Ex Players - They used to play for us

[Super_horns]

9 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

12 appearances in 4 years

 

Used to the bench/3rd choice role then!

[Guest]

44 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Used to the bench/3rd choice role then!

The general perception of him was that he was a fairly crap keeper but a good character in the dressing room so perhaps he's been brought in with a view to replacing Foster's banter output

[Super_horns]

1 minute ago, Guest said:

The general perception of him was that he was a fairly crap keeper but a good character in the dressing room so perhaps he's been brought in with a view to replacing Foster's banter output

The club will probably hope he doesn't want to start a YouTube channel though! 

[Cincinnati Fox]

1 hour ago, Super_horns said:

Signed Ben Hamer probably as backup  keeper .

 

Did he play for you at all ?

Yes Banter Ben was here for a few years and played in the champions league, no less! Can’t quite remember the score in that game though.

[Bert]

9 minutes ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

Yes Banter Ben was here for a few years and played in the champions league, no less! Can’t quite remember the score in that game though.

Lost 5-0. 
 

[Bert]

38 minutes ago, Guest said:

The general perception of him was that he was a fairly crap keeper but a good character in the dressing room so perhaps he's been brought in with a view to replacing Foster's banter output

He was the social sec. Quite a few were more than disappointed when he left. 

[Basildon Fox]

Calvin Bassey joins Ajax for £19.6m. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62225298

[Out Foxed]

17 hours ago, Guest said:

The general perception of him was that he was a fairly crap keeper but a good character in the dressing room so perhaps he's been brought in with a view to replacing Foster's banter output

Ben Foster is about as funny as Multiple Sclerosis 

[Corky]

19 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Signed Ben Hamer probably as backup  keeper .

 

Did he play for you at all ?

In time honoured forum tradition, he played one game and several here thought he'd be an upgrade on Schmeichel.

 

Soon after he was replaced by a 67 year old Mark Schwarzer.

[fox_up_north]

4 hours ago, Zaphod Beeblebrox said:

Calvin Bassey joins Ajax for £19.6m. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62225298

Seen that. Did anyone see much of him while he was here? 

[Foxxed]

2 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

Seen that. Did anyone see much of him while he was here? 

Yeah he was good but he was vying for Luke Thomas's position in the u23s and we couldn't convince him to convert to a centre back.

[burleighfox]

7 hours ago, Corky said:

In time honoured forum tradition, he played one game and several here thought he'd be an upgrade on Schmeichel.

 

Soon after he was replaced by a 67 year old Mark Schwarzer.

Mad to think that Kasper only played 24 league games that first season back in the Prem with those two as the backups. 

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chris-kirkland-painkillers-leicester-city-7361934

 

Former Leicester City goalkeeper Chris Kirkland reveals 10-year painkiller addiction

Latest Leicester City news from LeicestershireLive as former City stopper Chris Kirkland opens up on his 10-year addiction to painkillers, which he is now in recovery from

 

Luke PawleyMidlands Football Writer

11:10, 21 JUL 2022

SPORT

 

Former Leicester City goalkeeper Chris Kirkland has revealed that he is in recovery following a 10-year addiction to painkillers.

Kirkland, who played for City on loan in 2010 and was born in Barwell, Leicestershire, has told his story in full via interviews in two national newspapers today. The stopper went cold turkey five months ago and has decided now is the right time to tell his story.

The 41-year-old started using painkillers to help a continuous back injury he was suffering from and admitted they also helped him deal with the anxiety of travelling from home to games each week. “I took them and I thought I was going to die," Kirkland told The Guardian in an emotive, eye-opening interview.

 

"I just didn’t know who I was. I couldn’t remember where home was. I only got home because I put ‘home’ into the sat-nav, and it was already preset, otherwise I don’t know where I would’ve ended up. I got home … then I was violently sick. I slept for about 18 hours. I woke up, got the tablets out of the car and flushed them straight down the toilet.”

Kirkland says he would make excuses to not attend events because he had taken too many tablets, and pretend he had lost them to get more on prescription. The former goalkeeper admitted on Twitter that he had been taking 2,500 milligrams a day at times, mostly buying them off the internet.

Kirkland made the decision to attend Parkland Place, a rehabilitation clinic near Colwyn Bay in north Wales, and his wife Leeona drug tests him at home every few days.

