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…
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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…
Andy King to Rangers, more players could see the exit door at Leicester City
Andy King is ready to play the next season for Rangers in Scottish football. A good move for King who can with this move also kick start his international career with Wales, with him playing regular first team football week in and week out. A number of other players are all on the way out,…
Santa Claus involved, Leicester City fairy story on in Norwegian football
Bodo Glimt a team not really seen as a title contender at all this season in the Norwegian top division (Eliteserien), have made an impressive half season job, being top with a certain Rosenborg struggling and other top teams being inconsistent. The team has just gone from strength to strength and especially at home at…
Carabao Cup, the draw, the past and the future
Leicester City will attend the Carabao Cup for the 2nd round playing Newcastle United away in a difficult fixture. The game will be played at St. James Park, Wednesday the 28th of August. All Premier League teams not playing in Europe, a total of 13, will take part in that 2nd round games. Everton will…
