When did you accept its over

[rugbyblue]

Just now, Vaz said:

I've never left a game before the 90th minute until today. Utterly ashamed of our team.  

 

In hindsight I should have stayed and joined the chorus of "not fit to wear the shirt", I was too angry at the time 

I never have either but was tempted today.  As i said in another thread i only stayed til the end to give them both barrels, the finger, the five knuckle shuffle sign and vent my anger.  And im a calm guy in everyday life!!!  

 

To top it all, i live in rugby which is big cov city country, and had the misfortune of going to a fireworks show tonight and getting a bunch of those fckers behind me, lapping it up, having a good laugh at us.  One used the world capitulation, which whilst very accurate, im surprised they had the vocabulary.  

[OntarioFox]

Yeah, it was that atrocious showing in the FA Cup vs. F*rest that did it for me. Made it painfully obvious that the players we had either didn't have the right attitude, had a paper-thin mentality, or both.

 

Nothing has changed since, if anything it's gotten worse as we've lost Vardy, KDH, Albrighton and others. Anybody trying to claim there's any leadership or accountability in this squad is talking out of their arse. They should all be ashamed of themselves, but they don't give a shit, they're paid a royal wage and probably believe a "better" club will come calling.

 

I'm on night shifts at the minute and slept through the first half today, but did wake up to score updates from family members daft enough to watch the whole thing. I caught the last 20 minutes as I was at non-league and it was on in the clubhouse before kickoff. I didn't want to watch it, I was there for a distraction but it's becoming more obvious with every passing day that nah, they're my first team now, the twats on the telly don't represent me. My interest in Leicester City is at rock bottom - and yes, I saw more graft and passion from the part timers I went to watch today than anything our pathetic rabble served up. Lost 1-0 but gave it a go - which is all I ask for from my football team. We've not had that from LCFC for ten years now.

 

It's honestly just the family / friends connection and chatting shit with you lot on here that keep me hanging on to this club right now. 

 

Edited 1 November 2025 by OntarioFox

[Free Falling Foxes]

Delighted when we won the prem and ecstatic when we then won the FA Cup.

 

I then tempted fate.

 

At the final whistle of the cup final, I lost my presence of mind. I was drumming like a maniac with my clenched fists on the side of our staircase. We won the cup.WE WON THE CUP! I screamed. Then I foolishly added, 'I dont care what happens now, we've won the cup'.

 

Edited 1 November 2025 by Free Falling Foxes

[fazzyfox]

When she replaced our cuddling profile picture on facebook with one of her cat.

 

Oh, with City? years ago. Conceding 2 in 3 minutes, twice just days apart (Spurs at home, Forest away in cup) the leadership and standards were non existent and have remained so since.

[Pliskin]

I think it is the loss of Kun Vichai…. Not that I’m defending KP, but I think that he at least had more of a proactive business head on his shoulders, and he could recognise when things needed addressing, and was fairly ruthless with his decisions. 
 

Not always right, and it’s likely that he is too culpable for the mess we’re in, he just isn’t here to defend himself any longer. 
 

But, he commanded a different kind of respect than Top, and perhaps we may not be in this mess had he still been alive? Perhaps? But it’s not fair to say…..

 

Either way, after that moment, Top and his family should have thought long and hard about what they wanted…. Because what’s happened is he has clearly lost control of the club, and we’re now in danger of become another Sheffield Wednesday…..

 

In terms of the reality check for me, it was the season we were relegated under Smith….. the fact that Rodgers threw the towel in, and the fact most of the players downed tools, it just signalled that it was all over for me…. To go from being a club that everyone aspired to be like, to an utter shambles in the flick of a switch was staggering. It was a sign something wasn’t right, things don’t tend to go that wrong that quickly, there’s usually a gradual decline, but it all just fell apart so quickly, and when that does it’s a dangerous sign. 
 

