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A decent summing up. https://talksport.com/football/1808306/leicester-championship-psr-charges-promotion/ Leicester City are battling a three-part war – and risk losing every single one Charlie Carmichael As we approach eight years since Leicester’s Premier League miracle, the club now finds itself in the midst of a crisis. Good Friday’s defeat to Bristol City marked a fifth loss in eight, leaving The Foxes outside of the Championship’s automatic promotion places, having previously held a 17-point lead earlier in the season. Leicester are on a slippery slope For any club, squandering an immediate return to the Premier League would be a huge concern, but for Leicester, it could prove the difference between operational stability and a wildly uncertain future. That’s because their on-pitch struggles are exaggerated tenfold by the impending threat of sanctions, levelled at the club by both the Premier League and EFL, following its alleged breaches of profit and sustainability regulations. And so, Leicester find themselves battling on three fronts: on the pitch, off the pitch, and in the stands. The Board vs. The League(s) Cast your mind back to the summer of 2021. Leicester were coming off the back of two consecutive fifth-placed finishes and ambitions were at an all-time high. Up to this point, the club’s finances had adhered to a strict business model: sell one star asset each summer, and reinvest the funds appropriately across specific areas of the club. Some were like-for-like – with N’Golo Kanté eventually being replaced by Wilfred Ndidi – while others were more strategic, like leveraging the sale of Harry Maguire to fund the club’s brand new, first-in-class training facility. 2021 brought with it a change in mindset, where Leicester took the proverbial leap from an underdog mentality to wanting to establish themselves as an elite club. And in their eyes, that meant spending money like an elite club. Leicester have an existential crisis on their hands The player sale drawbridge was pulled up, and in came the likes of Patson Daka, Boubakary Soumaré, and Jannik Vestergaard for big fees and wages. This was Leicester’s statement of intent: we’ve rubbed shoulders with the big boys for some time, and now, we’re here to stay. That dream was swiftly shattered by an eighth-placed finish and relegation the season after. The club crashed into the second division with the Premier League's seventh-highest wage bill. Whether you saw the board’s outlay as ambitious management or financial negligence is subjective, but the club had gambled, spending beyond its means to keep pace with others whose revenue dwarfed their’s, and ultimately, lost out big time. The true financial mire remained shrouded in a layer of mystery for supporters, who were largely kept in the dark as to the extent of its precariousness. The sales of James Maddison and Harvey Barnes were followed by reinvestment into the squad, which to most suggested the club was stable and complying with the relevant processes. This faith proved to be unfounded. Leicester entered into a behind-the-scenes tug of war with the EFL, who tried to get the club to submit a business plan, which would demonstrate how it planned to align itself with financial fair play. Leicester refused, exploiting something of a loophole in the rules by arguing that, because it was a Premier League club for all three seasons in question, the EFL’s demands were outside of the league’s jurisdiction. Legal proceedings followed and Leicester duly won their argument over the technicality, but it set the wheels in motion for both the EFL and Premier League to hone in on Leicester as a red-hot target. The club has since been charged with allegedly breaching PSR, and been placed under a player registration embargo, effectively meaning it can’t sign new players or renew expiring contracts, of which there are plenty come this summer. Maresca's men could be in real trouble if they don't get promoted And so, Leicester find themselves embroiled in a gruelling legal battle against both the Premier League and the EFL, desperately trying to argue a case that ostensibly looks illogical. It’s broadly accepted by everyone outside of the club that Leicester have overspent, and haven’t had anywhere near the required incoming revenue to offset it. Commercial deals, merchandise and ticket sales, and player trading are all well behind where they’d need to be. A points deduction feels inevitable – although Leicester seem to have dragged their heels enough to ensure this will come next season due to time constraints – regardless of what division the club finds itself in. A place in the Premier League would mean a tasty slice of television money, perhaps allowing Leicester to retain its star assets, and hopefully not falling foul of PSR by such an alarming margin. A place in the Championship… well, that could mean a firesale of players for cut-price fees, an embargo to prevent any replacements, and a hefty points deduction to kick the season off. It paints the picture of promotion being a necessity. The Team vs. Promotion So what about promotion? The Foxes looked to be cruising back to the Premier League in second gear around Christmas time. Boasting a 17-point lead in the automatic promotion race and a playing style befitting of a top flight side. Manager Enzo Maresca has been lauded since his arrival. Not only for the results he’s brought, but also the way he’s been able