Portsmouth Post Match

[OzFox]

not going to read the inevitable 8 pages of sousa out crap, but i had a long walk home and took in a fabulous but incredibly insensitive firework display, along the way composing my thoughts on the game in a hopefully rational manner.

so, whilst the significance off the harsh (given the limited contact, supporting defenders and referee's rather distant viewpoint) sending off, and the following very flukey deflected goal, cannot be underestimated, we were a very poor team tonight.

and even though it's easy to blame sousa, and i do believe he was slightly at fault tonight (but i'll consider that in a moment), i believe it was the performances of three players in particular, unfortunately the three core players, that were the main culprits in our capitulation tonight.

1. Morrison - it will hopefully be a long time before he gets another run out in a blue shirt - after getting hopelessly skinned against QPR, tonight he got beaten so many times i lost count, not to mention the stupid and untimely blatant handball which started the collapse.

2. Oakley - like howard, he seems to be one of those players that has a half decent match and then gets a guaranteed place for the next dozen games. Tonight we needed a captains performance and we got nothing, no inspiration, no leadership - time to do the decent thing Matt and resign the club captaincy so we don't have to watch your half arsed, inept midfield play every week.

3. Howard - tonight nearly every attack we had, at some point seemed to go through Howard, and almost every time it came near him it broke down, he missed numerous headers completely, had a poor first touch and put at least a couple of free headers over the bar. The fact that he scored only emphasises this fact, he was not involved in the build up and thus we managed a goal scoring opportunity. the fact that he toe poked it in from two yards does not make up for the 89 minutes of poor football he supplied.

These performances aside, no one else really had much to shout about, logan - bless him - had a blinder and kept them from double figures, and waghorn looked better in the second half when he moved inside behind howard and fryatt (yes, apparently he was playing)....

anyway, sousa...

i don't want him to get sacked, because that is the sort of kneejerk short-termism that got us relegated, but tonight i believe he made a crucial mistake.

following the sending off, he elected to replace Abe with Hobbs. and i think this completely fucked up his own tactics. firstly, it broke up the very impressive trio of Abe-King-Dyer which was just beautiful to watch, culminating, if i remember correctly in the fabulous but disallowed goal. secondly, it left us with a midfield of oakley and king, who were then totally overwhelmed and was the major reason we conceeded so many goals in the end...

we beat pompey with a midfield of moreno-king-abe - today we were humiliated with king-oakley.

this is my only real complaint against sousa.

not a good day at the office: a bit of bad luck, a premiership team rediscovering their quality and confidence, a poor substitution and some very under-par displays by our most and least experienced players.

I think you're in the wrong place.

Coming on here making sensible, rational, articulate statements like that without even a hint of hysteria or nuffin....

What on earth were you thinking???

[lcfc_jme]

Decided to leave it 'til this morning before I commented so I could sit and reflect on what I witnessed in Portsmouth last night, but to be perfectly honest, nothing has really changed in the slightest.

We were a complete embarrassment last night from start to finish. You know you're in trouble when nobody can get a foot on the ball and passes (even the sideways ones we're apparently executing so perfectly) are going astray regularly. Before I criticise individuals, I would just like to mention that the referee last night was unbelievably far below the usual woefully incompetent refs we get, the man was a gigantic, clueless disgrace who looked like he had no working eyes or concept of a basic grasp of footballing knowledge. 100% "homer" in just about every department, basically left us with no chance before we'd even begun playing really. Though I will add that despite his pitiful decision making, even not sending Vitor off yesterday would've made little difference to the final score, such was the distinct lack of footballing ability and know-how we showed on the field.

Team-selection was totally wrong it seemed, leaving out Wellens and especially Hobbs for an away game we could ill-afford to lose. Hobbs, if fit and unless is making glaring error after glaring error, should be the mainstay of our team. Bringing him on when we're already 2-0 down and playing like a sloppy turd is not going to make him look good or leave him with an easy task. Also, Waghorn on the wing is NOT even nearly effective; he will never even begin to justify his price-tag playing in that position, and the longer he plays there the more likely we are to a) ruin him and b) see everyone turn on him for being a "waste of money" when we could've "spent it on someone more prolific". Utter garbage.

