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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-citys-peculiar-anxious-occasionally-9250316 Leicester City's peculiar, anxious, occasionally furious, often brilliant promotion is complete Leicester City are heading back to the promised land of the Premier League at the first time of asking after QPR upset promotion contenders Leeds at Loftus Road on Friday night ByJordan Blackwell 21:56, 26 APR 2024UPDATED07:43, 27 APR 2024 It’s been a peculiar season for Leicester City, one often fraught with anxiety, anger and despair. Yet ultimately it’s been successful. Promotion has been achieved. As was the case 10 years ago, a match involving Queens Park Rangers has clinched Leicester City’s place in the Premier League. Back then, it was a defeat to Bournemouth that got Nigel Pearson’s men over the line. This time, it’s QPR doing City the favour, beating Leeds to get them back to the promised land. City can finally breathe again. They can finally enjoy this promotion campaign, something that only really felt possible after Tuesday night’s thrashing of Southampton. Because since the Stefano Sensi saga at the end of the January transfer window, the mood has not been one that you would typically associate with a promotion campaign. The breakdown of the Inter Milan midfielder’s transfer, the possibility of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall being sold to ease financial worries, and Enzo Maresca’s threat to leave amid grumbles over the playing style from the stands all happened in the same week. Since then there’s been a 10-game run of results that bordered on relegation form, one charge for a breach of financial rules and the risk of another, plus fury from the fans towards the players and their effort levels, towards the manager and his tactics, and towards the board and their organisation. You wouldn’t know City have been top for nearly all of that run. The hallmarks of a promotion campaign have been missing. There’s been no week-to-week euphoria, no confidence in the team dispatching whoever they faced. Well, perhaps that was there in October, but that’s too far back now to be fresh in the mind. With City getting over the line, relief will outweigh joy. They saw a 25-week run at the top of the table end in mid-March, a 14-point gap to third eaten up in a matter of weeks, but they’ve come through the other side. There will be big sighs of happiness. But nobody is going to have the energy to drag a team-mate around Jamie Vardy’s kitchen floor in celebration this time. That lack of jubilation can be explained by the expectations. Nobody thought City should be here. In May 2022, City finished in the top half of the Premier League for a fifth year running, played in a European semi-final, and commemorated the year anniversary of their maiden FA Cup triumph. Fifteen months after that, they shouldn’t have been playing in the Championship. But that’s where they were. Externally, the expectation was that City were so strong that they’d immediately return to the Premier League. For fans of the club, who had seen every mistake leading to the Championship up close, there was doom and gloom. The club was a mess. They could freefall. It could take them a decade to get back to the top flight, just like it did the last time they were relegated. But they’ve done it at the first time of asking. Just as many outsiders predicted and expected. However, that should not downplay the achievement too heavily. A rookie manager has still managed to introduce and teach a new style of play successfully. New players have been integrated, some to superb effect. The mentality of relegation has been shrugged off and turned around. They really have played some excellent football at times. No matter the quality of squad, to pass 90 points is an achievement. And when the dust settles, there will be plenty to savour. There have been so many good moments this season. The demolition of Southampton this week stands out, but there’s plenty more. There are the late winners – most notably Dewsbury-Hall against Coventry, Harry Winks against QPR and Stephy Mavididi against Birmingham – there is the renaissance of Jannik Vestergaard, there’s the sight of Abdul Fatawu tearing past his full-back, there’s a Shepshed lad playing his part in 26 goals, there’s Jamie Vardy still scoring for fun at 37. In time, they will be the lasting memories from this season. Now, City are back to where they feel they should be. Although, maybe not quite. Back in May 2022, the focus was on City making themselves an annual challenger to the established elite, maybe breaking through for good and earning themselves a permanent seat at the top table. But that’s not City now. With the points deduction that’s seemingly heading their way next season, they won’t be surging straight back to the upper echelons of the Premier League. They will be the underdogs. Really, that’s who City are. This is their 13th promotion from the second tier to the top flight, the outright most of any club in English football. Historically, they’re the yo-yo club, the side that shows their faces in the top flight every now and again and has a real go, sometimes punching way above their weight. With promotion secured, it’s back to being the underdogs. But that’s the position from which City can create their best memories.

You have until June the 4th I believe to request a card and there's a seperate section for it but it's not yet live hopefully because they are reviewing the charge. If they don't I'm sure it'll be set up so people can pay their £££££s for it. Here - https://tickets.lcfc.com/screenloader.aspx?page=usercontent/documents/html/2425seasontickets.html&type=include

Safestanding wont increase revenues besides it's not all just about the stadium it's the hotel and arena etc which I'm sure they plan for them to be profitable.

