Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has died at the age of 60

[Guest Markyblue]

They said on sky that top and the family have taken great comfort from the tributes at the ground. He went to view them again last night. 

[shailen]

Biggest tribute I can pay is someone at work asked me who I supported a couple of weeks ago and I said Leicester. His response was glory supporter - this is Vichai's legacy - he has transformed our club from going nowhere to a global level. 

 

RIP

[stripeyfox]

2 minutes ago, shailen said:

Biggest tribute I can pay is someone at work asked me who I supported a couple of weeks ago and I said Leicester. His response was glory supporter - this is Vichai's legacy - he has transformed our club from going nowhere to a global level. 

 

RIP

But actually it's more than this. His legacy is this tremendous bond which we're all feeling. Even stripping away the PL win, his final gift to us and football is that he's changed everything. Nothing will be quite the same after this for Leicester. The love and affection which is felt by us all, and the wider football world is incredible.

 

What is important now is we must nurture that legacy and use it as a force for good in the future.

 

 

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

12 minutes ago, shailen said:

Biggest tribute I can pay is someone at work asked me who I supported a couple of weeks ago and I said Leicester. His response was glory supporter - this is Vichai's legacy - he has transformed our club from going nowhere to a global level. 

 

RIP

Same, everyone says the same to me.  And they're right!  Total plastic.  Lost interest in football more or less for years until that season, now I follow Leicester and football obsessively and cant imagine life without it.

Would never have been so if he hadnt come in and made the club I supported as a kid what it is now

 

Plastics like me have a lot to thank him for

 

[Phube]

I went down this morning before work... I’d advise anyone to give themselves a lot of time there... You could literally stay for hours reading all the tributes. I had to leave after 10 mins, and I don’t feel I’ve done it or him justice.

 

Amazing tributes for an amazing man.

 

RIP Vichai.

 

 

[Devonfox1884]

Really is amazing the amount of togetherness shown by the entire footballing world. Even as far as Torquay away to Weston Super-Mare in the conference south last night. Incredible.

 

 

[Tuna]

3 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Charlie Adam told a nice story on five live last evening ...... said he was training after a game with other stoke subs and the groundsman came over to tell them they needed to leave as the helicopter was due in. The players looked a little confused and then vichai shouted from the tunnel that they should be allowed to ‘finish their work’ and the copter would wait for them ..... such humility for a man in his position .......

An amazing man. We were so lucky to have him. So incredibly sad we've lost him.

[Heskey2011]

I'm not religious, i don't believe in a god or a master plan or anything, but I'm trying to make sense of all this;  I didn't know Vichai, I know about the good he did for our club, our city and the world. But I didn't know him, if he was a good man or not. 

However in times like these, when there's so much hatred, hostility and greed in the world an individual showing the complete opposite of these traits, love, compassion and charity, an individual like this dying, does serve a purpose, it reminds us that there are people out there quietly helping their fellow man, who do amazing things that benefit millions, when they don't need to, it gives the world hope, at a time when things seem pretty hopeless.

 

[davieG]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-46043097/leicester-city-fans-gather-to-pay-tribute-to-chairman - short video

 

Leicester City fans gather to pay tribute to chairman

Leicester City fans gathered at the club's King Power Stadium on Tuesday to pay tribute to their owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha following his death in a helicopter crash.

The billionaire, who bought the club in 2010, died in the crashon Saturday evening.

Fans of the club massed outside the ground singing: "Champions of England... you made us sing that", in recognition of the club's fairytale Premier League title win in 2016.

Two members of Mr Vichai's staff - Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare - pilot Eric Swaffer and partner Izabela Roza Lechowicz were also killed in the crash.

[Buzzell]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Charlie Adam told a nice story on five live last evening ...... said he was training after a game with other stoke subs and the groundsman came over to tell them they needed to leave as the helicopter was due in. The players looked a little confused and then vichai shouted from the tunnel that they should be allowed to ‘finish their work’ and the copter would wait for them ..... such humility for a man in his position .......

The man literally didn’t have one single bad bone in his body. One in a million. He really will be missed.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

I’ve just been down to pay my respects and as others have said you need to spend as long as you possibly can down there to soak it all up and read the messages etc. I was only there for 45 mins roughly but could of stayed for double or treble that easily. Anyway respects paid but it isn’t enough and never will be. RIP Kun Vichai 

[Col city fan]

Just now, Bob Weasel Fox said:

I’ve just been down to pay my respects and as others have said you need to spend as long as you possibly can down there to soak it all up and read the messages etc. I was only there for 45 mins roughly but could of stayed for double or treble that easily. Anyway respects paid but it isn’t enough and never will be. RIP Kun Vichai 

Well done my friend x

[Col city fan]

34 minutes ago, buzzer_b said:

The man literally didn’t have one single bad bone in his body. One in a million. He really will be missed.

One of my thoughts on all of this is how much it shows you CAN manage people with kindness, compassion, generosity and become extremely popular and successful at the same time.

A genuine empathy towards others, a smile an acknowledgment can make a massive difference.

Vichai clearly embodied the lot...

A fantastic role model

Edited 31 October 2018 by Col city fan

[WoodyFox]

From Top’s personal Instagram. Sounds like he’s keen to carry on with us. We’ll be fully behind him. 

[Beechey]

[fox_up_north]

First post but have been mulling it for days...

