Norwich Post-Match

[Corky]

Well the performance was much better, though it couldn't have been a lot worse than Portsmouth. We looked better going forward and the midfield had some control, but the defence again is very shaky, we gave them alarming amounts of space regularly, and were punished for it with the third goal. Again, we give away a penalty that we didn't need to, and there was little anyone could do about the fourth goal.

Heads didn't drop, we kept going, even if the final ball at times was lacking. Fryatt's sending off had a bearing, I'm not sure why he was so I hope to see it again. Waghorn was lively, Wellens brought some bite back to the midfield.

We simply have to win on Saturday. It's a must.

[StanSP]

Well the performance was much better, though it couldn't have been a lot worse than Portsmouth. We looked better going forward and the midfield had some control, but the defence again is very shaky, we gave them alarming amounts of space regularly, and were punished for it with the third goal. Again, we give away a penalty that we didn't need to, and there was little anyone could do about the fourth goal.

Heads didn't drop, we kept going, even if the final ball at times was lacking. Fryatt's sending off had a bearing, I'm not sure why he was so I hope to see it again. Waghorn was lively, Wellens brought some bite back to the midfield.

We simply have to win on Saturday. It's a must.

When Stringer/Young saw replays they said that Fryatt kicked Barnett in the leg and/or back. Young said it was a sending off because it's violent conduct. But Stringer was adamant that it was harsh just because Barnett wouldn't give the ball back.

[Corky]

When Stringer/Young saw replays they said that Fryatt kicked Barnett in the leg and/or back. Young said it was a sending off because it's violent conduct. But Stringer was adamant that it was harsh just because Barnett wouldn't give the ball back.

It was ridiculous. As soon as the ball hit the net Barnett was hurling himself to try and stop our players from retrieving it, the single intention of wasting time. Fryatt seemed to be frustrated, I didn't see a kick however, though I'm not doubting there was.

[Jakemoore]

Major congratulations to the lads tonight, I thought they deserved at least a draw from the match, to be fair to Sousa he has been unlucky but it's time for him to be a man and step aside. I would respect him if he left tomorrow and not wait to be sacked. Oh and just a quick note on Morrison, he did brilliantly to silence the fans who have criticised him. Man of the match.

[RowlattsFox]

Just typical that Fryatt gets couple of goals, confidence might be coming back. Now he's out for 3 games.

[Legend_in_blue]

Imo it's totally pointless for a player to go rushing into the net to collect the ball having just scored. More often than not it causes handbags. Let the opposition waste time. The referee can then deal with the resulting time-wasting fool and the game can continue. Once a goal is scored, time should not be wasted since surely this should stop and then continue from the resulting kick-off.

This needs a decent referee though, which are in short supply it seems.

[stu]

Norwich had 61% of the possession!

Sorry Sousa you've got to go...

[Blue Bob]

Sorry I see nothing to be happy about!

We have just lost to two of the worst teams in the division and leaked10 goals and had 2 players red carded.

It seems like the team hate Sousa and don't want to play for him - that is not something you can turn around in a few days!

Sousa seems to want us to play Spanish type football where you keep the ball and then a quick attack and score, which is fine when you have Torres and Villa playing, we don't! The Championship will always be a battle, if you are not prepared to battle you are knackered!

Sousa say he is not under pressure, sure he is not as if he screws it up Mandaric has to pay up his contract to get shot of him! Why would he walk and miss settlement?

Mandaric has been swift to remove managers before, I only hope he does it again.

If these Thai's then want to prove their ambition then go after Martin O'Neil, may well not get him but it doesn't hurt to ask, what the worst that can happen? He says no? Always a chance he says yes!

[Jakemoore]

Anyone seen any of the pictures? Do the players look like they are showing heart and playing for their manager?

Hobbs was reportedly close to tears during his warm up

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Radio Leicester Dickweed calling him Paul Soza!!

Paul Soza is a bastard!! He makes children cry!!

Anyone else get a lump in throat from that caller? Picturing these little kids wrapped in their LC duvet crying.

( ) at the man practically in tears and the story he gave about his young lad underneath his Leicester City quilt cover crying his eyes out.

You can't make this stuff up

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Haha, all about Dom from Glenfield.

That was Tilley, I was in his car when he rang up. Paul Sousa had me about dying. He nearly soiled himself when he was talking, can't wait to hear it on iPlayer.

There is no eight year old btw.

Brilliant.

