Corky Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 I dont agree with the article 100% and am disgusted with the comments below it people still banging on about our admin years back yet consider ipswich as angels who also went into admin.2 of the managers we lost under MM, megson (bolton poached) and MA2 (not disclosed) were not typically sackings. So we left with kelly and worthington. Now I think MM first mistake was not keeping worthington on for the following season. However I did agree with the sacking of kelly and I also agree with the sacking of holloway should it happen, I dont buy into the stability argument, if a manager is getting results sure keep him but why keep a failure? Now days 6 months is a long time in football and at the very least especially when the manager has money to spend an improvement should be expected for it. Look at preston, sunderland (last year), sheff utd, wigan, macclesfield (under ince) all examples of new managerial appointments having positive affects inside 6 months. Now everyone can twist things how they want, if people want to think MM fell upon redknapp by fluke then why not think manu fell upon ferguson by fluke, we fell upon MON by fluke and so on. MM would never have even got to redknapp had he not sacked the managers before him. The way I see it is MM is not a good judge of manager, that is certian, if he can let it be with his pride he should pass on the manager employment role onto someone else maybe the new chief exec he has on board. We need MM defenitly now we in league one. Why did the article conveniantly also miss out our promotion season and was adams a bad manager? I think not. But at least we got coverage and I agree that the east midlands is a very forgotten place. Thankyou, finally someone agrees with me. It probably was wrong to go into administration, but people (particularly ignorant prats like Warnock) forget that Ipswich did exactly the same thing, yet no-one (except Norwich fans) says a word.
Corky Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 Well battled there by the Leicester City fans on the comments section, replying to a typical Forest fan who knows eff all about football and Leicester City.
EmigmaticFox Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 here y'arehttp://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/..._been_a_lo.html One of the better and more thoughtful assesments I have read on the situation so far. But then again, The Guardian is one of the better papers. I hope the Hollow man has managed to read it all in full, it should give him much needed food for thought! HOLLOW TIMES PRODUCE HOLLOW MEN! PS I AM going to begin going back to watch City after so many years away (forced exile and illness). Now is the time to give my lifelong, beloved city the support they need. So see all of you at places in the East (where I live), like Perterborough and Northampton, oh and 30 miles up the road from me to S****horpe. Did anyone read the article in todays Mercury about the task of gertting oput of Div 3? Some good advice from a writer on the Nottiongam Post. We love City, come what may. Don't give up on them, we are supported, not fickle managers or players. To be honest, I would prefer to watch City at Carlise then Premier Div rubbish and all that it entails
EmigmaticFox Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 For anyone who has missed it, this is a very thought provoking article into days Mercury. By the way, in the 70's, in the old Div 2 we once went to Carlisle for the last away game of the season, think it was 1971! Only about 15 of us went, The Mercury came to Leicester Station to phot0 us too. S0, we have been there before. There is a real sense of commararderie in games like that Don't expect an easy ride here! by Andy Mann Leicester City have been warned not to expect an easy ride when they kick off next season in League One. City's heartbreaking final-day relegation at Stoke will see them playing division three football for the first time. They are the latest in a string of big name clubs to make the drop, including local rivals Nottingham Forest - who have taken three seasons to win Championship promotion - and Leeds United, who are in the play-offs at the end of their first League One campaign. And Nottingham Evening Post assistant sports editor Paul Taylor warned City supporters not to presume League One life will be easy. Taylor, who covers Forest, said: "I think there was a presumption it would be easy, that they would win every game and everything would be rosy. "I think some felt we will go to a few new grounds, watch Forest win and be back in the Championship in no time. Quickly they realised it's not that easy after all. "You are going to places where pitches are poor, teams focus is on trying to prevent you playing football, and they want to take a big scalp. (Forest manager) Colin Calderwood has come in for some horrendous stick this season for the style of football at times, but he has got the job done. "The players were saying after winning promotion that League One is like a fly trap and you can't get out of it. You have to battle and scrap your way out of it. "Forest have succeeded when they have had a foundation of hard work and graft. It's a cliche, but they have had to earn the right to play football by matching the opposition's work-rate. "Swansea played a very good style of football and seemed to get it right, but it's not easy." Phil Hay, the Yorkshire Post's chief football writer, who covers Leeds United, feels City can succeed in League One by adopting their traditional footballing approach. Hay said: "The difference in quality from the Premier League to the Championship is more pronounced than the Championship to League One. "There are a few teams in League One that play nice football and have succeeded with it - Doncaster, Forest, Swansea. "There are some very capable teams among those that have finished in the top six, teams that do to try to play football in the right way, for want of a better phrase. "Leeds, at the start of the season, their tactics were more direct under Dennis Wise. "Gary McAllister has changed it and they are playing some nice football. If you back yourself, I really do think it pays off." And Hay had words of encouragement for the Blue Army as they prepare for a first-ever season in division three. Hay said: "The atmosphere everywhere has been brilliant, and they have sold out their travelling capacity. "Leeds took nearly 2,000 to Bournemouth on a Tuesday night and that's routine. The big thing is that attendances at Elland Road have shot up. "People at Leicester will be very unhappy. It's very difficult to get upbeat and enthusiastic about being two divisions below the Premier League. "Once you get to next season and regular away fans get into the routine, it is very enjoyable. I have a feeling that people will look back on this season affectionately - if we go up. The moments to remember have been numerous. "If you turn around quickly you can look on it fondly, but you can get stuck in it, like Forest, and you don't want to do that." «Back to list
OriginalRobboFOX Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 Its a good article and does put things into perspective but theres no need to start slagging off Leicester as a place.... cheap dig... ''......a city like Leicester, stuck in the forgotten East Midlands, ignored by the media and treated as a suburb of Birmingham, the football club is the one avenue open to national consciousness''
Daggers Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 "It's very difficult to get upbeat and enthusiastic about being two divisions below the Premier League." Not for me it isn't - I'm well up for it.
act smiley Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 Its a good article and does put things into perspective but theres no need to start slagging off Leicester as a place.... cheap dig...''......a city like Leicester, stuck in the forgotten East Midlands, ignored by the media and treated as a suburb of Birmingham, the football club is the one avenue open to national consciousness'' Its not a dig at Leicester, its a dig at the suprisingly numerous people who don't treat the East Midlands as an actual region in its own right - look at the maps on the BBC weather forcast, they never have a single location in the East Midlands, either on the national map or the one that zooms around - even when some tiny places get on them.
Ultra Posted 9 May 2008 Posted 9 May 2008 It also recalls the dire Adrian Mole TV series of the 80s, which was supposedly set in Leicester, but where all the actors were brummies.. Would the London-based company who filmed that series have got away with referring to scousers as mancs, or vice versa?
Liar! Posted 30 May 2008 Posted 30 May 2008 yeah - sorry for the self promotion! You didn't write it "catfordfox" so stop taking credit for the piece! A talented young freelance journalist called Matt Bolton wrote it, as credited on the article: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/..._been_a_lo.html I know this as I'm friends with him and have just informed him of your attempted theft. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Hullfox Posted 1 June 2008 Posted 1 June 2008 Good to see a spectacularly ignorant and loudmouthed tree take a kicking in the responses section too.. He seemed to have the measure of someone called Ultrafox though didn't he?
lildave3 Posted 3 June 2008 Posted 3 June 2008 You didn't write it "catfordfox" so stop taking credit for the piece! A talented young freelance journalist called Matt Bolton wrote it, as credited on the article:http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/..._been_a_lo.html I know this as I'm friends with him and have just informed him of your attempted theft. You should be ashamed of yourself. Controversial.
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