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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-likened-poisoned-chalice-10824719 Leicester City likened to 'poisoned chalice' for Gary Rowett as unanimous survival verdict delivered Gary Rowett has 14 matches to save the Foxes from a disastrous successive relegation Dan Marsh, Peter Smith Stoke City reporter and Brian Dick Reach Football Correspondent 09:00, 20 Feb 2026 There is no doubting Gary Rowett has a wealth of Championship experience. Since the rebrand of the Championship in 2004-05, only four managers – Neil Warnock, Tony Mowbray, Mick McCarthy and Ian Holloway – have been in charge of more fixtures in the division than Rowett has. With none of them currently at second-tier clubs, it means Leicester City now have the most experienced manager in the division in their dugout. In all, Rowett has managed 418 Championship matches across five clubs and has been almost a permanent fixture in the division for more than a decade. Gary Rowett's first acts as Leicester City manager as he makes 'five years' vow Gary Rowett reacts to Leicester City PSR appeal as boss immediately thrust into off-pitch drama He has a points-per-game ratio of 1.46 in the division. If he enjoyed such a record with City over the next 14 matches, that would earn 20 points, taking them to a tally of 52 for the season, which would likely be enough to earn survival. Here, three of our writers here at Reach - Brian Dick, Pete Smith and Dan Marsh - give an insight into Rowett’s reigns at three previous clubs in the Championship in Birmingham City, Stoke City and Millwall and deliver their verdicts on Leicester’s survival hopes under him. Birmingham City Rowett had two very contrasting spells in charge at Blues, writes Brian Dick, who reported on Blues during Rowett's reigns. The first, more than a decade ago, under difficult financial circumstances with the club’s owner behind bars – the second, 18 months ago, trying to pick up the pieces of a campaign shattered by Wayne Rooney’s incompetence and Tony Mowbray’s illness. Rowett first came to Blues as a fresh-faced young manager for whom the only way was up after they were hammered 8-1 at home by Bournemouth. He quickly organised the defence with a stable, pragmatic 4-2-3-1 set-up reliant on the all-round ability of Clayton Donaldson to be able to play as a target man and score goals. The recovery was instantaneous. In his two years he would try to evolve the team and did it reasonably well, recording two tenth placed finishes but never quite able to break through the financial glass ceiling. When he was sacked in December 2016 Blues were seventh, three points off third. Gianfranco Zola came in, lasted mere months and they ended up 19th avoiding relegation on the last day. Rowett’s first stint was a success. His second, though, was a poisoned chalice. He arrived in March 2024 after Blues had sacked John Eustace, with the team sixth, and watched Rooney ruin the campaign. Mowbray looked to have steadied the ship but illness cut short his tenure. Rowett had eight games to stave off relegation and the players didn’t have the fight to do it. He won three of those games but many fans feel his tactical caution in relegation battles with Rotherham and Huddersfield meant Blues drew games they should have won. In the end they were relegated on the final day. Quite frankly I see so many parallels between Birmingham then and Leicester now, a malaise seems to have set in and the players don’t seem to have the mental fortitude to stay up. Rowett should be able to rectify the clean sheet situation but he’ll also have to harness the attacking talents at his disposal. I’d back him to keep City up because of players like Abdul Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi but also because West Brom and Blackburn have their own off-field issues. Stoke City Nathan Jones was telling a white lie last week after being subjected to 90 minutes of very loud, and sometimes quite dark, stick from Stoke fans from the away end at Charlton. He responded with a volley back at full-time until making a sharp exit when he was confronted by towering Stoke coach Ryan Shawcross, writes Pete Smith, our Stoke City writer. “Stoke fans gave me stick when I was there so I expect that,” said Jones. “I wouldn’t read too much into that, it’s part and parcel of it. They give me a little bit and I give them a little bit.” Except that Stoke fans had backed Jones to the hilt through the thin and thin of an exhausting 10 months back in 2019. There was an incredible amount of patience and will for him to make it work. That certainly wasn’t the case for Gary Rowett, who had been the wrong man at the wrong time a year previously. Rowett was nicked from Derby County with a task of steering Stoke to an immediate Premier League return, backed by an unprecedented Championship budget. They were runaway bookies’ favourites for promotion. But it didn’t seem right from the start. He undoubtedly had a challenge with egos – some of the behaviour from expensive players who failed at Stoke was unforgivable – but it became apparent that he wasn’t even getting on with some of the good guys. Plus, the calibre of signings stank: James McClean, Benik Afobe, Sam Clucas, Ryan Woods and Tom Ince still make fans shiver. It would be fascinating, if depressing, to hear the unfiltered thoughts from him, the then technical director and the chief executive about their relationship behind the scenes as all this played out. Content cannot be displayed without consent On the pitch, Stoke were blown away in an opening day humiliation by Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds and supporters were singing ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ by the fourth league game, a 3-0 home defeat to Wigan. There was a 10-game unbeaten run up to Christmas but then the wheels came off spectacularly. He made the blunder of turning on fans when they were singing the name of Bojan Krkic, a beloved playmaker who was being frozen out. He limped on for a few more days before the axe swung. His record since then going against Stoke has been superb. He’s got six wins and three draws in 11 games and there was a sense of familiar dread when it emerged that he’ll be in the away dugout this weekend. But Stoke walloped his Oxford side 3-0 in November and a packed away end enjoyed that a lot. There was a loud, regular chant about his style of football that is guaranteed another airing on Saturday. “What am I going to say about Stoke fans?” he said at full-time. “It was the worst nine months of my entire footballing career but I’ve still been pretty complimentary about them since I left. Listen, I’m a big boy and I understand how football works. I don’t really think about Stoke an awful lot and if they still want to sing that, fantastic.” For all that, I am convinced that Oxford’s chances of staying up were slashed considerably when he left there in December. I would be shocked if he didn’t get Leicester considerably more organised and keep them up pretty comfortably. But, and it’s genuinely nothing against Leicester, there would be a lot of people laughing in this part of the world if he didn’t. Millwall Gary Rowett played a significant role in building Millwall up to where they are today, even though he was unable to take that final step himself, writes Senior Sports Reporter and Lions supporter Dan Marsh. During his four years in charge, he turned the club into perennial play-off contenders after building on the work done before him by Neil Harris. The football could be pragmatic at times, but it was effective and made the best of the tools at his disposal. For me, Rowett is a good, solid Championship manager; we constantly punched above our weight under him which led to a mentality shift where relegation no longer felt like a concern before or during campaigns. His ability to grind out points when the going got tough proved invaluable. It felt like the natural end of a cycle when he did step away, with perhaps my one major criticism being that a parting of the ways would have been more fitting at the end of the previous season after a final day implosion v Blackburn cost us a play-off place. He's a polished operator, will get people onside and, crucially, also knows his stuff. As mentioned above, he can grind out points and isn't afraid to go back to basics when needed. It might seem odd given that he was let go by a relegation rival, but in light of Leicester's current plight, Rowett would have been my top pick to get them out of it. Leicester's squad on paper is far better than that of a team in a relegation dogfight and if anyone can get them picking up points, it'll be Rowett. Whether he'll be a success or not long-term is another matter - but I suppose that's not a pressing priority right now.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/13509082/leicester-city-a-points-deduction-yet-another-manager-and-a-grossly-underperforming-squad Leicester City: A points deduction, yet another manager and a 'grossly underperforming squad'

