A teenage centre-half when he followed Jack Lornie’s route to Filbert Street. John made his initial impact for City’s first team as right back, taking over from Len Chalmers just prior to the start of the 1963 Cup run, and climaxing his first season as a regular with a Wembley appearance against Manchester United. He…
Month: September 2018
Leicester City, Claude Puel, is it all bright on the right side?
To see todays performance v. Newcastle United it is no fault whatsoever in the way Leicester City goes into the game and easily picks up three points from this event. Daniel Amartey is playing to his very best, and Tcf has seen him impressive in other games in this position before, especially last seasons performance…
Newcastle 0, Leicester 2, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Leicester came up to St James Park as favorites for todays game with a good run of games under their belt. Newcastle and Rafa Benitez has a bit of a crisis and were also without their top target man Jose Rondon. As always Tcf is not in line with the team selection of Puel and…
Newcastle v. Leicester, Match Preview, Fans View, Who’s in, Who’s out
Leicester travels to Newcastle for their next Premier League game, and Claude Puel will this time not allow the team to be lost in traffic, flying up to The North. Nampalys Mendy and his teammates must come out of the starting blocks in the right way so that Leicester are not trawling behind after the…
The Norwegian Jamie Vardy, not a forward but a very special goalkeeper
Rosenborg goalkeeper Andre Hansen is probably very close to the two preferred in front of him by Norwegian national coach Lars Lagerback. Hertha Berlin shot stopper Rune Jarstein and the new Aston Villa goalie Ørjan Nyland are the two players in front in the pecking order. The problem at the moment is that Rune Jarstein…
In Both Camps, Foxes in the Toon Army, Sinclair from the 60’s, Slimani, Kelly, Kitson and a few others
A number of former foxes also have a previous life at St James Park. Going back to the early days the first to notice is former Leicester City forward Jackie Sinclair. Sinclair sadly passed away in 2010, only 67 years of age. Sinclair left Leicester City for a fee of £ 67 500 back in…
Is this Liverpool sale, the capture of the season, as Leicester goes through and Anfield see’s defeat in the Carabao Cup
Danny Ward is the preferred goalkeeper at Leicester City, when it comes to Carabao Cup fixtures, and for the 2nd time he kept a clean sheet. In his first official game for Leicester City he was outstanding, keeping the goal clean in the 4-0 win at home to League One opponent Fleetwood Town. The man…
Leicester City maestro set to leave? Liverpool, AC Milan and Man Utd among clubs in the chase
Leicester City are again flying after a great home Premier League win v. Huddersfield Town and another master performance in the penalty shoot outs v. Wolves, seeing them through to the 4th round of the Carabao Cup. But on the horizon there are always shadows and other vultures lurking in the wind. Leicester City’s head…
Wolves 1, Leicester 3, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
We all knew that Claude Puel would do changes to the team that won at home in the Premier League v. Huddersfield and so he did. A difficult tie away to Wolves, and in the Carabao Cup you never really know what you are up against. Mercury duo Tanner and Sharpe both believed that Turkish…
Foxes among talents that will flush the established stars out of position in Premier League action
We have allready seen how young players now are introduced to the big scene and Leicester City manager Claude Puel is one leading this fantastic rise of youngsters coming through. But Claude Puel is not the only one, and he is giving youth a chance because they are good enough and have a great mentality…
