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I wasn't there, sadly that was one of the very few games I missed

RIP Stan Bowles Seen here causally reading the match day program while waiting for a corner to be taken #QPR

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · · Late 50s / Early 60s ? New Parks Social Club

History of Leicestershire in Images Steve Anderson · · Belvoir Street 1949

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/leicester-city-season-hinges-reputation-9122614 Leicester City season hinges on reputation they must shake off after Leeds comeback fuels flames Leicester City produced the performance in a big game that everybody had been asking for but defeat means the gap has closed and their task for the run-in has changed ByJordan Blackwell 14:09, 24 FEB 2024 This was the performance in a big game that everybody had been asking for. And yet it’s yielded no points. It was as tough an assignment for Leicester City as is possible in the Championship. Leeds arrived into the game brimming with confidence after eight straight wins, a run in which they had conceded just once. They were undefeated at home all season. Their fans were pumped up to the max. City were entering a cauldron. Plus, Leeds’ all-action, transitional style is in direct contrast to City’s. It feels like it’s Kryptonite for a side playing the way Enzo Maresca’s team do. It was never going to get harder than this. Yet City were brilliant. They started excellently, playing their way but also showing Leeds they were up for the fight. After 15 minutes, they had a goal to show for the openings they had created and they had reduced Elland Road to a hush. Leeds had a couple of opportunities spurned by Wilfried Gnonto and Crysencio Summerville shortly afterwards, but as the hosts then built pressure over the remainder of the first half, City point-blank refused to let them enter their penalty area. Resilience and strength was shown in abundance. Then came the second half and the flurry of chances. City ripped through Leeds when they attacked. There were lovely passing moves and incisive counters. It was thrilling to watch. If City had been 4-0 ahead going into the final 15 minutes, nobody could have called them fortunate. The midfield trio in particular were excellent. They were stronger, more agile, and connected play better than their Leeds’ counterparts. In their Maresca-branded “huge, huge, huge game”, Leeds were bottling it. They kept giving the ball to City and couldn’t sustain any attacks. Then came the final 10 minutes. There was no spell of sustained pressure before Connor Roberts’ equaliser. It came out of the blue. But once it went in, the crowd went up, momentum swung drastically in Leeds’ favour, and City melted. They were camped in and conceded twice more. They couldn’t cope. Even before the final whistle, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall looked around with his hands on his head, scarcely believing how the game had played out. Maresca said the hosts were “mentally better” in the final 10 minutes and while he suggested it was easy for Leeds, with their fans behind them, to feel on top in that moment, it was still a brave admission from the City boss, and one that gets to the heart of the task they now face. The season is now a test of mental strength. City are still in pole position. At the start of the season, nobody would have turned down a six-point lead with 12 games to go. However, if Ipswich win on Saturday, the gap to third will have fallen from 14 points to six in eight days. It will be the smallest the cushion has been in more than five months. That brings pressure. And it's not yet known how this team copes with that. Fans may point to the late collapses in 2020 and 2021, when City spent all of the season in the top four only to miss out on the Champions League in the final fortnight of the campaign, but this is a different squad with a different manager. They don’t need to be tarred with that brush yet. But there have been a few incidents of late goals conceded over the past few months, and that won’t help supporter confidence. It would have been a real boost if, after Roberts’ equaliser, City had shown steel, composed themselves, and seen out a draw. But that Leeds smothered them only adds to some fans’ feeling that City don’t have the required psychological strength to get over the line. Then again, they just went into one of their toughest games of the season and produced one of their best showings of the season. They didn’t wilt at the deafening pre-match noise. Had the linesman correctly given Patson Daka’s goal, all of this may be irrelevant. But that doesn’t change what the run-in’s about. The first three-quarters of the season have shown that City have the ability and tactical idea to get promoted. But you need more than that in the final couple of months. And now the gap has closed, City’s mental toughness really will be put to the test. After keeping their rivals at arm’s length for most of the campaign, they can now feel them breathing down their neck. Now’s the time to show they have the strength of mind to get the job done and show that it’s wrong to place them in the same bracket as the team that twice missed out on the Champions League.

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While he's under contract to us I'd say he has very little influence over his career trajectory. I doubt he's had much choice as to where he's loaned as the club would want to ensure it was financially good for them. The alternative would have been to refuse the loans and sit on a training bench for several years.

Aye if we'd have wanted a stadium of the North we would have kept that or could have built the new Wembley in the Midlands satisfying both North and South.

RIP

Belgrave Road, yes don't know about where the B&M is.

Leicester Old and New · Nigel Tout · · Stock car race at Blackbird Road Stadium in Summer 1984. My picture is an amalgamation of two photographs stitched together.

Story of Leicester · Do you know the grand, half-timbered building on the corner of Wellington Street and King Street which can be seen as you walk down Market Street? It looks very old, like it's been there for 100s of years - well it hasn't! Called 'The Original Four Building' it was in fact built in 1930 by architects G. P. K. Young and was originally an insurance office for General Accident. See here in the early 1910s when it was Castle's Motors.

Wigston South Station British Railways Steam Locomotive November 4th 1961 (Photo by Mike Mitchell)

1971

Leeds United, better than us, already won the league according to them and many pundits.

Luck does but there's nothing 'even' about Pawson's refereeing.