to transform the squad from looking utterly rudderless under Brendan Rodgers to reinvigorated and hungry to bounce straight back. His tactics have been called into question at times – opting for a methodical, possession-based style that relies heavily on patience and technique – but by and large, once the wins started flooding in, fans hopped aboard the bandwagon. All that has changed since the turn of the year. Off-pitch drama appears to have infiltrated the players’ mindset, and Championship opponents are beginning to develop a blueprint of how to nullify this Leicester side. The lack of signings in January certainly didn’t help matters, and injuries to key players such as Ricardo Pereira and Ndidi have made Maresca’s task more problematic, but week by week, that 17-point lead was slowly chipped away. This level of self-implosion is nothing new to Leicester. The aforementioned consecutive fifth-placed finishes both came about after spending the vast majority of the season comfortably inside the top four, while last year’s journey to relegation was punctuated by the media and fans alike playing down the warning signs, stating the club was ‘far too good to go down’. Now those same mental frailties are coming to the surface again, with the players hopelessly floundering, all while watching promotion rivals Leeds and Ipswich show a level of grit and resilience seldom seen at the King Power Stadium in recent weeks. Maresca is not above this criticism, either. Those same detractors from earlier in the season are back, lambasting his footballing philosophy, and are joined by more and more fans each passing week. In an idyllic environment, with limited distractions and deep pockets to sign players with unrivalled technique, this style of play is hard to argue against. But belligerently overlooking players outside of the starting XI, persisting with a system that opponents are increasingly negating, and consistently pointing to one or two chances being created as proof of success is wearing thin for some. Leicester looked all-but certain to win promotion a matter of weeks ago All of this adds up to a group of players who look bereft of belief and a manager who won’t compromise his tactics, competing in a campaign that will require a record points tally to achieve automatic promotion. As of right now, it’s not looking great. The Club vs. The Fans The battle with both leagues and the one for promotion are, by their very nature, starting to accentuate a third – a rift with the club’s own fans. Leicester have long been held up as a model of how all other smaller clubs should operate, balancing ambition with prudence, placing emphasis on the academy and recruitment, and channelling an underdog spirit that echoes throughout the stands. How the club is perceived externally has always been important to the ownership, whether it’s as big as defying the odds to win Premier Leagues and FA Cups, or something as novel as gifting free donuts to everyone in attendance. And the ownership has been overwhelmingly celebrated down the years by the fanbase, who to this day belt out ‘Vichai had a dream’ on matchdays in recognition of their late owner who, as the song goes, allowed them to sing that they were indeed the champions of England. As time has passed, though, and the stewardship of the club has fallen to Vichai’s son, Khun Top, there have been murmurs of quiet discontent. For the most part, these haven’t been aimed towards Top, but rather his right-hand man, Director of Football Jon Rudkin. It is Rudkin who is perceived to be the person overseeing so much of the operational mismanagement, whether that’s acquiring underwhelming signings on astronomical wages, failing to offload middle-of-the road squad players, or sticking by Rodgers through thick and thin, only to then relieve him of his duties beyond the point of return. The only criticism levelled at Top thus far has been his apparent blind loyalty to those around him. The club conducted an internal investigation into the issues that led to relegation last summer, which from the outside looking in, appears to have changed very little in regards to how Leicester is being run. The reason most of this is assumed and not known, is down to a distinct lack of transparency from the club, who have done very little to communicate with fans in recent years. The above, combined with a plethora of contentious decisions surrounding the matchday atmosphere and ticket sales – in addition to a serious code of conduct breach which led to the dismissal of Women’s manager, Willie Kirk, over an alleged relationship with a player – has slowly started to erode the trust between the club and its supporters. Some fans have now begun calling for changes to be made at the top of the club, and disgruntled voices across sites like The Fosse Way and podcasts like The Big Strong Leicester Boys are only growing louder. The aftermath of Good Friday’s defeat to Bristol City was met by a mixed reception in the away end at Ashton Gate, with some directing their anger towards the players and manager, while others continued to make their feelings of discontent towards the board be known. Whichever way Leicester City looks at it, they find themselves at odds with two different leagues, in an ever-harder race for promotion, and clinging onto a breaking bond with sections of their own fanbase. Winning promotion won’t solve everything, but failure to do so could well see the club lose its battle on all three fronts.

