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Born and Raised in Leicester · Follow East Park Road 1955

History Defined · Follow A rare look inside the original Harley-Davidson Motorcycle factory, 1924.

guy cleaning up the beach somewhere wearing a KP top https://fb.watch/wj41Xsc4t2/

With the first team.

I've just had a survey from the club on safe standing. Safe Standing We are currently consulting with supporters on the introduction of safe standing at King Power Stadium, building an understanding for what solutions might be right for our fans and how you might like to see it implemented. By answering the following questions, your input will help to guide deeper discussions taking place on the subject across our Fan Engagement Framework, including Your 90 Minute sessions, Fans Consultative Committee Working Groups and Fan Advisory Board discussions. This survey is for completion by current LCFC Men's Season Ticket Holders and Members aged 16 and over during the 2024/25 season only and survey responses will be used solely for the purposes of this consultation. If you’re interested in contributing further to our safe standing consultation, you can find details of how to access our Your 90 Minute sessions on the subject HERE. You can also provide feedback to our Fan Advisory Board by emailing [email protected]. 1. What is your Supporter Number?* 2. What is your e-mail address registered to the Club?* 3. Where in the stadium do you usually sit?* A1A2B1B2B3C1C2SK1SK2SK3SK4G1G2H1J1J2J3K1L1PP1P2P3Keith Weller LoungeHospitality 4. Are you a LCFC Season Ticket Holder or Member?* 4. Are you a LCFC Season Ticket Holder or Member? Season Ticket Holder Member 5. Do you mostly sit or stand at games at King Power Stadium?* 5. Do you mostly sit or stand at games at King Power Stadium? Mostly sit Mostly stand Prefer not to say 6. Do supporters persistently standing in your area affect your experience at games?* 6. Do supporters persistently standing in your area affect your experience at games? No Yes, in a positive way Yes, in a negative way 7. If the area your ticket is currently allocated in became a safe standing area, would you be willing to stay in this area?* 7. If the area your ticket is currently allocated in became a safe standing area, would you be willing to stay in this area? Yes No Not sure 8. If a safe standing area was introduced in an area your ticket isn't usually allocated in, would you like to move into it?* 8. If a safe standing area was introduced in an area your ticket isn't usually allocated in, would you like to move into it? Yes No Not sure 9. If safe standing areas were introduced, would you like to see a cap on Season Ticket Holders in safe standing areas to ensure availability for match by match tickets?* 9. If safe standing areas were introduced, would you like to see a cap on Season Ticket Holders in safe standing areas to ensure availability for match by match tickets? Yes No Not sure 10. Is there anything else you'd like to add about safe standing that you haven't been able to comment on during the survey already? An asterisk (*) next to a question indicates that it is mandatory and requires a response. LCFC will process the data recorded in this survey in accordance with LCFC's Privacy Policy which can be found HERE

Britain's Photography · Follow This might be of interest to you. During WW2. This was the weekly rations allowed for an adult in the UK. Amazing isn’t it.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-starlet-features-leicester-city-9770598 And now they’re taking a look at another. Liverpool right-back Keehan Barret-Underwood played half-hour for City’s Under-18s in a 2-0 defeat to Tottenham a couple of weeks ago, as it looks like he has turned down an opportunity to continue his career on Merseyside. Barret-Underwood’s appearance for City came just a few days after he had been in Florida after a call-up to the USA Under-17s training camp. He has previously represented England’s youth teams but appears to have switched allegiances and it could see him play at next year’s Under-17s World Cup.

That’s why I keep loaning mine. No luck yet.

Leicester Memories Peter Taylor An FA Cup replay between Leicester City and Brentford at Villa Park in February 1947

Wigston In Photos 1950-2000 11 January 2019 · The Oven Door, 35 Bell Strret, Wigston "Standing in line for bread, September 1977. The second of two bakery strikes that year. The queue extends all the way round the car-park, out of sight, and ends in the lanes back near to its start." (Gerry Broughton - People In Wigston Magna)

1940s ? 1938

or standing at the top of the stairs for the whole of the added time +. If you're leaving early just go!

I did highlight it.

“The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde: who died (was murdered, actually) on this day in 1900.” —h/t Ted Sod · A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. · Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. · There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. · To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. · We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. · An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. · Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. · One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. · The truth is rarely pure and never simple. · Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. · Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. · Illusion is the first of all pleasures. · All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. · It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. · There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. · Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. · Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. · There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. · Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. · The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. · Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. · It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. · The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. · America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. · There is no sin except stupidity. · It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. · A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? · Only the shallow know themselves. · Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. · He hadn't a single redeeming vice. · A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both. · Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Geoff Peters Media is at King Power Stadium. There is something beautiful about this photo Ruud van Nistelrooy Jamie Vardy #lcfc

As i said in another thread I didn't go as I'd not be able to get home via public transport even 8pm is a gamble.