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gary-rowetts-first-acts-leicester-10825217 Gary Rowett's first acts as Leicester City manager as he makes 'five years' vow The new Leicester City manager has spoken to the media for the first time since taking over at the King Power Stadium on a deal until the end of the Championship campaign Jordan Blackwell 16:37, 19 Feb 2026 Gary Rowett expects the Leicester City squad to meet his standards as he gets set to run the club like he’s been handed a five-year contract. Rowett has been appointed to the hotseat at the King Power Stadium on a deal until the end of the season with the remit of keeping the club in the Championship. But he said he’ll act like he’s at City for the long haul as he sets out his expectations of the players in order to draw the best out of them. However, that does not necessarily mean he’ll be serving up hard truths over their position in the table. While City have majorly underperformed to find themselves in the relegation zone, Rowett says weighing them down won’t help. “The work on the training pitch, it’s not just the shape and how we want to play, it’s also trying to affect the psychology of the team,” Rowett said at his first press conference on Thursday. “How do we want to finish the season? We are where we are through, to a certain degree, our own fault, because of our performances over a period of time. We’ve got to do something about it. It’s showing the determination to do that. It’s trying to be positive. “There’s no point me coming in and weighing them down with what’s happened and where they’ve been. I’m not interested in that. I’m interested in what we can do moving forward. “Whether you’re 36 or 16, on a four-year contract or out of contract at the end of the season, it doesn’t matter. You finish the season as strong as you can and that benefits everybody at the football club and we’ll all feel better about ourselves. That’s been the clear message. “It’s trying to give them a bit of freedom as well. Sometimes when you’re in the position, the pressure hits. Fans wonder if players are putting the effort in. “But you can be affected by the pressure of where you are, so it’s taking that pressure away and showing the best version of the team. “(Players that don’t show dedication) don’t play. In a perfect world, every player wants to do what you ask. We’ve had a really good response in the first couple of days. “There are non-negotiables in terms of the standards. I’m here for 14 games, but I’ll lead the culture as though I’m here for five years. It doesn’t matter to me, it’s about what I believe is right and what I believe is wrong. “I’m looking forward to seeing how they respond to certain situations. I’ve got my fingers crossed like everyone else that we can win games quickly. We’ll learn something either way and we’ll attack the game as positively as we can.” As well as improving the psychology of the side, Rowett will know he needs to improve the defence. City are on a run of 26 games without a clean sheet in the Championship. He said: “(The first priority) is to find the right balance. It’s a brutal league at times, with the number of games and intensity, and what the team have found is that it can be hard to find a stable platform of attacking but not conceding lots of chances. “It’s about finding a balance to defend efficiently and effectively and consistently. That then gives the attacking players a really nice platform to be able to showcase their talents because we’ve got some very good players in the building. “Sometimes it’s finding that right balance. It’s not always the best 11 players, it’s about the synergy between the team and understanding this league. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but you do have to work incredibly hard to win games of football. “It all comes down to the organisation and the platform that gives the team the confidence to attack and keep attacking because you’re not having to constantly go and defend, and it becomes a basketball match. “That’s the work we’ve done so far. A bit of clarity and a clear, direct message to the players over how we move forward.”