Onto individual performance, it's hard to see past Morrison being the biggest moron from yesterday's debacle. He had next to no positional sense in general play, looked lethargic and every bit the conference player we signed him as. And as for that handball, what the actual fuck was he thinking? I mean, seriously? Kitson (I think it was in behind him) had a big job on to score even if Morrison had left the ball alone. An error that retarded and that inexcusable, regardless of it being so early in the game or not, is unforgivable. Cunt.

Vitor looked uncomfortable for the time he was on the pitch, and never in a million years looks tall enough to be a central defender, especially in this league when aerial dominance is more a requirement than something which is preferred but not essential. Should never have been sent off, but then he wouldn't have made much of a difference to how the game panned out yesterday such was our general ineptitude in even the basics of football. Neilson and Berner - complete shadows of their former selves, Neilson is better but still notably limited in almost everything he does, and Berner is shambolic in the same way. I think the fact that every one of our starting defenders found their way into the refs' notebook last night speaks volumes about how utterly abysmal we played and how badly Portsmouth battered us (y'know, even trying to look away from the scoreline).

Midfield was virtually non-existant, looked below-par with 11 on the field and got worse when we went down to 10. Oakley is a squad-player at best given his age and how his legs look shot, and King had another of the anonymous games he's so often accused of having when we play average or worse. Neither of them nearly got a hold on the game, and were ran completely ragged all night long. And as for Abe, despite a couple of flashy touches whilst he was on, he didn't look anything special, he didn't look anything at all really, useless going forward and only slightly better at passing sideways, just like everyone else last night.

Going further forward still, Lloyd absolutely raped his fullback once when he was given the ball and license to run at him, and afterwards, he was completely ignored. It defies logic to totally negate your brightest, quickest, defence-frightening player after he has already shown he can beat his man. Needless to say he was back to headless chicken Lloyd after that seeing as nobody wanted to give him the ball to feet and let him be at his most threatening. He was asked to chase shadows because nobody could really be arsed to put a shift in. Waghorn, as I've said, is wasted on the wing and will never even look like the player he was last season, let alone fulfill his potential, if he continues to be played in that fashion. Oh, and his 40-yard shooting is an absolute joke. A total waste of any attacking play we had and basically summed up the entire night.

Logan, for me, is so, so unfortunate. He had one of the best games I've seen a 'keeper at our club have, and still ended up conceding 6 goals. 'Keepers are usually only as good as their defence, so Logan got a properly raw deal last night, but were it not for him, we'd easily have conceded into double figures. Some of the saves he made were top drawer and his kicking was remarkably better than I have previously known it to be. Mightily unlucky last night, he was. As for Howard, he seemed to put in a shift, won all of his headers and earned freekicks in advanced positions despite being devoid of any support from men in yellow shirts for the majority. He can't seem to win either, he gets battered for not winning headers and giving away freekicks, he gets battered for winning headers and them going to nobody - how's about they went to nobody because nobody was near him as they were all lazy, disinterested, moronic fucktards last night? Respectable performance in an out-field team full of non-entities last night from Howard.

Subs-wise, Fryatt was as embarrassing last night as the final score of 6-1; the guy is in horrific form and in my opinion has not looked worse since he joined us. Hobbs was only slightly better than the car-crash performance that Morrison put in last night, but having been dropped for a poor player in Vitor and coming into a game we're 2-0 down in with 10 players on the field playing like 10 year olds, he was on a hiding to nothing. Doesn't excuse how bad his basic football skills were though.

