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FIFA showing on screen every time there’s replay or some other action. We know it’s r the FIFA World Cup FFS

John Ghent Leicester Estate Agent Hard to believe this was once one of Leicester's busiest railway landscapes... This view looks across the Great Central Railway's Braunstone Gate Goods Yard, a vast complex that played a vital role in moving freight into and out of Leicester during the railway age. At a time when much of the country's goods travelled by rail, yards like this handled everything from coal and timber to food, parcels and industrial supplies. The network of sidings, wagons and railway infrastructure seen here was an essential part of keeping the city running. Braunstone Gate Goods Yard, Leicester Today, most traces of this once-busy railway operation have disappeared, making photographs like this an invaluable record of Leicester's industrial past. Do you remember the goods yard, or have any family connections to Leicester's railway industry?

My earliest memory is of it being Buff I think it later change Green and ended up as the Sporting Blue.

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Proper Football · Follow FIFA's argument that its decision to apply hydration breaks across all 104 matches, regardless of local temperature, to ensure uniformity and consistency across the tournament is a complete load of b...... If they were that concerned about uniformity and consistency, for every team, shouldn't they also apply that to the number of miles each nation has to travel in the group stages? Egypt have 2 games in Seattle and one in Vancouver, where the 2 cities are only roughly 150 miles apart, then you have Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose 3 games are in LA, Toronto and Seattle, with the 3 cities thousands of miles apart, and from their base camp in the middle in Salt Lake City, they will have to travel over 6,000 air miles! Let's not forget some teams will have the advantage of playing in air-conditioned stadiums as well. Where's the uniformity in that? Yes, you could say it was the luck of the draw, but you could apply that to the weather as well. None of us is saying players shouldn't have a water break in extreme temperatures, but also none of us is falling for FIFA's BS excuse for squeezing every penny they can earn out of TV advertising! On a happier note, England looked amazing at the start of the 3rd quarter last night.

Leicester City confirmed 16 players are leaving and three more could follow in complete rebuild | Leicestershire Live Josh Holland Leicester City correspondent 07:00, 20 Jun 2026 Leicester City will bid farewell to 16 players this summer and three more could follow the likes of Ricardo Pereira and Jordan Ayew out of the door. Ricardo's eight-year stay at the King Power Stadium was confirmed to be coming to an end before the 2025/26 season ended. Ayew leaves the Foxes after scoring 12 goals in 80 appearances. Patson Daka, who cost around £22m in 2021, departs after 29 goals from 165 games. January arrival Jamaal Lascelles and Wanya Marcal will also depart while Asmir Begovic remains in talks over a short-term extension. Jordan James, Aaron Ramsey, Joe Aribo, Dujuan Richards and Divine Mukasa have all returned to their parent clubs following their loan spells. Other confirmed absences include academy stars such as Chris Popov, Jake Donohue, Jahmari Lindsay, Alfie Fisken, Toby Onanaye and Olaoluwa Omobolaji. In their statement regarding this summer's departures, City thanked every player and wished "them the very best for the future." Following relegation to League One, many players will head out of the exit door at the King Power Stadium this summer. Russell Martin is expected to have his say on departures as he shapes his squad for the 2026/27 campaign. Several players have already been linked with moves away from the Midlands and the club will be keen to trim the squad sooner rather than later. There are three players who could secure exits in the early stages of the window. Victor Kristiansen is one player certain to find a new club. City have already received a bid from Greek side Panathinaikos FC, but LeicestershireLive reported that the loan proposal was rejected. Reports from Denmark claimed a season-long loan was put to Leicester but it's expected a permanent exit is to be preferred. Kristiansen appeared just six times for City last season and has two more years left on his deal. Abdul Fatawu is another player who is likely to be on his way out. Less than one week into the transfer window and the likes of West Ham, Everton, RB Leipzig and Besiktas have already been tipped to sign the Ghana international. It's been reported in Turkey that Besiktas were 'pushing hard' to sign Fatawu on a loan deal with an option to buy permanently. Milliyet claimed that City were considering the offer and that if it was turned down, the Turkish giants will return with a bid of €15m (£13.9m) to buy the 22-year-old now. The forward contributed to 17 goals in the Championship last season and has plenty of potential. A season in the third-tier with the interest around him means an exit is incredibly likely. Finally, Caleb Okoli could be on his way out. The Italian has already been heavily linked with a return to his native home with Fiorentina understood to be keen to sign him. At the age of 24, the centre-back will need to be playing football at the highest level if he is to break into the Italy national team for Euro 2028, should they qualify. There are also cons in his play that make him a difficult selection to fit Martin's place.

