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From the FSA Yesterday the FA announced that subscription broadcasters TNT Sport, formerly BT Sport, will be the primary broadcaster for the FA Cup starting in the 2025-26 season. • Selected matches will be live on TNT Sports and on free-to-air from the first round to the final • New deal will see more Emirates FA Cup ties broadcast than ever before, with every game from the third round outside of 3pm kick offs to be shown live • Further details of the free-to-air broadcaster will be confirmed in due course. • The Emirates FA Cup final will be available on TNT Sports and free-to-air. • The deal enables The FA to provide valuable investment into grassroots football The Football Association [The FA] and TNT Sports have agreed a new four-year broadcast deal for the Emirates FA Cup, starting from the 2025/26 season, which will see more games available than ever before, across both TNT Sports and free-to-air, from the world’s oldest national football competition. The new partnership between The FA and Warner Bros. Discovery, which operates TNT Sports, will ensure that the world’s longest-running national knockout football competition continues to be as broadly available as possible across the UK. TNT Sports will showcase live matches from the first round, with every game from the third round outside of 3pm kick offs on display through to the final at Wembley Stadium connected by EE. Selected matches from every round will be available free-to-air, and highlights of every game will be made available. Further details of the free-to-air broadcaster will be confirmed in due course. In addition to the Emirates FA Cup ties, TNT Sports will also broadcast the English football season’s traditional curtain raiser, the FA Community Shield, and the FA Youth Cup semi-finals and final. They join the Vanarama National League, which TNT Sports also has the rights to in a long-standing commitment. The Emirates FA Cup captures the imagination of clubs, communities, and the general public each season, with unrivalled stories written into English football folklore, and all of them will be told across TNT Sports’ channels on EE TV, Sky and Virgin Media, as well as on its streaming platform discovery+. Mark Bullingham, FA chief executive, said: "The Emirates FA Cup is our crown jewel, and it helps us to provide vital investment across every level of English football, supporting clubs, communities, facilities and the wider grassroots game. “Every season, and across every round, the Emirates FA Cup creates incredible moments and unforgettable memories for fans, and this new partnership will see selected matches shown live on TNT Sports, as well as free-to-air, from the first round of the competition through to the Final at Wembley Stadium. "TNT Sports are an outstanding broadcaster with an impressive record of showing some of the biggest and best sporting events around the world, so we are delighted to be working with them on our shared commitment and long-term vision that will ensure the Emirates FA Cup continues to thrive over the coming years." Andrew Georgiou, president and managing director of Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland and WBD Sports Europe, said: "TNT Sports is proud to partner with The FA to present more matches of the world’s most prestigious domestic cup competition than ever before alongside our great line up of the Premier League and UEFA Champions League and club competitions, bringing even more live football to our TNT Sports customers. "The Emirates FA Cup and the incredible stories it creates every season goes well beyond football, making TNT Sports the perfect home as we continue to tell the stories that matter most to the fans. “We have a huge amount of respect for the place that this world-famous competition has in the hearts of football fans and that’s why continuing to ensure we maintain a level of free-to-air coverage is important for us and The FA."

The FSA has partnered with key rail industry and public authorities that make up the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to help them understand the issues that matchgoers face when travelling by rail throughout the season. While the survey has an away fan focus we are also encouraging “home” matchgoers who travel longer distances by rail to complete the survey, as they face many of the same issues as away supporters. This survey is part of their work to better understand the motivations of fans travelling by rail, the issues they face, and the improvements they would like to see made to ticketing and the rail network more generally on matchdays. It could lead to improvements for supporters on the rail network and we're encouraging everyone to take part. Rail survey - take part!

Born and Raised in Leicester Boot Repairers at 22 1/2 Belgrave Gate, c.1900.

Or they are just getting better and more confident to play attacking balls

History of Leicestershire in Images Charlotte Victoria Hubbard · · Sanvey Gate 1965, with the Great Central Hotel on the left.

Ordinary Hub Caps

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · · Abbey Park Road bus and tram depot in 1947.

I read somewhere that 7 refs have been promoted from the EFL to the PL this season so he maybe has come up from L1

Or if you do told not to as it's very dangerous.

School Night

Marianne Faithfull was cheap then

...and were at least half as big again.

Born and Raised in Leicester The last prefab on a site in Allinson Road, off Ambassador Road, Rowlatt’s Hill, Leicester, in 1975

Born and Raised in Leicester Suggested for you · · Granby Halls, 1970's. Like St Margaret's Baths never been suitably replaced.

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · · Look at all those chimney stacks yonder!

Garden Street Island - Leicester Ned Newitt · · SUNDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 6.30PM - SECULAR HALL - HUMBERSTONE GATE This talk will trace the history of the Poor Law in Leicester from 1836 to the unemployed disturbances of 1921. It looks at the regime in Leicester’s workhouse and the poor law riots of the 1840s when the dragoons were brought into the town. It also looks at the prevailing social attitudes towards granting relief to the poor and the role of the Poor Law Guardians. All welcome - admission free. Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome.

https://sportwitness.co.uk/i-dont-regret-anything-leicester-flop-time-king-power-stadium-hails-foxes-fantastic-club/ “I don’t regret anything” – Leicester flop on time at King Power Stadium, hails Foxes as ‘fantastic club’ By Thomas Coast -13th February 2024 Once the star of the show at Sporting CP in Portugal, Islam Slimani was meant to be the big goalscorer to help out Jamie Vardy at Leicester City. The Algeria international was signed by the then Premier League side for a hefty €31m in 2016, only for him to last a season and a half before a string of loans saw him run down his contract, when he left the Foxes on a free transfer to Lyon in 2021. The striker only ever managed to find the back of the net 13 times in 47 appearances for Leicester, on top of seven assists, and the 35-year-old explained what went wrong to Sky Italia, relayed by TuttoMercatoWeb. He said: “At the beginning, everything was going well. Then there was a change of manager (Shakespeare took over from Claudio Ranieri) and he preferred to bet on the players who won the Premier League the year before. “I don’t regret anything. It was a magnificent experience. We had a great group and Leicester is a fantastic club.” The forward also revealed that after his time at Leicester, when he was finding his feet again at AS Monaco, he was wanted by Antonio Conte at Inter Milan, whose plan was for him to help out Romelu Lukaku. That move never came, and he has yet to taste Italian football, with those chances now likely behind him, as he turns out for KV Mechelen in Belgium, signing less than two weeks ago after a stint in Brazil with Coritiba FC.

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Born and Raised in Leicester Elephants parading down Melton Road by St Michael's church when Billy Smart's Circus came to town in the 1950s. On their way to set up the Big Top at Rushey fields it was quite a sight and Billy Smart was quite a character...