Martin O’Neill returns to Leicester for pre-season friendly

Leicester City’s pre-season programme continues to take shape with further games being announced…

24 July – Hinckley United @ Greene King Stadium – 7.30pm

28 July  - ShrewsburyTown @ Greenhous Meadow – 3pm

1 August – BurtonAlbion @ Pirelli Stadium – 7.45pm

4 August – Lincoln City @ Sincil Bank – 3pm

11 August – Sunderland @ King Power Stadium – 3pm

Although this list lacks some of the glamour of Real Madrid’s visit last summer, the return of Martin O’Neill with his Sunderland side is sure to cause some interest…

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What you are saying about: GOT, NOT GOT…

What people are saying about ‘GOT, NOT GOT – The A to Z of Lost Football Culture, Treasures & Pleasures…

* Well, what can I say – your book is a FINE piece of work! Honestly, I think its brilliant and I have seldom put it down since I picked it up…

* The best book about football written in the last 20 years.

* I found myself engrossed again in the trivia that so preoccupied my life between the age of 5 and 15 and laughing until my ribs hurt.

* Wonderful book, great illustrations and is a throw back to days when football was more important than anything else, Superbly written and put together.

* If there’s anyone in your life who attended football when it was still good (60s- 80s) buy them this book and they’ll love you forever.

* I don’t even follow football anymore but I love this book. It’s packed with memories of the game when it was a simpler more enjoyable (to me anyway) sport.

* Superb stuff. Anyone who grew up in the seventies with even a passing interest in football, let alone City, will love this book.

* I utterly and completely love it… so much stuff in there that I’d pretty much forgotten about, but which is a joy to rediscover.

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Waghorn to Return to City

Transfer deadline day should bring some good news for Leicester City fans after a poor start to the season…

Today should finally see the departure of DJ Campbell to Blackpool, which will free up funds towards the £2m that Sunderland are asking for Martyn Waghorn. The Premier League side are, in turn, trying to raise money to offset the £8m needed to buy Asamoah Gyan from Rennes.
Waghorn was a huge hit with City fans last season, scoring 12 goals and showing a huge committment to the cause for a player who was here on loan from his home-town club.
It would also mean that Waghorn’s last kick of the ball for the club was not a missed penalty in a play-off semi shoot-out…

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Fox Covers: Bridging the Gap

The FOX No 61 – May 1996…

This cover illustrates the growing concerns that we had that the gap between Premier and Division One would become too big to cross, creating a closed shop.
Looking back I think we got it wrong… a gap did open up, but it was between the very biggest clubs and the rest.  There isn’t that big a difference in quality between teams in the bottom half of the Premier League and the top half of the Championship, and we would have been surprised to see Burnley, Hull, Wigan, Stoke, and Bolton competing up there.
City did jump the gap that year, escaping the ‘Deadendsleigh’, thanks to Steve Claridge’s late winner at Wembley, and lived at that level for six seasons.