LanguedocFox

I've been trying to explain to people over the past couple of days just how I feel - given that I have not lived in Leicestershire for nearly 50 years, and even when I did live there, I was in Loughborough. This post sums it all up: why I was screaming like a banshee at the television on Sunday afternoon, why I was dancing round like an incontinent three-year old during the penalties, why I was almost in tears at the end watching the scenes at the ground. If I were a Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea or Man City fan, I'd have seen loads of matches where we came back from two down, I'd have seen them score five goals plenty of times. But I'd never have felt that sense of joy that I had on Sunday - and which I still have. We live for days like that. We've suffered the sh!te of the past ten years for days like that. We've raged at manager after manager, player after player, as they betrayed our support - for days like that. Most Man U fans - most people in fact - will never know the feeling. Poor fvckers.

That thread is a lot better than most: a couple of fvckwits stamping their feet like a spoilt five-year-old, but several good (and accurate) comments praising how Vardy played.

Lovely stuff this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2764261/Manchester-United-virals-internet-responds-calamitous-performance-against-Leicester.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Reasonably balanced article (ie, not as blindly biased as most) here: http://thefaithfulmufc.com/2014/09/17/leicester-city-vs-manchester-united-preview-predicted-starting-team-score/. He's predicted 1-3 to United, like a few people on here. Probably realistic, although I am hoping for another hard-fought draw.

Simonas Stankevicius. He sounds good - top scorer for the under 18s last season and in the Development Squad this year. Full Lithuania international though.

Anyway, I think we can agree that Stoke has its share of kn0bhead fans, and so does City. Back to the subject of the thread, This isn't a bad preview of the match: http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwo-preview-stoke-vs-leicester. I just hope the conclusion is wrong.

Fvck me, we could do with them tomorrow. Pearson out.

Lessons on pronunciations for our soon-to-be US fans: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2630402/NBC-lays-ground-work-broadcaster-educates-Americans-pronounce-Leicester-message-napkin.html. I am tempted to write and say that the correct way is "Lestuh".

Yes, that is rather spectacular isn't it.

Erm... A sentence involving the words "pot", "kettle" and "black" comes effortlessly to mind here, Steve. This forum (as with every other one I read) is littered with confusions of your/you're, its/it's, their/there and countless other grammatical errors. Mind you, that first post on the Oatcake thread is a classic. And are they northern?

Here in France, they have a very simple solution which should, in my view, be used in the UK. All education is strictly secular, and in schools no-one (pupils or teachers) is allowed to wear overt religious symbols. These include Christian crosses, yamulkas, hijabs, veils or anything else that betokens a religious belief. The active encouragement of faith schools by that sanctimonious pr!ck Tony Bliar was a recipe for disaster, the results of which will be inflicted on moderate people (of all persuasions) in the UK for generations to come. What beggars belief is that the stupid cvnt couldn't see it, despite the impact that religious bigotry has had in Northern Ireland for the past 200 years or more.

I am not alone: nice follow-up to my letter in today's edition of The Fiver: "Well said Martyn Wilson about Leicester City (yesterday's letters). Furthermore, I had to endure 10 iPad 'pages' of Manchester Disunited 'in turmoil' after a bloke was fired from his job, with not one single paragraph about City. Leicester have had to endure the nonsense of 14 managers since they were last in the Premier League 10 years ago. Don't you just wish sometimes these Big Teams could just play with themselves" – Brian Wealthall. " There's no way of contacting Brian, but I hope he's an FT member.

Peter Beagrie: the man who put the c*nt in Scunthorpe.

To be fair, Louise Taylor is a regular football journalist for The Guardian, and probably knows more about football than most of us.

Welcome to Foxes Talk. However, you might want to watch your language. We aren't underdogs: if that's your real interest, you should try joining the Notts Florist Fans Forum.

