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If you are under qualified for a job that you are having to do at short notice I.e. ‘thrown in at the deep end’, then keep it simple and don’t try and be clever. Dawson has to take a good part of the responsibility for that performance due to the frankly bizarre selection, the clueless formation and a complete lack of in-game management.

Can’t see Okoli getting in any other team other than ours. Bang average defensively and not great with the ball at his feet. Coady looks ready for retirement. If he’s honest he’s probably best suited to league 1 or 2 levels these days

I was completely with you until that point.

Asking a Cooper ally coach to take charge of the team before more than likely losing his job wasn’t a good idea. Particularly when that coach decides to try and make a name for himself by taking on an excellently coached team with a brainless selection and set up. Dawson completely Dawson’d up his big day. What a fkin Dawson.

Im not sure about the two number 6 set up that involves Soumare. Personally I’d go back to last season’s set up in midfield. Sack off the number 10. Winks as the pivot with a creative number 8 and a more destructive number 8. With Fatawu injured, I’d play Buonanotte as an out and out winger on the right (Mavs on the left) with El Khanouss as the creative number 8 and pick one from Ndidi, Skipp or Bouba as the more prosaic ‘water carrier’ number 8. Play Hamza as an inverted right back and stop hoping Justin can play as a wing back.

You could argue though that these moments are absolutely key because it’s goals that win & lose games. Too many times goals have directly come from Justin’s area and he has to take some responsibility for that. I would’ve started Hamza rather than him today because of his long term poor form. There are definitely questions about whether this team is good enough to stay up. I’m not sure tbf but what I can say is that first Cooper and now the shambolic Dawson have never picked their best team to create winning opportunities. Leicester’s best team at least until the January window should currently mean Vestergaard, Winks, Buonanotte, El Khanouss and Mavididi pretty much always start as they are the best options from a creativity perspective. The other on field players may rotate in and out but without our best creative core we are going to struggle to create. Alves and McAteer should always be options on the bench too as they offer a similar level of creativity.

In a hundred years time people will ask why Leicester people say ‘I’ve had a right fkin Dawson today!’ when they’re describing a self inflicted absolute nightmare of a day. Hopefully a historian will dust off this thread and explain that it originated from a prized shithouse plonker called Benny Dawson and his 5 at the back shame in the year of our lord 2 thousand and 24.

Dawson should do the decent thing after that game. Resign and then drive to the nearest police station and hand himself over to the authorities. He should do a fair old stretch for that crime against football.

How did Dawson see the match against Chelsea and decide that El Khanouss deserved zero minutes today.

It was the thinking of someone playing football manager on a PlayStation. Embarrassing, negative line up.

At least Dawson knows now why he’s a coach and not a manager. A crazy line up that completely underestimated the opposition.

Hamza should’ve come in for him today.

Terrible, negative set up by Dawson. There’s no way any of us would’ve started with that line up and yet we have a top level professional coach setting up to try and sneak a nil nil with a system that we haven’t used with players that haven’t played against an experienced team. Absolute shambles.

Verstergaard is better than Okoli

A genuine 5 at the back with neither wingback outstanding going forward. Looks like Dawson’s tactic is to try and keep a clean sheet. Snatch a 0-0 or a 0-1. Good luck with that Ben😬

Only downside to this is we’ll now be a top player franchise club and we’ll have to change our name to ‘Van Nistelrooy’s Leicester City™️’ just like ‘Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth Argyle™️’ and ‘Frank Lampard’s Coventry City™️.’

Hamza to invert or play as a conventional fullback such is the lack of confidence of Justin.

It was 6 games with the senior side and in that time he played front footed attacking football. Played players in their best positions where he could. Trusted young players. Made good subs in good time and made proactive changes. The feedback from all of the England lads was fantastic. During that same period, Cooper often played our best players out of position and often benched them, fell out with at least three of them, made late, reactive subs, ignored our youth (e.g. Alves) and played with no obvious game plan. I’d take a less experienced Carsley over Cooper every day of the week

Carsley is levels above Cooper from a tactical and man management standpoint.

He had to go down to Challinor to find an example that he thought was a viable option so maybe he’s answered his own question. There’s not much down there that fit a criteria of being currently successful, will cost next to zero compensation and would potentially want to join.

Lazy 2+2=5 tabloid work from Custis. It was widely reported that RVN had initially applied for the Cov job so the club would’ve known he was looking for work and we don’t know if he then applied for the LCFC job. The story has a massive assumption that Challinor would’ve been looking for a job whereas he may well be enjoying his time at Stockport and not be looking to leave mid project - loyalty can still exist within football even in a world where sackings are just a bad run away! There’s also the added factor of compensation.

I actually like Carsley, he’s been brilliant for England. I didn’t even mind his failed multiple number 10’s experiment v Greece at home. It helped him understand the team more and England played way better football with a far more logical line up than Southgate ever did.

I’ve read that BC Game have already stumped up £15m of the 2 year £30m deal so presumably we would just need to secure a new shirt sponsor for next season. Presumably BC Game will stay on the shirt until a point that LCFC won’t get penalised for removing it. Whilst there’s even a tiny chance that BC Game survives, I’m sure it will stay on the shirts.

Turns out if you are trying to shoot you are ok to miss the ball and take out the keeper with a studs up challenge halfway up his shin. Learn something new every day

I put the numbers together to try and find the perfect new manager (and hopefully bag myself the data analyst job at the same time) and my data analysis has allowed me to create a composite of a potential new manager. My data shows the new boss should be an amalgamation of Sam Allardici, with a bit of Stevie Bruce, Alan ‘Pards’ Pardew and (of course) Meggo. The most obvious choice based on bringing those skills together is surely ex Notts Forest manager Stevie Cooper. You heard it here first.