Leicester's 2016 title-winners arrange own reunion after club snub

[davieG]

https://foxesofleicester.com/leicester-s-2016-title-winners-arrange-own-reunion-after-club-snub

 

By
Thomas Bradley Alderman

A decade ago, Leicester City defied the laws of footballing physics. LCFC transformed from 5,000-1 outsiders into the most improbable and unfathomable Premier League champions in history. Maybe any top flight lore. Yet, as the ten-year anniversary of that 2016 miracle approaches, a concerning silence has descended from the King Power boardroom.

In a revelation that underscores a growing chasm between club and heritage, former City right back Danny Simpson has confirmed that the architects of that triumph have received no contact from the hierarchy regarding an official celebration. Shocking, but not surprising! This lack of outreach is not merely an administrative oversight: it is more akin to an indictment of a badly run organisation currently adrift in the English Football League 

Leicester City’s 2016 title-winners arrange own reunion after club snub
While the Leicester ownership remains fixated on financial sustainability and a managerial merry-go-round, the players who once united a city and wowed the world have apparently been forced to coordinate their own commemoration. Wow.

"We haven’t heard anything from the club about a 10-year reunion for our Premier League title, but the lads are chatting and we'll have one – if we can help Leicester City during a difficult time, we would"
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Through a private WhatsApp group titled "Reunion 2026", icons like Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kante, and Shinji Okazaki are said to be planning their own tribute to a legacy the contemporary owner seems to have neglected altogether.

Damning optics
The optics are indeed damning, though wholly in keeping with the modern LCFC. At a time when the Foxes desperately need to reconnect with a disillusioned fanbase, they have seemingly ignored the very men who personify an 'all for one' ethos.

Simpson’s admission that the squad is ready to help "get the fans back onside" suggests a group of legends more committed to the club's soul than those currently steering the ship: namely Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (chairman Khun Top), along with director of football Jon Rudkin. If the 2016 heroes actually host their own party, it marks a tragic conclusion to football's greatest ever story.

[adejo92]

Good on them.

 

Make sure its played at a different stadium and make it impossible for the club to benefit financially or in any other way from it.

 

Club absolutely stinks.

[BigGibbo]

Just another in a long line of bumbling incompetence from those supposedly running the club.

[daddylonglegs]

Listen we don’t need to live in 2016 when the reason we won the premier league (Jon Rudkin) is still here at the helm. 

[BrilliantFox]

Disgusting from the club for not arranging or facilitating this.

[Buzzell]

We’ve turned into such a shit club. 

[Dan]

Each passing day I really do wonder if Aiyawatt took some offence to something our fans said/did and decided to just decimate everything on purpose. It would explain a lot.

[Corky]

We are very busy organising the players who are taking this small club back to its natural level.

[Izzy]

I reckon if Susan was still around she'd have organised something. 

 

I think she's a bigger miss than some realise.

[Sly]

2 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I reckon if Susan was still around she'd have organised something. 

 

I think she's a bigger miss than some realise.

A lot of truth in this I think 

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

I reckon if Susan was still around she'd have organised something. 

 

I think she's a bigger miss than some realise.

Top just seems to have so little leadership, communication and basic understanding and feel for our club it's unbelievably poor. 

 

I'm starting to think there's something seriously not right about the man 

 

[Drain the Swamp]

6 minutes ago, Dan said:

Each passing day I really do wonder if Aiyawatt took some offence to something our fans said/did and decided to just decimate everything on purpose. It would explain a lot.

That assumes a level of competence, even in spite, I'm not prepared to credit him with. If he tried to destroy the club, we'd probably win the UCL by accident.

[Pita]

4 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I reckon if Susan was still around she'd have organised something. 

 

I think she's a bigger miss than some realise.

She seems the only one who understands how to run the club   Top,Rudkin and all the other clueless could not run a piss up in a brewery 

[LCFCJohn]

It doesn’t suit the KP narrative that the players had anything to do with the title win. It was all Aiyawatt and Vichai remember 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, LCFCJohn said:

It doesn’t suit the KP narrative that the players had anything to do with the title win. It was all Aiyawatt and Vichai remember 

Who can forget Rudkin's contribution.

[Bezzanator89]

Ahhh another topic to further remind us all how far adrift of every day common sense and decency the club is. Next topic please!

 

PS. Good on the lads if it's true. Those good times seem so faaaar...awayyyy.. 

[coolhandfox]

Talk about jump on something........

 

 

Edited 2 February by coolhandfox

[Foxin_Mad]

Big Jonny R is planning a big celebration in May, to celebrate when he won the League and also when we confirm our participation in 2026/27 EFL League One

[MPH]

For a culture that is supposedly entrenched in respect, they’ve shown a shocking lack of it here…

[jonthefox]

Remember, it was king power that won the league 

 

Play up KPFC 

[LCFCJohn]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

Who can forget Rudkin's contribution.

Of course. How could I forget!

[Langston]

She was more competent than John Rudkin and Aiyawatt but Susan Whelan was responsible for plenty of crap as well . A lot of eulogising going on about her time with us..

Edited 2 February by Langston

[Vazman]

If true, its another example of the disconnect, sell up Top and take Rudders with you.

[Dan]

10 minutes ago, Drain the Swamp said:

That assumes a level of competence, even in spite, I'm not prepared to credit him with. If he tried to destroy the club, we'd probably win the UCL by accident.

True. There is probably something in what was said in here about Whelan. She was flawed but she probably patched up the sheer level we're actually dealing with here somewhat.

[bmt]

15 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I reckon if Susan was still around she'd have organised something. 

 

I think she's a bigger miss than some realise.

I thought at time she was part of the problem. Realised my mistake pretty quickly - wish we still had someone competent, however much she was swimming against the tide.