TF Preview - Leicester (a) 7 April 2025
Freeman Mag previews our trip to the King Power in his own inimitable style
Premiership Game 30 (W15 D5 L9): Season 2024-2025
Date: Monday 7 April 2025, at 8pm, at the King Power Stadium; live on Sky
Football Trivia: Leicester City have THREE League Cups – 1964, 1997 and 2000.
Quizzy Rascal: Which ex-Newcastle player scored against Leicester in the 2000 Worthington League Cup Final? Clue: he also had played for The Foxes.
Preview Ramblings by Freeman Mag:
Leicester City, beloved team of crisp-chomping, jug-eared, persistent nose wiping, perma-tanned, wrinkly MotD anchor: Gary Winston Lineker (who was never booked even once in his playing career). Nothing much to hate about the miracle ex-Premier League Champions – or is there?
1 – The club is owned by the guys who have a government sponsored monopoly on duty-free shops in Thailand. I bet the poor on the streets of Bangkok were overjoyed at the £40 million purchase of Leicester City and subsequent monies spent on players, whilst defrauding their state of the miserly 15% that should have been paid to the Government for the monopoly (excluding the obvious brown envelopes at the side).
2 – Jamie Vardy, part-time villain and full-time wind-up merchant once got in a fracas outside a nightclub that was so violent, that when convicted, he had to wear a curfew tag for six months. He likes a racial slur or two, most notably against some ‘Jap’ in a casino – camera-phones eh? What a nightmare!
3 – Whilst on the topic of racial slurs, can anyone else recall what Nigel Pearson’s son (and a couple of other reserve team players) did the summer after his dad had miraculously steered the team from the foot of the table to fourteenth place and safety, earning him and his father the sack?
Yeah, nice little cosy Leicester, with their tin-pot out-of-town 32K stadium and cuddly, smiley owners; amazing how the media presents things.
Anyhoos back to this current crop of Foxes. In my mind they stupidly ditched much-respected coach, Steve Cooper, and replaced him with horse-headed Ruud van Nistelrooy, scorer of many a Man Utd goal and recent caretaker manager of the Red Devils. I thought this was utter madness at the time, and subsequent results have proved me correct. The team couldn’t score in a Bangkok brothel (see above), their defence is even more welcoming and appears to have more holes.
Vardy is past his sell-by date in the top-flight, so will likely bag a brace against The Mighty Mags as the Foxes are on a stinker of a run: losing 15 out of their last 16 and having not scored in their last seven league games. Or is this a NewNewcastle, who no longer slip on banana skins?
Clown to watch: Wout Faes – averages 1.17 tackles per game, this wannabe Coloccini is apparently a centre-back, and recently got 0/10 from a Belgian newspaper when playing for the national team. Made a sum total of zero tackles in their two games versus Brentford this season. If it plays like a netball player, and looks like a netball player, then maybe……; put him down for The Foxes third.
I joke, NUFC should win this comfortably; but every single match in this division is a potential heart-breaker for some reason.
NUFC are hopefully a new side, with the winning mentality seared into the conscience from the Wembley ’25; it seemed so before, during and after Brentford last time out; let’s have it 9 more times!
For now and moving forward: Pump it up, let’s get into the European Cup!
Anyhoos, there, or armchair, enjoy the game!
Freeman Mag
Quiz answer: David ‘Ned’ Kelly: Leicester 2 – Tranmere 1. Newcastle signed DK from Leicester in December 1991 for £250,000 – a hero of mine and many others, the man who scored that ‘goal’ (if you were there, you know).
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Crass comment about helicopters.
Absolutely classless article, with no real insight into the game itself. How this can be called a 'preview' is beyond me. Maybes file under the ramblings of a bitter bloke instead? True faith is generally great, this however is dross.