The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, orangecity23 said:

If they hadn't included Finland, then the game might not be suitable for families, bit of a suspiciously shaped map otherwise 

Are you calling Scandinavia a willy?

[orangecity23]

10 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Are you calling Scandinavia a willy?

They've definitely been shafted by whoever planned those rail lines.

[davieG]

lcfc78lee
@lee1978lcfc

A QPR's fans view of Leicester City Football Club. 
#lcfc 💙🦊

 

[Claudio Fannieri]

7 minutes ago, davieG said:

lcfc78lee
@lee1978lcfc

A QPR's fans view of Leicester City Football Club. 
#lcfc 💙🦊

 

That is damning and yet very accurate representation of where we are and from an outsider, it’s hard at times to portray the mix of emotions our downfall has created from anger to sadness, from frustration, dismay to apathy to then absolute rage and contempt to everyone who has played a part in this happening. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

6 minutes ago, davieG said:

lcfc78lee
@lee1978lcfc

A QPR's fans view of Leicester City Football Club. 
#lcfc 💙🦊

 

I'm impressed an opposition fan can sum up our state so well and based on just one game. 

 

If QPR fans can see this, why can't our own? And why are so many just OK with it? We're a joke. 

[Finnegan]

2 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

I'm impressed an opposition fan can sum up our state so well and based on just one game. 

 

If QPR fans can see this, why can't our own? And why are so many just OK with it? We're a joke. 

 

Tbf it was probably written by MTWG. 

 

I read a stat the other day that he makes up 78% of all accounts on all message boards in the world. 

 

Just think about the implications of that. Madness. 

[ealingfox]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

lcfc78lee
@lee1978lcfc

A QPR's fans view of Leicester City Football Club. 
#lcfc 💙🦊

 

 

They were level on points with us before the game...

Edited 24 December 2025 by ealingfox

[CrazyKopCorner]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

lcfc78lee
@lee1978lcfc

A QPR's fans view of Leicester City Football Club. 
#lcfc 💙🦊

 

FM frighteningly accurate 

[davieG]

[Paninistickers]

On 24/12/2025 at 10:31, Stuntman_Mike said:

 

 

If QPR fans can see this, why can't our own? And why are so many just OK with it?

Because they aren't real football fans. In theatre terms, they like pantomime (or at best a West end show) - but can't understand Alan Bennett or Arthur Miller

 

They know only you need more goals, that the opposition are all 'baddies' and the ref is always the villain. 

 

 

[Manwell Pablo]

On 24/12/2025 at 10:31, Stuntman_Mike said:

I'm impressed an opposition fan can sum up our state so well and based on just one game. 

 

If QPR fans can see this, why can't our own? And why are so many just OK with it? We're a joke. 

 Blatantly a Leicester fan pretending to be. QPR fan is you ask me. 
 

Doesn’t make it any less accurate mind you. 

[bovril]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

Mahrez for 400k is just hilarious. Maybe the most gifted player in our history, for less than half the price of Graham Fenton. 

[davieG]

17 minutes ago, bovril said:

Mahrez for 400k is just hilarious. Maybe the most gifted player in our history, for less than half the price of Graham Fenton. 

He's still popping goals in for Algeria scored 2 today.

[bovril]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

He's still popping goals in for Algeria scored 2 today.

Assume you're talking about Mahrez not Fenton

[davieG]

2 hours ago, bovril said:

Assume you're talking about Mahrez not Fenton

He's probably popping in a few beers.

[davieG]

From Foxes Trust Reform Chat

 

Mike Whalley | Jon West
Thursday January 01 2026, 10.30pm, The Times

Martí Cifuentes may look like a man on borrowed time, but it hardly seems to matter. It would take more than a change of manager to sort out the mess Leicester City are in.

On and off the pitch they are in trouble wherever you look: fans seem unsure whether to direct rage at the board, Cifuentes or the players. As a woeful performance led to a 3-1 defeat against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, they voiced anger at all three.

For the club hierarchy, there was a chant of: “Sack the board.” For Cifuentes, there was a chant of: “You’re getting sacked in the morning.” For the players, there was visible frustration from the away support at full-time.

