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πŸ“– Author of The Unbelievables: The Remarkable Rise of Leicester City (2016) ✍️ Co-founder of The Fosse Way: https://bsky.app/profile/thefosseway.net πŸ“Έ Member of the Streetsnappers Collective 🦊 #LCFC πŸ›‘οΈ #NorthantsCricket 🦁 #AthleticClub

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Hull City 2 Leicester City 1: Mauled by the Tigers Leicester put in their most disappointing performance of the season as they slumped to defeat on the east coast.

NEW: Hull City 2 Leicester City 1: Mauled by the Tigers

✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social

22.10.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leicester City 1 Portsmouth 1: And now, your unlicensed crypto casino all-stars! There were boos and empty seats as Leicester City threw away a lead for the second home game in a row – games which have summed up the wider situation at the club both on and off the pitch.

NEW: Leicester City 1 Portsmouth 1 - And now, your unlicensed crypto casino all-stars!

✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social

#LCFC

19.10.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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From brilliant to barking mad: We pick Leicester City’s players of the season so far We’re less than one-fifth of the way through the Championship season, so there’s plenty of time for a strong candidate to emerge from the pack. But who has stood out in Leicester City c…

NEW: From brilliant to barking mad - We pick Leicester City’s player of the season so far

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#LCFC

09.10.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Leicester City 1 Wrexham 1: Shambolic second half sees Foxes throw two points away The Championship draw specialists versus the plucky, newly promoted darlings Wrexham. Did you see a potential banana skin in the making? Maybe. You probably also aren’t surprised to read that…

NEW: Leicester City 1 Wrexham 1: Shambolic second half sees Foxes throw two points away

"The same players for whom fan patience expired seasons ago are still playing. They’re still making the same mistakes. Others are just trundling around..."

✍🏻: @helsy33.bsky.social #lcfc

01.10.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An away day for the ages watching Northants win at The Oval. That was special #T20 #Cricket #Northamptonshire

03.09.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair

Can we shake up interviews with players and managers?

β€œHow important is it to get a win today?”
β€œReally important”

30.08.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leicester City fans big season predictions for 25/26: Finishing position, points deduction, and what we want to see Ahead of Sunday’s big kick off, we polled the Wout Faes fan club to get their predictions for the upcoming campaign.

NEW: Leicester City fans big season predictions for 25/26: Finishing position, points deduction, and what we want to see

@jamesknight517.bsky.social @helsy33.bsky.social @davidbevan.bsky.social @iainw198.bsky.social
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#LCFC

09.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Leicester City 2025/26 season preview: Is this the real squad, is it just fantasy? On Sunday afternoon, a crisis-hit chaos club owned by a Thai billionaire takes to the field for the first game of the new Championship season. And Sheffield Wednesday will be playing too! Arf!

NEW: LCFC 2025/26 preview: Is this the real squad, is it just fantasy?

"How do you preview a season with as wide a range of possibilities as this one? How do you talk about a team that has the potential to be multiple, diametrically opposed versions of itself?"

✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social

08.08.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I didn’t read a better book last year than @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s oral history of 9/11

I haven’t read a better book this year than @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s oral history of D-Day

26.07.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

True, although I’ve coped okay with Leicester’s previous season ending

23.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next week’s switch to post-Tour life is going to hit harder than most. Good job we’re going on holiday

22.07.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Today’s All-Ireland Hurling Final probably summed up why I love sport more than any sport I actually follow on a regular basis. Unbelievable second half performance from #Tipperary #GAA

20.07.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 9th birthday to The Unbelievables. More unbelievable by the day with the current state of #LCFC

30.06.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leicester City, 2025/26: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town Leicester City’s decision to part ways with Ruud van Nistelrooy last Friday leaves us with plenty of questions to ponder as pre-season begins this week.

NEW: Leicester City, 2025/26: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town

Leicester City’s decision to part ways with Ruud van Nistelrooy last Friday leaves us with plenty of questions to ponder as pre-season begins this week.

✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social

#LCFC

30.06.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Me and you, outside, in the Official FIFA accredited media shuttle pick up zone C sponsored by Budweiser, right now.

