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Thailand Friendly

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Prospero

Prospero

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All the reports coming out of Thailand seem really uplifting. Far from the visit being a distraction and a purely marketing exercise, it looks like it is a real working holiday which will help the Thai owners, Sven, the coaches and the players to understand each other better. If nothing else they will return with a shared purpose that should then translate into success on the pitch. In the video Oakley seems quite humble as he looked around. I don't remember the owners of Man U and Liverpool flying the their teams back home to allow them to experience their culture and to play a competitive match to encourage greater interest in their clubs. Our new owners seem to be proud of their country and genuinely committed to football and to our club. In the circumstances we could now have the perfect manager. I don't know what I will be saying in one and two years' time but at present I am very optimistic.

davieG

davieG

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anyone got a link directly to the page showing the match???

There's several listed in this topic.

Darkon84

Darkon84

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There's several listed in this topic.

i tried but they wouldnt connect. i just assumed they were to a main page, rather than to the actual match page. il try again.

THE MAGICIAN

THE MAGICIAN

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All the reports coming out of Thailand seem really uplifting. Far from the visit being a distraction and a purely marketing exercise, it looks like it is a real working holiday which will help the Thai owners, Sven, the coaches and the players to understand each other better. If nothing else they will return with a shared purpose that should then translate into success on the pitch. In the video Oakley seems quite humble as he looked around. I don't remember the owners of Man U and Liverpool flying the their teams back home to allow them to experience their culture and to play a competitive match to encourage greater interest in their clubs. Our new owners seem to be proud of their country and genuinely committed to football and to our club. In the circumstances we could now have the perfect manager. I don't know what I will be saying in one and two years' time but at present I am very optimistic.

What he said................ :chant:

AmyLGK

AmyLGK

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All the reports coming out of Thailand seem really uplifting. Far from the visit being a distraction and a purely marketing exercise, it looks like it is a real working holiday which will help the Thai owners, Sven, the coaches and the players to understand each other better. If nothing else they will return with a shared purpose that should then translate into success on the pitch. In the video Oakley seems quite humble as he looked around. I don't remember the owners of Man U and Liverpool flying the their teams back home to allow them to experience their culture and to play a competitive match to encourage greater interest in their clubs. Our new owners seem to be proud of their country and genuinely committed to football and to our club. In the circumstances we could now have the perfect manager. I don't know what I will be saying in one and two years' time but at present I am very optimistic.

I couldn't agree more - I'm becoming more and more optimistic about the take over and Sven every day! (I have to warn you though that when I'm optimistic we tend to lose!)

davieG

davieG

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Bangkok Post - http://www.bangkokpost.com./news/sports/200478/leicester-city-play-thailand-today?

English Championship strugglers Leicester City want to defeat Thailand in a friendly today to boost their confidence before resuming their fight at home.

Coached by former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Foxes meet the national team at Supachalasai stadium at 5pm.

Eriksson was appointed Leicester manager shortly before the team left England this week. He replaced Paolo Sousa who was sacked last week after the club got only eight points from their first 10 games of the season.

After three days in Pattaya, the team returned to the capital yesterday. They paid respect to His Majesty the King at Siriraj Hospital and visited the Grand Palace.

"We have trained for two days and the players are fit for the match," said Eriksson.

"I now know more about the players. I hope that we win the match to gain confidence before we get back to England to play in the League Championship (second division)."

Owned by Thai duty free retail King Power, Leicester are in the relegation zone - third from bottom in the 24-team Championship.

Eriksson said his captain Matthew Oakley should be fit for the match and that he would send his strongest side against Thailand.

Eriksson is not new to Thailand. He was here in 2007 when he was Manchester City manager when former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra owned the English Premier League club.

At that time, he signed three Thai players Teerasil Dangda, Suree Sukha and Kiatprawut Saiwaew who trained at Manchester City but never played for them.

Teerasil and Suree are in the Thai squad for today's match and Eriksson said: "These two players are good. They trained very hard and I am happy to meet them again."

The Swede visited the Grand Palace for the first time yesterday and he said: "It's amazing for me to see the Emerald Buddha and the Grand Palace. It's very beautiful."

Thailand coach Bryan Robson said some of his players were not fully fit because they had to play in the Thai Premier League or the League Cup this week. The former England captain said Leicester could be dangerous because of superior fitness.

A familiar song to be heard from the terraces at Filbert Street and later at the Walkers Stadium over the years has been When You're Smiling, so it is perhaps befitting that Leicester City are in the Land of Smiles this afternoon to take on the Thai national team at Supachalasai stadium.

It might be an appropriate time to have a look at the Foxes, who it has to be admitted are not exactly a household name in this country. But this should all change in the coming months after the recent Thai takeover of the club by King Power Group's Vichai Raksriaksorn.

