Leicester City plans for Saturday

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:41 pm

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Happy in the knowledge that all Clarets attending will show due respect.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:00 pm

Absolutely. All due respect before the game.

Then batter 'em.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:21 am

In my humble view this business seems to have overtaken the point of a football match and it would have been better for all concerned that the Burnley game is postponed so that the Leicester club can mourn their loss. It's not fair on Burnley quite frankly if Leicester (quite understandably) want to make a big show of their appreciation for their late chairman.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:27 am

Show our respects before the game, then get on with it.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:44 pm

2 mins silence at a football match!

Will be fine.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:11 pm

Hipper wrote:In my humble view this business seems to have overtaken the point of a football match and it would have been better for all concerned that the Burnley game is postponed so that the Leicester club can mourn their loss. It's not fair on Burnley quite frankly if Leicester (quite understandably) want to make a big show of their appreciation for their late chairman.

call the game off and then it moves on to the next home game - best that it is done this Saturday.

theroyaldyche · Post by **theroyaldyche** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:18 pm

I hope we stuff em

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:22 pm

To be fair I think there couldn't be a better opponent for Leicester than us for this. Our fans will show total respect, Leicester are like us in some ways, though not in others. They have had a recent period of success after a fairly average spell and appreciate what they have got. They have been well led by a Chairman they love and respect; although not a local man he became one.

I think we above most clubs fully understand how Leicester must be feeling, and we should be honoured to be there on Saturday rather than some plastic fans of another club.

The game starts at the whistle and will be as hard fought as ever, nobody would want anything else. In a strange way Leicester's recovery will start with their first defeat.

Chip Harrison · Post by **Chip Harrison** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:25 pm

theroyaldyche wrote:I hope we stuff em

There seems to be a bit of enmity in your comment?

theroyaldyche · Post by **theroyaldyche** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:46 pm

Chip Harrison wrote:There seems to be a bit of enmity in your comment?

Dislike leicester. Simple really

Fair enough with the tributes and the sad occasion but i hope we go there and stuff em

moaninclaret · Post by **moaninclaret** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:49 pm

Burnley fans will show their upmost respect on Saturday im sure, once the whistle is blown, its down to our lads to come out all guns blazing, if we can hit them early, we will win.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:03 pm

ClaretTony wrote:call the game off and then it moves on to the next home game - best that it is done this Saturday.

Not sure about that. They could hold a special no football event. After all this is a wake not a professional football match - there's too much at stake.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:09 pm

Hipper wrote:Not sure about that. They could hold a special no football event. After all this is a wake not a professional football match - there's too much at stake.

They have to play a first home game at some point and that's when the home fans will want to be there to pay their respects, not attend something other than football. I've absolutely no problem with it at all and I'll be a member of the Burnley FC Supporters Groups who will be paying our tribute with the laying of a wreath.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:13 pm

Hipper wrote:Not sure about that. They could hold a special no football event. After all this is a wake not a professional football match - there's too much at stake.

Aside from the unusually tragic circumstances, it’s no different to the death of a player closely associated with a club. Nothing wrong with what they are doing and it sounds like a fitting tribute to someone that the fans revered.

Perhaps a bit more overstated but is it so much different to us recently with the passing of Jimmy McIlroy? I don’t recall there being any criticism from us, or against us, for wanting to pay tribute at a match.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:23 pm

Some things are significantly more important than football. They already cancelled The Southampton game. So as above, it will only move to the next one.

Many of Leicesters fans will have become Leicester fans because of or during his time there. All Leicester fans of any age will have had their best time as fans ever.

They should be able to remember him however they see fit. In the fullness of time, the match and the significance of the match (from a points perspective) will have passed on. But what he did and how he will be remembered will be there forever.

In a weird way we are blessed to be able to be part of the remembrance.

A remarkable story, a tragic ending culminating with a match on remembrance day against the team who got promoted with them when they went up.

It will probably become a film. Hopefully our club and fans play a dignified part.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:01 pm

I hope so too and then, after kick-off, we put in one or two particularly tasty tackles on Vardy and others who tend to become riled rather easily. Nothing dirty, just borderline, snarling stuff to let Leicester know we're not there for the taking. Shake them up a bit and we'll nick a win, I'm sure of it.
If we do the old "After you. " stuff, we'll get an absolute pasting.

