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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jonny-evans-reveals-ruud-van-9750868 Jonny Evans reveals Ruud van Nistelrooy 'obsession' that could fix big Leicester City problem The former captain, now at Manchester United, spoke in September about the impact the Dutch coach had on the team when he joined Erik ten Hag's backroom staff ByJordan Blackwell 10:20, 28 NOV 2024 Incoming Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy is “obsessed” with defensive structure, the club’s former captain Jonny Evans has said. Van Nistelrooy is set to become the new City boss and one of the tasks he will immediately face is to tighten the team up at the back. They’ve conceded the third-highest number of goals so far this season and only kept one clean sheet. But while Van Nistelrooy was all about goals when he was a player, and with his PSV team renowned for their attacking play rather than their defensive strength, Evans says organising a back-line is the Dutchman’s big focus. Indeed, the one team to stop City scoring in the Premier League this season was Van Nistelrooy’s United, albeit that was perhaps as much to do with their own poor attacking quality as the Red Devils’ solidity. Speaking to FourFourTwo in September after a couple of months working with Van Nistelrooy at Old Trafford, Evans said: “He was a deadly striker and for him to pass on his knowledge straight away meant he had everyone’s respect immediately. Joining United is a great move for him and for the club. “He seems very open and wants to improve people. You can see that he’s early enough in his career that he’s hungry to do well and pass on his abundance of knowledge. He’s quite obsessed with defensive structure.” Van Nistelrooy’s standing in the game should earn him plenty of respect from the City players. The squad were always impressed by Enzo Maresca’s commitment and addiction to the game, and that’s something Van Nistelrooy shares, Harry Maguire believes. The former City defender said: “Ruud is an excellent coach. You can tell that he’s addicted to football. He loves analysing the game. I’ve been really impressed by his ideas.”

Suitcase reveals secrets of England World Cup win The detailed plan put together by the architect of England's World Cup victory has been revealed in a bundle of papers found hidden in an old suitcase. Manager Sir Alf Ramsey meticulously set out his thoughts on how his players should be treated, in the lead-up to the national triumph on 30 July 1966. The insight into footballing history has been divulged after the unassuming brown suitcase was put up for auction in Diss, Norfolk, following the death of its owner Elaine Coupland in March. The Couplands had been friends and neighbours of one-time Ipswich manager Sir Alf in the town's Valley Road - and had been given the documents when his widow, Lady Victoria, died in 2018. Contents of the hard-backed suitcase included scouting reports from the then Manchester United boss Sir Matt Busby, and player bonus proposals of £22,000 should they lift the World Cup trophy. But there were also plans that pointed to simpler times, in both the national game and society as a whole, as Sir Alf got to grips with devising his training camp strategy. More details here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz1y4jyvxo

This.

Come on guys don't over react this is trifling in terms of bringing disrepute to LCFC compared with the players having a planned Christmas Party when we're renowned as a family club.

Leicester Memories John Finch Great archive of the Leicestershire Land Army Girls 1941. With the majority of young and middle aged men fighting and stationed abroad during WW2, ladies were used to fill the void in farm labours during the duration and thousands worked on their local farms making sure Britain had food to eat. Some also worked in munitions factories, again filling in for the male workforce absent at the front. If the ladies hadn't have stepped into the breech at this time to bridge the shortfall the outcome of the Second World War doesn't bear thinking about, it could have been oh so very different.

Real Madrid’s starting 11 doesn’t have a single Spanish player in it.

If it’s him and he fails the EFL and PL will be rubbing their hands in anticipation

Children playing ‘flick cards’ in a street Using cigarette cards or Tea cards, If you knocked the card over, you would win all the discarded cards.

We had to do this in assembly

1955 The Dapper Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the mid 1950s to mid 1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after the Second World War. … Standin' on the corner, swingin' my chain Along came a copper and he took my name He put his dirty maulers on my long drape coat And I whipped out my razor and I slit his throat [Chorus] Teddy boy boogie, a-boogedy-boogedy-boo Teddy boy boogie, a-boogedy-boogedy-boo Ah-aah-aah-ahh, ah-ooh-ooh-ooh Teddy boy boogie-boogie, boogedy-boogedy-boo Well, I'm a teddy boy 'cause that's the life I choose I wear a drape jacket and blue suede shoes I smoke a big cigar and I dig the local hop Saturday night I see my baby dancin' to the bop [Chorus] One night I was out on a chicken run Gettin' my kicks and havin' some fun A cop car came up from behind So I whipped out my razor and I changed his mind [Chorus]

Two London women having a right old laugh on what we’d call today a ‘cargo bike’ (1927)

Australian solidiers after their release from Japanese captivity from Singapore , 1945.

Skinheads and Hippies 1969

Diarrhoea

That's why they sacked Cooper, distraction tactic.

Surely that would happen to any manager/player. Pleat was constantly abused and so were many players.

