It was a good day out, a good drink, nice to see lots of familiar faces, good to have a beer with the lads and the bus home was like a zoo, i think the excitement of actually doing something normal took its toll and there were casualties early doors. I am defo short of match practice, but used my experience to see it through whilst some of the younger ones flagged and there was a lot of sleepers on the way back.
I have never seen as many police at a UK game before, I was talking to a Police sergeant near Wembley Park tube and he said , we fucked up for the England game and there was no way it was happening again, which meant there was massive presence, but most of them were sat in vans doing fuck all. The stewards were fucking useless mind, lots of them but never had to show my covid pass or even get searched, just walked in and they didn't even check my ticket (i am spacker mind and was ushered to the spacker entrance despite having a non spacker ticket) Perhaps because there was not that many there they were more relaxed or perhaps they didnt give a fuck because there were so many police there.
As for the game, it was a decent warm up match, not reading anything into it. I thought Ake and Mendy did well, Ake got a suicide pass for the goal and it happens, but i rate Ake, he is a proper defender. The kids did OK and it was good to see some game time for the new wonderkid Jack, who seemed bright. We do look short of fitness and it could well be damage limitation early in the season. I think though if look at last season when we started horribly we pulled it back and other teams will be in the same mould as us.
The Leicester fans seemed a decent bunch, enjoyed their day , nothing at all like those dicks from Villa or the rag cunts for that matter.
It was good just to actually go to the game, that was the most important thing for me, seeing people smile and having a good time irrespective of the result.