we were worrying about, but I've just got this nagging concern that unless we freshen things up by becoming more tactically flexible and adding creativity, we'll become the team that all the others love to play as we're so predictable.

I had a quick look and discovered to my surprise that they should have had two absolutely stonewall penalties last night. Weirdly I can't remember them - I must have been distracted at those two key moments.

Well carry on sitting, then. It's your choice!

We actually got worse, which is pretty incredible.