Nearly Leicester Managers

[The Horse's Mouth]

Pretty sure redknapp got offered it early 2010s as well, might’ve been before he took the qpr job. 

[Libertine]

4 hours ago, filthyfox said:

Gary Megson

You're looking for the topic 'Barely Leicester Managers'.

[ramboacdc]

11 hours ago, Nalis said:

Nice work towards FT folklore

My 2 contributions to this place are Preki and I made the Plane Tracking Topic. One of the more infamous moments, and I think it was around the same time, was watching the plane fly to the US thinking they were picking up a signing or doing some buisness and it turned out to be the plane was being taken in for an MOT basically.
 

8 hours ago, Uncle Monty said:

Preki was absolute peak ft meltdown 😂 

 

6 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

I still have no idea what happened.  Was he really in the frame?  Where did he go?  Is he real?

He's real, going back over the topic I am quite clearly manic when I am writing stuff but that just added to the absolute shitshow. The fact that before the end of the first page he had gone from 5/1 to 6/4 and Stringer was talking about him within an hour of the post snowballed the shit out of that thing. 
 

 

Edited 18 August 2025 by ramboacdc

[Libertine]

4 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

 

 

100 pages in four days. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

12 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Bumped into Roberto Mancini in a pub across from St Pancras in 2017. Asked him if he neerlt took the job after Ranieri left. 

 

He asked me where the toilets were and ignored my question. 

So he did then?

 

All the clues are there. Pub, not IN St Pancras, but ACROSS THE ROAD from and then he asked for the TOILET, not the WASHROOM, , or the LOO, but the TOILET... seems to me that he had the pen actually in his hand, hovering over the papers.

 

Of course, I could be reading too much into it.

[burleighfox]

13 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

*Georgie Thompson voice while Out of Control plays*

Nostalgic; used to love The Premier League Years.

[Sly]

23 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Was this not more of a case that about 90% of the fan based thought this was possible the shi**est appointment we could make. Is there any evidence ha actually turned us down?

RvN and Cooper …… hold my beer. 

[HitchinFox]

23 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Was this not more of a case that about 90% of the fan based thought this was possible the shi**est appointment we could make. Is there any evidence ha actually turned us down?

Either way, we dodged a bullet there. 

 

Worked for both parties, though because after all, he went on to land the huge job of...

 

*searches the internet*

 

...the head coach of the mighty Canadian national team. 

[SK3Blue]

Gordon Lee took over as caretaker in 90/91 and kept us up, pretty sure he was offered the job permanent but declined and in stepped Brian Little. 
 

 

[Leicesterpool]

Neil Warnock the summer of 2007, he just left Sheffield United after eight years. Mandaric I think pursued him, I think Warnock wanted more time to rest after the Sheffield United job so turned us down.

Edited 18 August 2025 by Leicesterpool

[Heathrow fox]

Anyone remember who was being linked after the Bryan Hamilton sacking other than Pleat ?