Leicester are struggling at the moment near the foot of the Championship, but with Sven-Goran Eriksson now at the helm there is some hope amongst Foxes fans that happier days lie ahead.

A lot has happened to Sven since he was last here three years ago with Manchester City and he has experienced somewhat unlikely nomadic adventures of late featuring Mexico, Notts County and the Ivory Coast.

Leicester are an unusual club in that although they've never really hit the heights for an extended period, they have also never sunk to the depths, their only season out of the top two divisions being their recent brief sojourn in League 1 from which they were promoted at the first time of asking last year.

Their status in the big scheme of things was probably best summed up by David Pleat when he moved from Spurs to be manager at Filbert Street in 1987. He commented: "I've come from caviar to fish and chips. At Spurs you can buy daft. At Leicester you buy sensibly."

Throughout their history Leicester have spent much of their time in the second tier of English football, but have also had several forays into the top flight. In fact they are second only to Birmingham in the times they have been promoted and relegated between the top two divisions.

Their longest run in the top flight was from 1957-69, during which time they made the FA Cup final three times, unfortunately losing on each occasion. But in the same era they did win the 1964 League Cup, beating Stoke in the final.

Contributing a lot to their success in that period was the great England goalkeeper Gordon Banks. Leicester were very fortunate with keepers in those days as their next custodian was Peter Shilton, another England stalwart.

Over the years Leicester have produced their fair share of top names. In addition to the two keepers England striker Gary Lineker spent some time there before being sold to Everton while Emile Heskey, Frank McLintock and Alan Smith also featured at the club.

In the mid-50s the great Arthur Rowly also played for the Foxes, banging in a record 44 goals in the 1956-57 season.

The club has seen quite a few 'characters' with the extrovert Frank Worthington being hugely popular from 1972-77, while Robbie Savage made his own mark two decades later, although not everybody appreciated him. Martin O'Neill, who hated Savage's artificial sun tan, observed that he "looks like he should be surfing in California."

Alan Birchenall's view of Savage was that "even when he has had a bad game he thinks he should be man of the match.".

Leicester's most consistent squad was under O'Neill in the Premiership from 1995 to 2000. Although they had no big names they finished in the top ten for four consecutive seasons, no mean achievement for a club of their size. They also won two more League Cups in 1997 and 2000.

It was a big blow to fans when O'Neill left for the greener pastures at Celtic.

Leicester even briefly topped the Premiership in October 2000 under Peter Taylor, but that proved to be a false dawn and they were relegated the following season under Dave Bassett and Micky Adams.

Bassett was puzzled why his team could not reproduce their promising training form in the league matches. His conclusion was that it was nerves because "in training only three people and five cabbages are watching them."

They got back into the Premiership again but were relegated in 2004.

Leicester fans have not had much to smile about so far this season, but maybe a few days in the Land of Smiles is all the club needs to get their season back on track. After all, when you're smiling, "the whole world smiles with you."

Lillehamring

Lillehamring

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so the plan is to sit up and watch baseball till 6am, sleep, and then up again for this match at 10am, and then sleep, and then go to a party.

Collymore

Collymore

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All the reports coming out of Thailand seem really uplifting. Far from the visit being a distraction and a purely marketing exercise, it looks like it is a real working holiday which will help the Thai owners, Sven, the coaches and the players to understand each other better. If nothing else they will return with a shared purpose that should then translate into success on the pitch. In the video Oakley seems quite humble as he looked around. I don't remember the owners of Man U and Liverpool flying the their teams back home to allow them to experience their culture and to play a competitive match to encourage greater interest in their clubs. Our new owners seem to be proud of their country and genuinely committed to football and to our club. In the circumstances we could now have the perfect manager. I don't know what I will be saying in one and two years' time but at present I am very optimistic.

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AmyLGK

AmyLGK

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sorry for sounding stupid, so this kicks off at 11am tomorrow our time?

you don't sound stupid - I haven't got a clue when it's on either!!!

cc_star

cc_star

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hello all, not often i pop in and post only usually have a read, but the match may be on one of these sites if youre interested http://www.iraqgoals.tv/index.html or http://www.myp2p.eu/ .. chow !!!!

Iraq Goals has been barred in the UK

the Premier League got an injunction with all ISPs to prevent it... the folks have set up another domain though but I can't remember what its called.

There's a load of stream links on the the first couple of pages of this thread

BoneDog

BoneDog

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Thanks to Bingo Chico for all the pics :thumbup:

I've never thought about going to Thailand before but seeing these pics and learning a bit more about the country it looks like a great place to visit.

And seeing the words 'Shroom Mountain' has intrigued me!

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