It is over for Top, we’ve seen similar declines before, Portsmouth, Wigan and Bolton to name a couple, where it has just completely fallen apart and the clubs just free fall down the football pyramid until someone new comes in to arrest it. This is where we are at, there’s no recovery for Top, the mistakes have been made and the damage irreversible under his regime. If he stays, we will drop to league 2 before we go back up. 

[Bezzanator89]

7 hours ago, MattFox said:

Bloke behind me was moaning very loudly about how the players deserve our full support 

Reminds me of the pre-match announcer telling us, the paying public, to "get behind the boys". Well, tell those boys, paid countless thousands every week, to give us something to get behind and we will without question.

 

They didn't today. Again. So no, pre-match announcer, I won't. I booed today, and I would do it again.

[lcfcdamo]

1 day we will be back! 

[Foxin_Mad]

It’s definitely over now. If we go to League 1, there’s no big Nige to lead us back. It could be some time in the wilderness, even maybe a Coventry style drop. Maybe that’s needed as a reset and to develop an identity. From where we were mixing it with Europes elite it’s a calamity. I will probably never see us play European football again, possibly even Premier League, it’s at least 10-20 years until we are close. 

Edited 1 November 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[rugbyblue]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Delighted when we won the prem and ecstatic when we then won the FA Cup.

 

I then tempted fate.

 

At the final whistle of the cup final, I lost my presence of mind. I was drumming like a maniac with my clenched fists on the side of our staircase. We won the cup.WE WON THE CUP! I screamed. Then I foolishly added, 'I dont care what happens now, we've won the cup'.

 

I said something along the lines of "it dont matter what happens in the future now" too, when we won the prem.

Spur of the moment words but if i knew then, what i know now, I wouldn't have said it.   Never been the same since, although handing big clubs their ar5es and european football was the stuff I dreamed of as a kid.  I can't hand on heart say id swap the prem for it but i do wish it could feel like it used to feel.  Nostalgia and JD perhaps now influencing my thoughts tonight 😂

[Dan]

1. Allowing Rodgers to dismantle the generally effective way we had been operating.

2. 2021/22 with our biggest ever net spend (at the time) off the back of having a pretty good team to serve up an extremely generous 8th placed finish. Failing to act here.

3. Allowing Rodgers to tank us into blatant relegation candidates and then eventually seeing it through.

4. Allowing Rudkin and Whelan to be the ones who reviewed exactly what went wrong.

5. The first PSR failing in March 2024. Rudkin remaining in place.

6. Allowing Cooper to make blatantly terrible economical moves despite point number 5. Rudkin remaining in place.

7. The entirety of the 2024/25 season - one of the most pathetic, disgusting assaults on the club to ever have taken place.

8. The pathetic managerial saga in the summer. The 3rd club in the Championship to confirm our status in the division. The 23rd club in the Championship to have a manager in place - beating only the extraordinary case of Sheffield Wednesday.

9. The 2025/26 season so far - which is essentially just a continuation of everything before.

10. Leicester 0-2 Blackburn

 

 

If it genuinely took you until point 10 to think that this owner is bad news then crikey, wise up, but at least you got there.

 

Some people still haven't. Or simply choose not to. KPFC Cultists.

 

I was done with this owner beyond repair at point 4 having been on extremely thin ice at point 3.

 

That's just footballing matters too. That's before you even get into all of the other stuff - banning people for nothing, the sponsorship scandals, the radio silence. They think we're absolute dirt.

 

This will take years to recover from even when the little **** sells up. Just think how normalised this sort of thing has become. Think of the subtle ways the pride and standards have been diminished. We had an absolutely pathetic summer and people acted as if we were getting things in order. That's what I'm trying to say - the expectations, the levels have been absolutely shattered.

 

[RonnieTodger]

What worries is me is where this ends. I’m a pessimist and ill make negative predictions that actually age as if I was being positive.

 

We all knew today would be a struggle, but I think even the most negative among us thought we’d draw. They’re an insult to their profession. 

