How did Leicester go from miracle to misery?
78K views 路 Apr 23, 2026 路 Sports
Comments 路 226
@AliFrostinho 路 5 months ago
Just found out Ayo is 43 years old! <br>I thought the brother was in his early 30s. <br>I hope I look that good when I'm his age.
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@mferfyney9230 路 5 months ago
Spurs fan checking in. Lots of similarities here.
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@jimm8619 路 5 months ago
Leeds supporter here. After the 03/04 Premiership relegation, it took us <b>16 years</b> to get back. This is probably what Leicester City are looking at.
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@soldier_4th_class 路 5 months ago
Fair play to Winks, he doesn't want to play against former club Spurs out of respect
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@BrendanP 路 4 months ago
Phenomenal video guys, I enjoyed the detailed breakdown of the situation. A combo of bad decisions and then just circumstances out of their control. Shame to see the Foxes dig themselves a deep hole. If the owners don't want to sell, then they need to work hard at adding a lot of additional investors.
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@IsSalty 路 5 months ago
How? Simple. <br>Khun Top. <br>As owner, Khun top was the one responsible for:<br>- Giving Brendan Rodgers a free pass to rip up the entire recruitment and medical team, which led to recruitment members of staff giving interviews saying they were "being ignored" and 20+ year medical staff leaving the club, within 6 months we had an injury crisis (as has followed Rodgers career). <br>- Paid Rodgers 拢10m a season and allowed him to sign the likes of Bertrand on 80k a week for about 5 appearances over 2 years. It was Khun Top that allowed Rodgers team to abandon the recruitment blueprint that made us who we were, signing young, hungry players with a point to prove, to suddenly signing 拢30m signings on 拢80-100k a week. <br>- Took way too long to sack Rodgers, Khun Top who then took multiple weeks to appoint Dean Smith who statistically could have kept us up with 2 more games. <br>- Gave the nod to give Harry Winks 90k a week in the championship<br>- Gave the nod to give Vestergaard a new deal on 70-80k a week<br>- Gave Jon Rudkin a ridiculous amount of power despite time and time again showing his lack of capacity for his role as DOF, mistake after mistake after mistake unpunished. <br>- Signed Cooper, and allowed him to sign the likes of Skipp for 拢25m, Bobby De Cordova Reid and Ayew on premier league wages despite being Championship players<br>- Allowed a scenario where we let over 拢150m players leave on FREE TRANSFERS<br>- Took about 3 months too long to sack Cifuentes when every metric was showing he was taking the team backwards<br>- Completely dismantling the culture at the club that was set by his father and Nigel Pearson. <br>- Allowing players to constantly undermine managers with secret meetings, back door messaging.<br>- Promised the fans a full review of how the 22/23 relegation happened (We are still waiting)<br>- Promised to review the decline (We are still waiting) <br>- Promised to make changes to the structure of the board (He has started that process, by PROMOTING Jon Rudkin????) <br><br>Losing his father was tragic, but it is NOT an excuse for how Khun Top has run this football club. If it was so tragic he cannot do the basics, he should have sold up years ago. <br><br>KING. POWER. OUT. NOW.
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@timothywigmore952 路 5 months ago (edited)
The best way to Bromley is get the train to St Pancras.<br>Victoria line to Victoria station then overground train from Victoria directly to Bromley!<br>馃悘馃悘
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@wddrs 路 5 months ago
The decision to sack Cooper seemed an odd one. It was more about style of play than results from the outside as they were outside the relegation zone?
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@hgm8337 路 5 months ago (edited)
From Top to Bottom. They should recall Vardy, his knowledge of lower league football could be invaluable.
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@terry9819 路 5 months ago
Steve Cooper was on course for ~35pts in a season where Spurs finished on 38. The fans played a big part in him being replaced. That was a real sliding doors moment that seems to brushed under the carpet.
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@new_ideazz 路 5 months ago
Gosh, paul tierney knows his stuff馃槀
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@SuperALBSURE 路 5 months ago
I always thought it was a sliding doors moment when Rodger鈥檚 favoured the FA Cup over CL places. As much as I want a cup win I always think that CL is just more important for your clubs overall stability. It could have been all different had they gone for the CL.
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