A decent summing up. https://talksport.com/football/1808306/leicester-championship-psr-charges-promotion/ Leicester City are battling a three-part war – and risk losing every single one Charlie Carmichael As we approach eight years since Leicester’s Premier League miracle, the club now finds itself in the midst of a crisis. Good Friday’s defeat to Bristol City marked a fifth loss in eight, leaving The Foxes outside of the Championship’s automatic promotion places, having previously held a 17-point lead earlier in the season. Leicester are on a slippery slope For any club, squandering an immediate return to the Premier League would be a huge concern, but for Leicester, it could prove the difference between operational stability and a wildly uncertain future. That’s because their on-pitch struggles are exaggerated tenfold by the impending threat of sanctions, levelled at the club by both the Premier League and EFL, following its alleged breaches of profit and sustainability regulations. And so, Leicester find themselves battling on three fronts: on the pitch, off the pitch, and in the stands. The Board vs. The League(s) Cast your mind back to the summer of 2021. Leicester were coming off the back of two consecutive fifth-placed finishes and ambitions were at an all-time high. Up to this point, the club’s finances had adhered to a strict business model: sell one star asset each summer, and reinvest the funds appropriately across specific areas of the club. Some were like-for-like – with N’Golo Kanté eventually being replaced by Wilfred Ndidi – while others were more strategic, like leveraging the sale of Harry Maguire to fund the club’s brand new, first-in-class training facility. 2021 brought with it a change in mindset, where Leicester took the proverbial leap from an underdog mentality to wanting to establish themselves as an elite club. And in their eyes, that meant spending money like an elite club. Leicester have an existential crisis on their hands The player sale drawbridge was pulled up, and in came the likes of Patson Daka, Boubakary Soumaré, and Jannik Vestergaard for big fees and wages. This was Leicester’s statement of intent: we’ve rubbed shoulders with the big boys for some time, and now, we’re here to stay. That dream was swiftly shattered by an eighth-placed finish and relegation the season after. The club crashed into the second division with the Premier League's seventh-highest wage bill. Whether you saw the board’s outlay as ambitious management or financial negligence is subjective, but the club had gambled, spending beyond its means to keep pace with others whose revenue dwarfed their’s, and ultimately, lost out big time. The true financial mire remained shrouded in a layer of mystery for supporters, who were largely kept in the dark as to the extent of its precariousness. The sales of James Maddison and Harvey Barnes were followed by reinvestment into the squad, which to most suggested the club was stable and complying with the relevant processes. This faith proved to be unfounded. Leicester entered into a behind-the-scenes tug of war with the EFL, who tried to get the club to submit a business plan, which would demonstrate how it planned to align itself with financial fair play. Leicester refused, exploiting something of a loophole in the rules by arguing that, because it was a Premier League club for all three seasons in question, the EFL’s demands were outside of the league’s jurisdiction. Legal proceedings followed and Leicester duly won their argument over the technicality, but it set the wheels in motion for both the EFL and Premier League to hone in on Leicester as a red-hot target. The club has since been charged with allegedly breaching PSR, and been placed under a player registration embargo, effectively meaning it can’t sign new players or renew expiring contracts, of which there are plenty come this summer. Maresca's men could be in real trouble if they don't get promoted And so, Leicester find themselves embroiled in a gruelling legal battle against both the Premier League and the EFL, desperately trying to argue a case that ostensibly looks illogical. It’s broadly accepted by everyone outside of the club that Leicester have overspent, and haven’t had anywhere near the required incoming revenue to offset it. Commercial deals, merchandise and ticket sales, and player trading are all well behind where they’d need to be. A points deduction feels inevitable – although Leicester seem to have dragged their heels enough to ensure this will come next season due to time constraints – regardless of what division the club finds itself in. A place in the Premier League would mean a tasty slice of television money, perhaps allowing Leicester to retain its star assets, and hopefully not falling foul of PSR by such an alarming margin. A place in the Championship… well, that could mean a firesale of players for cut-price fees, an embargo to prevent any replacements, and a hefty points deduction to kick the season off. It paints the picture of promotion being a necessity. The Team vs. Promotion So what about promotion? The Foxes looked to be cruising back to the Premier League in second gear around Christmas time. Boasting a 17-point lead in the automatic promotion race and a playing style befitting of a top flight side. Manager Enzo Maresca has been lauded since his arrival. Not only for the results he’s brought, but also the way he’s been able to transform the squad from looking utterly rudderless under Brendan Rodgers to reinvigorated and hungry to bounce straight back. His tactics have been called into question at times – opting for a methodical, possession-based style that relies heavily on patience and technique – but by and large, once the wins started flooding in, fans hopped aboard the bandwagon. All that has changed since the turn of the year. Off-pitch drama appears to have infiltrated the players’ mindset, and Championship opponents are beginning to develop a blueprint of how to nullify this Leicester side. The lack of signings in January certainly didn’t help matters, and injuries to key players such as Ricardo Pereira and Ndidi have made Maresca’s task more problematic, but week by week, that 17-point lead was slowly chipped away. This level of self-implosion is nothing new to Leicester. The aforementioned consecutive fifth-placed finishes both came about after spending the vast majority of the season comfortably inside the top four, while last year’s journey to relegation was punctuated by the media and fans alike playing down the warning signs, stating the club was ‘far too good to go down’. Now those same mental frailties are coming to the surface again, with the players hopelessly floundering, all while watching promotion rivals Leeds and Ipswich show a level of grit and resilience seldom seen at the King Power Stadium in recent weeks. Maresca is not above this criticism, either. Those same detractors from earlier in the season are back, lambasting his footballing philosophy, and are joined by more and more fans each passing week. In an idyllic environment, with limited distractions and deep pockets to sign players with unrivalled technique, this style of play is hard to argue against. But belligerently overlooking players outside of the starting XI, persisting with a system that opponents are increasingly negating, and consistently pointing to one or two chances being created as proof of success is wearing thin for some. Leicester looked all-but certain to win promotion a matter of weeks ago All of this adds up to a group of players who look bereft of belief and a manager who won’t compromise his tactics, competing in a campaign that will require a record points tally to achieve automatic promotion. As of right now, it’s not looking great. The Club vs. The Fans The battle with both leagues and the one for promotion are, by their very nature, starting to accentuate a third – a rift with the club’s own fans. Leicester have long been held up as a model of how all other smaller clubs should operate, balancing ambition with prudence, placing emphasis on the academy and recruitment, and channelling an underdog spirit that echoes throughout the stands. How the club is perceived externally has always been important to the ownership, whether it’s as big as defying the odds to win Premier Leagues and FA Cups, or something as novel as gifting free donuts to everyone in attendance. And the ownership has been overwhelmingly celebrated down the years by the fanbase, who to this day belt out ‘Vichai had a dream’ on matchdays in recognition of their late owner who, as the song goes, allowed them to sing that they were indeed the champions of England. As time has passed, though, and the stewardship of the club has fallen to Vichai’s son, Khun Top, there have been murmurs of quiet discontent. For the most part, these haven’t been aimed towards Top, but rather his right-hand man, Director of Football Jon Rudkin. It is Rudkin who is perceived to be the person overseeing so much of the operational mismanagement, whether that’s acquiring underwhelming signings on astronomical wages, failing to offload middle-of-the road squad players, or sticking by Rodgers through thick and thin, only to then relieve him of his duties beyond the point of return. The only criticism levelled at Top thus far has been his apparent blind loyalty to those around him. The club conducted an internal investigation into the issues that led to relegation last summer, which from the outside looking in, appears to have changed very little in regards to how Leicester is being run. The reason most of this is assumed and not known, is down to a distinct lack of transparency from the club, who have done very little to communicate with fans in recent years. The above, combined with a plethora of contentious decisions surrounding the matchday atmosphere and ticket sales – in addition to a serious code of conduct breach which led to the dismissal of Women’s manager, Willie Kirk, over an alleged relationship with a player – has slowly started to erode the trust between the club and its supporters. Some fans have now begun calling for changes to be made at the top of the club, and disgruntled voices across sites like The Fosse Way and podcasts like The Big Strong Leicester Boys are only growing louder. The aftermath of Good Friday’s defeat to Bristol City was met by a mixed reception in the away end at Ashton Gate, with some directing their anger towards the players and manager, while others continued to make their feelings of discontent towards the board be known. Whichever way Leicester City looks at it, they find themselves at odds with two different leagues, in an ever-harder race for promotion, and clinging onto a breaking bond with sections of their own fanbase. Winning promotion won’t solve everything, but failure to do so could well see the club lose its battle on all three fronts.