[Jakemoore]

Crying like babies at 8 years old? It's bang out of order.

I only cried twice when I was 8. Once when I snapped me hamstring in the 100m final (yeah I was being a bit of a bitch that time) and once when my babysitters were glue-sniffing, did a ouijaboard in front of me and then set me hair on fire with a coalbrush that they had alighted on the coal fire (totally justified cry that was).

Yep, leicsester boys are hard, don't mess with us.Millwall away 28th, date registered beats ready at this guys memories btw

[Guest Basildon Fox]

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Haha, all about Dom from Glenfield.

That was Tilley, I was in his car when he rang up. Paul Sousa had me about dying. He nearly soiled himself when he was talking, can't wait to hear it on iPlayer.

There is no eight year old btw.

Brilliant.

Made my night. Just goes to show how spasticated you have to act to get onto the radio.

[StanSP]

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Haha, all about Dom from Glenfield.

That was Tilley, I was in his car when he rang up. Paul Sousa had me about dying. He nearly soiled himself when he was talking, can't wait to hear it on iPlayer.

There is no eight year old btw.

Brilliant.

[Lillehamring]

Radio Leicester are so shit scared of upsetting the club they are making themselves look silly.

We have shipped 10 goals in games, the defence is a complete mess and Dagnall is trying to say the defence played well, laughable.

Any Manager with half an idea could get our squad organized and away from the danger zone.

Please remove this clown now.

Sousa haters, please skip this post, you won't be interested....

of course, plenty of managers could achieve this, but is that enough? is that too short term a view?

the difference right now for leicester is that the thais obviously don't just want a manager capable of keeping us out of the danger zone, they obviously want a manager who can get a leicester team playing the type of football that would be effective at a higher level than that. whether sousa is capable of that has yet to be proved, clearly; so far, the owners of this club feel that time is on our side and the signs so far are acceptable, otherwise he would have gone after the pompey debacle.

who knows if he will be here next week but, whilst he is, we just have to cling to the positives even if they aren't coming as regularly as we'd like.

for all the criticism sousa is receiving, i think there are several observations tonight in his favour.

1. he must have done enough before the game to get that cracking start.

2. there is no way he would have instructed the players to sit back after scoring, they did, he can only do so much from the touchline, some of the blame here falls squarely on the attitude of the captain and the players.

3. the changes he made brought about two goals.

4. we have at least broken the ducks of not scoring first, not scoring in the first half, and our strikers actually getting amongst the goals.

surely these things can be seen as a sign of improvement. now all he needs to do is keep a clean sheet; hopefully, the confidence of the strikers will be much better now and that alone could take some of the pressure off the defence.

as bad as it is - the attitude of the players tonight gives me faith that they want to play for sousa, and more significantly, we are not a team who are simply stagnating, we are just not clicking in all units at the right time - stagnation (which was the thing that got us relegated) is almost impossible to banish, what is wrong with the team now is something that can be fixed, and sometimes it takes very little to do it, even something like the strikers finding the net, or the fryatt incident.

there is clearly still a passion amongst the squad, so there is hope.

and, for those saying this wouldn't have happened under pearson, he's not exactly doing great things with a squad of premiership players at his disposal.

[Craig]

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Haha, all about Dom from Glenfield.

That was Tilley, I was in his car when he rang up. Paul Sousa had me about dying. He nearly soiled himself when he was talking, can't wait to hear it on iPlayer.

There is no eight year old btw.

Brilliant.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

'I hope your wee lads alright.'

'Yeah, give your son a squeeze from us Dom.'

Couldn't breathe.

[MC Prussian]

I didn't expect too much of tonight's game. To be honest, I didn't really know what to expect at all.

With the random shuffles in starting squads, the patchy defense, the non-existent midfield support for our strikers and our strikers' inability to score from either spectrum of the range, any pre-match prediction is rendered useless.

We're THAT unpredictable.

On the other hand, we've seen sexy football in motion and the short pass system coming to close perfection, with the emphasis on "close".

But, in all fairness, I must add that the one constant in the equation is the Loss.

We've lost an awful lot so far, not just in terms of games, but also in spirit, passion, belief and teamwork.

And I'm somewhat lost for words. What else is there to say? I despair the way this squad is newly-assembled on a weekly basis.

But it's not just the sub-par manager this campaign or the dodgy investment of some Asian multimillionaires; it's the lack of discipline from the players' side, the referees dishing out reds against us as if there was a secret competition plus the way the own supporters have been or are being treated.

