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NEW: Leicester City 2 Derby County 1 - 2-1 to the library boys

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Leicester City 2 Derby County 1: 2-1 to the library boys
Leicester City are a very difficult football club to write about at the moment. It was probably fitting that they closed 2025 with a match that was one of the most difficult to write about. So litt…
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December 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
NEW: Leicester City 1 Watford 2 - Joyless Jenga

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Leicester City 1 Watford 2: Joyless Jenga
A new low. Leicester City now lose to Watford too.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
NEW: Happy Christmas, unhappy Boxing Day - Leicester City’s rotten record on 26th December

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Happy Christmas, unhappy Boxing Day: Leicester City’s rotten record on 26th December
In the 21st century, Leicester City’s post-Christmas efforts haven’t always brought festive cheer.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
NEW: How Leicester became Surrender City - Four years of capitulation

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How Leicester became Surrender City: Four years of capitulation
2025 was the year in which Leicester City being completely out of the game at half time became normalised, but Andrew Smith thinks the roots of this problem began a long way back.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
NEW: QPR 4 Leicester City 1: Merry Christmas, from everyone at #LCFC.

"The final scoreline may ‘only’ read 4-1 but make no mistake, this was the worst result since Paulo Sousa took his team to Fratton Park in 2010."

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QPR 4 Leicester City 1: Merry Christmas, from everyone at LCFC
The Foxes conceded four first half goals on Marti Cifuentes’ return to Loftus Road. This latest nadir puts the manager firmly back in the firing line.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
NEW: Just when I thought I was out… Abdul Fatawu’s 70-yard goal pulled me back in

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Just when I thought I was out, Abdul Fatawu’s 70-yard goal pulled me back in
Football, bloody hell.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
NEW: Leicester City Women 1 London City Lionesses 0 - Beating the billionaire

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Leicester City Women 1 London City Lionesses 0: Beating the billionaire
They actually bloody did it! Leicester City Women are going into the Christmas break after a 1-0 win at the King Power.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
NEW: Leicester City 3 Ipswich Town 1: Foxes put in best display yet to brush Ipswich aside

🚀 That Fatawu goal
💪🏻 Skipp, Nelson and the general performance
🎯 Building to a 90 minute, complete display

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Leicester City 3 Ipswich Town 1: Foxes put in best display yet to brush Ipswich aside
Ipswich have been building form and with the calibre of their squad, this was a good test for Marti Cifuentes’ men. The Foxes delivered an early Christmas present to fans with a mostly convincing p…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Fosse Friday 083 is going back to the drawing board and putting in a 90-minute performance

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Fosse Friday 083 - 12 December 2025: JJ, JM, JV and Jekyll and Hyde FC
This week's update is on the aperol spritz.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
NEW: Bristol City 2 #LCFC 2: The one half wonders

"Even the good halves are not that good, and they are being overwhelmed by how bad the bad halves are."

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Bristol City 2 Leicester City 2: The one half wonders
The latest Jekyll and Hyde performance saw Leicester’s comfortable two goal lead go up in smoke and leaves the Foxes mired in the middle of a logjammed Championship table.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
NEW: Leicester City Women 0 Manchester City Women 3 - “You only had 30 shots!”

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Leicester City Women 0 Manchester City Women 3: “You only had 30 shots!”
WSL leaders Manchester City took a long time to break down a stubborn Leicester City side, but this result had a feel of inevitability about it throughout.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
NEW: Derby County 1 Leicester City 3: Fighting talk backed up with a fighting performance

"If you're going to make the type of statement Jordan James did this week, it needed to be back up with a performance. Fortunately, James and Leicester City delivered."

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Derby County 1 Leicester City 3: Fighting talk backed up with a fighting performance
Another 3-0 scoreline at half time might have had you sweating and making an assumption. For the first time in three games, you’d be wrong because Leicester City were on the right end of it.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
NEW: You couldn’t write it - Confessions of the world’s first comic professional footballer

“As a kid, I had two obsessions – so it’s no surprise I reached the pinnacle of two professions…

Football.

And comedy.”

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You couldn’t write it: Confessions of the world’s first comic professional footballer
We had an anonymous submission this week from someone with a confession to make.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
NEW: #LCFC 2 Sheffield United 3: What's worse than going three down once this week?

'For all the talk about delivering a reaction, the team showed no sign of any new resilience, or even any vague sense of application or professionalism.'

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Leicester City 2 Sheffield United 3: What’s worse than going three down once this week?
A spirited second half effort wasn’t enough for the Foxes to recover from another first half disaster as they slipped to their fifth defeat in the last eight games.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
NEW: Ten years since it’s eleven it’s heaven: Remembering Jamie Vardy’s record-breaking goal

“It was an early goal in a game early in the season but the noise that followed the ball hitting the back of the net still ranks as one of the loudest Leicester celebrations ever”

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Ten years since it’s eleven, it’s heaven: Remembering Jamie Vardy’s record-breaking goal
Ten years ago today, one of the most famous goals in Leicester City’s history was scored. On 28th November 2015, Manchester United were in town and Jamie Vardy was planning a party.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
NEW: Leicester City 2 Stoke City 1 - Pat put the ball in the net and Stoke laughed no more

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Leicester City 2 Stoke City 1: Pat put the ball in the net and Stoke laughed no more
The football wasn’t pretty and the weather wasn’t pleasant but Leicester City have won again. It’s what we do. Against Stoke anyway.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
NEW: You are Marti Cifuentes. What do you do next?

👶🏻 Believe in a baby squad?
🇯🇲 Trust in Bobby?
⚽️ Pick prolific Pat more?

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You are Marti Cifuentes. What do you do next?
As the international break ticks interminably over into a second week, we ask our writers to put themselves in the shoes of Marti Cifuentes – what’s the plan?
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November 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
NEW: Brighton and Hove Albion Women 4 Leicester City Women 1 - A gulf by the coast

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Brighton and Hove Albion Women 4 Leicester City Women 1: A gulf by the coast
Leicester City are now just four points off the foot of the Women’s Super League after conceding four times on the south coast.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Fosse Friday 079 provides some heavy reading for your international break

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Fosse Friday 079 - 14 November 2025: Air Jordan, watery eyes and fired bosses
This week's update is fearing for Chris Davies's job
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: West Ham United Women 1 Leicester City Women 1 - Shannon saves the day

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West Ham United Women 1 Leicester City Women 1: Shannon saves the day
This is it. It’s West Ham, lads. Away at pointless West Ham, while we ride high and mighty on our 5 points.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
NEW: Norwich City 1 Leicester City 2 - 20 minutes of magic

“Trying or not, these players have no business being 17th in the table, where they would have been had the game finished after 70 minutes”

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Norwich City 1 Leicester City 2: 20 minutes of magic
A last minute Leicester City winner away at Carrow Road, you say? Has that ever happened before?
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November 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Fosse Friday 078 isn’t going to take it any more

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Fosse Friday 078 - 7 November 2025:
This week's update is sorry we can’t bring you better news
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November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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