Fatawu was definitely Glover read an article the other day about him

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I'd imagine KP are better organised with this sort of development considering their background and previous builds it's an entirely different set of people running the football club.

I believe Costco make very little on the goods they sell they make most of their profits from their member's data. Surely if LCFC plan to cash in on our data they have to have our permission so I presume there are Terms & Cond you have to agree with, so what if you refuse to let them sell your details?

I presume the EFL could still fine us or retain the right to deduct points if/when we got relegated again. In this mixed up world of pantomime football finance anything could happen.

Best player, unsung hero - stars of Leicester promotion assessed https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/13123276/how-leicester-won-promotion-back-to-the-premier-league

Sorry that should have been East

East of the Clock Tower

Who's the new sponsor then because my card has FBS. Adidas and KP on it?

Nope the other side of the city centre.

Guess this City Centre Street from the 50's

I doubt it as I used my real name although now I've posted my emails they'll know. Having said that I doubt me being an admin would affect anything. It was probably because my email was as he put it "polite" and I've always had a good and helpful response from Jim even going beyond the norm because of my hearing.

I seem to remember when I first started watching you were offside if you were in an offside position when you received the ball which to me fits nicely with why it was first introduced, to stop goal hanging.

Ironic really As I said to them what's the point?

I think a set of sign language signals for the various types of fouls wouldn't hurt either. The number of times I've sat there thinking what was that for?

My attempt Hi Jim, I feel so sad having to write this email in fact I wasn't intending to complain about this but it seems LCFC are judging the discontent with it based on the number of emails complaining about it. So here's another one. As an OAP I'm not affected by this, although I assume I will be before very long but my son is. If the club studied the social media channels and forums they would see there is a tidal wave of dissatisfaction and anger but it seems you are too focussed on looking for reasons to ban people. I believe it's an outrageous bit of profiteering at the expense of loyal fans who have continued to support the club despite the mismanagement that led to our unnecessary and avoidable relegation. Even your patronising reasons trying to justify it are unsound and patronising; environmentally - we keep our present cards; control - allow people to register and able to "borrow" cards without the need for the additional cost of membership; easier ingress and uptake - judging from my experience of queuing to get in that is not true and that is with only 1600 electronic users. It seems to me the club seem more interested in maintaining an appearance of caring for the community by being supportive of none going fans whilst treating the fans with disdain and as a money tree probably because they've wasted so much in other areas. As ever I will continue to fully support LCFC, well the team but as a long-standing fan I've never felt so disconnected from the club, is it even LCFC a football club these days or KPFC a business subsidiary of KP? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Thank you for your email. I hope you are well. I appreciate your polite and very measured email, thank you for that. I wonder if you would like a chat about this either in person or by telephone? Kind Regards Jim -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Jim, Thanks for the prompt reply, sadly due to a hearing impairment I cannot use the phone. Not to sound disingenuous but I'm not convinced it will serve any purpose. My main aim of the email was to draw attention to how fans view the club these days. Either the club recognise that and their mistake with this charge and I don't see how talking to me will make any difference or they will continue with making the disconnect between the fans and the club greater. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I appreciate you coming back to me and understand completely . Please be assured that we have taken on board your thoughts. Last night the club met with representatives of supporter groups to discuss the issue and further discussions are being held internally. I do not want to speculate and say that things will change simply because the club want to go fully digital. The charge was designed to ask people to go that way, there is no charge for digital season tickets. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Football League Fan Banter · Follow · Just look at this. Doncaster have picked up 30pts from the last 30pts available to them, won 13 out of 16 including the last 10 in a row and gone from 22nd in February to an almost guaranteed playoff place, sitting 5th going into the final game of the season. It’s astonishing. Grant McCann, what a job he's doing.

https://www.leicestercity.news/news/leicester-city-could-still-break-a-championship-record-this-season/ Leicester City could break their own Championship record It’s recently emerged, that if Leicester win their final two games, they will become the first team since the turn of the century to win 32 in a single Championship season. The current record is 31, set by Manchester City, The Foxes and Reading, as per playmakerstats. Nigel Pearson’s title-winning side in 2013/14 amassed 31 wins and a whopping 102 points and whilst the current City team can’t surpass or equal that, they can one-up them for victories.