The Fosse Way

I set myself a challenge to find 100 things wrong with Leicester City Football Club. In the end, it was depressingly easy.

A new manager can fix some of these. The club can fix most of the others. There are some nobody can do anything about. But sometimes it helps to get things off your chest in the hope of a fresh start soon. Here’s the full century.

1. We lose every week

2. Even Maddison is giving away goals now

3. We’re so mentally fragile

4. When we play it around pointlessly for two minutes and it ends up back with Amartey

5. The Tielemans injury decimating our midfield, which wasn’t much good to start with

6. The Soyuncu situation all season

7. Not picking Mendy against Bournemouth

8. Picking Vardy instead of Iheanacho for the past two games

9. The fact it’s Manchester City away next

10. The fact I only knew what one of our current joint managers looks like after he’d already managed us for a game

11. Adam Sadler’s post-match interviews

12. That we’re getting turned down by managers the fans don’t even want

13. The captaincy situation in general

14. The club captain’s silence and constant injuries

15. The vice captain being out on loan

16. The current team captain not signing a new contract

17. The previous team captain leaving on a free this summer

18. Sticking with Danny Ward for so long

19. Amartey playing so many games

20. Vestergaard getting paid

21. Bertrand getting paid

22. Alex Smithies getting paid

23. Soumare getting picked for his “energy”

24. Centre backs getting rested

25. The Schmeichel departure

26. The Fofana departure

27. Daka not being good enough

28. Tete not being good enough

29. The lack of creative options in general

30. Losing twice to Bournemouth

31. Losing twice to Southampton

32. Bertrand Traore’s first Premier League goal in 681 days

33. Jean-Philippe Mateta’s first Premier League goal in 24 games

34. Banning a fan for a tweet

35. Making fans show ID at away games

36. The fact there are still 8 games of this left

37. How long it took to sack Rodgers

38. How early lots of fans leave

39. How expensive everything in the concourse is

40. The mobile tickets

41. The academy team being rubbish

42. The injury to Will Alves

43. The injury to Sammy Braybrooke

44. KDH’s drop off in form

45. Ndidi’s drop off in form

46. The Lookman situation in the summer

47. The general carelessness of the mistakes we make leading to goals

48. The inevitability of the Chilwell goal

49. Turning on BT Sport and watching Kasper playing for someone else

50. The pre-match montage and 2016 feeling a million years ago

51. The uncertainty of not knowing what our team or club will look like in 6 months

52. Getting stuck in traffic after games

53. The missed opportunity of being a Premier League club with tons of cheap talent across Europe

54. How regularly we make football look impossible

55. Not signing a decent winger for years

56. The general lack of leadership on the pitch

57. How everyone else in the country has seemed to think we’ll be fine for ages

58. How close we got to Champions League football and we wouldn’t have been in this position

59. How the national media are rubbing it in by mentioning how good we were a few years ago

60. That there are loads of rubbish teams which means we retain a tiny bit of hope

61. That we haven’t won a single league game by one goal all season

62. The lack of a solid, dependable central midfielder or two

63. How bad Iheanacho was when he finally got a run of starts, especially at Southampton

64. That there isn’t a single game you feel you can rely on them to win

65. The fact they still don’t promote the women’s games enough

66. Everton picking up under Dyche when surely he could have come in and made us hard to beat

67. Being below Forest, who are terrible

68. Losing as many games as Southampton

69. How slowly we knock it around the back

70. That we can’t just somehow luckily win a game like other teams can

71. The Everton game getting moved to a Monday

72. The Liverpool game getting moved to a Monday

73. The Fulham game getting moved to a Monday

74. The prospect of Don Goodman commentating on our games again

75. West Ham still having European away days and that they’ll probably stay up too

76. Probably being in the same division as Forest again

77. Probably being in the same division as Cov again

78. Probably being in the same division as Plymouth again

79. Barnes getting injured because of course he would

80. Knowing we’ll lose as soon as we concede

81. Not having scored the first goal in a home league game since October (9 games)

82. “Honesty flags”

83. The fact the honesty flags don’t say anything honest on them

84. Wout Faes being Liverpool’s top scorer for several weeks

85. The infamous Maddison tweet

86. The main gambling partner adverts

87. The dodgy new gambling partner adverts for the company that employs models posing as executives

88. The prospect of playing in a league sponsored by a gambling company

89. The prospect of having to sit through 8 more league games each season

90. The prospect of nobody else in the country giving a monkeys about us

91. Seeing opposition fans in the corner celebrating wins every other week

92. Forgetting what it feels like to win

93. The fact Gary Lineker won’t be able to introduce our games on MOTD if we get relegated

94. Those stupid coconut things they give out after games and seeing people queue up for them when they should be wallowing in the misery

95. Getting rid of the clappers or bringing them back, depending on your point of view, which left everyone unhappy

96. Hearing opposition fans celebrating in executive boxes every time we play one of the big clubs

97. The fact only one or two of our players have improved in the past few years

98. The £100million training ground seemingly sending everyone backwards

99. That when you think we’ve hit rock bottom, we somehow get even worse

100. The fact this season has been so predictable since the second half of the first game

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