Clinging on for a draw.

Form: Last 6 matches GP W D L GF GA GD Pts Opponents PPG 1 Ipswich Town 6 5 0 1 16 5 +11 15 1.08 2 Leeds Utd 6 4 2 0 11 4 +7 14 1.30 3 Norwich City 6 4 1 1 13 5 +8 13 0.91 4 West Brom 6 3 3 0 12 6 +6 12 1.19 5 Coventry City 6 4 0 2 12 7 +5 12 1.19 6 Cardiff City 6 4 0 2 6 6 0 12 1.27 7 Preston 6 3 2 1 10 4 +6 11 1.20 8 Swansea City 6 3 2 1 8 5 +3 11 1.29 9 Middlesbrough 6 3 2 1 7 4 +3 11 1.29 10 QP Rangers 6 3 2 1 8 7 +1 11 1.23 11 Millwall 6 3 2 1 6 5 +1 11 1.51 12 Southampton 6 3 1 2 13 10 +3 10 1.49 13 Sheffield Wed 6 3 1 2 5 10 -5 10 1.31 14 Stoke City 6 3 0 3 7 7 0 9 1.62 15 Hull City 6 1 4 1 6 7 -1 7 1.47 16 Bristol City 6 2 0 4 5 8 -3 6 1.74 17 Watford 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2 5 1.29 18 Huddersfield 6 1 2 3 5 10 -5 5 1.30 19 Blackburn 6 0 4 2 4 6 -2 4 1.21 20 Sunderland 6 1 1 4 5 8 -3 4 1.70 21 Plymouth 6 1 1 4 4 7 -3 4 1.54 22 Leicester City 6 1 1 4 6 10 -4 4 1.63 23 Birmingham City 6 0 1 5 5 10 -5 1 1.41 24 Rotherham 6 0 1 5 1 16 -15 1 1.38 The Opponents PPG values relate to the average home or away Points Per Game values of all opponents faced by each team in the last 6 games. Those home PPG or away PPG values are based on the seasonal Home PPG of the opponents that have been played away and the seasonal Away PPG of the opponents that have been played at home. So the opponents home or away PPG values are always based on ALL home games or on ALL away games of the opponents during the league season (not just in the opponents' last 6 games). Perhaps change title to Occasional Win Thread