“The postman knows not to give me any letters or parcels,” he said, “because I was buying them off the internet. Now he knows never to give me anything, so it always goes to Leeona. We’ve put things in place to hopefully prevent it from happening again.”

Kirkland says he is feeling "brilliant" now thanks to his "saint and angel" wife, but admitted just how tough the withdrawals were at first. "It was really tough," he said.

"The withdrawals were horrendous. For a week I could hardly move; I was sweating, shaking, Leeona was having to check I was still breathing properly. It was a horrible time. I still feel as though I’m a little bit of a fraud at the minute because people don’t know the real truth. I don’t think I can stay in recovery – because I’ll always be an addict, simple as that – unless everything is out there. Now people know.”

In a message to those going through addiction, he says this: “If you are struggling with any kind of addiction, you can’t do it yourself; it’s impossible. You’ll be kidding yourself. Be brave, ask for help and the quicker you get it, the better you’ll be.”

[HoustonFox]

I like this attitude from Ben Mee

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62270153

 

[Super_horns]

Not a former player I know but clearly Dan Gosling wasn't a fan of Ranieri when he was here.

 

Form an interview with our local paper (well not mine actually!): 

 

"

Gosling also hit out at Claudio Ranieri’s time at the club, describing the Italian and his team as being ‘miserable’ during their four months at the club.

He said: “That time with Ranieri was just really unenjoyable.

“The training we did, the spirit they created, the staff that came with him – the whole thing was just miserable. They were miserable, and it made it miserable.

“I was surprised they lasted four months to be honest. I have been in football a long time, and so have a few boys in the squad, and that time was as bad as it can get"

 

“If you’re going out on the training pitch and just doing five-a-side games day after day, it is literally nothing football. It’s kid’s football. As a pro, you don’t learn anything from it.

“There’s a time and place for five-a-sides obviously, but it’s usually a few fun games at the end of a session. Doing whole sessions of five-a-side every doesn’t win you games. Look at the results on the pitch.”

 

 

 

 

 

[1972 Fox]

3 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Not a former player I know but clearly Dan Gosling wasn't a fan of Ranieri when he was here.

 

Form an interview with our local paper (well not mine actually!): 

 

"

Gosling also hit out at Claudio Ranieri’s time at the club, describing the Italian and his team as being ‘miserable’ during their four months at the club.

He said: “That time with Ranieri was just really unenjoyable.

“The training we did, the spirit they created, the staff that came with him – the whole thing was just miserable. They were miserable, and it made it miserable.

“I was surprised they lasted four months to be honest. I have been in football a long time, and so have a few boys in the squad, and that time was as bad as it can get"

 

“If you’re going out on the training pitch and just doing five-a-side games day after day, it is literally nothing football. It’s kid’s football. As a pro, you don’t learn anything from it.

“There’s a time and place for five-a-sides obviously, but it’s usually a few fun games at the end of a session. Doing whole sessions of five-a-side every doesn’t win you games. Look at the results on the pitch.”

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for posting this.

 

Obviously Ranieri is a God here with the fans (me included). But the Gosling interview doesn't come as a total surprise to me. I am not an ITK but I did have a reliable source back then.

 

There was similar stuff going on here between him and a lot of the players too. Fortunately for us we carried on the momentum from the previous season under Pearson and we still kept most of the existing backroom staff. Claudio was unorganised and would change the prearranged training sessions at a whim without informing any of the other staff. Other than his own people he more or less completely distanced himself from the rest and would not include them in anything (he had to be almost forced into accepting Steve Walsh's recommendation that we should sign Kante) and he would always eat separately from the previous backroom team.

 

The following PL season started to go down hill quickly but we managed to keep it going in the CL until the inevitable eventually happened.

 

Vardy plus many others could not get on with him at all. You may recall Vardy's celebration of his goal against Watford at KP last season when he ran over and knee slid in the snow right in front of Ranieri. That was to show his dislike and lack of respect for him which is a shame but true.

 

When Kun Vichai (RIP) tragically died and the club did the reunion for the next home game against Burnley there was a pitch procession and the crowd loudly chanted all the Claudio songs but some of the players/staff past and present wouldn't even shake his hand .