https://sportwitness.co.uk/they-have-a-weak-team-ruud-van-nistelrooys-leicester-city-decision-questioned-in-netherlands/ They have a weak team” – Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester City decision questioned in Netherlands Last week, Leicester City appointed Ruud van Nistelrooy as their new manager, after parting ways with Steve Cooper. On Tuesday, the Dutchman took charge of his first game and guided the Foxes to a 3-1 win over West Ham United. Despite the positive start to his Leicester career, Vandaag Inside panellist Johan Derksen isn’t pleased with Van Nistelrooy’s decision to move to the King Power Stadium. His comments are relayed by Voetbal Zone. The Dutchman returned to England in the summer when he became Erik ten Hag’s assistant at Manchester United. The Red Devils sacked Ten Hag and appointed Van Nistelrooy as interim manager and were unbeaten in four matches under the latter’s guidance. Van Nistelrooy has stated this helped him receive offers, before he picked the Foxes. However, according to Derksen – one of the many outspoken pundit in the Netherlands – Leicester isn’t the right club for him. “He said that after leaving Manchester United, he had a lot of offers. I don’t know if he chose the right club,” he said. “Look, at the beginning of the season, the coach sacked at Nottingham Forest [Cooper,] went to Leicester City. And after just a couple of games, he was sacked. Then you know there’s internal panic at a club like that.” The win over West Ham helped Leicester move to 15th spot and they are four points above the danger zone. Derksen insists it’ll be a huge achievement if the new manager were to help the Foxes stay in the Premier League next season. “They have a weak team, and goals have to be scored by the very old Vardy. And they don’t have a very good goalkeeper,” Derksen explained. “It’s a very vulnerable team, and it’ll be a world achievement if he manages to keep this bunch in the top division. And an immediate relegation is not good for his career.”

Leicester Memories Julia Mason · John Bull - Evington Valley Road, Leicester Growing up at 56 Gedding Road, Leicester in the 60s and 70s, one of the predominant features of the area was the enormous John Bull Factory on the Evington Valley Road. It was a place I was aware of almost every day, from walking to and from Mayflower Junior School or Crown Hills secondary modern at the top of the Gwendolen Road, through the never-ending smells which hung heavily in the air, and the volume of factory workers heading to and from work whether by foot, bicycle or bus. Peter Shilton's parents had the cafe across the road from the factory and I would sometimes watch him drive up to visit on a Sunday afternoon, and the bus stop for the 35 Goodwood bus we would catch into town was just outside the factory (next to the obligatory red telephone kiosk) and so one way or another, John Bull was seared into my memory from a very early age. I remember picking up nuggets of rubber which had somehow made their way onto the streets and using them at school as erasers. They were very effective! Was I the only one that did that? And I remember how one day one of the boys in my junior school class decided he’d try and break my ‘eraser’ in half (because he wasn’t particularly nice) only to find that, whilst he could stretch it a fraction, he was never going to snap it in half like he’d done to so many other girls! One nil to John Bull!! The demise of this once great ‘bull’ of a factory, like so many before and after, had to come and, although it was gradual, there’s no getting away from the tired beast it became. Workers reduced in number, weeds started growing and the whole place looked very neglected. I did hear how the factory had been separated into different units but by then I was living elsewhere and, to the youthful me, it didn’t really matter. Today, I understand the building has been given a new lease of life following its conversion and redevelopment into a school but whilst an iconic name and industry was lost, I for one am grateful this piece of our history has diversified into something so worthwhile.

Filbert Fox for JJ or tell JJ to give FF his boots back

South Western Railway to be renationalised by Labour Tom Espiner Business reporter, BBC News Published 3 December 2024, 17:48 GMT South Western Railway will be the first rail operator renationalised by the Labour government after it passed a law last week. Labour has pledged to renationalise rail services as operator franchises come to an end, and South Western's contract finishes in May 2025. Control of the railway will be handed to the operator of last resort, the body which runs renationalised rail services, the Financial Times first reported, external. Some have criticised Labour's plans, arguing that public ownership is unlikely to make much difference unless it is paired with investment in the railways. The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024, which passed last week, allows the government to take rail contracts back into public ownership. The government plans to set up a new arms length body, Great British Railways (GBR), which will take over service contracts currently held by private firms as they expire in the coming years. It also eventually wants GBR to take over responsibility for maintaining and improving rail infrastructure from Network Rail. Fares and reliability Responsibility for running train services was handed to private companies during the 1990s, and since then there has been a boom in rail usage. But a number have faced criticism over fares and reliability, with critics saying privatisation has led to an inefficient and fragmented system. Labour made it a manifesto pledge to renationalise most rail services within five years. During the coronavirus pandemic, the government in effect took control of the railways. Most train companies in England moved onto contracts where they get a fixed fee to run services, and the taxpayer carries the financial risk. Four major operators - East Coast Mainline, TransPennine, Northern and South Eastern - have been taken under public control and are being run by the government's operator of last resort. Transport for Wales was brought under Welsh Government control in 2021, and Scotrail was taken over by the Scottish Government the following year. South Western Railway has more than 1,500 services scheduled to run per weekday in south west London and the south of England. It operates across a huge area of southern England and is a key commuter service into London.

Old Britain · Follow In the late 1600s, in response to the Great Fire of London, chimneys were built much narrower than they were previously. Due to the design, keeping chimneys clean became much more challenging and so, children were employed as chimney sweeps. For over 200 years this practice went on. The small boys used were between 5 - 10 years old, some as young as 4 years of age…

Maybe that's a good sign that they'll do the whole KOP.