Gambling slots online to be limited to £5 per spin Mitchell Labiak Business reporter, BBC News Published 27 November 2024, 00:01 GMT Updated 32 minutes ago The amount of money people can place on a single online slots bet will be restricted for the first time as part of a wider government overhaul to tackle gambling addiction. A £5 per spin limit will apply to all adults aged 25 and over with a £2 per spin limit for 18 to 24-year-olds. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is also set to increase taxes on gambling companies to fund addiction treatment. It said the measures would allow people to "gamble safely", but the betting industry's main lobby group said the government was "at risk of losing perspective". Addiction to online gambling slots has surged since the Covid pandemic, according to data from charity GamCare. Of the 6,697 callers who disclosed a form of gambling to advisers on its National Gambling Helpline in 2023-2024, 45% mentioned problems with online slot games, jumping from 34% in 2020-2021. Meanwhile, the NHS has said it is treating more people with gambling problems, with its latest figures showing referrals have more than doubled on the same period last year. Gambling minister Fiona Twycross said the aim of introducing stake limits for online slots was "to protect those at risk, with a particular focus on young adults". "Gambling harm can ruin people’s finances, relationships, and ultimately lives," Baroness Twycross added. She said the government would introduce "the first legally mandated" tax on the betting industry to fund gambling addiction treatment. More here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3y60wzer6o

Leicester Memories Peter Taylor Rossa`s - Lovely Ice Cream .

Old Photos · Follow Photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photo from the top of a Building in 1935.

Military Bicycle with spring wheels from the 1900's

Abbey Road Tribute · Follow How a Teenage Geoff Emerick Helped Define The Beatles’ Studio Sound On September 3, 1962, at the age of 16, Geoff walked into EMI looking for work and walked out with a job as a recording engineer with The Beatles. Emerick was rebellious and willing to break the rigid production rules EMI enforced to meet The Beatles’ creative expectations with creative recording effects. Whether piping John through an organ or recording Ringo ‘wrongly’, the innovative engineer translated the band’s wildest ideas into timeless sounds. He created new microphone techniques for recording bass and drums, pioneered novel vocal effects, and used reverse tape effects like those heard on the guitar solo of “I’m Only Sleeping.” Emerick’s fingerprints are layered deeply throughout The Beatles’ catalog—his techniques improved on many times over in modern studio recording. To better translate Ringo’s drumming to tape, Emerick placed microphones closer than allowed at EMI to capture the often imitated propulsion of Ringo’s drumming—like on the song “Rain.” Once, to create a randomized rush of vocals, he cut up the recorded tape, threw the pieces in the air like confetti, and stitched them back together at random. He was caught by an EMI executive dunking a microphone in a bucket of water to “see how it sounded.” His boundary-pushing, rule-breaking philosophy to recording studio engineering didn’t stop there. At 19 and chief engineer on Revolver, Emerick was still fielding requests for the impossible. On “Tomorrow Never Knows,” John wanted to sound like the Dalai Lama and a thousand Tibetan monks chanting on a mountaintop. His answer was to dismantle the studio’s Hammond organ and use its rotating amp as a mic of sorts to give Lennon’s vocals an air of the organ’s iconic tremolo sound. Ignoring the industry rulebook is why we hear the power in Ringo’s drums and clarity in Paul’s bass lines. In his later years, Geoff was fond of claiming that he had merely been in the right place at the right time. Geoff died at age 72 in 2018. Thank you to Boris for this image.

Traces of Texas · Follow 3d · The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is a little passel of facts about Buddy Holly: 1) The very first song recorded by the band that would become known as The Beatles was by Texan Buddy Holly. In 1958, The Quarrymen --- John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Colin Hanton on drums and John "Duff" Lowe, on piano ---- recorded "That'll Be the Day." 2) Similarly, one of the very first songs recorded by the Rolling Stones was Buddy's "Not Fade Away." 3) Buddy Holly once handmade a leather wallet for Marty Robbins. Robbins' manager was so impressed he asked Buddy if he could order 300 more. Buddy, of course, had no time for that. 4) I'd always known that Buddy was a huge Elvis fan and would go and see Elvis perform when Elvis played in Lubbock. What I didn't know was that Buddy, who was relentlessly ambitious, made a point of befriending Elvis. “Meeting Elvis was what really inspired Buddy to get things going,” said Bob Montgomery. “Every time he’d come through, we’d talk to him. We saw Gentle­men Prefer Blondes with him one after­noon at the theater and Elvis got bored af­ter thirty minutes and we left with him.” Bob Montgomery was a songwriting partner and best friend of Buddy Holly, performing with Buddy as the duo "Buddy and Bob" while teenagers in high school. Initially, they played a variety of bluegrass music, which evolved into rockabilly sounds. 5) Between February 1957 and April 1958, 14 months, Buddy recorded “That’ll Be the Day,” “Not Fade Away,” “Peggy Sue,” “Oh Boy!,” “Rave On,” “Well… All Right,” and “It’s So Easy (to fall in love). Every one of them is a timeless classic. Shown here: Buddy Holly without his glasses in 1957.