Leicester City at home. It’s all uphill from there.
Welcome to 2025 as we celebrate the new year by welcoming Leicester City to our far from humble abode. The first weekend of January used to be for the FA Cup third round but the FA are celebrating our anniversary by letting us stay in their cup a bit longer this year so Leicester in the league it is.
The weather promises to be horrible and so does the opposition. Some clubs have a tradition of good football, Leicester have a tradition of being Leicester. An annoying club supported by weird characters from one of the strangest places you’ll ever visit, which you only ever would for football because there’s no other reason to go there. They’ll probably bring loads because any excuse to get out of Leicester and also because they’re one of those little clubs who’ve got an unfathomable hatred of us.
Leicester had a golden era when they won a few trophies and played in the Champions League, although with the fortune they made they still didn’t pay back the money they owed when they went into administration. Then they got relegated, came straight back up and they’re going straight back down again. Their manager wasn’t a bad player, if you like that sort of thing.
In the summer they signed Jordan Ayew, who apparently played for us during a time nobody can remember, and the 83 year-old Jamie Vardy is still around. A few years ago they bought Youri Telemans for anything up to £40 million and let him go on a free, which is the sort of thing we used to do when we were allowed to buy players
Barring any dramatic transfer moves we’ll have the same bunch of under-achieving potential world-beaters we’ve been watching all season, minus a couple who are suspended. It’s going to be cold, the football’s bound to be painful to watch and we’re going to win.
