The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

[MattFox]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

Bang on. Even this month i was in NY and someone from our clients company recognised my tshirt and said ' i love that story -  man'. We are well known.

If we had any commercial sense we’d collaborate with Amazon or Netflix to do a 10 year behind the scenes documentary kinda thing

 

The yanks love this stuff

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

If we had any commercial sense we’d collaborate with Amazon or Netflix to do a 10 year behind the scenes documentary kinda thing

 

The yanks love this stuff

If we ever get sold the new owners will do it, 100%

 

This lot couldn't sell bottled water in Death Valley

[bovril]

On 28/06/2025 at 08:12, los dedos said:

Guess which one club is actually mentioned in the answers. Sometimes I think we are more well known than people think 😁

The need for English football clubs to embrace almost every aspect of American sport culture, right down to social media stuff like this, is quite remarkable to witness. 

[los dedos]

50 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

If we ever get sold the new owners will do it, 100%

 

This lot couldn't sell bottled water in Death Valley

Looks like there struggling to sell water in a Duty free shop .😅

[RoboFox]

On 28/06/2025 at 08:12, los dedos said:

Guess which one club is actually mentioned in the answers. Sometimes I think we are more well known than people think 😁

That’s genuinely the first thing I’ve seen on social media from any club that I’ve actually enjoyed. Quality content TBF.

 

Meanwhile LCFC admins are desperately checking the calendar to see whose birthday it is today.

 

 

 

[jimsmallman]

2 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Bang on. Even this month i was in NY and someone from our clients company recognised my tshirt and said ' i love that story -  man'. We are well known.

I lived in Florida for four years (up till December) and I very rarely had to explain the "soccer jersey" that I was wearing. Not just with Americans either - my neighbors on each side were from Ecuador and Mexico and they were even more enthusiastic about me being a Leicester supporter. Prior to 2016 we certainly weren't a big deal, but it's not just us winning the league that did it. The Premier League coverage over there is massive, and the Championship is pretty well covered on ESPN+ too. All my American friends have a "British team", although annoyingly it's often Spurs or Arsenal.

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, RoboFox said:

That’s genuinely the first thing I’ve seen on social media from any club that I’ve actually enjoyed. Quality content TBF.

 

Meanwhile LCFC admins are desperately checking the calendar to see whose birthday it is today.

 

 

 

They stole the idea from Chelsea to be fair, and wouldn't be surprised if they got it off something else. Proof nothing is original in this social media era. Our current lot will probably realise it's a trend and do it for the 2030/31 season 

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1lefxuc/chelsea_fc_our_202526_premier_league_fixture/

 

Still, nice to know we're still massive 

Edited 29 June 2025 by OntarioFox

[davieG]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hibs-appoint-former-leicester-city-35477369

 

Hibs appoint former Leicester City chief as Ben Kensell successor
Dan Barnett will finish up with the Foxes in July before heading north to take control at Easter Road

Ross Pilcher
17:00, 30 Jun 2025

Dan Barnett will become Hibs' new chief executive, the capital club have confirmed.

Barnett, who will finish up with Leicester City next month before officially starting his new gig at Easter Road on August 1, replaces Ben Kensell seven months after he left the Hibees by mutual consent.

The Foxes' commercial director has spent the last six years at the East Midlands club after roles with UEFA, the Americas Cup and the ski and snowsports administration in the USA.

“It is a tremendous honour to be joining Hibernian FC as Chief Executive Officer,” said Barnett.

 

“This is a club steeped in a proud history, with an incredibly passionate fanbase, and with huge potential as we enter an exciting new era for the football club.

[Jimbo]

On 29/06/2025 at 16:16, OntarioFox said:

They stole the idea from Chelsea to be fair, and wouldn't be surprised if they got it off something else. Proof nothing is original in this social media era. Our current lot will probably realise it's a trend and do it for the 2030/31 season 

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1lefxuc/chelsea_fc_our_202526_premier_league_fixture/

 

Still, nice to know we're still massive 

It's quite a common thing for Americans to do. Chelsea's American owners would have already been familiar with this sort of social media post. NFL teams have already done this. Surprising that they still get the same amount of stupid answers 😂 Titans did it 2 years ago I think.