 

His public persona was completely different as he came across as a lovely humble man and top manager. He handled the media in such a brilliant fashion that it took all the pressure off the players and the team carried on going from strength to strength as the season went on and the rest is history as they say.

 

He will always be held in such high esteem round these parts (rightly so) as he miraculously delivered the unthinkable. 

 

 

Edited 23 July 2022 by Blue Fox 72

[norwichfox]

4 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Thank you for posting this.

 

Obviously Ranieri is a God here with the fans (me included). But the Gosling interview doesn't come as a total surprise to me. I am not an ITK but I did have a reliable source back then.

 

There was similar stuff going on here between him and a lot of the players too. Fortunately for us we carried on the momentum from the previous season under Pearson and we still kept most of the existing backroom staff. Claudio was unorganised and would change the prearranged training sessions at a whim without informing any of the other staff. Other than his own people he more or less completely distanced himself from the rest and would not include them in anything (he had to be almost forced into accepting Steve Walsh's recommendation that we should sign Kante) and he would always eat separately from the previous backroom team.

 

The following PL season started to go down hill quickly but we managed to keep it going in the CL until the inevitable eventually happened.

 

Vardy plus many others could not get on with him at all. You may recall Vardy's celebration of his goal against Watford at KP last season when he ran over and knee slid in the snow right in front of Ranieri. That was to show his dislike and lack of respect for him which is a shame but true.

 

When Kun Vichai (RIP) tragically died and the club did the reunion for the next home game against Burnley there was a pitch procession and the crowd loudly chanted all the Claudio songs but some of the players/staff past and present wouldn't even shake his hand .

 

His public persona was completely different as he came across as a lovely humble man and top manager. He handled the media in such a brilliant fashion that it took all the pressure off the players and the team carried on going from strength to strength as the season went on and the rest is history as they say.

 

He will always be held in such high esteem round these parts (rightly so) as he miraculously delivered the unthinkable. 

 

 

We need a character assassination section.

[Jaspa]

Happy birthday to Leonardo Ulloa. Scored our first goal back in the Premier League, and when we won it he'd stepped up to the mantle impeccably; Norwich, West Ham, Swansea. Grande cojones. Muchas Gracias, Leo.

[MarriedaLeicesterGirl]

On 23/07/2022 at 04:23, Blue Fox 72 said:

His public persona was completely different as he came across as a lovely humble man and top manager. He handled the media in such a brilliant fashion that it took all the pressure off the players and the team carried on going from strength to strength as the season went on and the rest is history as they say.

 

He will always be held in such high esteem round these parts (rightly so) as he miraculously delivered the unthinkable. 

 

 

I keep comparing the summer of 16 with this summer. There were players Ranieri wanted to shift, so he moved them out of the first team dressing room and sent them to do their pre-season with the U23s. It was ruthless and I am not sure it had a good effect on the rest of the team.

[foxfanazer]

3 hours ago, Jaspa said:

Happy birthday to Leonardo Ulloa. Scored our first goal back in the Premier League, and when we won it he'd stepped up to the mantle impeccably; Norwich, West Ham, Swansea. Grande cojones. Muchas Gracias, Leo.

A seriously big player in the Leicester City story. Stepped up everytime!

[davieG]

Pompey have completed the signing for former Reading central defender Michael Morrison.

 

Morrison became a free agent this summer after he departed Reading, where he amassed 113 appearances during a three-year stay with the Royals.

The centre-back also brings a wealth of experience to the Blues’ back-line after he made 29 outings for the Madejski Stadium outfit in the Championship last term.

 

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-complete-signing-of-former-reading-birmingham-city-sheffield-wednesday-and-leicester-city-defender-michael-morrison-3782971

[tylesta]

On 19/07/2022 at 20:39, Super_horns said:

Used to the bench/3rd choice role then!

After 1 game v stoke loads on here wanted him to displace kasper and be number 1.

[Tommy Fresh]

Didn't realise Mattock was now at Harrogate, had a decent career in the Football League but ultimately the West Brom move was a bad one wasn't it.

[foxile5]

3 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Didn't realise Mattock was now at Harrogate, had a decent career in the Football League but ultimately the West Brom move was a bad one wasn't it.

Think it's a case of attitude and application. Just seemed like he didn't give a ****. 

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Think it's a case of attitude and application. Just seemed like he didn't give a ****. 

After he went neither did we.