Form: Last 6 matches GP W D L GF GA GD Pts Opponents PPG 1 Ipswich Town 6 5 0 1 16 5 +11 15 1.08 2 Leeds Utd 6 4 2 0 11 4 +7 14 1.30 3 Norwich City 6 4 1 1 13 5 +8 13 0.91 4 West Brom 6 3 3 0 12 6 +6 12 1.19 5 Coventry City 6 4 0 2 12 7 +5 12 1.19 6 Cardiff City 6 4 0 2 6 6 0 12 1.27 7 Preston 6 3 2 1 10 4 +6 11 1.20 8 Swansea City 6 3 2 1 8 5 +3 11 1.29 9 Middlesbrough 6 3 2 1 7 4 +3 11 1.29 10 QP Rangers 6 3 2 1 8 7 +1 11 1.23 11 Millwall 6 3 2 1 6 5 +1 11 1.51 12 Southampton 6 3 1 2 13 10 +3 10 1.49 13 Sheffield Wed 6 3 1 2 5 10 -5 10 1.31 14 Stoke City 6 3 0 3 7 7 0 9 1.62 15 Hull City 6 1 4 1 6 7 -1 7 1.47 16 Bristol City 6 2 0 4 5 8 -3 6 1.74 17 Watford 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2 5 1.29 18 Huddersfield 6 1 2 3 5 10 -5 5 1.30 19 Blackburn 6 0 4 2 4 6 -2 4 1.21 20 Sunderland 6 1 1 4 5 8 -3 4 1.70 21 Plymouth 6 1 1 4 4 7 -3 4 1.54 22 Leicester City 6 1 1 4 6 10 -4 4 1.63 23 Birmingham City 6 0 1 5 5 10 -5 1 1.41 24 Rotherham 6 0 1 5 1 16 -15 1 1.38 The Opponents PPG values relate to the average home or away Points Per Game values of all opponents faced by each team in the last 6 games. Those home PPG or away PPG values are based on the seasonal Home PPG of the opponents that have been played away and the seasonal Away PPG of the opponents that have been played at home. So the opponents home or away PPG values are always based on ALL home games or on ALL away games of the opponents during the league season (not just in the opponents' last 6 games).

