The "do they mean us?" thread pt 4

[Sky Blues]

3 hours ago, TJB-fox said:

This thread used to be my favourite. When we were good and reading all the salty comments from other fans. 
 

It’s very depressing now

A lot of clubs have hit this wall and know how it feels. We know what could be ahead. 

 

But whatever happens keep it up. The fond memories of your climb back up never leave you, like for us playing 46 games away each season and travelling to Northampton to stand on a hill where we could see half the pitch. But my favourite still is when little Yeovil came to our place. A win and we get into the playoffs for League Two 🥳🥳🥳

 

They beat us 2-6 🙄

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, Sky Blues said:

A lot of clubs have hit this wall and know how it feels. We know what could be ahead. 

 

But whatever happens keep it up. The fond memories of your climb back up never leave you, like for us playing 46 games away each season and travelling to Northampton to stand on a hill where we could see half the pitch. But my favourite still is when little Yeovil came to our place. A win and we get into the playoffs for League Two 🥳🥳🥳

 

They beat us 2-6 🙄

 

Thanks.

 

That's entirely what being a real football fan is about. No doubt I'll be called a happy clapper for this.

[Golden Fox]

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26.

 

They highlighted his achievements in the game:

 
 

Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

[DJ Barry Hammond]

4 hours ago, Golden Fox said:

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26.

 

They highlighted his achievements in the game:

 
 

Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

I wonder who scored our one?

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 hours ago, Golden Fox said:

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26.

 

They highlighted his achievements in the game:

 
 

Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

I got Hinckley into the Champions League.

 

Can I manage Barca please?

[suffolk fox]

20 hours ago, Golden Fox said:

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26.

 

They highlighted his achievements in the game:

 
 

Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

whoever wrote that article is obviously an Ipswich Town fan.  I think they beat us 6 1 at their place once, can't remember who scored our goal though.

[Ted Maul]

27 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

whoever wrote that article is obviously an Ipswich Town fan.  I think they beat us 6 1 at their place once, can't remember who scored our goal though.

Jon Stevenson? Towards the start of the 2002/03 season I believe 

 

Edit- Yep-

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/2197448.stm

 

Amazing what you remember when you're actually arsed about it. I genuinely couldn't tell you who scored against Bristol City a couple of weeks ago, and I was at the game.

Edited 28 March by Ted Maul

[urban.spaceman]

On 27/03/2026 at 13:21, Golden Fox said:

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26.

 

They highlighted his achievements in the game:

 
 

Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

[davieG]

[kenny]

45 minutes ago, davieG said:

Should win both of those.

[Livid]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4FRHfS/
 

Just back the lads 🙄

[when_you're_smiling]

18 minutes ago, Livid said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4FRHfS/
 

Just back the lads 🙄

Eurgh. Should come with a trigger warning.

[davieG]

Leicester on brink of consecutive relegations after appeal against six-point deduction fails

 

Leicester on brink of consecutive relegations after appeal against six-point deduction fails
Story by Jeremy Wilson • 5h • 

Leicester City were charged last year for breaching profitability and sustainability rules - Mike Egerton/PA
Leicester City’s fears of being relegated to League One have deepened after an appeal against their six-point deduction was dismissed.

The sanction had been imposed in February by a Premier League-appointed independent commission, prompting them to fall to 20th in the Championship table. Since then they have slipped a further two places following a four-game winless run.

 

Winning the appeal would have put Leicester five points clear of the relegation zone, but with five games remaining, they are one point behind Portsmouth, who also have a game in hand.

Leicester had been charged last year for breaching profitability and sustainability rules for the three-season period ending in 2023-24, when they won the Championship.

Premier League PSR rules state that clubs cannot lose more than £105m across three seasons, but that figure is reduced by £22m for each of the counting seasons that a club are in the Championship.

Leicester, who had wanted their accounts to be considered over a 37-month period rather than 36 following a delay in submitting their accounts, were found to have spent some £20.8m over the reduced £83m limit.

The Premier League also disputed the sanction, claiming that a failure to provide financial accounts for the 2023-24 season when requested should be treated as an aggravating factor, resulting in an extra point deduction. That appeal was also dismissed.

 

Leicester were relegated on their return to the Premier League in 2024-25, accumulating just 25 points to finish 18th, and now face the prospect of back-to-back relegations

“With the matter now at an end and five games of the season remaining, everyone at the club is fully focused on the matches in front of us and on shaping the outcome of our season through our results on the pitch,” a Leicester statement said.

“We know this has been a challenging period, and we thank our supporters for the backing they continue to give the team.

“The responsibility now is to ensure these remaining games are approached with the focus and intent our current situation demands.”

Of the Premier League’s attempt to increase the sanction, the appeal board said: “We consider that the commission were entitled to treat the non-disclosure breach as aggravating the PSR breaches, rather than imposing a separate sanction for it.”