The statistics were damning, and yet still not damning enough. Leicester have long been a team with defensive weaknesses, and their run without a clean sheet was extended to 19 matches as Japhet Tanganga headed in his first Sheffield United goal nine minutes before half-time, with Tom Cannon and Callum O’Hare scoring in the second half.

Other numbers illustrated Leicester’s ineptitude more starkly. With an hour gone, their expected goals total was 0.02, and it was tempting to wonder if it might slip into the negative.

In that first hour, they managed one shot and earned one corner. When Jeremy Monga, their lively 16-year-old substitute, managed three touches in a row inside the home penalty area shortly after coming on, it was worthy of note. His team-mates had managed just two between them in the previous 68 minutes. It was a genuine surprise to look at the league table afterwards and see that Leicester were as high as 13th.

“It was a poor performance,” Cifuentes said. “In the Championship, you need to run, you need to win your duels. We didn’t.”

When Jordan James drove in Leicester’s goal, two minutes into added time, the game long lost, there was not a flicker of celebration. As Cifuentes put it: “Well, when you score in the 92nd minute and you’re losing 3-0, there is not much to celebrate, right?”

There is not much to celebrate for Leicester full stop. They are waiting to find out if they will receive a points deduction for alleged breaches of Profitability and Sustainability Rules, while fan anger has reached such a level that there are plans for a boycott of Monday’s home game against West Bromwich Albion.

Sheffield United, despite being two points and two places below Leicester, are in a happier state of mind. Tanganga, their captain, signed from Millwall for an initial £7million in August, headed in Sam McCallum’s corner to put them ahead, having gone the whole of 2025 without scoring.

Cannon swept in from a fine cutback by Andre Brooks to score against a former club for the second time in four days, having also done so in last Monday’s victory at Stoke City. O’Hare turned in Femi Seriki’s low cross to make it 3-0 with two minutes left.

“If you win races and headers and tackles, then the ball falls to you a little bit more than it falls to the opposition, and it did,” Chris Wilder, the manager, said.

[The Year Of The Fox]

https://x.com/cjhall83/status/2008268172852699193?s=48

 

 

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

https://x.com/owen_wawaw_s6/status/2008267941184483351?s=46

[davieG]

[BKLFox]

With the doom and gloom drum constantly being banged its nice to hear Charlton & Pompey fans bigging up our stewards & matchday experience 

 

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1333095562187020&id=100064597666095&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc3MDA2ODYwNzAwMCwiciI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbVwvIn0%3D

[LCFCCHRIS]

Well gentlemen it gets worse.

Leicester mentioned in the Epstein files. 

[davieG]

Tom Collomosse in the Daily Mail - article here

Text:

Ten years before they lifted the Premier League title in 2016, Leicester finished 16th in the Championship. A decade after that never-to-be-forgotten moment, it feels horribly like the fall could be even steeper than the rise.

After being deducted six points for breaking spending rules, Leicester are above the relegation zone on goal difference alone and could drop into the bottom three this weekend if they lose at Birmingham, and West Brom avoid defeat against Stoke.

This is a crisis that has developed over about five years and is a result of mistakes made by many, though two men above all others are blamed by supporters: chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha and his beleaguered director of football, Jon Rudkin.

At one stage, Leicester feared they may be docked 20 points for their breaches, although the Premier League stress this was never the case. Either way, Top and Rudkin are lucky that governing bodies cannot issue penalties for the under-performance of senior figures. If they could, Leicester would probably be in non-league by now.

You name it, Top and Rudkin have done it. Bad squad planning? Tick. Poor financial management? Tick. Indulging average players for too long? Tick. The list goes on.

Let us look at Rudkin first. He has the complete trust of Top, which the Leicester owner reiterated in a rare series of interviews last month. While loyalty is admirable, allowing staff to continue regardless of performance is certainly not.

A series of managers, from Brendan Rodgers to Enzo Maresca and Steve Cooper, believed that – at different times – Leicester had not been entirely clear with them about the club’s financial picture. If the manager is unhappy, disharmony usually follows. Rudkin may dispute that but as he has so far been reluctant to speak in public, we cannot know.