 

https://youtu.be/R8SlGAMuTNU

 

As a big NFL fan myself, NFL teams social media teams wipe the floor with most of what the premier league puts out. If you want a view at how social media posts can make absolutely no sense, but still be engaging check out the Buffalo Bills social media accounts. 

 

You have to be somewhat willing to embrace the Americanism of it all, but at least it breaks the norm more often than not

Edited 30 June 2025 by Jimbo

[CL Fox]

On 29/06/2025 at 12:28, MattFox said:

If we had any commercial sense we’d collaborate with Amazon or Netflix to do a 10 year behind the scenes documentary kinda thing

 

The yanks love this stuff

A major production company approached them about it two years ago, the club never followed up.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

 

An objectively accurate video from an outsider's perspective. But all the comments are about Jota, so they've got away with it (AGAIN). 

[sylofox]

Just seen a Leicester flag on the TDF.

[Aus Fox]

On 29/06/2025 at 21:28, MattFox said:

If we had any commercial sense we’d collaborate with Amazon or Netflix to do a 10 year behind the scenes documentary kinda thing

 

The yanks love this stuff

It would be pretty boring watching when there’s **** all going on behind the scenes…

Episode 15 and the board still aren’t back from the holidays, no manager has been appointed and we’re playing a game in our underpants this week.

Join us next week as we go behind the scenes of the transfer window where we made zero approaches for players and no one left. 

[Guest Bilo]

I honestly think Facundo Buonanotte saved football with that strike. 

 

 

[fox_favourite]

22 minutes ago, Bilo said:

I honestly think Facundo Buonanotte saved football with that strike. 

 

 

And they keep telling us they don't care about Leicester. Yet they prove time and time again they do. 

 

Poor little club 

[tinpot_fox]

3 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

It would be pretty boring watching when there’s **** all going on behind the scenes…

Episode 15 and the board still aren’t back from the holidays, no manager has been appointed and we’re playing a game in our underpants this week.

Join us next week as we go behind the scenes of the transfer window where we made zero approaches for players and no one left. 

The one player move so far will already be under exclusive coverage by Welcome to Wrexham

[Guest Bilo]

9 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

And they keep telling us they don't care about Leicester. Yet they prove time and time again they do. 

 

Poor little club 

They're going to look at that game the way we look at us shitting the bed at Bournemouth. The start of their well-deserved decline. They're also an objectively vile setup with the PSR shithousery and trying to get Palace lobbed out of Europe, all because they have yet to accept that they weren't good enough for Europa. 

 

I'd take enormous pleasure in them doing a Bury.

[fox_favourite]

4 minutes ago, Bilo said:

They're going to look at that game the way we look at us shitting the bed at Bournemouth. The start of their well-deserved decline. They're also an objectively vile setup with the PSR shithousery and trying to get Palace lobbed out of Europe, all because they have yet to accept that they weren't good enough for Europa. 

 

I'd take enormous pleasure in them doing a Bury.

Harsh, but very fair. 

 

They have one good season and they think they're a top club. Oops

[Danizen]

50 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Harsh, but very fair. 

 

They have one good season and they think they're a top club. Oops

Have you met the average Forest fan? They didn't need a good season to think they're a top club. Delusions of grandeur doesn't even come close to describing them.

[Ted Maul]

1 hour ago, fox_favourite said:

And they keep telling us they don't care about Leicester. Yet they prove time and time again they do. 

 now that they're better than us for the first time in a generation, I think that ruse has been booted firmly out of the window. Our socials are infested with them.

[Guest Bilo]

1 hour ago, Danizen said:

Have you met the average Forest fan? They didn't need a good season to think they're a top club. Delusions of grandeur doesn't even come close to describing them.

They're the most arrogant and deluded fanbase in English football relative to club size, and it honestly isn't a conversation. 

 

Real Madrid ego, Bournemouth reality.

[foxfanazer]

Well I can't get any joy from supporting Leicester anymore so this inevitable Forest blow up is going to be thoroughly enjoyable entertainment 

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inside-king-power-stadium-leicester-10345766

 

Inside King Power Stadium: Leicester City lose cup invite, pitch problem, Champions League move
The latest news from around Leicester City, looking at the end to their nine-season run in a competition they valued highly, the patchy pitch for the Lionesses game, and more

ByJordan Blackwell
10:08, 15 JUL 2025

The new season is now less than a month away and while Leicester City have been getting busy with early summer friendlies, they still don’t officially have a manager in place.