Leicester City Fc The Memories & Reborn Now And Then & Forever · Follow ROBBIE JAMES 1983-1984 Stoke City 1987-1988 Leicester City I now recall him as being below average at best.

Surely any sort of PSR should be set so that they stop clubs from over expending themselves by agreeing exorbitant wages that they cannot afford. This is all after the horse has bolted and will inevitably put extra strain on clubs.

“This time next year Rodders… we’ll be Premier League Champions!”

Leicester Memories Julia Mason John Bull - Evington Valley Road Following on from my post about telephone boxes and the one from my youth, located outside of the John Bull factory........... many Leicester people will recognise this impressive archive photograph. This is the John Bull Rubber Company factory, on Evington Valley Road, in the 1950s when it was a major employer in this area of the city. The building is still standing today, although divided up into different units for small businesses. The firm, whose name became known around the world, can be traced back to 1906 when John Cecil Burton (28) and his brother, Hubert Henry Burton (19), used £400 of savings to open a tiny warehouse in Granby Place, Leicester, from where they sold imported cycle tyres. They named their fledgling business the Leicester Rubber Company and, within two years, initial trademarks had been dropped in favour of one destined for commercial fame - John Bull - although the latter was not formally incorporated into the company's name until 1934. By 1909, the business had moved to larger premises in Post Office Place, Leicester, and acquired a patent for a novel method of fitting and joining perambulator tyring, which it was customary to buy in lengths in those days. About this time, too, the John Bull repair outfit came onto the market and, when later red patches (in place of the grey ones which had been sold separately) were included in the pack, sales rocketed with as many 'outfits' being sold in a week than there had previously been in a whole year. In 1915, a site for a new factory was found in Evington Valley Road where the company started manufacturing its own cycle and pram tyres. During the Second World War, production was switched to the war effort and the firm made gas masks and solid rubber tyres for tanks. In 1955 the John Bull group companies merged and in 1958 the company became part of the Dunlop Rubber Company.

To which the reply would be - We're Cheats and we know we are.

