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Its a good draw. Hillsborough is one of the best away days, and a chance for a big allocation. Clearly its dampened by having played them recently, and again shortly before the cup tie. But it could have been a lot worse.

I met a decent group of Leicester fans in Rhodes a while back. It was the year we beat Barnsley 4-1 away first game of season. Walked in a bar to watch opening day scores and there was a Leicester flag above the door, walked in with Cov top on and immediately took a load of abuse. Particularly...

To be fair, despite the rivalry, it was quite cordial between the main Leicester and Cov forums in the past.... used to be a semi-regular football match between a lot of the regulars.

They were pretty similar tbf. Yeah they had that joke of a stand, but similar capacities, similar areas, similar history.

It was metaphorical. Leicester were a team i would see on Central Soccer Sunday when they showed Div2 matches, and on the ITV Central highlights shows. But at that time they didn't feature as rivals in my eyes (bearing in mind i was only in my early teens). I do recall a Leicester vs Derby cup...

When i started going up, we were top division regulars and Leicester weren't necessarily a regular feature in the top division. So for me the rivalry was always Villa. Same way for my dad, and many city fans in the 60's, it was Wolves. It wasn't a dig at Leicester. To be honest, i find it...

Yes, there's the usual mis-information and crap on that forum. However, if we were pissing the league, i expect we'd be quite confident going in to any game, regardless of the opponent.... can't really knock them for being confident. As to the rivalry, yes its geographical, and also based on...

I was stood on the back row of block 25 today. There were a sprinkling of others stood at the back of the nearby blocks, not many people around, no issue at all. About 4 blocks over, a pink-bibbed steward spent most of the first half trying to get a couple of people on the back row to sit down...

Local rivalry aside, i've got nothing against Leicester. Very similar city to Cov, and the football teams weren't so different until a decade ago.

I would take 9 in a heartbeat if it was offered to me.

I raced a downhill fell race on new year's eve. 2.2 miles from the summit of Moel Famau in north-East Wales, down to a pub in a village at the bottom. Weather was shocking on the summit as we waited to start. At the start it was the usual chaos with everyone charging for a good position on the...

Nuneaton & Bedworth have a facebook page.

This is the issue.... fans just lap up all the shit, shrug their shoulders, and say "well this is the modern game". (i'm not claiming to know the solution either!)

This is why the game of football has basically gone to shit. "shithousing" is now such a part of the game that we are happy to see our own team do it. Personally i'd rather not bother paying £30+ to hope my club time-waste.

Club night last night in the deserted, wet and windy Warwick Uni Campus. A continuous hill session of 4 miles. There were only two of us last night, and the other guy is a regular inter-counties runner for Warwickshire, and won the xmas day parkrun, so it was a pretty lonely session for me as i...

You'd be surprised the amount of people this refers to. I've had to buy tickets for a music event this morning. It was plain and simple.... the first 100 in the priority list got half an hour to buy their tickets. The remaining thousands, no matter what your previous place in the entry queue...

Yes i noticed the Cov Half reverting back to what i think is its original time of year. My next road outing (aside from the Midlands/National Road Relays which i do for the club), is likely to be the Ribble Valley 10km, which will be this time next year. One of the quickest 10km's in the...

Kitching sent off after the whistle. Also a Wednesday player

I'll post one up next time i play. Which will undoubtedly be in the next day or two.

I tend to know the overriding principles of openings, but like yourself i don't put the effort in to learn specific lines in great detail.... for black in the French and King's Indian for example, i know what i'm trying to achieve but wouldn't even be able to write down my first ten moves...