cary hill

Tonight was the first time I've missed VAR in the Championship this season. It's always a pity when the on pitch officials don't know the laws of the game - they disallowed Leicester's second "goal" for offside completely in error. Still Leicester should have been comfortably ahead, but missed at least two sitters as well, before the Leeds "deflection" revival kicked in. At least it makes the Championship title race more interesting, since as a Leicester City fan I know they are well capable of cocking things up and have plenty of recent form in this respect.

Accurascale Manor Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor races along the coast to join ANTB's mini BR(WR) Summer Festival and passes Bachmann Manor 7816 Frilsham Manor, which may well be on it's way to Cashmores aka eBay. My other half says my longship is going to sink, due to the weight of my personal possessions already onboard, before she can set fire to it and I'll never get to Valhalla unless I lighten the load.

Well that's that then, the Leicester City "Fairy Tale" comes to a grim ending as some fairy tales do. I'm not surprised as we were almost inevitably "Brendoomed" from around February last year, when Rodgers first started mouthing off about needing 5 or 6 new players and dissing about a third of first team squad, without bothering to check if there was sufficient funding available to change things that drastically. Rodger's sulkiness resulted in the total demotivation the squad pre-season and resulted a truly dismal start to the season. The club never really recovered from that, apart from a mini-run of good results pre-World Cup, which with hindsight were against teams which were in an even worse state than us at the particular stage of the season - West Ham, Everton, Wolves and Nottm. Forest - they all got better as the season progressed, whereas Leicester flatlined and couldn't keep a clean sheet and deserved to be relegated. I'd have still bitten your hand off in advance, if I'd been told you are only getting nine seasons in the top flight, but you will win the Premiership, the F.A. Cup, the Charity Shield, get to the last eight of the Champions League, have two successive 5th place finishes missing out on Champions League on the last day of season both times, play in the other two European competitions and reach a semi-final in one of them and perform a great escape in our first season back in top flight. On the down side I think we are only side in the Premier League era to be immediately relegated after five successive top half finishes. We have also managed to draw level with Birmingham City as the only sides to have been relegated 12 times from the top flight. Leicester have always been "yo-yo" team after all. Bring on Rotherham, Huddersfield and Millwall - I've no idea what's going to happen or what the team will look like after it's been decimated in the summer.

6-3 probably refers to Hungary 6 England 3 played at Wembley in 1953 - I think England's first home defeat to a "foreign" visiting side - swiftly followed up in the "return" fixture in Hungary in 1954 by an even worse 7-1 thrashing. I think the Hungarians were playing the first version of 4-2-4, whilst England were still playing an old stiff inflexible WM formation which was well out of date by then. It still sounds familiar today - England behind the times tactically speaking.

Promotion is more important than a Pizza Trophy

"You have sat stayed too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God go." Brendan Rogers departs Leicester City at last - good memories for the first two and half years - first ever F.A. Cup win and 5th place Premiership finishes - but he's like a loaf that's gone stale - he's not getting any better with the passing of time. Probably still heading for the Championship though, as the owners should have sacked him after the first seven games of the season. Rodgers had thrown in the towel before the season had even kicked off with his constant whingeing about lack of transfer funds in the close season. Actually looking forward to Tuesday night's game, as it will the first game without Rodger's tactically stale Plan A and no Plan B for a very long time. Could still be a complete disaster but you have got to try something different.

Don't knock it - those Bradford Exchange people are very prescient, as their almost identical 80th anniversary FS masterpiece also featured a TT-120 moving FS on the lower deck, 20 years before Simon Kohler reimagined it. Well it's a slow day here........

Great to see Villa's serial timewasting 'keeper Martinez get his comeuppance at last, as Arsenal score twice in added time including a Martinez "own goal".

It looks like it's not only Conte that's had emergency surgery recently, Spurs also seem to have their backbone removed in last few days judging from their spineless performance at the King Power this afternoon. How can a team which beat Manchester City fairly comfortably a few days ago play so feebly in their next game? Easily Leicester's most complete performance this season and they probably should have won by more than 4-1. It was a pleasant change to see Kane and Son rendered ineffective for once when playing against Leicester.

Michael McIntyre's Christmas Wheel.......unless he's being tied to it and vigorously flogged.

Some of those French penalty takers are obviously graduates of the English School of Penalty Taking.

Mbappe just chucked that script in the bin.......for now....

A little "research" reveals that between 1966 and 2016 England managed to win a grand total of 6 Knock-out Round matches at major tournaments. Southgate has managed to equal that in the last 4 years with 6 wins at three major tournaments, so it may well be a case of better the devil you know.

You were still watching a different game,,,,,,,,

You obviously didn't see the game, as you stated above in the thread you don't "follow" football, stick with the egg chasers.