https://www.footballinsider247.com/leicester-city-financial-breach-is-biggest-so-far-ex-pl-ceo-suggests-hefty-points-deduction/ Leicester City financial breach is ‘biggest so far’ -ex-PL CEO suggests hefty points deduction Wayne Veysey Wayne Veysey Sat 30 March 2024 7:45, UK Former Everton chief Keith Wyness has insisted Leicester City’s financial rule breach is the “biggest so far”. Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – claimed a penalty of “six points” would be fair and called for leniency from the Premier League. Leicester were charged with breaching the top-flight Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) last week (22 March). The Foxes accounts for the 2022-23 campaign have not yet been made public but are expected to show a loss of more than £105million for the last three full seasons. Enzo Maresca’s side will not face a points deduction for the current season, however, as fast-track for the punishment process was brought in after the club were relegated last year (2023). Leicester City PSR breach is ‘biggest so far’ – 2022-23 accounts ‘won’t be pretty’ Leicester sit second in the Championship and are level on points with leaders Leeds with a game in hand. Wyness told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “As we’ve seen, every case is heard by a different independent panel who all seem to come to a different conclusion. “I think with the furore that has been unleashed with some of the earlier cases, they may be more lenient in future. Join the Football Insider WhatsApp channel to get all our exclusives and the breaking transfer news FIRST. “You’d hope something like six points would be the penalty, but the numbers behind Leicester’s breach are going to be pretty big. Leicester “With £92million of losses for the 2021-22 season and then their next set of accounts, which aren’t going to be pretty, it’s the biggest breach so far. “But who knows what mitigating factors the lawyers can spin up with this one?”

It's always been like that it's ingrained in the club culture.

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · tdonrspoeSt23au6a98u5tm21i921imh290mii2l6u81t250gg9h934atft7 · Now and Then. The Three Cranes pub. Just to think that the beautiful building on the right was demolished and replaced with something that resembles prison walls. The word sacrilegious comes to mind. The history of Leicester, is disappearing little by little, every single day. 

The Football Community · Miroslav Klose: “I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused. When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'. At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?' They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists. Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.” Sort of reflects life in general but it's not just young people.

Engineering Explained · Follow · Structural behavior of cantilever beams 🤜Famous photograph by Benjamin Baker, in which through a living model the cantilever structural principle on which the solution to the Firth Bridge over the Forth🤛 was based was depicted. 👉"To illustrate the structural theory of a cantilever beam (Gerber), a human demonstration was carried out. The loads were represented by the person sitting in the middle of the span of the suspended span. The arms of the persons seated on both sides represented the traction at the joints; the wooden bars, the compression at the lower elements, and the bricks, the anchor points located at the pylons. The chairs represent the granite piles. Imagine the chairs 500 m apart and the men's heads as high as St. Paul's cross (London church, 104 m) their arms represented by steel beams and the canes by 3.5 m diameter tubes at the base you get a good notion of the structure." 👉Heinrich Gerber applied in 1866 a theory that consisted in subdividing the continuous beam through ball-and-socket joints "which define a point of zero bending moment". This type of beam with intermediate joints is what is now known as a Gerber beam. The position where these hinges are located allows influencing the behavior of the beam; therefore, it is not only used directly in some structures, but in some projects a real beam can be idealized by assimilating it to a Gerber beam, whose isostatism allows a simple approximate calculation.