So there's probably more chance of extra points as there is of reducing the 6 points

Premier League Statement 19 Feb 2026 Leicester City Football Club has appealed the decision of an independent Commission to impose a six-point deduction on the club, after it found them to be in breach of the EFL Profit and Sustainability Rules. The Premier League has lodged its own appeal, limited to the Commission’s decision not to impose a sanction on the club for its breach of the League’s rules regarding the late submission of its Annual Accounts. The parties submitted their appeals to the Chair of the Judicial Panel, who will now appoint an Appeal Board to hear the case. To provide certainty for all clubs and fans, the Premier League will be seeking to have the appeal resolved urgently, and in any event before the end of the EFL season.

Let's hope if that is the case all dumpties' currently in the team are long gone.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-chairman-top-outlines-10823414 Leicester City chairman Top outlines why Gary Rowett was selected for 'fight for survival' Twenty-four days after Marti Cifuentes' exit, City have hired Gary Rowett on a deal until the end of the season, with 14 games for the new manager to keep them up Jordan Blackwell 21:09, 18 Feb 2026 Leicester City chairman Aiyawatt 'Top' Srivaddhanaprabha has explained his decision to appoint Gary Rowett(Image: Julian Finney/Getty Images) Gary Rowett’s “deep knowledge and experience” of the Championship convinced chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha to place him in charge of Leicester City’s fight for survival. Appointing Rowett 24 days after Marti Cifuentes’ exit, Top emphasised that avoiding relegation to League One was the sole focus from now until the end of the campaign, with City having dropped into the bottom three at the weekend. Rowett has been a consistent presence in Championship dugouts over the past 12 years and so knows the league inside out. That has been deemed key. Gary Rowett explains his plan to save Leicester City from League One relegation Top told the club: “Gary is a manager with deep knowledge of the Championship and experience of the situation we now face in these final 14 games of the season – a fight for survival in the division. “It is a task on which the entire club is focused, and we will provide Gary with every support to help us find the solutions we need.” Top also thanked Andy King, who has overseen the past four games as caretaker boss. King will now return to his role as first-team coach, while Adam Sadler will also remain on the backroom team, with set-piece coach Andy Hughes and incoming assistant manager Callum Davidson also there to assist Rowett. “I’m grateful to Andy King for the professionalism and dedication with which he has prepared the team for recent matches in challenging circumstances,” Top added. “Together with the current group of first-team staff, he will remain a valued part of our coaching team, providing important continuity from which Gary and Callum can help to build.” Rowett’s first game in charge is against one of his former clubs Stoke on Saturday, while he will meet the press for the first time on Thursday afternoon.

Dusty Springfield · Follow On the 18th April 1963 The Springfields took part in a concert presented by the BBC called 'Swinging Sounds 63' at the Royal Albert Hall which featured many of the big acts of that time, including The Beatles, who were still fairly new and not top of the bill, that was Del Shannon. The Springfields were still Britain's top group but maybe this was the point at which they "saw the Beatles coming" and thoughts of splitting up entered their heads. The photo is a little fuzzy but still easy to spot both the Beatles and The Springfields in the finale photo.

