Today Leicester are up against Bournemouth at home. A club who have, under their manager Eddie Howe, impressed everyone, especially at home. They are also able to attract good players and manages to compete with a much lower budget than most. Among former foxes to have played for Bournemouth are of course several. Yann Kermorgant…
Month: August 2019
Newcastle 1(2), Leicester 1(4), positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Brendan Rodgers means business with Leicester City this season, also in the Carabao Cup. Not as in previous years fielding the 2nd strings, maybe also to do with the opponent in this game. Newcastle is Premier League, so to play a strong side was vital. Leicester had the chances and possession in the first half,…
Former fox says “best I hold my tongue can’t believe what has happened”
Former fox Neil Danns had to see his current club Bury FC getting expelled from the EFL, after a long wait to find a solution, but it never happened. A sale in the late hours before the deadline from the EFL board was close, but the new supposed owners pulled the plug on a deal…
Sheffield United 1, Leicester 2, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
As favorites always nice to deliver and when Jamie Vardy started the “party” at only 38 minutes and that made it possible to finish first half with a lead, and away, that is just fantastic. A day without Ben Chilwell and Wilfred Ndidi in the starting line-up, makes it a nervous affair trying to slot…
Guys in Disguise, Adrien Silva and Islam Slimani, Sporting Lisbon duo, £50million Leicester waste, reunited at Monaco
Adrien Silva and Islam Slimani joined Leicester City for a joint fee of £50million. Looking back it’s a waste of half a billion, and shows how football management has gone wild and totally unpredictable. Both players were close to legends and iconic figures at Sporting Lisbon. Now they are together again at Monaco. The duo…
In both camps, Sheffield United
Today Leicester City will play Sheffield United at Bramall Lane. A number of players have crossed paths between the clubs, and as they are red and white, maybe sometimes with a bit of black, you can start thinking of those who wore both shirts. Richard Stearman is of course one, who started his professional life…
Guys in Disguise, Stan Collymore, glimps of stardom, but few games in total
Stan Collymore came to Leicester City, given a lifeline by then Leicester City manager Martin O’Neill. A big gamble that looks as if it would be a magic one, but it all ended in a broken leg and some freak out situations. The former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest player that had smashed the transfer record…
Chelsea 1, Leicester 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
A few worries in front of the game with no Ben Chilwell in the side, of course difficult to see how a home debut for Frank Lampard would turn out and as well seeing Leicester City in a pink outfit for the first time in a Premier League venue. A fun fact is that Leicester…
Leicester City nursing forward fantastic talent, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Man City all missed out!
Claude Puel made a number of good signings and opened a few eyebrows when he did his transfer dealing through his short time in charge at Leicester City. Caglar Soyuncu, Filip Benkovic. James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Youri Tielemans and Rachid Ghezzal were all recruited under the time “The French” was in charge. James Maddison and…
Foxes A to Z, Jamie Vardy, the fairy story boy, Leicester City for always and ever
Jettisoned early from Sheffield Wednesday’s youth ranks, Jamie built a dramatic goalscoring career at successively higher levels of the non-league game, despite maintaining a distinctly “laddish” off-field reputation that at one stage saw him playing for Stocksbridge with a fitted tag and “curfew” restrictions. He became the 27-goal top scorer as Halifax took the Northern…