Which brings me nicely onto this: something is fundamentally wrong at the heart of our club and is showing no signs of improving any time soon. I saw one of the most heartless, spineless, incompetent performances I have ever seen from a Leicester side last night - we were better away at Forest when they nonced us 5-1 at their place last season. Seeing what that performance did to someone I have a great respect for and is one of the stronger people I have come to know, made me feel almost as bad as having to witness such a pathetic on-field display. I have not once called for the manager to be removed this season, but something has got to give now; the noises he was making about being proud of effort and saying we were trying to do things well? I'm sorry but that is complete horse-crap. Logan aside and the journey to Portsmouth, there was nothing really to smile about from yesterday and if Sousa is making those sorts of noises after a 6-1 battering away at a side who were bottom and had scored twice all season, then the man needs locking up somewhere for his own sanity.

Rant over.

[harpendenfox]

far from being a rant, lcfc-jme's post above is perfect. It should be mailed to every member of our squad and every member of management at Leicester City, as I think he speaks for virtually all of us.

I feel the hurt and share it with you mate

[Babylon]

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I think you are being very harsh on Vitor. I thought he looked quite comfortable up to the sending off, he won 90% of his headers, some good interceptions and played the ball out ok from the back. We were struggling down the right side of our defence in the first half as Neilson and Morrison very having shockers.

[z-layrex]

Why couldnt we have just kept Pearson? Why does everything in football have to change so fooking much all the time?

[Carter The Boss]

Decided to leave it 'til this morning before I commented so I could sit and reflect on what I witnessed in Portsmouth last night, but to be perfectly honest, nothing has really changed in the slightest.

We were a complete embarrassment last night from start to finish. You know you're in trouble when nobody can get a foot on the ball and passes (even the sideways ones we're apparently executing so perfectly) are going astray regularly. Before I criticise individuals, I would just like to mention that the referee last night was unbelievably far below the usual woefully incompetent refs we get, the man was a gigantic, clueless disgrace who looked like he had no working eyes or concept of a basic grasp of footballing knowledge. 100% "homer" in just about every department, basically left us with no chance before we'd even begun playing really. Though I will add that despite his pitiful decision making, even not sending Vitor off yesterday would've made little difference to the final score, such was the distinct lack of footballing ability and know-how we showed on the field.

Team-selection was totally wrong it seemed, leaving out Wellens and especially Hobbs for an away game we could ill-afford to lose. Hobbs, if fit and unless is making glaring error after glaring error, should be the mainstay of our team. Bringing him on when we're already 2-0 down and playing like a sloppy turd is not going to make him look good or leave him with an easy task. Also, Waghorn on the wing is NOT even nearly effective; he will never even begin to justify his price-tag playing in that position, and the longer he plays there the more likely we are to a) ruin him and b) see everyone turn on him for being a "waste of money" when we could've "spent it on someone more prolific". Utter garbage.

Onto individual performance, it's hard to see past Morrison being the biggest moron from yesterday's debacle. He had next to no positional sense in general play, looked lethargic and every bit the conference player we signed him as. And as for that handball, what the actual fuck was he thinking? I mean, seriously? Kitson (I think it was in behind him) had a big job on to score even if Morrison had left the ball alone. An error that retarded and that inexcusable, regardless of it being so early in the game or not, is unforgivable. Cunt.

Vitor looked uncomfortable for the time he was on the pitch, and never in a million years looks tall enough to be a central defender, especially in this league when aerial dominance is more a requirement than something which is preferred but not essential. Should never have been sent off, but then he wouldn't have made much of a difference to how the game panned out yesterday such was our general ineptitude in even the basics of football. Neilson and Berner - complete shadows of their former selves, Neilson is better but still notably limited in almost everything he does, and Berner is shambolic in the same way. I think the fact that every one of our starting defenders found their way into the refs' notebook last night speaks volumes about how utterly abysmal we played and how badly Portsmouth battered us (y'know, even trying to look away from the scoreline).

Midfield was virtually non-existant, looked below-par with 11 on the field and got worse when we went down to 10. Oakley is a squad-player at best given his age and how his legs look shot, and King had another of the anonymous games he's so often accused of having when we play average or worse. Neither of them nearly got a hold on the game, and were ran completely ragged all night long. And as for Abe, despite a couple of flashy touches whilst he was on, he didn't look anything special, he didn't look anything at all really, useless going forward and only slightly better at passing sideways, just like everyone else last night.

