Can we find 100 things wrong with Leicester City?
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.
We lose every week
Even Maddison is giving away goals now
We’re so mentally fragile
When we play it around pointlessly for two minutes and it ends up back with Amartey
The Tielemans injury decimating our midfield, which wasn’t much good to start with
The Soyuncu situation all season
Not picking Mendy against Bournemouth
Picking Vardy instead of Iheanacho for the past two games
The fact it’s Manchester City away next
The fact I only knew what one of our current joint managers looks like after he’d already managed us for a game
Adam Sadler’s post-match interviews
That we’re getting turned down by managers the fans don’t even want
The captaincy situation in general
The club captain’s silence and constant injuries
The vice captain being out on loan
The current team captain not signing a new contract
The previous team captain leaving on a free this summer
Sticking with Danny Ward for so long
Amartey playing so many games
Vestergaard getting paid
Bertrand getting paid
Alex Smithies getting paid
Soumare getting picked for his “energy”
Centre backs getting rested
The Schmeichel departure
The Fofana departure
Daka not being good enough
Tete not being good enough
The lack of creative options in general
Losing twice to Bournemouth
Losing twice to Southampton
Bertrand Traore’s first Premier League goal in 681 days
Jean-Philippe Mateta’s first Premier League goal in 24 games
Banning a fan for a tweet
Making fans show ID at away games
The fact there are still 8 games of this left
How long it took to sack Rodgers
How early lots of fans leave
How expensive everything in the concourse is
The mobile tickets
The academy team being rubbish
The injury to Will Alves
The injury to Sammy Braybrooke
KDH’s drop off in form
Ndidi’s drop off in form
The Lookman situation in the summer
The general carelessness of the mistakes we make leading to goals
The inevitability of the Chilwell goal
Turning on BT Sport and watching Kasper playing for someone else
The pre-match montage and 2016 feeling a million years ago
The uncertainty of not knowing what our team or club will look like in 6 months
Getting stuck in traffic after games
The missed opportunity of being a Premier League club with tons of cheap talent across Europe
How regularly we make football look impossible
Not signing a decent winger for years
The general lack of leadership on the pitch
How everyone else in the country has seemed to think we’ll be fine for ages
How close we got to Champions League football and we wouldn’t have been in this position
How the national media are rubbing it in by mentioning how good we were a few years ago
That there are loads of rubbish teams which means we retain a tiny bit of hope
That we haven’t won a single league game by one goal all season
The lack of a solid, dependable central midfielder or two
How bad Iheanacho was when he finally got a run of starts, especially at Southampton
That there isn’t a single game you feel you can rely on them to win
The fact they still don’t promote the women’s games enough
Everton picking up under Dyche when surely he could have come in and made us hard to beat
Being below Forest, who are terrible
Losing as many games as Southampton
How slowly we knock it around the back
That we can’t just somehow luckily win a game like other teams can
The Everton game getting moved to a Monday
The Liverpool game getting moved to a Monday
The Fulham game getting moved to a Monday
The prospect of Don Goodman commentating on our games again
West Ham still having European away days and that they’ll probably stay up too
Probably being in the same division as Forest again
Probably being in the same division as Cov again
Probably being in the same division as Plymouth again
Barnes getting injured because of course he would
Knowing we’ll lose as soon as we concede
Not having scored the first goal in a home league game since October (9 games)
“Honesty flags”
The fact the honesty flags don’t say anything honest on them
Wout Faes being Liverpool’s top scorer for several weeks
The infamous Maddison tweet
The main gambling partner adverts
The dodgy new gambling partner adverts for the company that employs models posing as executives
The prospect of playing in a league sponsored by a gambling company
The prospect of having to sit through 8 more league games each season
The prospect of nobody else in the country giving a monkeys about us
Seeing opposition fans in the corner celebrating wins every other week
Forgetting what it feels like to win
The fact Gary Lineker won’t be able to introduce our games on MOTD if we get relegated
Those stupid coconut things they give out after games and seeing people queue up for them when they should be wallowing in the misery
Getting rid of the clappers or bringing them back, depending on your point of view, which left everyone unhappy
Hearing opposition fans celebrating in executive boxes every time we play one of the big clubs
The fact only one or two of our players have improved in the past few years
The £100million training ground seemingly sending everyone backwards
That when you think we’ve hit rock bottom, we somehow get even worse
The fact this season has been so predictable since the second half of the first game