Strong executives empower their managers. Instead, over several years, Leicester players have felt able to go over the manager’s head and take grievances directly to Rudkin. That breeds dysfunction. It breeds situations where at least one senior player was known to stroll defiantly around the pitch during training sessions, infuriating team-mates who were giving 100 per cent.

During the first Premier League relegation season in 2022-23, players described Leicester’s sumptuous £100million training ground as ‘a holiday camp’.

Late in 2024, players flew to Denmark for a Christmas party on the eve of Cooper’s sacking, appearing to taunt their former boss by standing near a sign praising Maresca, whose Chelsea team had won at Leicester hours earlier. Others feel they can flat-out refuse requests to stay overnight in the hotel-style rooms at the training ground.

Rudkin is not directly responsible for this, of course, but a more alert executive would create a culture where such actions are not even contemplated. Yet he did have a say over the lucrative contracts handed to players with little market interest – Jannik Vestergaard, Harry Winks, Conor Coady, Jordan Ayew, Oliver Skipp and Bobby De Cordova-Reid.

He is responsible for the transfer market haggling that costs Leicester valuable time and seems to offer little benefit. There are many examples but one will suffice. At the start of the January 2025 window Sheffield United wanted Hamza Choudhury on loan with an option to buy.

Leicester would agree only to a loan with an obligation – for a player on a hefty contract who was unwanted by then-manager Ruud van Nistelrooy. With the deadline approaching, Leicester agreed to a loan with option after all. Valuable time lost over a single issue, in a month when speed and flexibility are vital.

Maresca wanted to appoint his own sporting director and would often grow frustrated when he could not reach Rudkin to discuss recruitment or contracts. Yes, Rudkin was there when Leicester won the title. But has he really been subjected to the sort of scrutiny from ownership that he should have been? Even if Leicester appoint a technical director, as they insist they will, that person will likely report to Rudkin. Fans are understandably sceptical about whether anything will change.

Along with many things, the treatment of Rudkin falls on Top. His father, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was killed in a helicopter crash in October 2018. Top wanted to honour Vichai’s legacy and for the first part of his reign, it seemed he would do so. His commitment to the club has never been in question.

Yet is Top the high-class leader an ambitious football club needs? The kindest thing to say is that the jury is out. Top was far too late to sack Rodgers in 2023 and was perhaps too quick to dismiss Cooper 18 months later. Leicester would deny it, but when they appointed Van Nistelrooy to succeed Cooper, it appeared as though they did so primarily because the Dutchman had led Manchester United to two wins over the Foxes as interim manager.

They appointed Cifuentes but because of the financial situation, he was not given the chance to sideline certain senior players and stamp his mark on the club. Indeed, the appointment was odd in the first place. A promising young coach, Cifuentes was not the man for a squad that has proved so difficult to handle. Why not hire Chris Wilder, who was interviewed for the role and had vowed to shake things up?

The Covid-19 pandemic made a huge impact on Leicester’s parent company King Power and Top needed to lead their recovery from the front. It may have damaged his ability to keep on top of things at Leicester, though.

The recent interviews were a welcome attempt to grip an alarming situation yet for too long, he has appeared distant. Indeed, some at Leicester even wonder whether he has a clear grasp of how each department works. Top would insist the contrary. Now is the time to prove it.

When Leicester face dropping into the relegation zone, it feels glib to mention positives. Empty seats will dominate the backdrop for the next home game, against Southampton on Tuesday, which will also see protests against the club’s leaders.

Yet the club’s academy is in excellent shape. Jeremy Monga is a jewel and the Foxes did very well to hang on to him, amid interest from Manchester City, Chelsea and other elite clubs across the continent. He is the emblem of a system that is actually working. There are also smart, diligent people working at the club who, given the opportunity to shine, can help revive it.

That revival cannot come soon enough – but for as long as Top and Rudkin are running the show, a significant number of supporters doubt whether it ever will.

Edited 6 February by Finnegan
formatting (sorry davie)

[SemperEadem]

Cov fans wanking themselves silly last night.

[fazzyfox]

15 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Cov fans wanking themselves silly last night.

So just like any other Thursday night for them then?

[ClaphamFox]

15 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Cov fans wanking themselves silly last night.

Did they give their sisters the night off then?