OS LCFC Statement: Willie Kirk LCFC WOMEN Published 12 hrs 56 mins ago 1 MinuteReading time Leicester City Football Club can confirm that Willie Kirk has been dismissed from his position as LCFC Women Manager. Following an extensive internal disciplinary process and respecting the Club’s obligations to individual privacy, Willie was determined to have breached the team’s code of conduct to a degree that makes his position untenable. Established and implemented ahead of the start of the current season, the code forms part of the Club’s ongoing commitment to professionalising the women’s game since the takeover of LCFC Women in 2020, promoting a performance-led culture among players, coaches and technical staff. First Team responsibilities for LCFC Women will continue to be led by Jennifer Foster, supported by Stephen Kirby, while the Club begins the process of appointing a new permanent manager.

We already counter attack when the opportunity arises. If you want to set your team up to only play counter attacking you need to tell them all to sit back in their own half. We have players that are not right and to good to spend 90+ minutes waiting to counter attack.

Leicester sack Willie Kirk after investigation into alleged relationship with player Foxes manager was suspended by the club on 8 March Jennifer Foster and Stephen Kirby in temporary charge Exclusive by Suzanne Wrack Thu 28 Mar 2024 11.50 EDT Share Leicester have sacked manager Willie Kirk after an investigation into an alleged relationship with a player. The Guardian revealed on 8 March that Kirk had been suspended while the club carried out an investigation into an alleged relationship with one of his squad members. The manager was then absent from the team’s 2-0 defeat of Liverpool, which earned them a place in the FA Cup semi-finals, where they will play Tottenham at the Tottenham Stadium on 14 April, with Foster and Kirby sharing caretaker duties. They have since lost the two leagues game they have played, suffering a 1-0 defeat to Tottenham and 3-2 loss against Brighton. The 45-year-old Kirk joined Leicester as director of football in July 2022 and became manager after the departure of Lydia Bedford four months later. When Kirk took charge of Leicester, they had played six games without collecting a point but he guided them to safety, finishing the season on 16 points, above Brighton and relegated Reading. Kirk began his coaching career as an Under-14s coach at Scottish side Livingston and coached the clubs Under-17s before joining Hibernian in 2009 as Under-17s manager. He became manager of Hibs’ women’s team in 2010 before spells at Preston, Bristol City, Manchester United (as an assistant to Casey Stoney) and Everton. Relationships between managers and players in women’s football have been in the spotlight since Kirk’s suspension. It is the second time a manager has been investigated and sacked this year, with Sheffield United relieving Jonathan Morgan of his duties for an alleged relationship with a player during his time at Leicester, before the club was professional and affiliated with the men’s side. Several WSL managers spoke out on the issue on the wake of Kirk’s suspension with the Aston Villa manager, Carla Ward, describing relationships between players and managers as “unacceptable” and Arsenal’s Jonas Eidevall calling them “very inappropriate”. Ward and Bristol City manager Lauren Smith said that it should be a “sackable offence”. The England manager, Sarina Wiegman, echoed the sentiments of her WSL counterparts when she discussed the subject for the first time in her press conference for the Lionesses squad announcement on Tuesday. “I think player-coach relationships are very inappropriate,” ­she said. “We should not accept that and it’s not healthy. Our environment is a professional one, it’s all about ­performing and it should always be safe. Things can happen but it’s ­inappropriate and we all should be very aware of that. Asked whether the Football Association or NewCo, which will take over the running of England’s top two divisions from next season, should ban such relationships, she said: “I think it is common sense … but when it happens too often you need regulations. I’ll leave that up to others.”