Everything's just going horribly wrong at the moment - is this the earnest for the seeds of last season?

Is this how we're being paid back?

The changes have been too sudden over the summer months and I can't give a clear-cut personal explanation as to what made this all start - too many factors in play.

I've lost count... Worst league start in... how many years? I reckon even the older 'uns like davieG will have to think hard about a season when Leicester have been this crap.

Still, the manager rambles on and on and on about how "proud" he is of his team ego.

The man leaves me clueless. There's no substance to the guy.

Scünthorpe is Sousa's last chance to save the last bunch of his admirers from changing sides.

He needs a win.

Lose and I'll be seeing the ticket office for my refund alongside dozens, if not hundreds of others same-minded people...

Shambles.

Oh, so bitterly disappointing.

[MC Prussian]

Sousa haters, please skip this post, you won't be interested....

of course, plenty of managers could achieve this, but is that enough? is that too short term a view?

the difference right now for leicester is that the thais obviously don't just want a manager capable of keeping us out of the danger zone, they obviously want a manager who can get a leicester team playing the type of football that would be effective at a higher level than that. whether sousa is capable of that has yet to be proved, clearly; so far, the owners of this club feel that time is on our side and the signs so far are acceptable, otherwise he would have gone after the pompey debacle.

who knows if he will be here next week but, whilst he is, we just have to cling to the positives even if they aren't coming as regularly as we'd like.

for all the criticism sousa is receiving, i think there are several observations tonight in his favour.

1. he must have done enough before the game to get that cracking start.

2. there is no way he would have instructed the players to sit back after scoring, they did, he can only do so much from the touchline, some of the blame here falls squarely on the attitude of the captain and the players.

3. the changes he made brought about two goals.

4. we have at least broken the ducks of not scoring first, not scoring in the first half, and our strikers actually getting amongst the goals.

surely these things can be seen as a sign of improvement. now all he needs to do is keep a clean sheet; hopefully, the confidence of the strikers will be much better now and that alone could take some of the pressure off the defence.

as bad as it is - the attitude of the players tonight gives me faith that they want to play for sousa, and more significantly, we are not a team who are simply stagnating, we are just not clicking in all units at the right time - stagnation (which was the thing that got us relegated) is almost impossible to banish, what is wrong with the team now is something that can be fixed, and sometimes it takes very little to do it, even something like the strikers finding the net, or the fryatt incident.

there is clearly still a passion amongst the squad, so there is hope.

and, for those saying this wouldn't have happened under pearson, he's not exactly doing great things with a squad of premiership players at his disposal.

I appreciate your optimism, however, Waghorn scoring the first after two minutes is not necessarily a or the sign of the manager's intervention, as you might want us to believe.

It could also easily be said that both Waghorn and Fryatt actually took the criticism to their heart and intended to prove their own doubters otherwise.

Both strikers have gotten a lot of flak recently, and to a certain degree, deservedly so.

I salute their willingness to improve their game.

A statement I cannot paste and copy when it comes to the defense.

Also, I cannot imagine Sousa actually being able to transport a positive message clear enough to the players.

There's a high probability of his advice being misunderstood or - which is even worse - being completely ignored, mainly thanks to Sousa's poor grasp of English and his repetitive talking schemes.

(Sometimes, I wonder whether he's on drugs)

[Kitchandro]

Sousa fook right off out of this club. You are single-handedly ruining our club. You twat, what are you doing talking about car engines?

fooking pissed myself when I read this

[Lillehamring]

I appreciate your optimism, however, Waghorn scoring the first after two minutes is not necessarily a or the sign of the manager's intervention, as you might want us to believe.

It could also easily be said that both Waghorn and Fryatt actually took the criticism to their heart and intended to prove their own doubters otherwise.

Both strikers have gotten a lot of flak recently, and to a certain degree, deservedly so.

I salute their willingness to improve their game.

A statement I cannot paste and copy when it comes to the defense.

Also, I cannot imagine Sousa actually being able to transport a positive message clear enough to the players.

There's a high probability of his advice being misunderstood or - which is even worse - being completely ignored, mainly thanks to Sousa's poor grasp of English and his repetitive talking schemes.