 

Leicester have said that they were “exceptionally cooperative” to the Premier League’s investigation. Leicester will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their historic Premier League title win next month. They have since won the FA Cup and the Championship, but have also been relegated twice.

 

 

[The Ipswich]

Does anyone remember that game we played against you at Portman Road when it snowed heavily just before the match? Think it was just before Christmas 2010. Here it is on Youtube

 

Well anyway, me and my mates were in the pub before and got so convinced it'd be called off that we just stayed there drinking. Then they put it on Sky and we rushed to the ground and I slipped and badly twisted my ankle. Mates helped me walk, but we all looked like The Snowman when we eventually got there. That was a bloody travesty. Think we had Roy Keane in charge and he intimidated the ref to play it as we led 2-0.

[ClaphamFox]

59 minutes ago, The Ipswich said:

Does anyone remember that game we played against you at Portman Road when it snowed heavily just before the match? Think it was just before Christmas 2010. Here it is on Youtube

 

Well anyway, me and my mates were in the pub before and got so convinced it'd be called off that we just stayed there drinking. Then they put it on Sky and we rushed to the ground and I slipped and badly twisted my ankle. Mates helped me walk, but we all looked like The Snowman when we eventually got there. That was a bloody travesty. Think we had Roy Keane in charge and he intimidated the ref to play it as we led 2-0.

Yes, we remember.

[1972 Fox]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CdP2uz37h/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[HitchinFox]

On 08/04/2026 at 12:11, Livid said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4FRHfS/
 

Just back the lads 🙄

They misspelt his name - pretty sure it's Sp, not a V. 

[davieG]

Alex Crook 

@alex_crook

Leicester players absolutely deserve this. From what I'm told there are some real wrong 'uns in that dressing room. A direct result of mismanagement from the top.

[Superpants82]

Absolute madness 

[Livid]

14 hours ago, Superpants82 said:

Absolute madness 

It’s very rarely been dull has it. 

[davieG]

 

Hmm sounds familiar apart from the starting point.

[teblin]

4 hours ago, Livid said:

It’s very rarely been dull has it. 

Also missed out Play offs in 2010 and 2012, as well as a European Semi Final in Rome. 

 

I have Derby Fans Mocking where we are and it is crap, but none of them have ever seen them win anything other than a playoff. 

 

We have been so Lucky, which is why I think what is happening is so difficult to take.

[davieG]

Ranking the biggest Premier League title slip-ups - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0ljk11e390o

 

 

Don't think this should be in the top 10.

 

10. Tottenham Hotspur 2015-16

Does it count as bottling if you were never in front? It is perhaps harsh to include Tottenham, considering north London rivals Arsenal were at one point in a more commanding position - but there's plenty of room for the Gunners on this list…

As the usual suspects all faltered, Mauricio Pochettino's vibrant young side appeared well placed to bring a first title to White Hart Lane since 1961.

But cometh the hour, cometh the dilly-dong. Claudio Ranieri's pizza-loving Leicester nomads stormed to the Premier League summit and, after briefly giving up top spot to Arsenal, surged clear to become 5,000-1-shot winners.

A six-game winning run through January and February put Spurs in prime position to capitalise on a Foxes stumble, but that never came. A bruising draw in the Battle of the Bridge ended Tottenham's hopes before they lost their final two games to slip to third.

Never mind, Tottenham and Pochettino's time would come, surely…

[Foxin_Mad]

On 21/03/2026 at 05:48, Sky Blues said:

A lot of clubs have hit this wall and know how it feels. We know what could be ahead. 

 

But whatever happens keep it up. The fond memories of your climb back up never leave you, like for us playing 46 games away each season and travelling to Northampton to stand on a hill where we could see half the pitch. But my favourite still is when little Yeovil came to our place. A win and we get into the playoffs for League Two 🥳🥳🥳

 

They beat us 2-6 🙄

 

The problem for us, is it seems unlikely we will have a route back. Certainly until the clowns running the club leave. 
 

The ebbs and flows of football are fine, it’s the 5 years of self sabotage that are difficult to take.

 

I don’t actually mind us being shit even, if we acknowledge that and don’t pretend to be something we aren’t. 

Edited 13 April by Foxin_Mad

[Mickyblueeyes]

19 hours ago, davieG said:

Alex Crook 

@alex_crook

Leicester players absolutely deserve this. From what I'm told there are some real wrong 'uns in that dressing room. A direct result of mismanagement from the top.

I'd love to know who the ring leaders are - I have my thoughts and I think they are all wrong but who are the worst of the worst. 

 

Maybe we find out in a few years. 

 

The agent fee table released a few weeks shows what we do as a club. Sit there, on the final day hoping to have some crumbs chucked at us. You get the odd talent - a Jordan James but in reality, you end with the majority being ones others dont want. 

 

If Rudkin tried and failed, I could just about live with it. 

 

He hasnt tried. He has failed because he hasnt. That makes him a cheat.