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https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/king-power-stadium-host-lionesses-england-women-euro-2025-jamaica?fbclid=IwY2xjawJstuRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHh-uv3ToC2926A16CErWz1A4L4tr56-Kw5V4j1mlvD46moDrOeFxAW8tETWg_aem_XjUeM94mld2dUhgIZNDoSw King Power Stadium will have the honour of hosting England Lionesses’ final match before UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, as the reigning European champions take on Jamaica in Leicester on Sunday 29 June (5pm kick-off). England Women to play Jamaica at King Power Stadium on Sunday 29 June Final match before Lionesses head to UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 in Switzerland Tickets available via the FA to My England Football members from Tuesday 22 April Broadcast live on ITV Sport, this match will be a historic first meeting between the Lionesses and the Reggae Girlz, in a final warm up for Sarina Wiegman’s side before they take on France in their opening Group D game just a week later. This fixture marks a proud return for elite international women’s football to King Power Stadium, following England’s memorable 1-0 victory against Belgium during a UEFA Women’s Nations League match in October 2023 – giving fans another opportunity to witness world-class international women’s football in Leicester. The Lionesses face tough opposition in Jamaica, who themselves played a fixture at King Power Stadium in 2023. The Reggae Girlz went on to impress global audiences at the 2023 FIFA World Cup later that summer by reaching the knockout stages for the first time in their history and eliminating Brazil along the way. Leicester City Chief Executive Susan Whelan said: "Hosting England's final match before EURO 2025 is a tremendous honour for Leicester City. It highlights our ongoing commitment to promoting elite women's football and reinforces King Power Stadium's reputation as a venue for significant international sporting occasions. “We look forward to welcoming both teams and their supporters for a special evening of football, as well as wishing Sarina and her squad the very best as they seek to retain the European title they won so memorably in 2022.” The fixture may also hold special interest for our supporters, with LCFC Women midfielder having recently been part of the Lionesses squads, while fellow Fox represents Jamaica internationally. England manager Wiegman said: “I am really pleased to be able to play a good game to finalise our EUROs preparations on English soil. Jamaica will be a difficult test, they’re a nation we haven’t faced before and a real opportunity for us to keep learning and growing as a team. They are building as a team themselves and have been doing really well, especially at the last World Cup. It will be a special occasion and atmosphere in a great stadium which we have performed well at in the past. “We will do our best to put on a good performance and make it a memorable send-off moment for both the team and the fans. There will only be one week until our opening match against France in Zurich so this is an important milestone in our preparation.” Tickets for the fixture will go on sale via the FA to My England Football members on Tuesday 22 April, with General Sale commencing on Thursday 24 April. All tickets will be available to purchase here - https://www.wembleystadium.com/Tickets .

Did AI get that all from Foxestalk? It's all been said on here.

History of Leicestershire in Images Mervin Wallace A superb turn of the Century period photograph of Castle Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire.

You keep giving the ball away you’ll get punished Our teams just don’t love the ball enough.

It’s going to be a long night and journey home.

Just like the men too many poor passes playing themselves into trouble

Trump & Vance

Bentleys Roof Nobbly Knee Contest Butlins ‘74

1910. Filberts St surround by a recreation ground

Reminds me of this joke. Quasimodo is drinking at a bar. He sees this extremely drunk woman. He starts chatting her up and one thing leads to another and they wind up in bed back at Quasimodo’s room at Notre Dame. The girl wakes up the next morning severely hung over and with little recollection of where she is and who she slept with. She pulls the sheet off Quasimodo’s sleeping form and is so revolted that she vomits all over him. Quasimodo wakes with a start and looks at the mess he is covered in. “Wha...what happened?” “You, you disgusting creature! You took advantage of me last night when I was drunk! I woke up this morning and I didn’t know where I was or who I had been with. I pulled the sheet back to see your repulsive body, and I was so disgusted that I vomited all over you!” “Thank God for that. I thought my hump had burst!”

Unify · Follow By understanding the underlying geometry of the structures nature, we are able to modify our technology to act in harmonious collaboration with nature, rather than literally blowing nature up (combustion) in order to "make energy". Here we see a very large solar array using the wisdom of natures Fibonacci number spiral patterning to most efficiently point solar radiation towards the center tower thereby heating up a giant salt crystal to make energy that turns a turbine to make electricity.