Going further forward still, Lloyd absolutely raped his fullback once when he was given the ball and license to run at him, and afterwards, he was completely ignored. It defies logic to totally negate your brightest, quickest, defence-frightening player after he has already shown he can beat his man. Needless to say he was back to headless chicken Lloyd after that seeing as nobody wanted to give him the ball to feet and let him be at his most threatening. He was asked to chase shadows because nobody could really be arsed to put a shift in. Waghorn, as I've said, is wasted on the wing and will never even look like the player he was last season, let alone fulfill his potential, if he continues to be played in that fashion. Oh, and his 40-yard shooting is an absolute joke. A total waste of any attacking play we had and basically summed up the entire night.

Logan, for me, is so, so unfortunate. He had one of the best games I've seen a 'keeper at our club have, and still ended up conceding 6 goals. 'Keepers are usually only as good as their defence, so Logan got a properly raw deal last night, but were it not for him, we'd easily have conceded into double figures. Some of the saves he made were top drawer and his kicking was remarkably better than I have previously known it to be. Mightily unlucky last night, he was. As for Howard, he seemed to put in a shift, won all of his headers and earned freekicks in advanced positions despite being devoid of any support from men in yellow shirts for the majority. He can't seem to win either, he gets battered for not winning headers and giving away freekicks, he gets battered for winning headers and them going to nobody - how's about they went to nobody because nobody was near him as they were all lazy, disinterested, moronic fucktards last night? Respectable performance in an out-field team full of non-entities last night from Howard.

Subs-wise, Fryatt was as embarrassing last night as the final score of 6-1; the guy is in horrific form and in my opinion has not looked worse since he joined us. Hobbs was only slightly better than the car-crash performance that Morrison put in last night, but having been dropped for a poor player in Vitor and coming into a game we're 2-0 down in with 10 players on the field playing like 10 year olds, he was on a hiding to nothing. Doesn't excuse how bad his basic football skills were though.

Which brings me nicely onto this: something is fundamentally wrong at the heart of our club and is showing no signs of improving any time soon. I saw one of the most heartless, spineless, incompetent performances I have ever seen from a Leicester side last night - we were better away at Forest when they nonced us 5-1 at their place last season. Seeing what that performance did to someone I have a great respect for and is one of the stronger people I have come to know, made me feel almost as bad as having to witness such a pathetic on-field display. I have not once called for the manager to be removed this season, but something has got to give now; the noises he was making about being proud of effort and saying we were trying to do things well? I'm sorry but that is complete horse-crap. Logan aside and the journey to Portsmouth, there was nothing really to smile about from yesterday and if Sousa is making those sorts of noises after a 6-1 battering away at a side who were bottom and had scored twice all season, then the man needs locking up somewhere for his own sanity.

Rant over.

I couldn't agree with this any more. Sent it to the club and see what they have to say when they read it.

I have never ever seen a Leicester team play as bad as they did last night. I'm willing (only just) to give them a couple of games before I really let loose, because in a lot of games this season I felt like we looked ok.

My big concern is that Sousa has a specific style of football that I'm not sure our players are good enough to play. Sousa has said time and time again about passing on the floor, playing total football etc, and I think despite some shocking football at times, we've seen glimpses of it this year, but Dion summed it up perfectly after the match. When we had the ball no one in Yellow looked like they had any idea what to do with it, to the point where we now can't even pass in a straight line, nevermind anything more complicated.

Wake up Sousa. We had a horrific start to the season, and the best we've looked was Cov away when you went back to what was effectively last seasons team. Abe looks good and I think we need him, Logan played brilliantly, but the rest should hang their heads in shame, and buck their ideas up for Tuesday night.

[Gazza M]

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

After last nights match, I feel totally dismayed and frustrated with the happenings with the club since we lost to Cardiff in the play offs. It has been a pharcical few months. First of all we lose the best manager we have had for a long time. I can't help feeling that Milan and Lee Hoos forced Nigel Pearson out of the club, as he doesn't fit the profile of what the new owners were looking for. If that was the case they both need to go!!!

