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Helicopter crash

By Finley Parsons, in Leicester City Forum

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Wymsey

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4 minutes ago, Red Rocket said:

I live too far from Leicester to be able to come and lay flowers and a scarf. I've decided to raise funds for a charity your chairman was so generous towards, The Leicester Hospitals Charity. I'm a Boro fan like I said early but I feel so affected by this. I just want to help. If anyone wants to share the link is https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jennifer-hayton1

Would love to, but can't really trust this type of thing..

Not an official source, sorry.

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Palace fan here about to leave for our game today v Arsenal. For some reason the game seems so much less important since the news of your owner. 

It's funny, when palace lose (which is often) my other half as always tells me 'it's just a game'. 

When something as tragic as last night happens you really do realise that it is just a game. It's great to see the football community rallying together. 

My condolences are with every single one of you. I hope you find strength within each other and get through this as one. 

Will be thinking of you all today. 

Ryan, palace fan. 

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1 minute ago, stripeyfox said:

https://www.leicesterhospitalscharity.org.uk/donate/

 

If anyone wants to donate money to Leicester Hospitals Charity they can do so on the charity's page - you don't need to do it through some random just giving page (who take a slice anyway).

 

 

Brilliant will close it and share this instead.
It was the only fundraising online company I knew about, had no idea they took a slice that's terrible. 

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1 minute ago, stripeyfox said:

https://www.leicesterhospitalscharity.org.uk/donate/

 

If anyone wants to donate money to Leicester Hospitals Charity they can do so on the charity's page - you don't need to do it through some random just giving page (who take a slice anyway).

 

 

Perfect, thank you. I was having such a hard time doing it, I actually just created my own JG page and was agonizing over whether to share it or not to save others the time in setting it up. This is a much better way of doing it. £10 in.

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Manchester United fan here just wanting to offer my sincere condolences for your loss.

 

As an owner, Vichai set the bar that all other owners should be aspiring to. He's played a huge part in the high esteem Leicester City are held within and you should all take comfort and pride that the culture he has helped install will continue into the future.

 

 

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Leicester helicopter crash: The legacy of the family who transformed Leicester City on and off the pitch
Vichai and family have impacted the lives of Leicester City fans and the city's residents


ByRob TannerLeicester City Editor
11:06, 28 OCT 2018UPDATED11:12, 28 OCT 2018

Leicester City Football Club, the whole of Leicestershire and the entire footballing world were left praying for the best but fearing the worst last night after the horrific scenes outside the King Power Stadium.

The usual footballing rivalries were discarded in a universal response to the crash of chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s helicopter after the game against West Ham United.

It had become a familiar sight in recent years, the blue and white helicopter adorned with the club’s crest and the letters LCFC down the side, landing on the centre circle of the pitch at the King Power Stadium after the fans had left.

It would wait, engine still running and blades still whirring, while the club’s owners, which nearly always included Khun Vichai and their guests, would board before taking off again and flying sedately over the East Stand and across the Leicester skyline towards their London home.


Only time will tell what went wrong this time, and we do not know the extent of the casualties, but it is one of the most tragic incidents to ever befall the club and the city.

Khun Vichai and his family came to the club when Milan Mandaric announced he was selling up in 2010 and had found suitable owners. We quickly learned that it was the King Power Group, within an Asian consortium, that was taking over.

Immediately the question was, who? Khun Vichai and his company were not well known in the UK and a fair amount of investigative work had to be carried out.

It was obvious he was a successful businessman, but many foreign successful businessmen had taken over English football clubs before, and many with disastrous consequences.

Leicester City Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha acknowledges the fans during a lap of the pitch after the Premier League match between Leicester City and Bournemouth at King Power Stadium on May 21, 2017
Leicester City Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha acknowledges the fans during a lap of the pitch after the Premier League match between Leicester City and Bournemouth at King Power Stadium on May 21, 2017 (Image: Getty Images)
It would be fair to say there was a level of mistrust and uncertainty, but given the financial problems the club had experienced during the previous decade City fans were more than willing to give King Power a chance.

It would in fact turn out to be the football ownership equivalent of hitting the jackpot.

They may have spoken publicly on very few occasions and they did not exactly map out their grand plan for City to the fans at first, but their actions have spoken louder than words ever since they arrived.

Debts were written off, converted into equity that, at the time, Khun Vichai could never have imagined he could recoup.

The stadium was purchased from Teachers and a programme of investment on and off the pitch was carried out as the full extent of his wealth and business portfolio was revealed.



It is fair to say the club was transformed on and off the pitch.

However, their real genius and what has endeared the owners to the City fans even more than the success on the pitch, has been their immediate insistence that the club’s family values and history would be preserved.

They nurtured the club’s traditions and never tried to impose their own stamp on the club, like many other owners had done.

They supported the supporters by handing out free breakfasts, food and drink, scarves, clappers, flags – anything they thought would help enhance the experience for the Blue Army and show the club’s appreciation for their backing.

But they didn’t live in the past either. Vichai himself expressed in a rare interview in Bangkok after City’s return to the Premier League that they wanted to see the club finish in the top five within three years and were willing to spend £180million to do so.


It may have seemed a bold boast at the time and City’s initial struggles in their first season back in the top flight made the possibility of a top-five finish a long way off, but then followed the most incredible story.

Leicester City became Premier League champions, with the club’s owners the driving force behind the success.

It, quite literally, put the football club on the map, and the city too. The city had never seen the likes of the media invasion from around the world before, even when Richard III’s skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester.

People from around the globe who did not know where Leicester was, or even how to pronounce the city’s name, were now fully aware of this great East Midlands city.

For the family, it has never been just about making a mark globally either.


They may not come from Leicester, but they became part of the community through the Foxes Foundation, raising thousands and even contributing millions of their own money to worthwhile causes across the county, services that everyone could use and benefit from, not just football fans.

That will be their legacy too.

Whatever happens in the coming days, the city of Leicester and the county of Leicestershire are with the Srivaddhanaprabha family.

They are in everyone’s hearts and they are not alone.

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-helicopter-crash-srivaddhanaprabha-familys-2155817

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13 minutes ago, Babylon said:

I'd imagine the whole thing is roped off. Just park down a side street or on Freeman's common.

Best thing to do like I did and many more, park over in the bingo,local hero, Morrison’s car park and walk, lay-by outside family stand was full so I’d avoid it.

 

Horrible feeling in my stomach walking past the Eon building, gutter press were stood there with cameras on tripods, why I don’t know. Couldn’t look left myself.

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Just now, Leeds Fox said:

 

That’s the strangest thing you could have posted. His face, his memorial and the tragic scenes of his death. Don’t be so fuching stupid. Where did you pull that from, The Sun? 

Leeds, this thread has been an example of how people can handle themselves in tragedy. Yours is the first insult i've seen in 59 pages.


No need at all. Everyone copes in their own way, everyone posts their own photos. There's no rules when something like this happens.

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I'm absolutely in bits and feel at a loss what to do, until there is an official statement or confirmation I do not want to go to the ground as it feels like I'm giving up on the feint hope of a miracle.That's not criticing those that have laid tributes etc I'm just in a daze very little sleep and unashamedly teary and lost over this devastating tragedy.

 

 

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