94 ridiculous things that happened to Leicester City in 2024
At the end of Leicester City’s calamitous 2022/23 season, we published a list of 79 ridiculous things that had happened to the club during the campaign.
After a brief, somewhat disappointing outbreak of sensible behaviour in the final six months of last year, 2024 has seen Leicester back to their mind-bending best.
So we’ve managed to find 94 ridiculous things that have happened to our beloved football club in the past 12 months. What would you add to the list?
Abdul Fatawu turning down a call up to Ghana for the Africa Cup of Nations, getting sent off in the next Leicester game and being suspended for the duration of the tournament
Conceding a deflected injury time equaliser against Ipswich - for the second time in three weeks
Spending the whole of January chasing Stefano Sensi, bringing him to Seagrave for a medical, then realising we couldn’t afford him
Georginio Rutter saying Leeds were the best team in the Championship
Enzo threatening to sub the goalkeeper if he passed it long too often
Enzo going into a press conference a couple of days after beating Swansea in January to go 10 points clear at the top of the table and promptly threatening to quit
Enzo saying a random 2-1 win against Watford was our best performance of the season
Enzo saying it’s a huge, huge game for them and just another game for us before playing Leeds at Elland Road… then blowing a lead with 10 minutes to go and going on a run of relegation form for three months
When our sponsors FBS released a promo advert during that run of relegation form that included the line “Sometimes, performance falls short of expectations”
When the club wished happy birthday to FBS
Axel Disasi firing the ball past his own ‘keeper from 40 yards for our first goal at Chelsea in the FA Cup
The BBC’s description of our favourite goalkeeper on international duty failing to save a Robert Lewandowski penalty: “Little dummy, Danny Ward going the wrong way”
Leicester fans’ main messageboard voting overwhelmingly to sack our manager towards the end of a title-winning season
Jon Rudkin’s face when we were 5-0 up against Southampton
Losing half of our final 14 Championship games having lost 4 of the first 32
Getting promoted because Leeds lost 4-0 to QPR
When Brendan Rodgers said “it’s a shame the club went down” as if he was an innocent bystander
The club marking Deaf Awareness Week by “listening to one fan’s story”
The crazy sponsors for each of the end of season awards (Sample: With the Blue Army already having their say for the DG Legal Men's Player of the Season and the Seat Unique Women's Player of the Season awards, voting is also now open on the Arrow Precision Men's Young Player of the Season.)
Stephy Mavididi brushing his teeth with Leeds fans’ tears
Wilfred Ndidi’s “congratulations to me”
When the matchday announcer asked Jamie Vardy about a new contract, Vardy aimed a dig at Jon Rudkin and the matchday announcer was mysteriously disappeared
A feature commemorating Gerry Taggart’s 50th cap for Northern Ireland that ended with a giant drive-by of him getting seriously injured and Leicester going down
A ‘Heritage’ article reminiscing about the career of Youri Tielemans, posted less than a year after he left to join a club everyone hates
When the club charged £25 for a card people already had
When Wout Faes got linked with Barcelona
When the club gave an update on Yunus Akgun’s international exploits a month after he’d left
Alex Smithies retiring and leaving us with only four first-team goalkeepers
When Enzo left and the club trumpeted its “clear vision” without telling anyone what it was
Kasey McAteer popping onto a Chelsea fan’s YouTube channel to give his thoughts on Enzo Maresca
Caleb Okoli’s welcome interview accidentally getting posted on the club’s social media channels before we’d announced we’d signed him
When we signed “Michael Golding” for £5million
Giving Jannik Vestergaard a three-year contract
Giving Bobby De Cordova-Reid a three-year contract
When Matias Soule’s agent called us “a club with no sporting project”
Having one of the best training grounds in the world, then spending the entirety of pre-season anywhere but there
When we played Palermo in Chesterfield
When we scored two own goals in four days in pre-season
Charging £10 to watch pre-season friendlies online
Announcing a pre-season friendly against a 7th-tier German team on the morning of the game, then seeing it get rained off