This has had massive knock on effects with the squad. Pearsons departure has ripped the heart out of some of the players and you can tell by their body language, that they are unhappy. How were big personalities from last seasons side such as Fryatt, Wellens, Hobbs and Gallagher feeling last night on the bench?

We now have a big name in charge, who lets be fair is trying to play a style of football which is Alien to this division. The club is being run like a franchise and I can't believe that we are going on the stupid tour to Thailand in October! Another distraction.

We are slowly creating a recipie for disaster. This is reminding me so much of our last relegation season.

We need to start playing to our strengths. Lets get back to 4-4-2 and using the likes of Dyer as a winger again! Please lets start putting corners/crosses in decent areas so players can attack the ball.

Sorry Paulo, you can't get players to play in a way that is beyond them! We need results now. Stop hiding behind your silly stats of shots on goal and number of times we have got in the oppositions area ect! If he can't see this football isn't working then he will have to go and soon!

Its time for the likes of Oakley and Nielson to take a permanant rest!

My Team for Norwich:

Weale

Kennedy

Hobbs

Morrison

Lamy

Dyer

Wellens

King

Gallager

Waghorn

Howard

Give Sousa the next two games and if we don't win any its time to go!!!!!!!

[purpleronnie]

People keep saying they've never seen a leicester team play so bad, do they mean they have never seen a 10 man team play so bad?

[colbo68]

You know, when the cup draw came out, I sat at home thinking ah nice, Portsmouth away, I can go to Portsmouth on the Monday and stay down there until the Saturday. You know make a few days out of it, also thinking two games against Portsmouth should help kick start our season.

Your post is full of contradictions and drivel... To say there is only so much Sousa can do.... Who is it that has tried to get players who aren't good enough to keep the ball and pass it? Who put the side out last night? Who brought off the wrong midfielder when Hobbs came on? Why wasn't Hobbs on from the start? Etc etc etc... Make your mind up fella.... Either you want Sousa or you don't? For me the faster he fooks off the better

Well Tuesday 9:30pm it was looking good.

Seriously now, what on earth was that? Morrison? Seriously man, I watched you for YEARS at Cambridge, and I’ve never seen you do that. I know he was trying to spin and get his hand in the way of kitsons vision, but there was no need.

What was wrong with our goal btw? Didn’t look offside, although we were the other end of the pitch.

The Second goal is just awful defending. Tuesday night Nugent got so many 1 on 1’s it was scary. You would assume we would have sorted that out, but nope, we decided to play a high line again, and got punished. It’s a foul, no doubt about it, and it’s one of those you expect the player to be sent off.

The third goal, once again awful defending. Logan makes a stunning double save and nobody is back to try help him out. Decent finish at the angle but why was nobody on the line, I mean they had three shots, so it’s not like we didn’t have time to get a player back on the line.

The fourth goal, Morrison (I think) what are you doing? 3-0 down trying to skin someone when last man. Just no need, get rid of it already man.

The fifth goal, at the moment I can’t remember the fifth goal….. But the sixth, not the best kick by Logan, probably his only mistake, however we have 5 defenders back, and brown walks past them, a decent save by logan again, and then brown taps in. Just can’t believe it, shell shocked.

Logan was outstanding tonight. You know you’ve been terrible when you sit there thinking how good logan has been when you lose 6-1. Defence was just shocking, we looked a mess from the start. I don’t like slagging off players and I do defend them as much as I can, but they were awful today.

Minus logan the only other player who did alright was Fryatt, beat a lot of men when he came on and wanted to get involved as much as possible, even at 4-0 down.

I’ve seen the usual 300 posts slagging off the manager, but there is only so much he can do. He can’t stop Morrison giving away an idiotic pen, or stop Vitor getting sent off. The players were the fault today, and yes Sousa should have prepared them better, but for me today it was the players who are at fault.