[em9999]

I was too busy laughing at our comical defending to leave before injury time expired 🤣  else I would have buggered off 

[Dan]

13 hours ago, Blue.Fox84 said:

I think it’s worse than that, we’re rotten to the core 

 

We had some bad times and some very poor players but there seemed to be more fight and a club looking to try and do things within limitations 

 

If the people at the very top don’t care, don’t expect anything to change beneath, this is going to get a lot worse

Mid noughties Leicester basically beat us 0-2 yesterday. This will be worse.

[LCFCJohn]

When I first realised we were in trouble was October 2021. We were away with some friends, including a Newcastle supporter and their takeover had just happened but Howe hadn’t yet been appointed. I said to my mate, I hope they come for Rodgers as if we keep him, we will be relegated within 3 years. I mean it was only 18 months from then in reality!

 

But at that point, I would probably admit underestimating it being far more than a Rodgers issue alone.

 

The next summer, 2022 was when it was really apparent we were finished as what we had known for the past few years. Schmeichel and Fofana to be replaced by Faes and Smithies was it. It was obviously that we were going relegated that season.

 

The bounce back was plastering over the massive cracks. As soon as we started last season looking so out of depth, it was obviously that not only our team as a side competing at the top half was done, but our ability to be promoted and stay up.

 

And now this season, promotion already out of the question. 
 

What I am illustrating is whilst it seems to have been a quick fall from grace, as the same time it has been a slow death. Each season has demonstrated a new low. No longer competing in the top half, no longer looking capable of even staying in the top flight and now not even able to get promoted to it.

 

This is why those who don’t worry for this season are clueless. The last few years have demonstrated there is no floor, no low point under Aiyawatt. 
 

We are still falling and the question is, for how much longer and how low. League 1? League 2? Out the league altogether? Administration? Will be even have a club left? Who even knows anymore….

[beepee1984]

It’s not over!

 

happy happy clappy clappy happy happy clap

 

oh remember those League one days, that Monday night against Yeovil - were nearly there again 

 

NB - strange how autocorrect want to change clappy to crappy - AI knows

 

Seriously I was always concerned about the 2nd half of seasons with Rodgers as we always faded and looked mentally poor, but could put it down to small squad, tiredness, long season and was glad to be up there. 
 

But the drop off in the season before we were relegated was shocking (similar to the Taylor season) and it looked like we were lost. He should have gone that summer, at the very latest after the dreadful start to the next season, but reacted way too late and the downfall of the club became inevitable 

[The Year Of The Fox]

9 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Delighted when we won the prem and ecstatic when we then won the FA Cup.

 

I then tempted fate.

 

At the final whistle of the cup final, I lost my presence of mind. I was drumming like a maniac with my clenched fists on the side of our staircase. We won the cup.WE WON THE CUP! I screamed. Then I foolishly added, 'I dont care what happens now, we've won the cup'.

 

I think we all felt like that, I know I did.

 

I just don’t think we meant it by way of gross negligence from our owner 

[Lionator]

Watch the first series of Sunderland till I die again, were that club now except that Sunderland had already started implementing changes before their second relegation. 

[LCFCJohn]

10 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Delighted when we won the prem and ecstatic when we then won the FA Cup.

 

I then tempted fate.

 

At the final whistle of the cup final, I lost my presence of mind. I was drumming like a maniac with my clenched fists on the side of our staircase. We won the cup.WE WON THE CUP! I screamed. Then I foolishly added, 'I dont care what happens now, we've won the cup'.

 

Just to say as well. You do have the most currently appropriate name on here. Maybe you need to change it 

[honeybradger]

Probably the day we signed Oliver Skipp, knew the club hadnt learned their lesson and were going to continue the downwards trajectory.

 

Then we signed 33 year old Jordan Ayew for £5mil whilst being linked to a £9mil loan for semi retired Zaha.

 

The Sheffield Wednesday game this season was pretty bad when the penny dropped that the academy players were going to be sidelined.