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:16 pm

Hard to begrudge a Leicester victory considering the circumstances under which we play them

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:07 pm

Just hope it's not similar to Wenger's last game when we played at Arsenal. We need to pay our respects, but I will certainly begrudge giving them anything during the game.

BurnleyFC · Post by **BurnleyFC** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:12 pm

We’d have got absolutely pumped off them regardless so happen it’s best that we’ll have some excuses ready.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:37 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:Hard to begrudge a Leicester victory considering the circumstances under which we play them

Why?

I hope we stuff them, however unlikely that may be.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:44 pm

''Hard to begrudge a Leicester victory considering the circumstances under which we play them''

Surely not a serious comment?

Milltown1882 · Post by **Milltown1882** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:46 pm

Funny how football works out. We got promoted the same day they won the league, up together in 13/14. I’m sure it’ll be an immaculately observed event and hopefully we can steal a 1-0 win like the time we were the first away team to win there!

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:47 pm

Football aint that important and the occasion will mean a lot to the people of Leicester so good luck to them is what I say

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:51 pm

I will fully and absolutely respect what happens on Saturday.

But I have no reason to like Leicester considering recent history, and I hope we batter them. Unlikely as that will be.

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:54 pm

With the emotion they’ve spent and the travelling this is a winnable match.
Ceremonies first and then three points please.

LeadBelly · Post by **LeadBelly** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:16 pm

Hard to begrudge a Leicester victory considering the circumstances under which we play them

Probably not serious (taking into account poster's name especially) but there are a couple of other comments of this ilk here.

We should, of course, respect the 2 minutes silence and the other pre-match remembrances but we should be 100% shouting for/playing for a win and getting stuck in.

Otherwise, maybe we should let Palace beat us 1st Dec in respect of the people of South London who died in the blitz and then let Liverpool walk all over us 5th Dec in respect of the Hillsborough disaster.
At the end of the season we could then dissolve the club, realize the assets and open a donkey sanctuary with the proceeds.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:29 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:Football aint that important and the occasion will mean a lot to the people of Leicester so good luck to them is what I say

Of course its important. A win will go a long way to help us stay up.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:46 pm

We should once the whistle blows treat this game like any other,it would be disrespectful not too,Cardiff didn't stand off Leicester last week and they are fighting to stay up.

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:01 pm

Spijed wrote:Of course its important. A win will go a long way to help us stay up.

Us staying up is more important than a man losing his life? Interesting...

Claretforever · Post by **Claretforever** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:18 pm

I hope we show the utmost respect before the game, but then make it hostile. Once that whistle goes the situation has gone!

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:31 pm

deanothedino wrote:Us staying up is more important than a man losing his life? Interesting...

Where did he say that!

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:35 pm

I for one am utterly fed up with games being turned into orchestrated displays of grief for one reason or other.
Not that its not tragic, but these events are becoming focal points on matchdays.

HunterST_BFC · Post by **HunterST_BFC** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:45 pm

It's the nearest game to the 11th. I hope there is some thought given to this not just 5 people?

From another angle...

We certainly won't be last on MOTD...

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:49 pm

deanothedino wrote:Us staying up is more important than a man losing his life? Interesting...

Five people, actually. Don't get carried away by the idea that one man is more important than the others just because he was richer. He was more important to the Leicester City organisation, I dare say, but not to us as people.

But anyway, it's irrelevant. Win or lose, it won't bring them back to life. We can play to win in the sure and certain knowledge that it will make no difference to the tributes, to the memorial, to the Leicester fans' sadness about their owner, or to the life and death of the five people. All it will make a difference to is the league table, which ultimately is what it's all about. Cliche it may be, but life goes on.

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:59 am

Leisure wrote:Where did he say that!

Well, since the previous poster was saying football isn't that important compared to five people dying it felt like he implied it.

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:09 am

deanothedino wrote:Well, since the previous poster was saying football isn't that important compared to five people dying it felt like he implied it.

Did feel like he implied it to me! The result certainly is important to us!

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:42 am

Just another game.

A tragedy happened, it's been a week or so now since and the mourning period for the families of those lost will go on for a Hell of a lot longer, I am not sure why I am being greeted with the face of Vichai every single time I put Sky Sports News on at this point though.

