111 ridiculous things that happened to Leicester City in 2025

Last year, with a surge of optimism that looks incredibly naive in hindsight, we posted our list of ridiculous things to have happened to Leicester City in 2024 on December 16th.

We then watched in horror as Ruud van Nistelrooy picked Danny Ward in goal against Wolves a week later, only for him to concede three goals in the first half, including one where he was lying flat on his back staring up at the sky.

This year, to save us from tears, our data runs all the way up to Christmas Day. If there was one positive to watching in horror as we conceded four to QPR in the first half, it was that at least Jakub Stolarczyk was facing the right way for most of them. If there were two positives, it’s that surely nothing more ridiculous than that can happen in the remaining two games.

So without further ado, here are 111 ridiculous things that happened to Leicester City in 2025:

Jannik Vestergaard bringing his dog to the training ground
Harry Winks being put in the LCFC bomb squad because he didn’t want to spend any time in Leicester after his child was born
Harry Winks posting a photo of himself sipping aperol spritz during a game
Harry Winks refusing to celebrate a goal because he was upset with the fans
Harry Winks not being sold despite any of the above facts
Harry Winks then coming back to be one of the key players in the team
Harry Winks being restored to the bomb squad within two months of his return
Addressing Ruud van Nistelrooy’s desperate pleas for reinforcements in January by signing Woyo Coulibaly to be third choice right back
When a fan made a video compilation of 19 goals James Justin was at fault for halfway through last season
Woyo Coulibaly being hauled off at half time in his first start because we were 3-0 down to Brentford and then never playing again for the rest of the season so we had to keep playing James Justin anyway
When we tried to buy a player from our feeder club and Jon Rudkin couldn’t agree a fee with himself
Jon Rudkin being listed as part of an MBA course delivering a workshop on “learning and improving standards”
Jon Rudkin’s workshop being removed from the MBA course
When LCFC Women sold a goalkeeper to Tottenham right before playing Tottenham then watching her keep a clean sheet while our own keeper scored an own goal, meaning we lost 1-0 despite Tottenham not having a shot on target
The club selling £245 “pitch-facing lounge” hospitality tickets for a pre-game experience based at the Tigers ground
A referee making his Premier League debut aged 49 then having to be replaced in the first half after being knocked out by Jordan Ayew
Jamie Vardy blowing his whistle to stop the game so the ref could get treatment
Losing 8 games in a row without scoring
Coming within one game of the all-time Premier League record of consecutive games without scoring
Learning that the current holder of the all-time record for consecutive Premier League games without scoring, Crystal Palace, ended their goalless drought in 1995 by scoring against Leicester City
Wolves currently being on a run of 20 league games without a win since they beat Leicester City
Not scoring a league goal at home between 8th December and 3rd May
Our only win in five months between December and May coming away at Spurs
Following up the victory over Spurs by conceding the fourth fastest goal in Premier League history after 10.18 seconds in the next game at Everton
Picking up more points in the 5 games after being relegated than in the previous 20 games combined
When Notts Forest tried to “do a Leicester” then got knocked out of the Champions League places by our worst-ever top flight team
Evangelos Marinakis being so outraged by being knocked out of the Champions League places by our worst-ever top flight team that he marched on the pitch and shouted at the manager, setting in motion a chain of events that caused them to ban Gary Neville from the City Ground and eventually end up with Ange Postecoglou as manager
When a journalist from The Athletic said Forest were “as good, if not better than” our title-winning team from 2016
The official supporters’ club releasing a statement saying “We are supporters, so we back the club no matter what”
When the club did a Goal of the Month competition for February and the men’s team had scored zero league goals in the entire month
Enzo Maresca revealing that he and his Chelsea coaching staff stayed up until 2am trying to figure out how to beat us when we’d lost 11 games out of 12
When a fan emailed the club to cancel their Direct Debit and received a reply thanking them for renewing their season ticket for the forthcoming season and entering them into a prize draw
Being knocked out of the 4th round of the FA Cup by a 93rd minute offside goal because that’s the one scenario in which VAR isn’t used in games between Premier League teams
Ruud van Nistelrooy getting into a fight with Caleb Okoli because Okoli was wearing boots that made him fall over too much
When Patson Daka couldn’t travel to play for Zambia because his work permit to play for us had expired
Jannik Vestergaard’s Churchillian rallying cry: “We are in a difficult period at Leicester, where we have not performed, and I have not been in the last two games. I don’t take it too seriously”
The club’s online shop being unavailable to international fans for months on end
Paris Saint-Germain winning more games against Premier League teams than Leicester did in the second half of the 2024/25 season
Everyone saying Leicester were waiting to July 1st to sack Ruud van Nistelrooy for PSR reasons then sacking him on June 27th so it was all just a massive waste of time
Paying Odsonne Edouard £90,000 per week only for him to spend zero minutes on the pitch for Leicester in 2025
When the social media admin had a sudden crazed need to wish happy birthday to everyone who had ever played for us