https://fawslfulltime.co.uk/2025/04/15/its-going-to-be-a-challenge-arsenal-boss-slegers-previews-leicester-city-test/ ‘It’s going to be a challenge’ – Arsenal boss Slegers previews Leicester City test By Daniel Pentland / April 15, 2025 Arsenal head coach Renée Slegers says that she expects her side to face a Leicester City team that are full of fight at the Emirates Stadium this evening. The Gunners play host to The Foxes in their latest Barclays Women’s Super League fixture in N7. Leicester City are yet to win on the road this season but they have been in good form of late and Arsenal boss Slegers is expecting a competitive game in North London this evening. “I think they’re going to fight really hard for points and I think they’ll want to close down spaces as much as they can,” Slegers said when speaking in the pre-match press conference. “They’re going to run, they’re going to battle and they’re going to try and win duels and create things against us, so we’ll have to be on top of it. “Leicester have a lot to play for and it’s going to be a challenge for us because I think the way they press and the player-for-player system at moments, we’ll have to be really good on the ball to be able to beat that. They also have a little bit of threat upfront as well that we have to manage during the game but we look forward to it, we look forward to the challenge.” Leicester City have the joint-best defensive record in the bottom half of the Barclays Women’s Super League table and Slegers knows that breaking The Foxes down will be a challenge. She said “I think they’ve been doing well. I think they use their strengths well. They’re very happy to defend, I think they work really hard as a group. It’s hard to score against them, both from open play and set pieces and they need it as well, they need to get every point possible. Of course, our away game at Leicester at the start of the season was a hard game for us as well. We ended up scoring one goal, so we know that the challenge is going to be big.” Arsenal have a huge UEFA Women’s Champions League tie against Lyon at the weekend but Slegers says that clear goals have been set for the team in terms of league form. She said “We’ve been clear as a group that we have two objectives for the block. One of those is getting four out of four [wins] in the WSL. That’s what we want to go for, that’s all we can do and that starts against Leicester, so it’s a big goal for us to reach that. All eyes are set on a very good game against Leicester.” Arsenal’s Barclays Women’s Super League fixture against Leicester City kicks-off at 7.30pm this evening. Tickets remain on-sale and can be purchased by clicking here.

Yeah it did. Don’t know the name as I never went to it.

From Facebook? Unusual Tales · Follow In 1963, off the coast of Iceland, something extraordinary happened—a brand-new island was born. Deep beneath the ocean, a volcanic eruption spewed lava into the freezing Atlantic waters. Over the next four years, the island of Surtsey emerged from the sea, one of the youngest islands on Earth. But what happened next astonished scientists. In just a few decades, erosion, wind, and waves sculpted cliffs, canyons, and beaches—features that some believed took much longer to form. This dynamic transformation makes Surtsey a living laboratory, where researchers observe how land evolves and how life colonizes brand-new terrain. Today, moss, birds, and even small plants have begun to thrive on Surtsey, proving how quickly ecosystems can take root. Protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this incredible island remains off-limits to the public, allowing scientists to study how life finds a way on untouched land. Surtsey reminds us that the Earth is always changing, and sometimes, nature works faster than we ever imagined. #EarthUncovered #NaturalWonders ~Unusual Tales

From Facebook? Amazing Facts · Follow A 35-mile rift in Ethiopia opened in 2005 — proof that Africa is literally tearing in two and forming a new ocean. Beneath the scorching expanse of East Africa’s Afar region, a dramatic geological transformation is slowly unfolding — Africa is literally splitting apart. Recent satellite data and GPS measurements have enabled scientists to closely monitor the East African Rift System, a unique tectonic environment where three plates—the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian—are pulling away from one another. This rifting process, which has been underway for millions of years, is progressing at rates of mere millimeters to centimeters annually. But over geological time, it’s building toward a monumental shift: the birth of a new ocean and the eventual separation of East Africa into a distinct landmass. This process is most visibly exemplified by a 35-mile-long fissure that cracked open in Ethiopia’s desert in 2005—an abrupt event that simulated hundreds of years of tectonic activity in just a few days. Scientists, including volcanologists and geophysicists, believe that this and other sudden rifting episodes are fueled by rising magma, creating immense pressure within the Earth’s crust. The Afar region, known as one of the few terrestrial analogs for mid-ocean ridges, offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms that transform continental rift zones into oceanic basins. Over the next 5 to 10 million years, water from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is expected to inundate the rift valley, forming a new ocean and reshaping the map of Africa forever. learn more https://www.nbcnews.com/.../african-continent-very-slowly... Top image https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=221113 Bottom image CC BY-SA 3.0 / Twitter Text and top image added https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Story of Leicester Here is the Bishop Street Municipal Library in Leicester - photo taken in 1930. When it opened in 1905, the library was seen as a particular benefit to “the manual labourer – the working man, the poor man and his children”. On the date of its opening the Leicester Daily Post wrote that it was better “that the average shoe operative, factory worker or shop assistant should spend his leisure hours with Dickens, Thackeray, Scott or George Elliot” rather than “soak in a pub” or “hang around street corners”. Now know as the Leicester Central Library, it provides an important free service to Leicester residents to this day. Photo from the Leicester and Leicestershire Record Office. Read more on the website: https://storyofleicester.info/leisure.../municipal-library/

People aspired to £20/wk back then

What do you an apprentice would be earning today. I’d guess more than the minimum wage at an engineering job

Apprentice

Coady will probably end up as captain next season

https://www.leicestercity.news/news/leicester-city-star-says-it-was-a-dream-come-true-after-what-he-did-against-brighton/ Jake Evans reacts to making senior debut for Leicester City After Jeremy Monga became the second-youngest Premier league debutant of all time, it wasn’t going to be long before Jake Evans got his opportunity. Evans has been labelled the ‘heir’ to Jamie Vardy’s throne and although only brief, the 16-year-old was substituted on in stoppage time at the Amex Stadium. It was a day the 16-year-old will never forget and he posted a touching message in which he thanked people in his journey on Instagram. He said: “A dream come true to have made my premier league debut. Grateful for the opportunity hopefully many more to come. “A personal note: I would like to thank all of my family and coaches involved in my journey so far that have pushed me when times got tough from nearly getting released at a young age to playing in the premier league. who have got me to the places and become the player I am today.”

More than I was on.