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Jan 3, 2025 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
It probably went unnoticed that the Hazzetta took a hiatus for the visit of Manchester City. Largely down to Christmas’ busy travelling, schedule and consuming excess made it difficult to afford the time required. However, there’s part of it that relates to the first words of this article. The jump from grief to relegation is gigantic. Never should the emotions conflate with the results part of football. However, relegation does follow a similar path. There can be intervals of hope.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
You know it felt so nice for a week or so without the melodrama. In fact this preview was originally written at length about how the lack of drama produces a dangerous apathy. The season is idling along, and a lot of shoulder-shrugging is occurring. Leicester City have yet to find their niche when it comes to style or identity. The idea in employing Enzo Maresca last season was to establish a new footballing principle and there are attempts at adopting the orderly style now.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
While the final four minutes play out to the hint of a Leicester winner, the support is loud and fervent. This continues on the streets outside Portman Road and onwards to Ipswich railway station. Once composed, two thoughts are considered. That last minute equaliser was so good and such an adrenaline rush, but City were for long stages so ragged and unorganised across the full game.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
Instead it's been replaced by the resignation that the same errors and mistakes are being made again, as showcased in the losses to Forest and Manchester United. This dread is further enhanced by the history of the Leicester City hierarchy being reluctant to change until it's the only thing left staring them in the face. The second half performance last Friday evening has eaten away and spent far too much consuming me. It was the horrors we feared played out.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
Friday night lights. Rivalries renewed. Forest return to LE and face their former manager. How to get the juices flowing? How do we try to build the fans to a frenzy? To boost that atmosphere as we’ve seen can occur when it gets dark down Filbert Way. Coconut Rolls. Free Coconut Rolls. That’s the answer. It belongs on the BBC’s Twenty Twelve. It’s not a spoof - it will be happening.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
Therefore the lighter tone of The Athletic’s international break fluff piece on the preferred phrases each Premier League manager likes to use was welcome. Steve Cooper’s overused term is ‘the plan’. If you need to believe this has substance, google ‘Steve Cooper’ and ‘the plan’ and there are numerous search results showing recorded interviews with him uttering the words. He feels the need to refocus the objective of his club in exchanges with the press (and by default the supporters).
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
We watched a game of football that the home side Arsenal largely dominated. Upon the stroke of half time, the Gunners scored their second goal which we thought killed the game. However, a bit of fortune for Leicester’s first and then an excellent passing move finished by a sweet, volleyed strike completed an unexpected comeback. The inevitable happened. We had begun to consider that we may make the largest heist in London since the Hatton Gardens burglary.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
It’s going to get messy. Those of us who are attending are simply sadistic. It is a fearful prospect that Leicester City face on Saturday afternoon. Arsenal are far better and wiser than when we last faced them. Now established as masters of the dark arts, they have come through a difficult spell of fixtures with decent results and there is a sense they are collectively stronger for the experience. A symptom of this has been a lot of column inches dedicated to their style and gamesmanship.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
An emperor looking on at the show he’s playing out to his people. The strength of two fine chiselled, athletic warriors fighting. Trading punch for punch in the beating Roman sun. Gladiators, readyFor those fighters their careers didn’t start in Rome. It would have been more humble surroundings. Out in deep Western Gaul. A ramshackle of an arena sits on a swamp field. It is pouring down with rain. The local governmental head isn’t coming out of his house to watch this sorry sight.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
thefosseway.net | Harry A. Gregory
I attempt to reduce the use of my mobile phone and get back to entertainment in rather less triggering ways. It was one of those episodes when I did have my phone on me when Leicester City Football Club’s panache for creating fume internally or externally was really exhibited. Money talkThe Premier League’s attempt at charging LCFC for an alleged breach of the FFP profit and sustainability rules fails as they don’t have the jurisdiction to charge the club while outside of the Premier League.