I've unsubscribed from their marketing emails and yet because I clicked on that post re the Whiteout retro shirt I received an email yesterday. I can't remember ever buying anything online and the last thing I bought from the shop was years ago in fact I've still got a lot of £15 unused in the Rewards How About A Second Look? Your Items Have Limited Availability… Leicester City Retro Shirt 1995 Whiteout £45.00

Made In Leicester Andrew Savage ·53m · Stranger than Fiction… The Conquerors Who Joined the Congregation With an axe in position on the belt and a scratch of the beard, she threw another log onto the fire. The Vikings had arrived... Stand on Dane Hills and look across Leicester. Before the roads, estates and modern city spread beneath it, this was a landscape of river, crossing points, trade routes and open ground. The hill is not high by dramatic standards, but in Leicester’s topography it is a commanding place. From here the ground falls away in a long, shallow sweep towards the River Soar, the valley opening like a map laid flat. You can trace the river’s bends, the old floodplain, the natural crossing points, the routes that once mattered long before the ring road or estates existed. This is a view that explains Leicester better than any chronicle. For centuries, this hill has been a watchpoint. A place where you can see who controls the river. Who uses the roads. Where the settlement spreads. Where the power lies. The name Dane Hills hints at a Viking connection, but even if the Danes never fortified it, they would have understood its value. Anyone would. From here, the Soar valley is not just scenery - it is strategy. Long before Leicester Abbey rose beside the river, before the Greyfriars and Blackfriars built their houses, before Richard III’s bones were lost and found, this hill already overlooked a landscape of influence. The Soar was the spine of the settlement. The valley was the reason Leicester existed, carrying trade, movement and power through the land and Dane Hills was the place where you could stand and see the whole story unfolding beneath you. By the ninth century, when the Danes arrived, Leicester was already a Christian town with its own bishop. Churches stood in the valley below. Clergy lived and worked there. Yet from this height, the arrival of the Great Heathen Army would have been visible in the simplest, oldest way: movement along the river corridor. Smoke. Camps. Activity at the crossing points. The bishop fled. The old order fractured. Leicester became one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. But the hill remained what it had always been — a vantage point over a place too valuable to abandon. The Danes stayed. They farmed the fertile floodplain. They used the river as a transport route, just as the Romans had. They traded along the same tracks that later carried monks to their houses and merchants to their markets. From Dane Hills, you can still see why they settled: the river, the roads, the sheltered valley, the land that could feed a community. And it was in that valley — not on the hill — that something stranger than conquest happened. Old Norse met Old English. Not in a single moment, but in the slow, everyday contact of neighbours. The East Midlands became one of the regions where English shifted into something new. The evidence is still visible from the hill if you know where to look. The villages scattered across the county — Frisby, Hoby, Rotherby, Thurnby, Barkby, Brooksby, Ratby, Blaby and many more all carrying the Scandinavian ‑by ending, meaning settlement. The map itself is a Norse document written across the land. The influence also lingers in the sound of Leicester's voice. The clipped vowels, the shortened syllables and even some of the everyday words we reach for without thinking carry Germanic roots. We 'stub a toe' and it 'smarts'. An injury 'throbs'. A wound feels 'sore'. These are old words, spoken so often that we rarely stop to consider where they came from, along with many, many others in the English language. Although no single feature can be traced cleanly across a millennium, the idea that echoes of Old Norse survive in Les'tah, with its short, sharp syllables, is not far-fetched. Language changes where people mix, and people have mixed here for centuries. Meanwhile, the religious story continued in the valley below. The descendants of the settlers who once disrupted Leicester’s bishopric eventually became Christians themselves. Leicester Abbey rose beside the Soar. The Greyfriars established their house within the growing town. The Blackfriars and Whitefriars, also known as the Austin Friars, settled close to the river and the routes that sustained Leicester. All of them built within the same landscape that had drawn settlers for generations. From Dane Hills, you can imagine each new foundation appearing in turn — monks, friars, townsfolk — all drawn to the river and the trade and life it sustained. The Vikings are usually remembered as outsiders. Raiders. Strangers. But they assimilated. They married into local families. They worked and farmed local land. Leicester absorbed them. Their children and grandchildren became locals. Their language blended with the one already spoken here. Their settlements became villages. Their names became ordinary. Today the abbey is a ruin. The friaries have long since vanished beneath later streets in areas that still bear their names, and the bishopric that existed before the Danes arrived disappeared long ago. Yet there are reminders all around us of this chapter in Leicester's history, and something remains. You can see it from Dane Hills and you can read it on the map, but Leicester's most enduring Viking monument is not a burial mound or a carved stone. It lies in the Soar Valley itself. From the hill, generation after generation has watched the ebb and flow of religion, trade and power along the river Soar. Bishops came and went. Monks and friars followed. Kingdoms rose and fell. Yet the people remained. And so did their language. It survives in the names scattered across the county. It survives in words spoken so often that we rarely stop to think about their origins and it survives in the clipped syllables of Les'tah itself. Long after the abbeys fell and the friaries disappeared, the voices endured. The Vikings arrived and changed Leicester and over time, Leicester changed the Vikings. Andrew Singh Just out of interest, the map dates from between 1833 and 1840, the Leicester and Swannington railway is on there but no others.

