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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.
To be honest I'm with Honney on this one, I know its all a pantomime inside the ground but I think encouraging youngsters to engage in that behaviour is setting a terrible behavioural example for their future. Creating tomorrow's society etc...
Its 2pm because Leicester Tigers are playing at 8pm on the Saturday night against Leinster and the two grounds are 800m apart.
Both clubs selling tickets for their respective games advertising the rare opportunity to attend two sporting fixtures in the city in one day and I think they've both been quite successful with it.
Be grateful its still a Saturday and not moved to a Sunday graveyard shift!
We were right on the edge of the amber weather warning in Leicester and got a centimetre or two and then it all rained away in the morning from steady drizzle. Much ado about nothing for us.
There's plenty of free street parking around but you have to be about 20 minute plus walk away to be outside of the permit zones that surround the stadium.
Look up Morris Road (industrial estate, everything will be shut on a Saturday, no-one does football car parking because they're too small so you can park on the street instead), Sheridan Street, Shakespeare Street.
For paid parking, there is the Putney Road Industrial Estate that Homebase is on (don't think you can park in that car park itself but plenty of the businesses on the estate open up car parks for a fee) or Saffron Lane Athletics Stadium (council car park, someone would be on the gate taking cash I think from memory).
Not really a pub person though and no idea which ones are home fans only so I'm not much help there!
In fairness I think its busier when we lose as people need somewhere to vent. When you win we've all got little dopamine hits going on already so perhaps aren't so desperate to come on a forum and go "yaaaaaaaaaaay!" or something.
I took the signing of Edwards to be an indicator the club expect Cook and/or Morrison to be out for most of the rest of the season.
Jimmy said in a recent interview how much he loves it at QPR/West London so I hope we can get him to stay long term. Having good players serve us for a good 7/8/9/10 years is something we've not had for a long time now. Players generally seem to be around for 3 years at most before they leave. Its only the buggers who we don't want who seem to hang around for years!
Walsh will play the Leicester cup game unless he gets injured beforehand, can't see him going out. If we get to April and are safe I expect he'd get more minutes then too.
Bit of a funny game in some respects, I thought we were excellent and there were some superb individual performances but I also thought Watford probably won the physical battle in the middle of the park.
But...defensively they were atrocious whilst we were really dogged and that I think is what made the difference today.
Really pleased Smyth got his assist so soon after losing the ball for their goal. He had his shirt over his head after that one and looked gutted, but to be fair we didn't close the #8 down (who I thought was really good for them) enough who then played the ball through to Baah.
Pete Doherty was at the Preston game, first time I've seen him in person at the Bush. He was with his wife and (I assume is his) child. He's had a lot of demons in life and paid the price but I hope he has a clean and easier life from here.
I say this with no practical knowledge whatsoever so someone who does have knowledge is free to tear me apart and correct me, but one thing I have read before is modern day players are so lean that the lack of body fat makes them pick up more injuries, that previously the extra few percent of fat would protect more.
I mean...looking at the likes of Stan/Gerry in their heyday - visibly of course they are not fat and look lean, but internally they are quite possibly carrying a few more percent of body fat than their modern day counterparts that just protects things a little bit.
As said, its something I've read, I know nothing in practicality, could be garbage!
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