03.06.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Splendid and tremendous night with @alexikokopops.bsky.social watching @shitrock.bsky.social in Bristol. What a band

01.06.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fosse Friday 054 - 23 May 2025: 158 pints of Peroni, Β£19.4m losses and 1 Nigel Pearson This week's update is playing the hits before reality catches up with us

Fosse Friday 054 is struggling to squeeze through your letterbox

Russell Martin! Jeff Schlupp! Conrad Logan! And the small matter of a few PSR-related charges

Just another week in the life of #LCFC

23.05.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It was Jamie Vardy’s world and we just lived in it: Leicester City 2 Ipswich Town 0 And just like that, it’s over. Could Jamie Vardy score his 200th goal in his 500th appearance? Haven’t you been paying attention? This had to be a fitting end to the fairy tale.

NEW: It was Jamie Vardy’s world and we just lived in it - Leicester City 2 Ipswich Town 0

β€œThat noise was special, something we haven’t heard too many times this season, to greet something we’ll never see again”

✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social

#LCFC

19.05.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œUtterly ridiculous”: Jamie Vardy’s most underrated Leicester City goals As the clock ticks down on Jamie Vardy’s Leicester City career, we face a conundrum. What more can we say about our greatest ever player? Here’s the first of three JV9-themed questions …

β€œUtterly ridiculous”: Jamie Vardy’s most underrated goals

We’re sadly counting down the days left for the 🐐 at #LCFC

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15.05.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wolves 3 Leicester City (R) 0: An informal Foxes forfeit β€” The Fosse Way In case you were hopeful that relegation, or Jamie Vardy’s departure announcement may have lifted the fear and inspired Leicester City to score, win or do something , there was no need. The Foxes wer...

NEW: Wolves 3 Leicester City (R) 0: An informal Foxes forfeit

"In case you were hopeful that relegation, or Jamie Vardy’s departure announcement may have lifted the fear and inspired Leicester City to score, win or do something, there was no need.
The Foxes were as soft and ineffective as ever."

27.04.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Things that have been more gripping than this entire Leicester season so far - part 3,691: The last two episodes of #UniversityChallenge

24.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m Still Here. Knew this would be great as soon as I saw the trailer. Everything about it was spot on, already looking forward to returning to the soundtrack

🎬🍷 Cinema night with @evaduffy.bsky.social

22.03.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SΓ©amas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is β€” money for nothing β€” by bad faith actors with enormous wealth

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

15.03.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2334    πŸ” 823    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 122
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If you could ask Leicester City Football Club one question, what would it be? β€” The Fosse Way There are so many talking points around Leicester City at the moment that it’s hard to arrow in on just one. But that’s exactly what we’ve tried to do this week - if you only had one question you cou...

NEW: If you could ask Leicester City Football Club one question, what would it be?

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#LCFC

20.02.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nine years since I called my book chapter about Jeffrey Schlupp β€œThe Future of the Left” and now he’s starting a Champions League knockout game away at Bayern Munich

First time I’ve thought maybe I was right after all (although in reality it was just to get a @shitrock.bsky.social reference in)

18.02.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Manchester United 2 Leicester City 1: Ticket prices and terrible decisions β€” The Fosse Way Two Premier League teams, one enduring their worst ever home record versus a side with no clean sheets in 19 games except make it the FA Cup. Despite this, Leicester had won only once at Old Traffor...

NEW: Manchester United 2 Leicester City 1: Ticket prices and terrible decisions

As Leicester go out of the cup, the match report looks at:

😴 Magic of the cup? Not for the neutrals
πŸ€‘ Ticket prices and tourists
πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ An Ndidi boost

✍🏻: @helsy33.bsky.social

08.02.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leicester City’s grand plan finally revealed: Do nothing β€” The Fosse Way As the final hours of the January transfer window ticked down, relegation-haunted Leicester City sat by and watched as rivals strengthened. What message does that send to a fanbase losing hope that th...

NEW: Leicester City’s grand plan finally revealed - Do nothing

β€œThis is the first time a transfer window in the top flight has combined a lack of activity with the stench of relegation. As with defeat at Everton, it somehow feels both like deja vu and a new low”

✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social | #LCFC

04.02.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha, excellent

29.01.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you enjoy it next year should you make it πŸ˜‰

29.01.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Either they’ve completely ruined the Champions League group stage or Leicester have decimated my interest in wasting my free time watching other football. Maybe both

29.01.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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