As the days tick down towards that clash with Sheffield Wednesday, here’s a look at some stories from around the club.

City miss out on tournament invite

 

For the first time since under-21 sides were invited into the EFL Trophy, City won’t play a part in this season’s tournament.

It’s not that they rejected the opportunity, but rather that they weren’t invited.

For nine years in a row, City’s development squad have tested their talents against senior players at League One and League Two clubs, reaching the quarter-finals in their best run in 2019-20.

While the decision to include top clubs’ under-21s has been controversial, it’s been seen at City as a great opportunity for young players’ progression.

But having fallen into the Championship, City were not on the initial list to be invited this coming season.

With clubs above them in the league standings taking up the opportunity to compete in the competition, it means City miss out.

 

 

Club confident pitch will be ready in time

Anybody who watched the Lionesses’ final Euros warm-up friendly at the King Power Stadium will have spotted the pitch looking worse for wear.

There were patches of the turf in each half that were far from the luscious green they usually are, prompting surprise among City supporters. In the national media, the pitch was described as “appalling”.

The pitch, as usual during the summer, underwent a renovation following the end of the last campaign, with work starting within a week of City’s final home game against Ipswich.

It was a short window to get the pitch ready in time for the Lionesses match, on June 29, and it very clearly wasn’t up to scratch for an international fixture.

But as far as City are concerned, it seems it will all be in order by the time they return to their home.

The club are confident that the issues with the pitch were merely cosmetic, and that by the time City host Fiorentina in the final pre-season friendly on August 3, it will be sorted.

 

 

Released quartet get moves – with one in Champions League

It’s positive to see that the young professionals released by City this summer have been quickly snapped up by clubs around the country and given the opportunity to continue their careers in the game.

In June, goalkeeper Brad Young joined Bristol Rovers and defender Ben Grist signed up with Boston United, but four more youngsters have found new clubs in the past fortnight.

Right-back Joe Wormleighton impressed in a trial with Northampton Town and has earned a switch to the League One club.

In the National League, Arjan Raikhy has joined Grist at Boston, while fellow midfielder Oli Ewing has moved to Scunthorpe.

But perhaps the most exciting move is for centre-back Harvey Godsmark-Ford, who joined Welsh champions The New Saints.

It means he has already been on the bench in a Champions League game. The New Saints are currently in the first qualifying round, drawing 0-0 with North Macedonian champions Shkendija at home in the first leg.

Godsmark-Ford will hope to make his debut in the second leg on Tuesday evening.

 

 

Moment missed

With fewer than 500 people able to attend matches at Seagrave, it means the shouts on the pitch are not always drowned out by the crowd. That allows for insight as to who’s talking the most and what they’re saying.

There will be no surprises that Conor Coady was the loudest, and most encouraging, but James Justin was also a big talker, especially with Jake Evans in front of him.

Justin, now 27, is no longer one of the young players, and has the experience to guide a prospect like Evans, 11 years his junior, through a match.

Much of the guidance was about where he needed to be, either when City had the ball and needed him to stay high and wide to be an option, or who he needed to mark. But not all of Justin’s instructions would be correct, and he acknowledged that.

When Leuven had a throw-in on their flank, Justin called for Evans to drop in, so that the taker was covered should they play a quick one-two with the winger that Justin was marking.

Evans, stood further forward to block off a throw to the Leuven full-back, turned his head back and forth, perplexed, clearly caught in two minds as to where he should be.

Eventually, Justin corrected himself, shouting up to Evans: “You were right, ignore me!”

 

 

Who has impressed recently?

Jeremy Monga and Louis Page have been the headline-makers of the teenagers in City’s squad, but Bade Aluko has been very good too, especially out of his usual position.

A versatile full-back, Aluko spent most of last season playing as a left-back. In pre-season, he’s been a right-sided centre-back.

But he’s done a great job so far, to the point it could be a future position for him. He’s got the height, the pace, and the strength to perform well there, while he’s shown bravery on the ball in both dribbling out from the back and looking for passes through the lines.

 

 

Who has a point to prove?

This is pre-season, and so the real answer is everyone. That’s especially with a new manager about to arrive. It’s time for the players to show him what they can provide.

But if there’s one player who could perhaps show a little more to better stake a claim for a starting spot, it’s Will Alves.