We need to stop trying to play good football, I don’t care how boring the football is if we are winning. It’s amazing how optimistic you can be after one game, only for it all to be kicked in your face again. I can understand why people would be calling for Sousa head, but lets face it, who would come and manage our club after that? Sir Martin isn’t coming back, so please stop asking for him

Our next game is huge, we must win, it’s as simple as. If we lose 3-0 or so after this the heads will be underground and we will be fearing serious trouble.

Pretty much the only time I laughed/smiled was when the Portsmouth fans started sining “Milan’s coming home”

Ah well, STUFFED 6-1, travelled hundreds of miles, spent hundreds of pounds, but I’m still LEICESTER TILL I DIE, and I’ll be at the next game cheering the lads on again.

/RANT

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442.

[Lillehamring]

So in which case it will be ok to not read the inevitable "I didn't see any matches this season" crap then?

you'll have to rephrase this, i don't understand - i was posting about the game that i'd just watched, what's your point?

[Lillehamring]

I think you're in the wrong place.

Coming on here making sensible, rational, articulate statements like that without even a hint of hysteria or nuffin....

What on earth were you thinking???

i know, i'm a disgrace to the shirt.

the thing is, despite the results, despite the staggering inconsistencies, i feel calmer about our situation now than i have done for years.

you can't beat the thai's and their ideas, so we may as well embrace them, and if this means they want to turn leicester city into a club capable of competing on a world stage, then so be it - under previous regimes sousa would have been sacked by now and we'd be crying over the thought of dowie coming in to turn us into an irrelevant bunch of hoofers.

if the future of our club is a patient progression allowing a manager to do what he feels will make a great team, then i'm prepared to be patient, if it means players coming in from benefica and world cup internationals, i'd rather that than dredging L1 and scots prem sides for the odd gem. make no mistake, there is more quality in our current squad than there has been for a long long time.

if sousa wants to give me a leicester that played the kind of football that king-abe-dyer played last night, then i'm prepared to slug it out at the bottom for number of games still.

[Bellend Sebastian]

"the darkest hour is just before dawn" goes the old adage.

Well I think going bottom by getting beaten by the team that was bottom and until that evening couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo is as close as the darkest hour you can get to during the course of a season. I think it all hinges on the next game; having reached our lowest ebb will we be rising phoenix like from the flames or are we to wallow in the shite until someone pushes us under and drowns us in the stinking mire? I dunno.

I'm probably going to sound a bit mental here (but being as 90 per cent of FTers at any one time sound mental anyway I'm not bothered), but I reckon that if you know enough about football to become a football manager in the first place then however badly things are going sooner or later you're probably going to be able to turn it around. Also, nearly every manager has a phase where they're crap. City are caught in that wonderful place where the manager is enjoying a shit phase, and have to decide whether they're going to stay with that in the hope that it gets better, or throw everything up in the air and start again with someone else, who might be just as shit. And let's face it, we're not really in a position to recruit managers that have never been shit at some point.

All I'm saying is that it's a bloody lottery either way, and so much so that I don't actually care if he stays or goes

[marbelladave]

i know, i'm a disgrace to the shirt.

the thing is, despite the results, despite the staggering inconsistencies, i feel calmer about our situation now than i have done for years.

you can't beat the thai's and their ideas, so we may as well embrace them, and if this means they want to turn leicester city into a club capable of competing on a world stage, then so be it - under previous regimes sousa would have been sacked by now and we'd be crying over the thought of dowie coming in to turn us into an irrelevant bunch of hoofers.

if the future of our club is a patient progression allowing a manager to do what he feels will make a great team, then i'm prepared to be patient, if it means players coming in from benefica and world cup internationals, i'd rather that than dredging L1 and scots prem sides for the odd gem. make no mistake, there is more quality in our current squad than there has been for a long long time.

if sousa wants to give me a leicester that played the kind of football that king-abe-dyer played last night, then i'm prepared to slug it out at the bottom for number of games still.