It's with some sadness and shame that this is my first post on FT, after lurking on and off for the last year or so. I was born and raised in Anstey, with family in Syston and in the Westcotes area of the city. I attended a few games as a kid during the O'Neil era and remember getting my first shirt. When I was 8 I moved away because dad was military and I grew to appreciate other clubs around the world, so Leicester didn't have as much sway. 

In the early/ mid 2000s I attended a couple of games at the new stadium when I visited family - this was before all the pedestrianisation of the city, if I remember rightly and I felt like a lot had changed. There was a different atmosphere and different feel. Having experienced football in other countries, it felt bit soulless. I felt like the club I first supported had changed beyond my recognition. Then the rot set in and it felt like the love for my club was lost. 

Vichai changed all that. Despite having lived up north for the better part of the decade and, costs being what they are, limited to one or two games a year, I felt like the community spirit was rebuilt. My mum worked at the Royal when I was younger, my grandparents had a small business in the city - I can't remember the amount of times I heard the words "Go up to Marks Electricals" as a boy - and it really felt like the owners were different to the oil barons up north, who promise to engage with the community but just put their names on high rise tower blocks. I fell in love with the team again. I was gutted by the missed penalty at Watford, elated at the great escape and I will never forget the pride I'd feel when strangers would ask to shake my hand when wearing the shirt during the title campaign. Just hearing the words "I wish I was from Leicester" made me feel like my home town meant something. 

All of this wouldn't have been possible without Vichai, Top and the rest. 

Hopefully this goes some way to summing up the effect that the man had on me and it's been wonderful reading and hearing all your memories. I feel I owe it to you lot, and to him, to be more active here and spreading the love of Leicester. I might not be able to get to the games but I feel every kick of the ball. 

Cheers


 

[Clever Fox]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

One of my thoughts on all of this is how much it shows you CAN manage people with kindness, compassion, generosity and become extremely popular and successful at the same time.

A genuine empathy towards others, a smile an acknowledgment can make a massive difference.

Vichai clearly embodied the lot...

A fantastic role model

Very well said Col

[Steven]

'My whole family died and Leicester City's owner was there to help me'

 

 

Jose Ragoobeer, whose wife and two sons were killed in an explosion in Leicester earlier this year, has paid a heartfelt tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and his family.

 

Ragoobeer held back tears as he praised the work of the Srivaddhanaprabha family in Leicester. He said: 'They've done good things for the community ... I myself, I recently lost my wife and sons in a fire and they've been good to me. They've been very supportive. They even gave me the hall for the wake and it's a big, big shock for me.'

[thursday_next]

A post from SohoFox on Bentley's Roof:

 

"Just a little story which seems to sum Vichai up.
We went to the San Carlo for dinner on a Saturday night.
It was round about the time Jamie Vardy broke the record for those 11 consecutive PL goals.
We were given a table near him and a load of Thai folk. They were all eating great big bowls of mussels like they were going out of fashion. Nothing else. Just mussels.
I couldn't believe it was him. But the waiters confirmed it was.
Anyway I plucked up courage to pop over and say thankyou for everything he was doing at the Club. On the spur of the moment I gave him a teeny LCFC lapel badge. One of the old ones like a mini shield before Bentleys Roof started to flog their badges.
It cost me all of 2 Quid from a vendor outside a warehouse next to the old Half Time Orange in Burnmoor St many years ago.
He was delighted to take it and pinned it on the front of his shirt.
I went back to carry on with ordering our meals.
The waiter pops over to say Vichai would like to buy us a bottle of fizz.
I waved to Vichai and said thanks but no thanks that wasn't why I had given him my badge.
So we had our meal and wanted to get back for MOTD. So I asked for the Jack & Jill.
It was over a Ton.
Anyway 10 minutes later still no bill.
So I asked the waiter to hurry things up please.
The waiter comes over and says the bill had been paid by the Chairman.
I was gobsmacked but he waved to say he was not gonna change his mind.
We shook hands and I genuinely got the impression that he felt very honoured to have received the badge - all of 2 Quid's worth.
Sorry to have wasted your time but I just wanted to tell you about it."

 

One of many stories about Khun Vichai. He will be sadly missed xx

[stripeyfox]

 

Nigel Pearson pays his respects (LCFC Twitter)

 

https://twitter.com/LCFC/status/1057650923953184768

 

 

[GeorgeTheFox]

Only one Nigel Pearson

[AKCJ]

Nige <3

[TheUltimateWinner]

Not the circumstances in which I wanted him to return, but welcome home Nigel. 

Edited 31 October 2018 by TheUltimateWinner

[sylofox]

Can someone please correct his age in the title to 60.

[ScubaBlue]

3 hours ago, Heskey2011 said:

I'm not religious, i don't believe in a god or a master plan or anything, but I'm trying to make sense of all this;  I didn't know Vichai, I know about the good he did for our club, our city and the world. But I didn't know him, if he was a good man or not. 

However in times like these, when there's so much hatred, hostility and greed in the world an individual showing the complete opposite of these traits, love, compassion and charity, an individual like this dying, does serve a purpose, it reminds us that there are people out there quietly helping their fellow man, who do amazing things that benefit millions, when they don't need to, it gives the world hope, at a time when things seem pretty hopeless.

 

Totally agree. I think part of his legacy will also be to inspire others to be slightly more giving and selfless. His death has definitely had that effect on me.

 

We could all do a little bit more to help others.