Over the first two pre-season matches, he’s got onto the ball regularly and looked lively in his dribbling, advancing towards the box. But when he gets there, it feels like he too often turns away from the dangerous areas and allows the opposition’s defence to reset.

He perhaps needs to be encouraged to take a few more risks, even if it means losing the ball from time to time.

 

 

Next up

City head to near Graz, in Austria, on Wednesday but the first of their three games while they’re away is just over the Hungary border, against Zalaegerszegi.

They finished 10th in the Hungarian top flight last season, just outside the relegation zone, and are preparing for their seventh straight campaign in the first division.

While City are yet to confirm the fixture, it looks like kick-off will be 5.30pm UK time. It could be Marti Cifuentes' first game.

[davieG]

From Premier League title to yo-yo club - Leicester's unforgettable decade

 

Andrew Aloia
BBC Sport, East Midlands
Published
2 hours ago
72 Comments
Triumph, tragedy and turmoil.

The past decade at Leicester City has had it all.

It started with a season that delivered the most unlikely - and previously unfathomable - Premier League title to King Power Stadium in 2016.

Two years later, the stadium was also the site of the club's most shocking tragedy, as owner and chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died alongside four other people in a helicopter crash outside the ground.

Now, in a season where Leicester will mark the 10-year anniversary of their greatest sporting moment - which Vichai was instrumental in creating - the club finds itself back in England's second tier after a second relegation from the Premier League in three years.

And this time they have dropped into the Championship under a cloud of uncertainty, the threat of a points penalty hanging over the club for allegedly breaching spending rules when they were promoted from the division as title winners just over a year ago.

"It's been an emotional rollercoaster," said lifelong Foxes fan Kate Blakemore, a regular Leicester contributor for BBC Sport.

"We've had tragedy thrown in there with the passing of Vichai, and winning the FA Cup is not something I thought I'd see in my lifetime, let alone the Premier League.

"We have had some amazing highs this past decade and yet here we are feeling rather glum that we have been relegated for the second time in three seasons and things seem a little bit unsettled at the club.

"We are rounding out the decade with a very different feeling to how we started it, and it's quite tough to take for the fans really."

The departure of talismanic striker Jamie Vardy, the last of Leicester's Premier League-title winning side, and the club's failure to spend to bolster the squad this summer, emphasises just how this latest relegation marks the end of a golden era for the Foxes.

 

Read more here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp8zv7v2p5go

[Spudulike]

39 minutes ago, davieG said:

From Premier League title to yo-yo club - Leicester's unforgettable decade

 

Andrew Aloia
BBC Sport, East Midlands
Published
2 hours ago
72 Comments
Triumph, tragedy and turmoil.

The past decade at Leicester City has had it all.

It started with a season that delivered the most unlikely - and previously unfathomable - Premier League title to King Power Stadium in 2016.

Two years later, the stadium was also the site of the club's most shocking tragedy, as owner and chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died alongside four other people in a helicopter crash outside the ground.

Now, in a season where Leicester will mark the 10-year anniversary of their greatest sporting moment - which Vichai was instrumental in creating - the club finds itself back in England's second tier after a second relegation from the Premier League in three years.

And this time they have dropped into the Championship under a cloud of uncertainty, the threat of a points penalty hanging over the club for allegedly breaching spending rules when they were promoted from the division as title winners just over a year ago.

"It's been an emotional rollercoaster," said lifelong Foxes fan Kate Blakemore, a regular Leicester contributor for BBC Sport.

"We've had tragedy thrown in there with the passing of Vichai, and winning the FA Cup is not something I thought I'd see in my lifetime, let alone the Premier League.

"We have had some amazing highs this past decade and yet here we are feeling rather glum that we have been relegated for the second time in three seasons and things seem a little bit unsettled at the club.

"We are rounding out the decade with a very different feeling to how we started it, and it's quite tough to take for the fans really."

The departure of talismanic striker Jamie Vardy, the last of Leicester's Premier League-title winning side, and the club's failure to spend to bolster the squad this summer, emphasises just how this latest relegation marks the end of a golden era for the Foxes.

 

Read more here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp8zv7v2p5go

Reading the rest of that article they go on about the £80m for Maguire and £60m for Mahrez but forget about the £72m for Fofana.