I would love to agree but a fair few of our players do not seem to buy into the Sousa 'method', this is particularly noticeable in defence. Are we really comfortable with the prospect of losing Hobbs, Morrison, Wellens, Gallagher and maybe others?

God, I don't know...

[Lillehamring]

I would love to agree but a fair few of our players do not seem to buy into the Sousa 'method', this is particularly noticeable in defence. Are we really comfortable with the prospect of losing Hobbs, Morrison, Wellens, Gallagher and maybe others?

God, I don't know...

no, i don't know either - but what i do know is that short term fixes got us relegated, the owners seem to have big plans and have already splashed for players we wouldn't have thought possible before.

the championship is shit this year, with practically every team incapable of sustaining regular form.

portsmouth, by all accounts, were saying exactly what we had been saying - ie. that they coulldn't explain their position and one day some unlucky team were going to get a stuffing.

sadly, we were that team, i still believe we are more than capable of doing the same to someone any game now - we just need to get a break like pompey did last night with an early peno, stupid sending of or fluked deflected freekick.

it'll come and the league is tight enough for our poor start to mean little by the end of the season.

that said, i wish the breakthrough would come sooner rather than later.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

What has happened to the "Keep the Faith" brigade.

All of those knee jerk reactions are really sad.

You can't blame Sousa for what Morrison did, or the Verma sending off. Why don't people think, before they open their mouths, and slag off the manager, for a game mostly played with ten men.

I for one am not panicking, and still believe we will finish mid table.

[1964FOX]

Back home now after a sunny Saturday in portsmouth. I walked around their city centre with a Leicester T-shirt on and expected to get some comments but didn't. I not going to make any comments about last night except for the positives, as you expect none of them came form the pitch.

We went into the Shepherds Crook pub close to the ground prior to the match and had a nice drink and a chat with the Portsmouth fans. When we got to the match I met a Fosse Boy from the IOW and we had a quick chat. When we got into the ground we took our place and behind me was Tubes and we have arranged to give the Leeds stewards some stick at our next match at their place and see how long we can stand up. Behind us were some L blockers and as we began to sing just before the match and we got texts telling us we had just een on the telly, shame we weren't singing f**k off sky at the time.

The next 90 minutes (including half time) has nothing of note to remember other than i noticed some stupid c**t with a whislte making an arse of himself. As fellow fans decided to leave about 15 minutes prior to the finish myself and a fellow Fosse Boy beside me decided to sing Viva Leicester to cheer ourselves up. To our suprise IOW Fosse Boy was close by and they joined in, we carried on and the L block boys behind us joined in. We then moved over to the other Fosse Boys and some of the L block joined us. More Fosse Boys from elsewhere in the stand came over and suddenly we were singing 'never seen a team like you before'. We then thought we should move down to behind the goal and spent the last ten minutes with 20+ L block boys singing and jumping around, they all joined in with our chants and facing away form the pitch singing 'We love Leicester hey hey'

You might be thinking what on earth is this twat going on about but as we turned away from the pitch I noticed numerous of our fans applauding us and joining in. It was then I remembered why I travel hundreds of miles to watch pure dross on the pitch (some times), it's because we have some of the best fans there are and we support Leicester City the greatest club there is, loyal supporters even when we are down.

To all those for your applause a massive thank you from me your support for us is welcome as always.

To the Lblock boys, loved it, feel free to join us in the Counting House and SK1, hope you enjoyed as much as it seemed even though 'go low' did confuse you.

Sorry to those who don't like me mentioning the Fosse Boys on certain threads but you will have to lump it cause I will remember the game for the last ten minutes when our supporters came together to celebrate in adversity.

Viva Leicester

[Matt]

What has happened to the "Keep the Faith" brigade.

All of those knee jerk reactions are really sad.

You can't blame Sousa for what Morrison did, or the Verma sending off. Why don't people think, before they open their mouths, and slag off the manager, for a game mostly played with ten men.

I for one am not panicking, and still believe we will finish mid table.

No, No you can't blame Sousa for that. ....

[MC Prussian]

What has happened to the "Keep the Faith" brigade.