Not many people know this Unusual Tales · Follow He bought a forgotten French song for one dollar, stayed up until 5 AM rewriting it, and gave Frank Sinatra the most famous farewell in music history. In 1968, Paul Anka was 26 years old — but already a veteran of the music industry. He'd written "Diana" as a teenager, toured the world, watched the first wave of rock and roll rise and fall, and earned an Academy Award nomination before most people finished college. He'd also become a regular in Frank Sinatra's orbit — a young headliner in Las Vegas who ran in the same circles as the Rat Pack. One night over dinner in Florida, Sinatra told Anka something that shook him. Frank said he was done. He'd had enough. He was quitting the business. But he was going to make one more album — and he looked at Anka and said something he'd been teasing him with for years: "You never wrote me that song." Anka had always been too intimidated to try. He was writing teen pop. Sinatra was Sinatra. But now, with the end staring him in the face, Anka felt the weight of the moment. He'd heard a French song while vacationing in the south of France — a melancholy ballad called "Comme d'habitude," recorded by Claude François in 1967. It was about the slow death of a marriage. It was not a huge hit. But something in the melody stayed with Anka. He flew to Paris, negotiated the adaptation rights for one dollar, and kept the song tucked away, playing it on his piano from time to time, waiting for the right moment. The dinner with Sinatra was that moment. Back in his New York apartment, Anka sat down at one o'clock in the morning at an old IBM electric typewriter with his piano beside him. He asked himself one question: if Frank Sinatra were a songwriter, what would he say about his life? The words came fast. He used Sinatra's language — tough, proud, unapologetic. Phrases like "I ate it up and spit it out" came from the way the Rat Pack guys actually talked. As Anka later explained, he'd spent enough time around those steam rooms and Vegas suites to know the voice. He wasn't writing about himself. He was channeling the man. By 5 AM, it was done. The opening line was already immortal: "And now, the end is near..." He called Sinatra in Nevada — Frank was at Caesars Palace — and told him he had something special. He then recorded a demo and flew to Las Vegas to play it in person. Sinatra listened and said simply, "I'm doing it." Weeks of silence followed. Anka heard nothing. Then one day, the phone rang. It was Sinatra, calling from inside the recording studio. He said, "Paulie? You did it. This is the one" — and held the phone up to the speaker so Anka could hear the finished recording for the first time. Anka started crying. Sinatra had recorded "My Way" on December 30, 1968 — in a single take. Forty musicians. One performance. One of the most iconic recordings in popular music history. Anka's record label was furious that he'd given the song away. His answer was simple: "I'm young enough to write it, but I'm not old enough to sing it. It belongs to Sinatra." The song reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 — a modest chart position that completely understates its impact. In the UK, it spent 75 weeks in the top 40, a record that still stands. It became the most requested song at British funerals. Elvis Presley performed it to over a billion viewers via satellite. Sid Vicious turned it into a punk anthem. It has been covered in every language, in every genre, by voices ranging from Luciano Pavarotti to karaoke singers on every continent. And here's the twist no one tells: Sinatra himself came to hate it. His daughter Tina later revealed that he thought the song was self-indulgent. He couldn't escape it. It stuck, and he couldn't shake it loose. But the audiences never agreed — they heard their own lives in those words, their own defiance, their own reckoning with mortality. That's the paradox of "My Way." The singer couldn't stand it. The songwriter wrote it for someone else. And the world claimed it as its own. Paul Anka didn't write an anthem. He wrote a goodbye letter for a friend. And sixty years later, people are still reading it at the end of their own lives, believing every word was meant for them. That might be the greatest compliment a songwriter could ever receive. #MyWay #PaulAnka ~Unusual Tales

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Just found this 30 min This is the journey of Shinji Okazaki; from his beginnings in Japanese football to becoming a Premier League champion with Leicester and now shaping the next generation at Basara Mainz. PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki next time PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 19 Feb 12:30 AM - 1:00 AM | Sky Sports Premier League 00:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki Today 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Sky Sports Premier League 19:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki Today 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM | Sky Sports Premier League 21:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 20 Feb 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Sky Sports Premier League 20:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 20 Feb 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM | Sky Sports Premier League 22:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 21 Feb 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Sky Sports Premier League 08:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 21 Feb 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Sky Sports Premier League 20:30: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League) PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki 22 Feb 6:00 AM - 6:30 AM | Sky Sports Premier League 06:00: PL Stories: Shinji Okazaki (Sky Sports Premier League)

Don't mention DW.

