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Sort of on topic but sort of not, but eagles are really impressive birds. That fkr's huge! (The bird, not the prosthetic penis, I can't comment on that...)
There were some really good podcast series done on BBC Sounds last year around the 40th anniversary of the miners strikes, one series done by BBC Leicester about the "Dirty Thirty" who were the only ones to go on strike in the county and the effect it still has four decades on.
Well worth digging out to listen, there was lots I learned on the social history that I never really knew.
It might be the trauma of the last few seasons speaking but I still see us as perfectly capable of going on a 6 match losing streak and hurtling back toward that bottom three.
Far more than I do going on a 6 match winning run and flying up toward the top six anyway!
This is a really interesting topic, the traditional background of working mens clubs being based around the major local industries/employers are long gone.
I'm thinking the railway clubs, the miners welfare clubs, clubs attached to the major factory in a small town.
And where these clubs have seen major structural, community and demographic changes they've died out.
There is though, as others have said, still a need for third places for people to be in community with each other - it is so unhealthy for our lives to be work -> home -> work -> home etc.
There's a village just outside Leicester called Desford, and there they've got a Sports centre called Sport in Desford. It's got a football pitch and tennis courts there, but its an absolute hub of community activity. There's loads of different sports clubs based there (football teams, running clubs, tennis clubs, indoor sport stuff for the hall, yoga groups, mums & tots etc). Every time I go there its an absolute hub of community activity every day of the week, I think it's a brilliant place.
We need more of this (and those mentioning board game nights etc are just as valid). This is where the traditional club needs to adapt to to survive IMO.
The BBC got quite annoying in the Olympics coverage last year of missing out athletics action because they were too busy doing all the nostalgic yadda yadda chatter in the studio.
Same with the swimming. There was a desire to turn everything into a soap opera rather than just showing us sport. Diamond League coverage is always excellent because it cuts all that nonsense out.
It got better just in time to be able to tell as soon as Faes' shot left his boot it was going in the top corner
Someone said to me that as long as the ref could see all four corners from the halfway line it could go ahead, I didn't know the bit about fans. We definitely spent large parts of the game unable to see anything at the far end, or even the other side on our own end. I can't for a minute believe the linesman could definitely see, as alluded to in Clive's report.
The Tigers game and its associated TV commitments were arranged well in advance of the FA Cup draw even being made so any home tie for City was always going to play second fiddle.
I'm just grateful the game remained on the Saturday, 2pm is hardly much of a move (and its not as if anyone knew weeks in advance when it was agreed that a thick fog would be descending on the place).
We could easily have been shunted off to a Sunday graveyard shift kick off - it would have been easier for the police for them to be on separate days.
Of all things to complain about from Saturday this is a bit of a non-starter.
I would add the 4,500 travelling support today was great to be in the middle of,loud, raucous, funny (the multiple chants referring to not being able to see anything was hilarious) and they never got on the team's back. Very much kept behind them the whole game.
Glad to be back in the warm 20 minutes after that!
Didn't really go to plan did it?
I've never been to a game where I genuinely could not see large parts of the game. The fog was ridiculous.
Weird game. I've seen us get battered many times and thought how horrendous we are, I actually thought we mostly played ok for large parts, but gave away cheap chances and got punished repeatedly, we probably got away get away with some of them against Championship players.
At 1-1 we were well on top, two stupid goals given away in quick succession, get back in it, then put ourselves in trouble straight after half time. Frustrating.
Harrison Ashby won't be reliving that game in a hurry for sure.
If you're coming in off the M1 set your sat-navs for a road called Dumbleton Avenue (its off the A5460 Narborough Road) and there is free street parking there or streets either side of it.
Its about a 20 minute walk to the ground from there, and will get you straight back out to the M1 afterwards (with some traffic) without faffing around with buses.
Its the best park & ride location for getting to the ground but it won't be quick or easy getting back afterwards as there's no dedicated bus lane for the whole journey (is for probably about a third of it), so your P&R bus will get stuck in the same traffic as everyone else trying to get back to the M1. It doesn't go straight past the stadium either so the nearest bus stop will still be about a 10 min walk away.
Of course an option is heading into the city centre after the game whilst traffic calms down for leaving the city then pick the bus up back to the P&R from the city centre stop, if you have the time to kill.
P&Rs are great initiatives, but I don't think its particularly well designed in this city. They didn't utilise it at all when Radio 2 in the Park was on a couple of years ago which I think speaks volumes.
I'm watching this out of curiosity. Winning the Premier League was always the worst thing in some respects to happen to Leicester because it sent expectations and perceptions of what they are as a club through the roof.
Interesting talk about the owners - I think in reality Top as they call him wants out and is trying to limit the funding. Like many rich kids, they don't want to see their inheritance disappearing into one giant money pit, in this case a football club. For Vichai it was a convenient place to keep lots of money outside of Thailand where unfriendly authorities could exert more control over it (as the cynic might believe...)
No chance of the game being called off, the pavements are icy here today, but the roads are clear. The area around the stadium is always well gritted.
The only flooding we've had in the city was along the river, that does run next to the ground, but too far beneath to flood it. It just breached the tow path but has retreated to its normal levels now. All the really bad flooding was out in the county areas, not the city.
One thing I read yesterday is after the BBC merged their World News and News sections its made their coverage much more US-centric as its the same feed broadcast globally.
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