Not Twitter https://foxesofleicester.com/leicester-eye-defensive-overhaul-as-alleyne-aljofree-and-bazunu-linked Leicester eye defensive overhaul as Alleyne, Aljofree, and Bazunu linked Leicester City are planning a defensive rebuild, with Gavin Bazunu, Max Alleyne, and Sonny Aljofree linked as Russell Martin targets young, ball-playing reinforcements for a new era at the King Power. By Elliot Mackness | With Russell Martin as conductor, the Foxes' promotion train needs more coal for the fire. The transfer window will see Leicester City lose several high-ranking and talented players, leaving us with a small budget to recruit new signings. This is where youngsters from Premier League clubs with experience in and around League One could be invaluable to sign. We have already reported on key players Martin should try to keep, as well as the reported link to former Ipswich Town stalwart Conor Chaplin. A new flurry of links has come to the foreground, with the expected departures of at least two or three senior defenders alongside the already departed Ricardo Pereira. Leicester target defensive shake-up The King Power Club has struggled with poor defending, a lack of real depth, in part due to injuries to players such as Harry Souttar, and has given out enormous contracts to players undeserving of the excessive remuneration. Those contracts are one of the reasons for Leicester to sell talents like Jannik Vestergaard. In goal, we could be forgiven for considering replacing Jakub Stolarczyk as No.1, especially when we do not yet know if Asmir Begovic will stay on, either as a No.1 should the Pole be sold for profit, or a No.2 should another take the spot. Gavin Bazunu, though, is a difficult recruit to justify. Having conceded 36 goals across 25 games for Southampton in the Championship last season, the goalkeeper has struggled in his time at St Mary's. Jo Tessem - a former Saint - criticised Bazunu for reacting too slowly to unfolding attacks, for poor positioning, and a lack of shot-stopping ability. This is backed by the underlying data: during their last Premier League campaign, the keeper conceded 16 more goals than expected; this carried into the Championship, which is why Will Still dropped him for a decade older player. However, there is light at the other end of the tunnel for Gavin Bazunu. Despite his struggle to play at a side not capable of controlling matches or the flow of the ball, the goalkeeper ranks highly in terms of coming for crosses and undertaking defensive actions outside of his penalty area. With his feet, the Irishman is composed and technically capable of playing out from the back. For this stylistic reason, Leicester might look for this signing if they expect to dominate possession and be forced into incessant recycling of the ball. At the back, we would hope the Foxes retain Ben Nelson and Harry Souttar to form the towering core of Leicester City's League One defence and set-piece attack. However, should the expected departures come, the King Power Club will need to bring in some depth without breaking the bank. Those listed include Max Alleyne and Sonny Aljofree. The 20-year-old English defender Alleyne is one of the cultured crop of Manchester City defenders coming through the ranks after joining from Southampton. In Manchester, the centre-back has been able to study from John Stones, trained and studied to follow in his footsteps as a possession-supporting, proactive defender. That has been illustrated by a 93.8% passing success rate: a good return for a CB. This makes him the perfect suited to how Leicester want to develop going forward, and could provide the depth necessary. The 21-year-old CB Aljofree is another possession-based defender. He developed through Manchester United's academy and has been out on loan consistently, in the lower leagues, performing admirably and showcasing why he would suit a lower-league Leicester with future potential. At Notts County, he was noted for his aggressive defensive mentality - rushing forward and challenging for the ball - and his technical passing range, allowing him to distribute the ball out wide well for wing-backs and wingers. This is something the Foxes have recently struggled with. In short, Bazunu is being considered to support the recycling of possession in a possession-dominant side and helping out defensively when most players are high up the pitch; Alleyne will offer Leicester City a proactive and technically capable defender who has trained in elite facilities with some elite players; and Aljofree would bring that aggression to disrupt, which we have lacked. The three may not be exciting, yet they will offer promise and depth.

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I'm hoping for a good date for Oxford away so I can go with my grandson who lives near there although he's a Liverpool fan through his Dad's family.

Big mistake @Mark knows Remember this is from those Everton cheats.

Which bit is the inconvenient truth? I'm sure it's all relatively true obviously some guesswork and surmising but the only inconvenience I can see is how we went from Team Vichai and Whelan = Unprecedented success from a position abject failure to Team Aiyawatt and Rudkin = Abject failure from a position of unprecedented success

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There's toxicity coming from the club to the fans.

Came on as sub in the 58min and was mostly anonymous.

From one to 48 - every World Cup team ranked after first game https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn4djkzxygjo

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When Hull City won promotion back to the Premier League by beating Middlesbrough in the play-off final it came with guaranteed riches of around £200m. Yet in a strange twist, winning that game means Hull must sell players before the end of the month to avoid a potential points deduction in the Premier League. The Tigers have an overspend of around £6m on their profit and sustainability (PSR) calculation. Under English Football League rules, that could lead to a six-point penalty. It is a breach caused by promotion bonuses included in the players' contracts. Had Hull lost to Boro, they would not be in danger of exceeding the maximum losses of £39m for the past three seasons and there would be no points penalty in the Championship. It's crazy