(Sometimes, I wonder whether he's on drugs)

fair enough, but i don't think it's as black and white as that, people only seem able to think in binary on here these days - i have no doubt that waghorn wanted to prove the doubters wrong, but equally, i think that players aren't likely to have that attitude if they aren't sufficiently motivated and confident enough to actually see it through, so i'm sure it is a combination of player and manager.

none of us know what sousa is like with his players, but we do know that we have played sousaball at times this season, he has brought out improved performances in general from neilsen, and tonight from howard oakley and morrison (so we are told). so, somethings he is saying must be sinking in.

i'm actually quite concerned about why powell isn't having any more impact on the defence, which is clearly the major problem we have.

we know sousa can do defences from the way swansea played - we are creating a lot of chances, so the midfield must be doing something right, and tonight amd friday all our three main strikers finally broke their league ducks - i genuinely believe that if we can just solve the problem of our lightweight defence, then things will be back on track.

despite the complete lack of belief from most on here, i think we are so close now, that it would be madness to give up after showing such patience and confidence in sousa's ability.

i know i'm in the majority, but i'm just sick of this short-termism - the league is still very tight and there is a long long way to go - as i said, the really important thing is that we are not bottom because we are a passionless stagnating football team.

[MC Prussian]

Spot the mistake(s) - first prize is an internship @ the Beeb.

[cc_star]

Is Sousa trying to piss our defenders around that much that the crowd are shouting for Moreno to be re-instated at centre half?

[Jackirius]

He showed some passion tonight did sousa. But still a very poor defensive performance but looked very good going forward.

Spot the mistake(s) - first prize is an internship @ the Beeb.

Abi

[foxoffderby]

Spot the mistake(s) - first prize is an internship @ the Beeb.

"Norwich Keeper Carl Ikeme"

[cc_star]

Sousa haters, please skip this post, you won't be interested....

of course, plenty of managers could achieve this, but is that enough? is that too short term a view?

the difference right now for leicester is that the thais obviously don't just want a manager capable of keeping us out of the danger zone, they obviously want a manager who can get a leicester team playing the type of football that would be effective at a higher level than that. whether sousa is capable of that has yet to be proved, clearly; so far, the owners of this club feel that time is on our side and the signs so far are acceptable, otherwise he would have gone after the pompey debacle.

who knows if he will be here next week but, whilst he is, we just have to cling to the positives even if they aren't coming as regularly as we'd like.

for all the criticism sousa is receiving, i think there are several observations tonight in his favour.

1. he must have done enough before the game to get that cracking start.

2. there is no way he would have instructed the players to sit back after scoring, they did, he can only do so much from the touchline, some of the blame here falls squarely on the attitude of the captain and the players.

3. the changes he made brought about two goals.

4. we have at least broken the ducks of not scoring first, not scoring in the first half, and our strikers actually getting amongst the goals.

surely these things can be seen as a sign of improvement. now all he needs to do is keep a clean sheet; hopefully, the confidence of the strikers will be much better now and that alone could take some of the pressure off the defence.

as bad as it is - the attitude of the players tonight gives me faith that they want to play for sousa, and more significantly, we are not a team who are simply stagnating, we are just not clicking in all units at the right time - stagnation (which was the thing that got us relegated) is almost impossible to banish, what is wrong with the team now is something that can be fixed, and sometimes it takes very little to do it, even something like the strikers finding the net, or the fryatt incident.

there is clearly still a passion amongst the squad, so there is hope.

and, for those saying this wouldn't have happened under pearson, he's not exactly doing great things with a squad of premiership players at his disposal.

Were you the guy on the phone-in who said Sousa should be given a top 4 club to manage or a top European side?

Re: Pearson... he's missed quite a few games in charge at Hull thanks to being in hospital, and anyway we know what Pearson is capable of

- Being a well enough respected coach to attract young players on loan from Arsenal, ManU & Liverpool

- Taking a relegated side and getting promoted as Champions, just ask Forest, Leeds, Southampton or Charlton fans what sort of achievement that is.

- Taking that promoted side to the play-offs and only getting knocked out thanks to that cvnts show-boating penalty.

- Playing effective winning football that was a good mix of getting the ball forward quickly and pinging it around in the final third

By comparison we know what Sousa is capable of

- rocking the dressing room so a collection of better players hand in transfer requests

- Not knowing his best team, chopping and changing the players every single game, so they are further unsettled

- Dropping the best players

- Dropping players who have previously had a good game

- Not being able to see the problems

- More interested in car engines than sorting out the shittest defence in the division

- Turning a team of achievers & winners into losers and left them looking like they don't know their right from their left.

I'm pretty much convinced the only thing he can organise is his hair