Faraway spends most of his time defending

wiki The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer (a shortening of "association"), it was later reduced to the modern spelling.[11][12] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.[13] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[14]

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league-distorted-championship-leeds-leicester-2922899?ITO=newsnow OPINION By Daniel Storey Chief Football Writer The Premier League has distorted the Championship – look at Leeds and Leicester The promoted clubs go straight back down and the relegated clubs go up again - this is not a good system for anyone, but other Championship clubs are suffering the most February 23, 2024 1:02 pm(Updated 1:03 pm) On 10 February, Southampton trailed 2-0 at half-time in their Championship home fixture against Huddersfield Town and Russell Martin knew that he needed to change something, ideally several things. Martin had already brought on Joe Rothwell after 33 minutes, and continued in the same vein thereafter: David Brooks, Samuel Edozie, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Sekou Mara. Those players provided four goals and three assists and Southampton won the game 5-3. Brooks and Rothwell were January loan signings from Premier League Bournemouth. Their wages will be considerable. The other three were signed for combined transfer fees of around £35m last season. And these were Southampton’s Plan B players in the second tier. Huddersfield’s five substitutes: three academy graduates and two players signed for less than a million pounds combined. This wasn’t a Championship fixture; it was two in one. This has been a season like no other in which to assess the financial disparity between English football’s mini-tiers. The Premier League’s bottom three are, currently, the three promoted clubs, potentially the first time since 1998 that all three immediately go back down. One saving grace may be the points deduction handed down to Everton – and another could follow for Nottingham Forest – two clubs who overreached in the vain hope of matching the financial elite. In the Championship, three of the top four are the relegated clubs. Leicester have found life supremely easy after relegation and hold a nine-point lead with 13 games left. Leeds and Southampton both wobbled at the season’s start under new managers, but have enjoyed extended unbeaten runs. For the first time ever, it may well be the same three coming down and the same three going up. There are theories, reasons to explain this away as a freak. Sheffield United came up with ownership uncertainty. Burnley had a dogmatic tactical philosophy that got found out. Leicester’s team was never a relegation candidate on paper. Southampton and Leeds paid the price for a series of bad decisions and the Championship permitted a period of spring cleaning and introspection. Ipswich have been a glorious exception and may yet crash the parachute payment party. We should wish them well, as an antidote to the status quo if nothing else. Now take several steps backward to take in the full panorama. Effective competition in the Premier League and Championship is struggling to exist as a concept. Promoted clubs (who have been in the EFL for the previous two years) are permitted to record three-year losses of £61m, £44m lower than existing Premier League clubs, despite missing out on the same broadcasting riches. They begin the race from behind the start line. Increasingly, some are choosing to bank the money rather than gambling on survival in a league weighted against them and you can’t blame them. In the Championship, the imbalance is just as stark. More than the depth of first-team squads and transfer activity, it is wage bills that accurately predict performance. Football finance site Capology estimates that Leicester’s wage bill for this season is around £60m with Southampton and Leeds around £40m. BURNLEY, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 17: Josh Brownhill of Burnley looks dejected after his team concede during the Premier League match between Burnley FC and Arsenal FC at Turf Moor on February 17, 2024 in Burnley, England. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Copa/Getty Images) The Premier League’s three promoted clubs could go straight back down (Photo: Getty) Not only are they the top three in the division by a distance, those estimates would make Leicester’s wage bill at least four times higher than 17 other clubs in the division. Parachute payments were intended to create a soft landing. They’re now acting like a trampoline. How do other clubs cope? They mostly don’t. We can cherish the honourable exceptions, the Luton Town of last year and the Ipswich Town of this, but they are increasingly rare. Between 2010 and 2019, eight clubs bounced back to the Premier League within two years. Since the new TV began in 2019-20, six clubs have already done exactly that and six may become nine before the end of May. Were this simply a case of replacement, the only issue would be the erosion of competition: the same select clubs, relying upon parachute payments, go up and the same clubs eventually return from whence they came; rinse and repeat. But it’s the by-product of that cycle that is most damaging: wanton desperation. In the Premier League, clubs feel the heat and so invest heavily to try and avoid relegation back to the financial apocalypse. Nottingham Forest have bought 40-odd players since promotion, Bournemouth spent £120m last summer, Burnley have signed 19 players since promotion at a cost of over £100m and Farhad Moshiri spent £400m trying to shift Everton away from their mediocrity. What’s the alternative, accept your fate and succumb? In the Championship, desperation culture rules all. Parachute payments allow those relegated to retain deep squads and the rest of the division urges to keep up with the Joneses. For the last five years in a row, Championship clubs have spent more on wages alone than they make in revenue. Not only are they pitted against the parachute payment tide, they’re actually trying to fight it because to avoid doing so is to be accused of a lack of ambition. Every now and then one comes close to popping. West Brom have just got new owners and just as well too. The same three clubs going up and the same three clubs going down, if it happens, would be a line in the sand. We need greater redistribution of wealth. We need effective competition to be enforced. We need clubs at the lower end of the Championship to believe that the Premier League is a dream that doesn’t rely upon risking the club’s entire future.

Story of Leicester · Follow Some more local street name history for you today... During the Victorian period, builders constructing the terraced streets between Narborough Road and Western Road accidentally discovered a long-forgotten cemetery. Although they could not tell which period the skeletal remains were from, it was clear that they were ancient. To commemorate their discovery, the streets constructed over the cemetery were named Roman Street and Saxon Street. The surrounding streets continued this theme, with Celt, Briton, Gaul, and Norman Streets being named after other ancient peoples. Archaeological excavations on the former Equity Shoes site between 2010 and 2015 found more burials. These, and the cemetery uncovered by the earlier builders, were identified as dating from the Roman period. The Western Road Cemetery, as it became known, sat on either side of the Fosse Way road as it approached the West Gate of Leicester's Roman town. Image: credit - Landmark Information Group & Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright #StoryofLeicester