Hidden Leicester · Graham Hulme An old postcard view of Clarendon Park Road, looking west towards the junction with Queen’s Road. The card was posted in Leicester to “Gimson Rd The Fosse” in March 1907. The street going off to the right of the picture is Central Avenue. The buildings shown here still exist. The prominent tower seen in the distance is that of the Clarendon Park Road Wesleyan Methodist Church which was built in 1900. It became the Christchurch Baptist-Methodist Ecumenical Church in the early 1990s. The Wesleyan Church had first opened in October 1900 and had been designed by the prominent Leicester architect Alderman Albert Edwin Sawday (1851-1923) who was himself a Methodist. He served as Mayor of Leicester in 1903-04. The church is designed in a free Perpendicular Gothic style and is of red brick with stone dressings. The tower is octagonal and has a top stage of stone. Above the main entrance, the frontage has a large 5-light window with gothic panel tracery. The church originally accommodated about 950 people and the cost of the site together with the building was about £8,400. In addition to the church, classrooms, a large church parlour and a lecture hall to seat 400 were provided (The Methodist Times, 18th October 1900). The first Minister of the new church was the Rev. John Ernest Rattenbury who, in 1902, became Minister of the Albert Hall Wesleyan Mission at Nottingham (the hall burnt down in 1906 and Nottingham’s present Albert Hall was built in 1909-10). In 1907 the Rev. Rattenbury moved to be Superintendent Minister of the West London Methodist Mission which post he held for 18 years and during this time the Mission’s new base, Kingsway Hall, was built in 1912. The Rev. Rattenbury moved in 1925 to take up a post as a minister at Southport. He died in 1963 aged 92, having been hailed as “the Grand Old Man of Methodism”. On the left there is a road going off which is Cross Road where my brother and I imposed ourselves on a work mate of my brother after we'd been turfed out of our previous accomodation. It was a single room with a double bed and single bed and a wash basing in the corner, there was a shared kitchen. The workmate moved out and left it to us to use. There were a few others that we ended up putting up for the night, two young very attractive girls friends of a mate nearby - a missed opportunity but we were both naive being 17/18. Another over nighter was a Scottish guy Jock (what else would you expect. A most generous guy who often bought us drinks in the nearby Clarendon Pub although drew the line at corrupting whisky with anything added. Sadly he had to go home to Scotland when he found he'd got TB. We didn't stay there long as we moved to just around the corner on Clarendon Park Road almost opposite the church, we had a much larger room overlooking the road. Queens Road shopping was just a little bit further on and there was a cold milk machine opposite the house. Great times and great memories. Was living there when we won the World Cup.

https://insidefutbol.com/2026/02/18/tricks-and-flicks-talents-of-star-on-loan-from-leicester-city-impress-assistant/706598/ ‘Tricks And Flicks’ – Talents Of Star On Loan From Leicester City Impress Assistant 18/02/2026 San Saha Chesterfield assistant Danny Webb has lauded Leicester City loan star Sammy Braybrooke for his brilliant all-round game, stressing that he is impressing the fans by giving his all. The Leicester-born central midfielder came through the Foxes’ academy and made the senior side’s bench a few times back in 2022, when the club were in the Premier League. Braybrooke represented England at different youth levels, most recently playing for the young Lions’ Under-20 setup. Highly rated, Braybrooke snubbed interest from Germany to sign a professional deal with the Foxes. The young midfielder made his Leicester debut four years ago in an EFL Cup clash against Newport County and that has been his only senior appearance so far. The Foxes loaned Braybrooke out to Dundee and Newport County before League Two club Chesterfield loaned him in the recently concluded winter transfer window. He caught former EFL winger Adrian Clarke’s eye during his Exiles loan spell, and was hailed for his pedigree as a player with quality. The 21-year-old has hit the ground running at the Spireites, as he has started seven league games already for Paul Cook’s side since his arrival. ClubYears Leicester City2022- Dundee (loan)2024-2025 Newport County (loan)2025-2026 Chesterfield (loan)2026- Sammy Braybrooke’s career history Chesterfield assistant Webb hailed Braybrooke for his technicality on the ball, praising his eagerness to ask for the ball in tight situations with bravery. He insisted that the Foxes’ loan star is never afraid to go all in for a duel, which he believes is pleasing the fans and the staff at the moment. “I don’t know if he captained England Under-17s, but if he did, that is really good”, Webb said to Chesterfield’s media (4:14) when he was told that Braybrooke captained the young Lions. “No, listen, what is pleasing all the staff and us and probably the supporters is that he does little tricks and flicks and breaks away. “And then fantastic passes across the pitch, and he asks for the ball in areas where other players don’t want it. “And when there is a 50-50, he goes in for it. “That is what the supporters want to see, they want to see players who give their all.” Braybrooke has been rated as a top talent and he will be eager to make a case for a chance at Leicester over the summer on the back of his Chesterfield loan stint.

Childish but made me chuckle

Post Cummings Effect · Follow Seen on the London Underground. (Zoom in)