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This will probably be my last post Twice recently I have come close to joining the great football forum in the sky. I have on each occasion asked people to contact the forum to say how much I enjoyed being a member. I realised that when the time came they would forget. So here goes. One...

My favourite football pundit-presenter is Alex Scott. So I was surprised that she came under fire from Lord Digby Jones. He attacked her diction and I was reminded o the words of Edmund Burke. He was in fact writing on the death of Marie Antoinette but I am sure he would have said the same about...

This posting is intended to provoke and is one man’s opinion except for the last item which is incontrovertible The title is obviously a homage to “The Good The Bad And The Ugly” which is one of my favourite movies. The list of best and worst is made more complicated by having begun watching...

I am sure the answer to this is obvious but I am to laptops what Frank Bruno is to ballet dancing. My kindle has been opening to thumbnails of a size where I can see what they are. I believe this is normal However, suddenly the library page opens with thumbnails to small to read. This is...

I have become increasingly aware of urban myths and wonder whether anyone can confirm three possible (emphasize possible) facts (1) At a pause in a match did the Birch actually have a sip of a spectators beer. (2) During the notorious Spider Kalic match did Radio Leicester actually say "There...

While the rest of you were unwrapping your presents, drinking in the New Year and watching the shenanigans in Washington I was in the Royal wondering whether I was about to go to the Great Stadium in the sky and watch Di Stefano, Puskas and Sir Stanley Matthews. The first point is that the...

If you ignore the rest of this post I would be grateful for responses to the last paragraph, It seems to me that some Leicester fans are taking success for granted. Ten years ago there was no reason to think Leicester would be more successful than equivalent clubs - West Brom. Burnley...

I have joined the 21st century and got a mobile phone. It is not a smartphone but a dim phone - Duro 1370. My problem is that when people call me the phone does not ring but goes straight to Voicemail. Is there a simple way of solving this?

Some thoughts for Tuesday. Why Tuesday and why the beginning of November. By November the harvest was gathered in If the election was later in the year the roads would make travel difficult and voting often involved going long distances. Why Tuesday? Voting on a Monday might involve people...

Does the broadcasting of crowd noise from empty stadium come at the behest of the clubs or the TV stadium. I find it to be dishonest and irritating. Was the noise actually from Leicester supporters? Is the same noise used in every match? Are the people making the noise really supporting Wolves...

I I became a Leicester supporter when I ,moved to the city in the 1968-69 season when we lost the cup final and were relegated. I had been going to occasional First Division matches (usually Wolves) since the mid1950s. I will not go to another one. On too many occasions when I have...

I have spent much of my life criticizing those who go for superficial analysis in a non-football context. However, football is particularly prone to this. It is partly because of the short timescale. Leicester City in 2010 has little in common with Leicester City in 2020; in History a decade is...

My pride and joy is a collection of photos of historic architecture - literally thousands in folders with labels like Gothic or Victorian. I suddenly find that when I close one photo it closes the whole folder. This has happened quite suddenly and for no apparent reason.. So I close one photo of...

So Dracula has finished. This was the most horrific Dracula so far. The script was often excellent. At times the direction was superb. As with Sherlock from the same team I felt it sometimes put cleverness over coherence. I preferred Claes Bang to Jack Palance or Gary Oldman as Dracula. For...

The disallowing of the Wolves goal against Leicester involves a rule that I think is absurd. Yo show how things have changed I have included a goal from the 1958 cup final. The scorer is Nat Lofthouse of Bolton; the goalkeeper flying into the net is Harry Gregg It is debatable whether Lofthouse...

Well I am back for yet another season. I spent most of last season convinced that it would be my last at the King PowerBL. Getting to evening matches was fine but walking from the ground just before ten was an unpleasant struggle. . There were too many times when I was lending my ticket to...

The sad death of Tommy Smith reminded me of this impersonation of the great Bill Shankly that has always made me laugh.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 Neil de Grasse Tyson Astrophysicist This tweet caused a great deal of anger among Evangelicals. I would guess that this was the aim although de Grasse Tyson feigns a...

There have been many eloquent tributes in the RIP Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha; all of them well deserved. I want to try s different slant. It was gone ten on Saturday night and I was away for the weekend when somebody knowing I was from Leicester said something about there being a helicopter...

I have always found the Leicester City stewards to be a pleasant good natured group. But I want to pay tribute to one special one. Roy Young is a steward who is always cheerful, friendly and helpful. He was missing from the Wolves game. This was the first home game he had missed in decades. Roy...