I'm pretty sure Belvoir Drive would have managed that for a few more years. Having our latest big hope "stolen" from us hardly looks good for the future benefits you mention. Plus it's not just the stadium expansion the whole project is for generating extra revenue I doubt they'd be planning it if they didn't think it was lucrative enough to warrant the outlay.

But finishing 4th is better

So would a bigger stadium and the extra revenue unlike Seagrave which is a strain on resources I’d imagine. Belvoir Drive was as good as many maybe even better than some and as @Stadt said wrong way around.

SEagrave seems more like a vanity project.

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · · Now and Then. The corner of Ayelstone Rd and Middleton St. what a beautiful house this was. Or houses, as it appears to be two houses.

I fitted some new wipers last week although it was my second attempt as I was given the wrong ones at first.

'Just about every club is living in fear of making an accounting error' published at 10:38 10:38 Pat Nevin Former footballer and presenter Premier League badge The Premier League appears desperate to destroy its position as the go-to league. Who needs competition from Serie A and La Liga when you have overcomplicated, Byzantine financial rules? Just about every club is living in fear of making an accounting error that could lead to docked points. Nottingham Forest suffered a four-point deduction from what was a technical breach, simply because they were trying to be competitive after years away from the top table. Everton were dealt a heftier blow and there may be more to come. Suddenly the lawyers feel the need to go after Leicester City, who aren't in the league but could face a knockout blow if they have the audacity to get promoted. Manchester City and Chelsea fans must be quaking in case they are next to fall foul of the financial hit men. The rules are overcomplicated and the implementation is bizarre. It is perfectly possible we will not know who has been relegated until rulings have been challenged. The game is being run by people who have no love or knowledge of the sport, specifically that the 'nuclear option' of points deductions should only ever be used in extraordinary, exceptional and unusual circumstances. Pat Nevin was writing for the

Leicester Memories Peter Taylor · terdopsonShmtc847ff8agl99m9mh0ct325hi9640197t0g71h8hc0h0f4aa · John Mastin ( Rum Weather ) an old character from Leicester`s past .

One of my favourite players but then so many from that time. ive been to filbert street n stood on the kop those were the days my friend · Join Steven Glew · · Jackie Sinclair joined City in 1965 scoring 53 goals in just 113 appearances

Abbey Road Tribute · Follow · The song that was a turning point for George as a songwriter When George left The Beatles, he was ready to take on the world, and for a period of time, he was the biggest name that the Beatles had produced. With the success of All Things Must Pass, George proved what he had already known for a long time; he was a great songwriter. George’s songwriting contributions continued to increase from the moment he wrote and recorded ‘Don’t Bother Me’. “At least it showed me that all I needed to do was keep on writing, and then maybe eventually I would write something good”. “George got stuck with being the Beatle that had to fight to get songs on records because of Lennon and McCartney. Well, who wouldn’t get stuck?” said Bob Dylan in 2006. “If George had had his own group and was writing his own songs back then, he’d have been probably just as big as anybody.” The opening track on Revolver, ‘Taxman’ marked not only George using his own life to help him write songs, but arguably the first moment he really ascended to match the levels set by John and Paul. “I remember the day he called to ask for help on ‘Taxman’, one of his first songs,” John said in 1980. “I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along, because that’s what he asked for. He came to me because he couldn’t go to Paul, because Paul wouldn’t have helped him at that period. I didn’t want to do it. I thought, Oh, no, don’t tell me I have to work on George’s stuff. It’s enough doing my own and Paul’s.” “But because I loved him and I didn’t want to hurt him when he called that afternoon and said, ‘Will you help me with this song?’ I just sort of bit my tongue and said OK. It had been John and Paul for so long, he’d been left out because he hadn’t been a songwriter up until then”. “Unlike our previous LPs, this one is intended to show our versatility rather than a haphazard collection of songs…George has written three of the tracks. On past LPs he never did more than two,” said Paul “I wouldn’t say that my songs are autobiographical; ‘Taxman’ is, perhaps,” George said. “The early ones were just any words I could think of.” After Taxman, George would go on a cracking run of songs, providing some of The Beatles’ finest cuts, including songs as ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Thanks to Boris.