[Mickyblueeyes]

Not wanting to sit down with my boys and watch a Leicester game or go to a Leicester game is the kicker. It’s been like this for over a year - do everything else instead of watch the game - win, lose or draw that was a given. You’d expect some shit performances but the effort, excitement outweighed that. 
 

I absolutely hate Top and despise him for taking that away from us. ****ing ****.
 

I’ve been anti Top since the Forest away defeat in the league when we first got relegated. I couldn’t believe that performance and him continuing with it. Since then it’s just confirmed my thoughts. 
 

Also, surprised the Top diehards have gone very quiet (not!) not one having the balls to continue their shit take of “be careful what you wish for” “poor Top” lines.These idiots have been told for years what this two inch dick ***** is doing to us and were not having it. As stupid as their leader. In the words of Delia Smith “where are you?” Glad many have now (seemingly) realised what a lot have been saying for years. 

[Stadt]

@Dan and I have had our doubts about Top even in 2019/20. The Vichai worship never sat right anyway so I’ve always been more sceptical in the first place.

 

Rodgers was a good appointment, we were largely getting our transfer business right but after Macia left - we appointed Congerton (Rodgers bumchum) who has played a key hand in Hamburg’s, Sunderland and Leicester’s downfall.

 

That was all I needed to know.

[Dan]

3 hours ago, Stadt said:

@Dan and I have had our doubts about Top even in 2019/20. The Vichai worship never sat right anyway so I’ve always been more sceptical in the first place.

 

Rodgers was a good appointment, we were largely getting our transfer business right but after Macia left - we appointed Congerton (Rodgers bumchum) who has played a key hand in Hamburg’s, Sunderland and Leicester’s downfall.

 

That was all I needed to know.

Congerton was a massive red flag. We were warned and still fell into it. Even despite the good years under Rodgers I think the mistakes were coming under him pretty early. The Perez signing I'm pretty reliably informed was done on a bit of a whim, "he'll do". We'd gotten massively complacent.

 

I'd heard way too many little things even around the better Rodgers years that were concerning. We had a scout leave the club because he would only listen to Congerton. Remember said scout saying we were going to sign Tapsoba (won the title at Leverkusen since) and Trincao (admittedly wasn't great in England) in January 2020 but Rodgers said no and went for Ryan Bennett, presumably because he'd worked with him before. Total side note on this is the same scout said Fofana is excellent but a big risk due to his injury proneness.

 

You kind of naturally doubt the validity of this but the more time has passed the more evident it became. The same scout also said he'd leave the club if he got to work under a particular manager and sure enough as soon as that manager got in a job, he was off.

 

I thought a drop-off was pretty inevitable but it was during 2022 that it was becoming apparent it would be a total collapse rather than a regression. The scary thing is I think we're nowhere near the worst.

[Chrysalis]

Depends what you mean by over, if you mean period as a top 20 club, I would say half way through the season before relegation.

 

There was already multiple warning signs at this point, and searching my post history will probably find such posts from me.

 

However football is far more than the EPL and glory players, at this point I would love us to get a down to earth owner, and have a long spell in the championship, as I prefer this league anyway, go back to direct football, proper defending, players giving 100% for the shirt, yes please.

Edited 3 November 2025 by Chrysalis

[Claudio Fannieri]

There has been a few moments which I believe were pivotal and signalled the beginning of the end - 

 

- Wes Morgan and Christian Fuchs retiring and not being adequately replaced 

 

- Forest handing us our arse on a plate in the FA Cup 

 

- Selling Kasper 

 

- Not sacking Brendan after Brighton and Spurs had absolutely humped us 

[Tielemans63]

Don't really know exactly why, but I remember being in a London pub watching us get battered 5-2 by Brighton in 2022 when I went from thinking 'we are in trouble" to "this team isn't going to turn it around, it's going to get relegated". There's poor performances, and there's what we produced that day - it was completely abject. An absolute surrender.

Edited 3 November 2025 by Tielemans63