My season ticket arrived today. This has always promised nineteen days when there is something special. Those nineteen days will be especially valuable this season as after fifty years as a supporter I fear it will be my last as a season ticket holder. Last season I struggled badly when leaving...

At the moment I use "large" for my thumbnail pictures, This gets me 44 pictures to a page. If I go to Extra Large I get 6 pictures. Extra large is too big for what I need but "large" is not large enough. Is there any way I can adjust the size of the thumbnails so that I can get around 30...

I thought of putting this in the Sheffield Utd post-match thread but it is not really football. Before the game there was a band called Mystery Train performing outside the stadium They did 50s rock - early Elvis, Jerry Lee and Little Richard. They were so good I was almost reluctant to leave...

I hope this might raise a grin on a cold Thursday morning. It is from advice to students taking Medieval History. When writing about King Cnut always remember to word search for a potential variant to which said king’s name might have been autocorrected

It was a different world in 1958.There was little hatred in football - that would begin in the late 1960s. Most footballers had grown up near the town they played for and most had no cars so they lived in the town and caught the bus. In those days Manchester United were actually popular. With...

On Saturday I left the ground pointing out that Jon Moss had given the worst refereeing performance since the match against West Ham. To me he was the epitome of evil - a mixture of Herr Hitler and Mr Tim Farron. During the game and even more at the end thousands of supporters were chanting...

I hope FoxFranks will not mind me starting this as a separate thread but his post seemed to me a more interesting topic than the wretched Palace game. Obviously Jeff and the other Great Powers will feel free to move it back to the original topic. An Australian learning that I supported...

I have just finished watching the 1953 cup final Blackpool 4 Bolton 3 better known as The Matthews Final. This is usually regarded as the greatest cup final of all time. I did not see it in 1953 as like most homes we did not have a TV. My father saw it at a friends and in those days when men got...

I very much enjoyed "Sir Bobby Charlton at Eighty" which is available on the BBC Catchup Page. Bobby is perhaps the greatest British player. He was not as talented as Duncan Edwards or George Best but they failed to fulfil their potential for very different reasons. Perhaps Stanley Matthews...

Too many people have got distracted by events on the pitch and failed to notice that the dugout has a new star and what an asset. Craig Shakespeare is a pointer directing events from the technical area. Mike Stowell is a berater jumping up and down with fury. Mike Appleton is a growler - a...

Yes Popillius I have ever read a proper book - more than one. Reading the above comments I remembered what I was told in Orvieto in 2014. The heritage professionals pointed out that they have underground passages just right for a thriller and a mysterious painting. They know Dan Brown...

I regard the pundits with an admiration that borders on reverence, Around Christmas of Nigel Pearson's final season I thought we were doomed. I thought we were doomed when Claudio took over and until the victory at Man City thought we would fall away. At the start of last season I was really...

I do not believe in God but regard the invention of the mobile phone as a strong argument for the existence of the devil For years I have complained about mobile phones . For years I have been told that one day you will wish you had one and for years I have ignored the advice. I have moaned...

From the first time I heard Tim Farron speak he reminded me of a creepy mid-west hotel filmed in black and white; the kind of place where you would advise Janet Leigh not to take a shower. Others will have their own choices but to me Farron is the creepiest British political figure of recent...

About a year ago Mrs Mahrez allowed her husband to sign a new contract with Leicester City. Now she had decided he must move. What has happened to change things? The answer is clear. It cannot be coincidence that Mrs Mahrez has decided to move so soon after the closure of Fenwicks. This is a...

MMA for anyone who does not know stands for Mixed Martial Arts. It has gained a lot of support at the expense of boxing which (IMO) despite Tyson and Mayweather seems to have been in decline since the 1970s. To my mind the fight game is now more about MMA than boxing. One of my favourite pundits...

Time for another long very long piece of provocation. Leicester are about to play Everton who are 7th in the table while Liverpool are currently 3rd. Meanwhile Birmingham does not have any club in the Premier League. In terms of population Birmingham is the second city but it consistently...

Yes this is a title deliberately designed to provoke. My guess is that most people will give up at the end of paragraph 2 disgusted that I like Ken Clarke or Nigel Farage. In fact paragraph 3 is the important one - you might as well just read that and skip the rest. I do not like Michael Gove...

What is the difference between a Director of Football (Mr Rudkin) and a Director of Football Operations (Mr Neville)? What do each of them do all day. I understand that Mr Ruskin deals with contracts which will keep him busy during the transfer window but is hardly a full time job otherwise...