Leicester fans can be sad for however long they like, I want to see us go there and make them upset for an entirely different reason. I am not a heartless, callous individual and found what happened a terrible accident (obviously), but this is a game of football and what happened had absolutely no bearing on me, my family and friends or my life in general. I have no reason to feel duty bound to be swept up in this greater football community 'mourning' for a pre-determined period of time that seems to be the requirement these days. Respectful of their efforts at remembrance before the game of course - that is the sole expectation of Burnley FC this weekend, absolute respect.

After that?

Destroy them.

We are not turning up to this game to roll over and provide another 'beautiful' addendum to this tale, or at least, I hope we aren't. We have our own issues to think about, and if after yet another 4+ goal mauling I have to hear Dyche use 'the emotion of the day' as a vague excuse for what transpired on the pitch I will be seething.

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:58 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:Hard to begrudge a Leicester victory considering the circumstances under which we play them

Bizarre comment

there's a coincidence of presence, and that's about it. Fans are there and it is, of course, the opportunity to pay respect to the fallen and to the tragic accident, collectively, as humans, capable of perspective. And then there is a game of football, which would contractually take place, and the same fans that have chosen the gathering to pay that respect have, it so happens, paid to watch a contract be fulfilled

Separate the two.

Burypaddy · Post by **Burypaddy** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:15 pm

Totally agree jedi, show our respects then move on with the game. It has been quite tedious over the last two weeks on sky sports. Tragic accident but would the chairman of burnley fc get the same coverage or would they even know his name, probably not!!

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:19 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:I hope so too and then, after kick-off, we put in one or two particularly tasty tackles on Vardy and others who tend to become riled rather easily. Nothing dirty, just borderline, snarling stuff to let Leicester know we're not there for the taking. Shake them up a bit and we'll nick a win, I'm sure of it.
If we do the old "After you. " stuff, we'll get an absolute pasting.

Over to you then Mr. Lowton. An expert at this.

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:08 pm

Leisure wrote:Did feel like he implied it to me! The result certainly is important to us!

Yes, the result is important to us but the way some of you are talking it'd be okay if we had to kill someone else if it meant we can win. Doesn't mean we can't be respectful before kick off.

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:13 pm

deanothedino wrote:Yes, the result is important to us but the way some of you are talking it'd be okay if we had to kill someone else if it meant we can win. Doesn't mean we can't be respectful before kick off.

Don't be a drama queen! Nobody is saying that! And of course we will be respectful! But we also desparately want to win.

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:19 pm

Leisure wrote:Don't be a drama queen! Nobody is saying that! And of course we will be respectful! But we also desparately want to win.

I'm not being a drama queen! That's genuinely how some people are coming across! I know we want to win!

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:33 pm

Can't see any posts which say that it would be ok to kill someone else if it meant that we could win! Looks like it's just your poor interpretation of posts.

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:58 pm

Leisure wrote:Can't see any posts which say that it would be ok to kill someone else if it meant that we could win! Looks like it's just your poor interpretation of posts.

Maybe it is! Weird how you're the one getting most worked up about it though.

HunterST_BFC wrote:It's the nearest game to the 11th. I hope there is some thought given to this not just 5 people?

That's why it's 2 minutes. They're also swapping shirts at half time to ones with poppies on.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:26 pm

Tbh it would be more disrespectful all round if we rolled over...

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:06 pm

deanothedino wrote:Maybe it is! Weird how you're the one getting most worked up about it though.

Not getting worked up at all. Just wanting to be clear that we can and will be respectful but still want our team to win. Surely that's not too hard to understand!

deanothedino · Post by **deanothedino** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:08 pm

Leisure wrote:Not getting worked up at all. Just wanting to be clear that we can and will be respectful but still want our team to win. Surely that's not too hard to understand!

No, and I totally agree with that - I've never said otherwise.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:08 pm

Leisure wrote:Not getting worked up at all. Just wanting to be clear that we can and will be respectful but still want our team to win. Surely that's not too hard to understand!

Some of the feckers on here will be rolling over in disgust if we win..

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:21 pm

deanothedino wrote:No, and I totally agree with that - I've never said otherwise.

Sorry but read your post 41.