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It might be normal and I'm not above a bit of scadenfreude myself, but think about what it means. The literal translation is 'shameful joy'

I hear it has a grassy knoll.

Please stop saying 'Blooper'...

They're recovering now. Surely Souttar and Nelson will be back for the promotion push next year.

I do hope that Cooper's reign is soon forgotten so that I don't have to keep reading 'blooper' and 'pooper'. Honestly, it's like a kindergarten.

I think we will. Transfer embargo will force us to recruit from the academy along with those we retain from this squad. The Championship is so poor, I can see title number 9 next year.

I agree with most of this but not on your take of the fans' role. Yes, it would be great if we had a more passionate and louder fan base, but the fans role at the games is to lift and support the team and provide a hostile atmosphere for the opposition. It is not our job to hire and fire and nor would I want it to be. The most vocal supporters are not necessarily the brightest. Besides, fans are not a single hive mind entity, but a collective with different thoughts and opnions. I mean look at the this place. A militant fan base would be a toxic fan base. I'm old enough to remember the Sheff Utd debacle where the fans abused Martin O'Neill for which he never forgave us. Would the fans have been so patient with a young Jamie Vardy? Puel would have lasted five minutes, yet he did important work in our growth and in recent years I have seen the fans booing the likes of Ghezzal, Soumare and Iheanacho as they made their way on to the field as substitutes. Fans want instant gratification. They are not best placed to run a football club. The booing of Ward, to my mind is the exception to the rule as his inclusion is so costly and should have never been considered. We may have poor leadership since the sad loss of Vichai, but what are we supposed to do? The fans can only hound out incumbents, not choose successors which is another good reason why it should not be left to us.

Me too. The trouble is, if you're Leicester City in 2024 and you want Premier League experience, you can only afford/attract mediocrity and you pay a premium for it. You can add Skipp to the list too. If you buy mediocrity, you are buying relegation. That horrible window is Cooper's legacy which will continue to hurt us even after he has gone. You can almost draw a line through pre-season recruitment - Cooper's insistence on PL experienced plodders - Ayew, BDCR, Skipp and the club's scouted players - Okoli, Buonanotte and BEK. Many others got away, or rather, ran a mile, but I much prefer the non-Cooper approach. There is a gulf in quality and potential there.

And yet he chooses to stay and pick up his inflated, unearned salary rather than seek game time and professional advancement elsewhere. So lets not feel too sorry for him, it;s his choice to stay.

Cannon bags the winner!

I've said it before but we have kick-started their season for them

Who could have ever seen that coming?

Exactly, unless you just keep switching allegiance to the top team at the time. You learn more in adversity than in clover and the hard times make the good times sweeter. If you're not prepared to suffer, you have no business supporting Leicester City.

Yep, there are life lessons to be learned form following LCFC - stoicism for example. Take them, kicking and screaming, to build a little moral fibre.

Well put. Can we not print this and mail it to Top, C/O KP Stadium, Filbert Way, LE2 7FL? A couple of things I would add: As others have said, the rot starts with the tragedy and the sad loss of Vichai. Furthermore, 'Spursing' top four twice from a position where it looked more difficult not to qualify, cost us hugely. We'll never know where we would be now had we held our nerve to get over the line. Rodgers seemingly checking out mentally after not getting his way with his refresh and some of those who's contracts were running down in the relegation season perhaps not giving 100%. The transfer model, as touched upon, changing from buying potential with resale value to the Congerton/Rodgers silver medallist approach and overpaying on wages for mediocrity that we then can't shift. Some of our transfer business has been appalling. Overall, we've been complacent and incompetent all over the shop, but I believe without relegation we could have recovered. If there was just one highly avoidable thing that we could have easily changed and would have left us still a proper Premier League club, it was recklessly trying to play without a proper goalkeeper.

How can it be possible that after spending £25m, just four months ago on a defensive midfielder, to add to the three we already had, one of or most pressing needs this January is a defensive midfielder?

Calling Jimmy Savile a' wrong un' is a bit like calling Genghis Kahn a bit of a scamp.

That should do it. And could we not just borrow Kante for six months?

And yet this place was buzzing when we signed him, myself included. Coming off the back of a 34 goal season in Austria and Champions League pedigree with pace to burn he was our handpicked successor to Vardy. He would have to go down as one of our most disappointing signings given the expectation.

Me too. That would be much more fun. Stands named after compass points are so boring, why haven't we named them? I'm going to suggest The Vichai stand, The Jamie Vardy stand, Pearson Terrace and The Gordon Bank(s), but knowing the modern game, if they were to be named they'd probably call them The Samsung stand, The HSBC stand...etc etc

Two points

Survive? It is scripted. Title win number 9 despite a 9 point deduction.

We're all assuming that Ward was dropped, but not to make the bench makes me wonder whether Ward made himself unavailable after the Wolves debacle?

I'm not sure I would. Always capable of a melt down and he was dropped straight after that Spurs game in our relegation season when he was strongly (and rightly) criticised on motd for feigning injury in the build up to a Spurs goal. Playing dead to try to win a free kick instead of getting up and defending. Anyway, Rodgers dropped him after that and I don't blame him. I guess we'll never know what went on between them but my suspicion is that instead of taking his medicine and working his way back into favour, he sulked and fell out with the manager. I don't know that for sure of course, but I can't think of another explanation for the fact that we never saw him again under Rodgers and if that is the case, then he let us down. Also, he was another one that let his contract wind down with an eye on the exit door. I will agree that he is better than Faes, but not someone I would want to see back here.

If that's the case, this needs attending to straight away. Luckily, we've got super Jonny Rudders on the case. What could possibly go wrong?