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[colorado blue]

Just saw a replay of the VVD handball. Did we score before there was a stop in play or did VAR ignore that penalty call? Don’t recall even seeing a replay during the live match.

 

[Jesus2020]

No offence Dodge but I wasn’t impressed with Leicester City centre. It looked like a proper s**t hole unless I missed the decent part. Albeit we had a few decent beers in the Globe. Still had a cracking day. Hotel (Holiday Inn) was right near our allocated boozers and it was a 25 min walk to the stadium with a cheeky pint in the Soar boozer en route as well.

Leicester is a shit hole. End of. I've got one amazing memory from a night out there which will mean the city forever holds a place in my heart but it doesn't take away from the fact that it's an absolute shithole of a city and most the people who live there are dickheads.

 

[citytill1die84]

Just saw a replay of the VVD handball. Did we score before there was a stop in play or did VAR ignore that penalty call? Don’t recall even seeing a replay during the live match.

It happened in the 69th minute they broke away we won the ball back and scored at 69:50

 

[Erling9]

Have these cunts got our number or something? Is it to do with an inferior complex or some shit? Answers on a postcard please? Can’t fathom it myself? Wound up and perhaps I’m being pedantic but fucking hell

Personally i'm putting it down to pep overthinking the big games

 

[Erling9]

So; 4 weeks after the Villa game, yeah?

to be fair, if the dippers can come back 1-2 weeks after the madrid game, why the fuck can't our players come back after 4 whole weeks???

 

[Franny 1234]

to be fair, if the dippers can come back 1-2 weeks after the madrid game, why the fuck can't our players come back after 4 whole weeks???

Pep's never been into preseason games. Never as been so get us to slow start from us. In pep we trust CTID

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Pep's never been into preseason games. Never as been so get us to slow start from us. In pep we trust CTID

He's into them, but purely as a laboratory. I think he barely looks at the result. He will have seen things that will be useful to him in the coming weeks.

 

[Tolmie scores]

I thought we were well off our normal standard especially in the final third but still created a number of chances. A few random thoughts. I think once we start to trust the pass to Haaland he’ll really come in to his own. He made a number of runs but the pass never came. Having said that he could have had a hat trick yesterday. It might sound pathetic but I’m glad his first goal for City wasn’t a meaningless consolation goal. The fact that he bullied Robertson off the ball so easily should concern other defenders.

Alvarez has to start next week as he’s probably the fittest player in the club at the moment after coming straight outof Argentinian football so the short preseason won’t effect him.

We really really need a left back.

Phil has to start next week.

So does Stone, Ake and Dias as a partnership can’t deal with a press too well.

Ake struggles under pressure, totally agree. Grealish...for me he should adapt his game for gge sake of the team. He has great technique so should use it to play one touch and get behind full backs that way. The idea that he can dribble from a standing start kills our attacks

 

[hammocity]

I thought it was bloody awful and we were terrible in most pants to be honest.
It was an opportunity to lay down a marker for the season and flex our muscles to Klopp.
Instead we got the usual half arsed undercooked charity Shield performance that short changes the fans just like the semi final.
Maybe it's me but I really detest this nonchalant attitude we have at times for some games, the FA Cup semis have been the same over recent years.
It was very disappointing and for me it was a shit day.

Put these words in order:

Wobble, fucking, head, give, your, a.

 

[hammocity]

I've lived in Leicester for too long, having left the leafy suburbs of Sale decades ago.

I thought the whole organisation of yesterday was a fucking shambles. The Leicester branch had our annual Blue party in Aylestone, never any trouble, good natured and at least 2 publicans have credited City fans for literally saving their pubs after Covid left them nearly bankrupt. The landlord of the Union is doing up his beer garden from yesterday's takings. He'll never tolerate a bad word about City fans, neither will the locals.

The normal match day commander was changed for this game and he wasn't "briefed" that approx 2000 Blues would be meeting in Aylestone, despite us advising Leics Constabulary through the normal channels, as we had for the previous 10 meets we'd arranged. He had already planned on routing the scouse coaches through Aylestone, sending them to the Gasworks end of the KP. His solution? We want all "your lot" out of the pubs and in their coaches by 1pm. This, despite the fact that some weren't arriving until 1:30pm. We refused, they has a strategy meeting and he changed it to 3-4pm...and left the scouse route the same, with an increased police presence. When their coaches went through? Not one brick, bottle, flare or kebab was chucked. Plenty of verbals, NO incidents. Not fucking one. One copper said to me "imagine if that was in Liverpool? Good lads your lot". Class act.

The rest of the organisation was shite. From the struggle to get through the turnstiles, then off the concourse, to moving the coaches to somewhere no-one knew about.

The ground was ours, outsung the vermin throughout. Keep that going at the Etihad? We'll see.

Prouder than ever to be a blue yesterday. We'll be welcoming all comers again at the end of October.

Bringing a little bit of Manchester to our dull ex-pat existence.

Salutations Blues.

Post of the month for me