All of those knee jerk reactions are really sad.

You can't blame Sousa for what Morrison did, or the Verma sending off. Why don't people think, before they open their mouths, and slag off the manager, for a game mostly played with ten men.

I for one am not panicking, and still believe we will finish mid table.

It would help for a start if you knew our squad a little better.

And I think after yesterday's "performance" and Sousa's post-match comments, I have every right to slag him off.

He lives in a different dimension, unbeknownst to most of us and sees and hears things no one else does.

He is, indeed, The Special One.

[Ilkeston_Fox]

Back home now after a sunny Saturday in portsmouth. I walked around their city centre with a Leicester T-shirt on and expected to get some comments but didn't. I not going to make any comments about last night except for the positives, as you expect none of them came form the pitch.

We went into the Shepherds Crook pub close to the ground prior to the match and had a nice drink and a chat with the Portsmouth fans. When we got to the match I met a Fosse Boy from the IOW and we had a quick chat. When we got into the ground we took our place and behind me was Tubes and we have arranged to give the Leeds stewards some stick at our next match at their place and see how long we can stand up. Behind us were some L blockers and as we began to sing just before the match and we got texts telling us we had just een on the telly, shame we weren't singing f**k off sky at the time.

The next 90 minutes (including half time) has nothing of note to remember other than i noticed some stupid c**t with a whislte making an arse of himself. As fellow fans decided to leave about 15 minutes prior to the finish myself and a fellow Fosse Boy beside me decided to sing Viva Leicester to cheer ourselves up. To our suprise IOW Fosse Boy was close by and they joined in, we carried on and the L block boys behind us joined in. We then moved over to the other Fosse Boys and some of the L block joined us. More Fosse Boys from elsewhere in the stand came over and suddenly we were singing 'never seen a team like you before'. We then thought we should move down to behind the goal and spent the last ten minutes with 20+ L block boys singing and jumping around, they all joined in with our chants and facing away form the pitch singing 'We love Leicester hey hey'

You might be thinking what on earth is this twat going on about but as we turned away from the pitch I noticed numerous of our fans applauding us and joining in. It was then I remembered why I travel hundreds of miles to watch pure dross on the pitch (some times), it's because we have some of the best fans there are and we support Leicester City the greatest club there is, loyal supporters even when we are down.

To all those for your applause a massive thank you from me your support for us is welcome as always.

To the Lblock boys, loved it, feel free to join us in the Counting House and SK1, hope you enjoyed as much as it seemed even though 'go low' did confuse you.

Sorry to those who don't like me mentioning the Fosse Boys on certain threads but you will have to lump it cause I will remember the game for the last ten minutes when our supporters came together to celebrate in adversity.

Viva Leicester

Twas me. The last few mins were great. As I said to you during the game, why go all that way and be quiet? Yes we were shit, yes the ref was crap. But I made the most of the awful situation. I got a video of some of the final mins (and them scoring their sixth). I even heard some City fans singing Loyal supporters and pointintg to us....Granno I believe - top notch sir

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

No, No you can't blame Sousa for that. ....

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[Bugg]

First chance I have to post on this thread. Last night was one of the worst Leicester performances I've seen, Morrison was an absolute clown for doing that last night, under no pressure so he punches the ball! The only player who looked like he gave a fook was Steve Howard. Don't want to make excuses but the referee was a coont and I just feel that Sousa, as much as I want him to suceed is running out of time and could go soon. And p.s. Big up to the Fosse Boys( think it was them) for singing all game long, wanted to come and join you but I was too angry with that shite performance. Hope we smash Norwich next week to make me feel better .

[MC Prussian]

Just wanted to mention that in Friday's game, Sousa once more denied a third substitute to come onto the pitch.

Strange fellow, that Portuguese.

[crafty fox]

If Sousa isn't gone by Monday, my season ticket WILL be returned. End of story.

can you return it to me please cos i aint got a season ticket and would make far more use of it than some bloke in the ticket office thank you!

[Tommeh]

Just back. Been one Hell of a weekend, fantastic.