The third kit
The disappearance of “Michael Thomas”
The official Leicester City app displaying a photo of Silko Thomas on Luke Thomas’s profile page
The official Leicester City app saying Patson Daka had scored against Shrewsbury when it was Stephy Mavididi
The official Leicester City YouTube channel trumpeting a second successive pre-season win and then listing the result as a 2-1 defeat
BC.Game having the most viewed tweet of all time
When the Union FS party boat got stuck in the Thames on the way to Fulham
Appointing a new manager heralded for promoting young players, then ending a run of 288 games with an Academy graduate in the squad
Spending six months getting threatened with at least one points deduction and getting off scot-free because we were so bad we got relegated
Notts Forest fans going from planning a statue for Nick De Marco KC to crying when Nick De Marco KC got us out of a points deduction
The Premier League not knowing its own rules
The EFL not knowing its own rules
Danny Simpson fighting a YouTuber
The Celebrating Partnership Collection
The Northern Wild, Northern Life souvenir collection
Mike Dean posting a furious Instagram story after we beat his beloved Tranmere in the League Cup
When a guy on eBay listed an unused match issue Danny Ward shirt for £799.99
When The Sun reported that Steve Cooper “faces dressing room unrest three games into season with stars unhappy at having too much freedom”
When Jason Derulo came out as a Leicester fan
Mateta’s goal against us when the lines drawn for offside looked decidedly dodgy
That 0-0 draw at Walsall in the League Cup
Odsonne Edouard’s performance at Walsall
That time the club spent an entire week posting photos of Danny Simpson’s trip to Chicago
Briefly coming back from 2-0 down at the Emirates with two goals (including a Puskas contender) from a right-back everyone wanted dropped
The club not letting Union FS flyer the ground due to “sustainability concerns” and then handing out clappers at the turnstiles
The official YouTube stream of Leicester Women’s WSL game against Arsenal cutting out 6 minutes before full time
Getting charged £40+ a ticket to watch us get thumped at Old Trafford in the League Cup
The club charging £10 for kids to get autographs from players at signing sessions
The crispy coconut roll giveaway featuring larb flavoured biscuit sticks
The Premier League posting a video of the best father-son combos in PL history and forgetting the Schmeichels
Roy Cropper singing “two nil and you fucked it up” at the Southampton fans
Abdul Fatawu having a shot from inside our own half in practically every Premier League game he’s played so far
£25 for a King Power bumbag
£200 for a varsity jacket
The club wishing everyone a safe journey home on social media with a photo of a very glum away end
The club adding safe standing seats and everyone in them sitting down
When Gustavo Hamer had to stand on a box to do a post-match interview alongside our giant loanee Harry Souttar
Ademola Lookman getting nominated for the Ballon D’Or two years after we turned down signing him
BC.Game being declared bankrupt by a court in Curacao
Wout Faes trotting off on international duty and getting this writeup from the Belgian press: “The problem will always have been to make him the boss of the defence while he multiplies the blunders match after match, without departing from a totally misplaced arrogance.”
Enzo signing KDH and then never playing him in a league game
Steve Cooper ending his time with the club having still won at just 4 Premier League grounds in 67 games
The players having a second crisis meeting in the space of 10 months
Enzo I miss u
The lost dentures in the concourse
“Ben Dawson” trying out a new formation at Brentford
Jake Evans reposting a video of fans chanting Rudkin Out at Brentford
The official Leicester City app listing our manager as “Ronny Rodelin”
Conceding 31 shots to West Ham and winning 3-1
Jannik Vestergaard getting ostracised, coming back, getting ostracised again and coming back again all in the space of 12 months
The Vardys launching their new brand of skittle vodka alongside Dennis Wise
LCFC Women scoring two goals in the first nine league games of the season, then getting a point against Chelsea
Danny Ward playing in the Premier League for Leicester City in the year of our lord 2024
The internal review following relegation from the Premier League still sitting in a ring binder at Seagrave