Not sure if this is the right/best thread to post this, but here goes. The Guardian do a daily football email called The Fiver - because it comes out at about 5 o'clock each day. It's actually very good, and often quite funny, although they do tend to concentrate a bit too much on the Prem for my liking. Among other features is a readers' letters section, of which more anon. Anyway, when City got promoted at the beginning of April, there was absolutely no mention in The Fiver, yet last Tuesday they had a story about Burnley and the Ginger Mourinho: if you are interested, you can see it here (towards the bottom, under "Bits and Bobs"). The main story that day was about Moyes and Man U. Later on that evening, after City beat Bolton to become Champions, I wrote a letter to the editor saying "Nice of you, on the day when The Most Important Football News Ever was announced, to mention Burnley getting promoted to the land of milk and honey. But might you also mention the fact that Leicester City got promoted as Champions tonight: given that you seem to have forgotten to mention the fact that we were promoted two weeks ago." Soooo, when Wednesday's Fiver came out, I read through it to see if my letter had been published (there were no letters printed because of a "glitch") or, indeed, if there was any other mention of our record-breaking achievement and our dog-fighting manager. But again, no: there was absolutely nothing at all about City - not a sentence. Instead there was even more gobsh1te about Man U - lots more of it in fact. Now, I'm a fairly mild-mannered person most of the time, but this really got up my nose, so I rattled off another letter to the editor expressing my irritation in quite pungent terms, as follows: Dear god almighty No, I don’t think you are: I think you are a d!ckhead. Today’s Fiver had a lead story about Moyes and Man United – to follow up yesterday’s ditto – followed by a quote of the day about Man United by one of their has-been players, followed by three still-want-more links about the same bunch of under-achieving nobodies. Oh, and no Fiver letters – presumably because it was inundated with readers asking why there had been so little coverage of Manchester Effin United. Leicester City became Champions of the Championship last night. No, I know it doesn’t matter to you, because Manchester United were not playing. Just thought you might like to know. No, I don’t expect this rant to win letter of the day. But I feel better about writing it. Now, please, shut the fvck up about Manchester United: they are a second rate team, owned by a bunch of greedy barstewards. Yours And, fair play to them, they printed it almost word for word in yesterday's edition. Fame at last eh?

Very funny. "Leicester I don't mind because Emile Heskey used to play for them, they have a nice blue strip,"

From an article in today's Sunday Times Sports section: "There will be more tweaks in the summer. Steve Walsh, Leicester legend, assistant manager and head of recruitment, has compiled files on prospective targets..." It doesn't go on to say that Steve Walsh seems to be shorter, rounder and with less hair than he had when he established himself as a Leicester legend. Nor does it wonder how Steve Walsh (Leicester legend) managed to fit in a 30-year-career as a PE teacher as well as playing for Leicester. Still, can't have everything.

Assumptive bigots do my head in: the kind of people who say things like "Typical [insert object of derision]. Know what I mean?" I mention this because it happened twice today within the space of an hour. One guy has been in the UK for the past few months, and has come back here for the summer. He was talking about an Asian family who had been in front of him at Luton Airport, with grandparents, husband, wife and three or four kids: "All on benefits I should think. Y'know, typical Pakis." It's the "You know" that really twists my tail, because I genuinely don't know - other than that he is a typical ar$ehole. And it pisses me off that he includes me in his ar$eholeness. Then at lunchtime, I got it from someone else, talking about their accountant in the UK who is good at sorting out his tax: "Well, you know, typical jew-boy. They know all the wangles." Again, I don't know. And I wish they would all fvck off and leave me out of their bigotry.

You are just too clever for your own good! Fvck knows how I missed that (easy, I know - the fact that it is marked "audio" completely fooled me) but thanks so much for pointing it out. Brilliant! Thanks a lot.

Hi Red5. It's an LG 42LD450, and the laptop is a Compaq Presario CQ56. Cheers.

I connected the laptop to a pair of speakers and they worked fine, so I think it must be the cable. I'll buy a new one and give that a go. Thanks for your help.

Thanks again, Red5. I'll have another go at it and let you know what happens.

Hi Red5. Thanks again for your help. I was following the instructions in this article, which seems pretty clear: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/hook-up-compaq-presario-tv-26501.html. I don't have a 3.5 mm-to-RCA adapter but I do have a cable with red/white jacks on one end and a 3.5mm jack on the other (which fits the headphone socket of the laptop). I've looked on the TV and there is a headphone socket but the only audio-in is a pair of red/white sockets - into which the cable jacks fit. My question is whether I would be better off buying a separate RCA cable and 3.5 mm-to-RCA adapter. Alternatively, would a VGA/HDMI converter be a better idea?

Thanks. Yes, it does, and that is where I plugged in the red and white jacks on the cable. The other end of the cable is a jack that I put in the laptop's headphone socket, but like I said the audio didn't work. I've read that I need to use an adaptor, but I was hoping the cable would mean it wasn't needed. Any thoughts?