The official Leicester City account announcing the news of our relegation from the Premier League by saying we had “confirmed our place in the Championship”
Starting pre-season with Andy King in charge and no coaching staff
Allowing Brian Barry-Murphy to go manage Cardiff only for it to turn out he might be a better manager than both the person he was assistant manager to and our current manager
Putting Thai propaganda on the big screens in pre-season #truthfromthailand
Playing a 3-hour friendly against Leuven and the score ending up 2-1
When Jon Rudkin jumpscared everyone watching a live stream of the Leuven friendly
Stephy Mavididi’s Instagram post in pre-season saying we were going to have fun this season
Having 5 different captains in the month of August
Making James Justin captain until he stopped playing because he was on the brink of going to Leeds
Getting £10million-plus for James Justin
Getting £13million for Kasey McAteer
Getting money for Conor Coady in August only for Wrexham to ditch him by October
Conor Coady complaining that nobody understood how difficult it was for him at Leicester City
Conor Coady making it onto a list of worst Premier League signings as voted for by football agents
Waiting ages for an away kit and then it’s almost the same colour as the home kit
Sheffield Wednesday having about 12 players in their entire squad and taking the lead against us
Wout Faes cupping his ears at the fans when he scored the winner
Not having a sponsor for the first two months of the season, then sacking the CEO and bringing back the old sponsor
Advertising ‘Stop loan sharks’ at the ground while there’s an unlicensed crypto casino on the front of the shirt
The advertising boards saying ‘Got a leak?’ just after we’d conceded a ludicrous goal against Ipswich
Van Nistelrooy not playing Facundo Buonanotte only for him to get a move to Chelsea
Victor Kristiansen’s sinister chin strap
Victor Kristiansen replacing Luke Thomas and putting in such an all-time stinker of a performance we had to go back to Luke Thomas
Oliver Skipp putting in arguably the best left-back performance of the year
Luke Thomas getting a new 4-year contract
Oliver Skipp being a better centre back than all our actual centre backs
The only permanent signing of the summer being a 38 year old goalkeeper
Making another signing after the transfer window closed only for that to be a goalkeeper as well
Marti Cifuentes giving a glowing speech about how important Boubakary Soumare was in late August only to have binned him off completely by December
Being so bad that Norwich sacked their manager within minutes of losing to us
When Marti Cifuentes said having too many players killed opportunities for young players
The club being forced to issue a statement because some fans sang songs about killing the director of football
Charging fans to go and watch a documentary
Using a picture of Jordan Ayew as the background for every social media post about a defeat
The long-awaited interview about wanting to rebuild the connection with fans starting with ‘Khun Top, we are here in Bangkok…’
Appointing a call centre worker as the new managing director
Abdul Fatawu’s short spate of laying into referees on Instagram
Julian Carranza
Everyone being annoyed about selling Tom Cannon only for it to turn out he was crap
Tom Cannon then scoring against us after 90 seconds when we played against him
Hamza Choudhury liking Tom Cannon’s post about scoring against us on Instagram
Going 2-0 down after four minutes against Sheffield United
Asmir Begovic liking the club’s posts about going 3-0 down at half time against Sheffield United on Instagram
Hamza Choudhury scoring a bicycle kick for Bangladesh
The replies to every Leicester City social post and highlights video being swamped by thousands of Bangladesh fans
Wout Faes’s aunt joining Foxestalk to pick fights with anyone who slags him off
When Guy Branston appeared on the BSLB podcast and said Kasey McAteer was 6 foot 4
Ricardo Pereira, Yohan Benalouane and Papy Mendy hooking up to launch a dating app
Being about to appoint Russell Martin until the fans chanted abusive songs about Russell Martin during the final game of the season
Sending a loanee to Falkirk to score the goal that secured Russell Martin’s sacking from Rangers
Aaron Ramsey being sent off 30 minutes into his debut
Bade Aluko being sent off 30 minutes into his debut
Jakub Stolarczyk for Preston’s opening goal
Jakub Stolarczyk for Ipswich’s goal
A succession of Championship teams targeting the ball over the top of Luke Thomas and Leicester doing absolutely nothing about it
Abdul Fatawu hitting the bar at Swansea with a shot from the centre circle
Abdul Fatawu scoring from inside his own half against Ipswich
Sammy Braybrooke scoring from his own half for Newport a week later
The club flogging a load of merch about the Fatawu goal just before we dropped the worst performance of the season
The merch calling it “the longest Championship goal” even though we have conceded a longer goal in the Championship at the same ground
Being 3-0 down at half time 7 times in 2025 (so far)
Being 4-0 down at half time to the club that Marti Cifuentes paid money to leave to take the Leicester job
The club not announcing the attendances now everyone’s stopped going
Coventry charging £45 for an away ticket
Fox Travel charging £30 for a 45-minute drive to Coventry
Aligning the staff payroll with the King Power Group and telling the staff the day before they expected to get paid for Christmas
Patson Daka being our only senior striker and ending 2025 with 1 goal scored for us
Patson Daka going almost an entire calendar year without scoring and still being the best striker at the club
Patson Daka scoring his second goal of 2025 on 22nd December… for Zambia
Patson Daka celebrating his second goal of 2025 with a backflip and landing on his neck

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