Notts Forest’s version of doing a Leicester turned out to be blowing their chance at Champions League football on the last day of the season. Glorious. As the matchday headline of the season from one of our writers said, if a tree falls out of the Champions League, does it make a sound?
The final blow coming at home and to the hands of Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea was a nice touch too. Sure, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was probably mainly celebrating Chelsea getting a CL spot, but we suspect the venue made it even sweeter for the Leicester boy.
Congratulations to KDH too, another of our writers may have got a little emotional seeing him with the Europa Conference League trophy/medal.
There was another debut for an academy player at Bournemouth. Congratulations to 18-year-old Olabade Aluko. We haven’t heard or seen quite as much about the full-back as some of his younger team-mates, but hopefully he’s another we’ll see more of again next season.
We’ve spent all season pining for him to play or to have him back, so rejoice: Abdul Fatawu says he’ll be back for pre-season.
Assuming he survives the safari holiday he’s on anyway. He posted an amusing video on Instagram where a lion appeared to terrify him and his friends by getting a little too close to the car.
Ricardo’s pretty honest assessment of the season on Instagram. If we can keep him fit, and get a manager who actually plays him, it could be another big season for Ricky P.
The bad
The display at Bournemouth, 0 shots on target. The team selection was far from inspirational, Ruud had a chance to make one last stand and opted for… Jordan Ayew and Patson Daka to lead the line.
That set the tone and it was a dismal showing to finish the 2024/25 season. Nothing to even remotely get behind and a firm reminder why we were relegated early on.
Is everybody at LCFC on holiday? There’s still no news on Ruud van Nistelrooy, or the relegation or on anything really. We don’t appear to want to move forward with Ruud in charge but we haven’t sacked him either, what’s the delay?
This was a 2-year deal so we’re definitely not out of the woods. The club have yet to comment on this, of course.
We received an email this week from a frustrated Foxes fan in California. Remember when the LCFC online shop was out of action? Well, in the UK it got sorted eventually but for our fans in the United States? Nope.
Over here in the US, every time we have tried to get onto the LCFC shop website, we are welcomed by the message below. It’s been like for the past 3 months with no further communication from the club. Every other Premier League club’s US operation is working perfectly. No wonder we can’t generate any revenue!
The daft
Which ‘Very Satisfied’ percentage is dafter here? Leicester? … Or Southampton?
Then again 3.3% of Manchester United fans are pretending that finishing 15th and losing a cup final to Spurs is exactly what they planned.
As you’ve probably clocked in the header image, AI might be over-estimating Luke Thomas’ skills. Yes, he’s made quite the comeback in 2025, but between AI thinking he scored 14 Premier League goals and the very high match ratings he was getting each week on the BBC, there’s only two logical answers.
Either Luke has hired a PR firm to help get some positive press out there OR he’s perhaps getting the Swiftie fan-effect by 710 fans of Australian country singer Luke Thomas having discovered the Leicester City left-back.
It’s that time of the year where players and managers come and go and things can get quite salty. Facundo Buonanotte is back with Brighton now but he liked this comment on his Instagram page.
Speaking of departed players, it’s hard not to sympathise with Daniel Iversen. One of just three first-team players released this summer, the Dane has gone back to Preston who definitely played the long game to get their man. He was on loan there in 2021/22.
Iversen said how life at Leicester wasn’t fun anymore, having been nowhere near the first team but also not allowed to leave for a little while.
It’s daft to think we still continued to put Danny Ward above him these last couple of seasons.
Bingo card out for where Ward will end up…
Hot goss
It doesn’t seem like much is actually happening, but in the managerial race the favourites are still Russell Martin or Danny Röhl. It seems more likely it’ll be Russ, and however you feel about that, it’s hard to ignore the bigger issues at the club. That was the focus on the site this week.
The source isn’t particularly reliable but we’re rumoured to be looking at 19-year-old forward Ezekiel Alladoh currently plying his trade at - best of luck on the pronunciation - IF Brommapojkarna. We know the Ghanaian press love a bit of hyperbole but they deem him a teenage sensation.
Allegedly Premier League teams are also in the mix so maybe we just pipe dream status this one already.
Thing we learned
Handing out the Benteke award to more recipients had slightly fallen by the wayside while the goodbye for The GOAT was given and we generally despaired at everything else.
Liverpool (H) – Trent Alexander-Arnold scored his first ever left-footed goal.
Wolves (A) - Rodrigo Gomes had been on a long spell without scoring. His last goal was back in December against… Leicester. Oh. 25 Premier League games, 2 goals. He’ll miss us next year.
Forest (A) - Morgan Gibbs-White has enjoyed a lot of plaudits for Forest this season but had been on a 15-match run without scoring. Got the equaliser to make it 1-1.
That puts the total number of Benteke awards issued this season to 14 different players.
One last thing…
When one of our writers was asked to appear on an Observer podcast a couple of weeks ago, he thought it was a little bit late for them to be putting together a Jamie Vardy podcast special.
Turns out The Observer had assumed Vardy’s last game would be at Bournemouth so they missed the boat slightly on #Vardy200 and his actual final game the previous week.
Anyway, better late than never…
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