Put down your mince pies and maybe pour a slightly bigger than recommended glass of mulled wine to process what we just watched. This was a Leicester City away day at Newcastle, less about spreading festive joy and more delivering the nightmare before Christmas.
Viewpoint
Our perspective on the latest news and events at Leicester City
The Chronicles of Ridicule
After a brief, somewhat disappointing outbreak of sensible behaviour in the final six months of last year, 2024 has seen Leicester back to their mind-bending best.
So how was it for you? Bloody awful, of course. Thank god it’s all over and we can concentrate on absolute nonsense like this.
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Matchday
Spotlight on Seagrave
Wilby Toothill takes you inside Leicester City’s Academy setup to focus on our next generation of talent
In the opening part of a double header this week – with the first team welcoming Nottingham Forest to King Power Stadium on Friday night - Leicester City Under-21s suffered narrow Premier League Cup defeat at the hands of their Forest counterparts at a cold Seagrave on Monday evening.
As I sat in the stands at Walsall last Tuesday, even I – a self-proclaimed Leicester City rational optimist – was struggling to extract too many positives and had to admit that the general outlook was looking fairly grim.
One shining light last week, however, amongst this LCFC-induced commotion and subsequent fan meltdown, was the Academy.
When Leicester won away
Exploring historical links with away wins at each of Leicester’s 19 Premier League opponents this season
Leicester City only won one of our first 26 away games at Newcastle. It was a special one - a 5-1 win in 1928 when the great Arthur Chandler scored four goals - but we’re going to focus on another comprehensive victory nearly sixty years later.
Try to find out what life was like in London in 1952 and your webpage is quickly clogged up with numerous references to something that sounds more like a cartoon villain than a real life event: the Great Smog.
In 1901, Leicester Fosse made the trip north to face Newton Heath with the Manchester club in dire financial trouble but we’re going to start begin 42 years earlier - and end 49 years later.
Leicester City didn’t play Ipswich Town at all until Boxing Day 1961, when we travelled to Portman Road to face the team that would win the First Division title for the first and only time the following April.
So in the 1962/63 season, our first away win over Ipswich came against the reigning champions of England.
Foxy Figures
Explaining Leicester City’s 2024/25 season in numbers
Our second Foxy Figures looks at Leicester’s defeat to Arsenal and reviews the season so far. Warning: xPositivity is in short supply.
The first international break of the season is a chance to reset before the marathon begins in earnest. In the first Foxy Figures of the season, we look at what the first three games have taught us.
The Kushiro Archives
One day in 1997, after Leicester City decided they had to leave Filbert Street, Chief Executive Barrie Pierpoint was standing in a field in Aylestone, forming pictures in his mind.
It's amazing how often it happens. Researching football history you unearth a little gem that leaves you shouting 'Eureka!' Or something even stronger.
In the first of two historical articles in the run-up to this weekend’s clash with Fulham, an aerial view of Filbert Street takes centre stage.
With another season almost upon us, why not first take a breath and another deep dive into Leicester history. This solves the mystery of a day on Fosse Road and its connections to some lost Leicester City history.
Hazzetta dello Sport
Previewing every Leicester City game in the 2024/25 Premier League season
An unfortunate late edition of the Hazzetta this week caused by two Christmas lunches which have resembled a stag do away. The first of which would be the perfect scene if, in an alternative universe on Italian Channel 4, there was a Giacomo Richardisono.
A remarkable week within the world of Leicester City. The tonic of four points and no public relation disasters has meant everything is quiet.
‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in’: the words of Michael Corleone from Godfather III were ringing in my ears as I walked out of the King Power Stadium on Tuesday.
This Leicester Life
Finding out what kind of people would support a club like this…
What if Leicester City haven’t always been the one true love of your footballing life? After Tony Barnard wrote for us recently and referenced his switch in allegiance from Tottenham Hotspur to Leicester City, we wanted to find out a bit more about that experience.
Beans and little sausages! It’s time for the most-requested interview so far in the This Leicester Life series and the first of the Big Strong Leicester Boys we’ll hear from… it’s Ric Flair.
In 2019, Chinese student Zhang Junhao arrived in Leicester from Shanghai with a love of ultras-style support for his blue-shirted football team - in need of a new home for his passion…
There are hundreds of Leicester City fans who go home and away to every game - Zoe Mcgrady does it from Liverpool while studying for a sports journalism degree.
The 21 greatest
The TFW writing team pondered who deserves a place in a list of the 21 greatest Leicester City players of the 21st century so far.
Following some fierce debate and mathematical gymnastics, here we are.
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Big Strong Leicester Boys
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An unfortunate late edition of the Hazzetta this week caused by two Christmas lunches which have resembled a stag do away. The first of which would be the perfect scene if, in an alternative universe on Italian Channel 4, there was a Giacomo Richardisono.