Nick McCarthy

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@XtraLeicester @UNFP @PFA What time is ko

[Tim W @Blueirons]

Josh reckons he is not ready yet. I’m beginning to think he is over qualified 🤣

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@MarkgLcfc Greatest hits album, signing off

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

An official England shirt: £89.99, Nike-made. 🇺🇸

Or — the Admiral Lloyd Ringer Tee. £35. English-owned, Greater Manchester-based. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

And Admiral isn’t just any name: they made England’s kits from the 70s into the early 80s.

This tee is drawn from the 1982 England leisure range — tipped collar and cuffs, two-stripe front print, 225gsm cotton.

A nod to the period, not a replica.

It isn’t sold as Made in England, so it’s not perfect.

But back English-owned brands, help them grow, and reshoring becomes more realistic.

It starts with choosing them.

https://t.co/lUikn7NpF9

[London Boxing History @LDNBOXHISTORY]

Marvin Hagler training at The Craven Arms, Battersea before his challenge to Alan Minter for the World Middleweight Title.

[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

Brian Clough, who loved cricket, bowling at Lord's in a charity match in front of 8000 spectators in August 1975. Clough took 2 for 45 dismissing the great cricketing pair of Geoff Boycott and, er, Clement Freud. With the bat he scored 13. A lover of cricket, he once said he would have prefer to make a Test century at Lord's than to have scored a hat-trick at Wembley

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@MarkgLcfc The towel should have come in Mark

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@nffc2009 135 now

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@nigs64 @mnorman1985 Or Harry Winks or any number of City players

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@MarkgLcfc Do it

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

Leicester City are currently sitting in the Championship relegation zone, facing a potential drop into the third tier of English football, carrying the highest wage bill in the second division.

So far, they have been hit with a six point deduction for breaching profit and sustainability rules and they cycling through managers at an unprecedented rate.

Ten years ago, they were Premier League champions. It was the greatest underdog story in the history of football. At the time, Kim Kardashian had a higher chance of becoming President of the United States than they had of winning the league. They were outsiders with the odds 5000/1 agaisnt them.

And the man who built all of it died in a helicopter crash outside their own stadium in October 2018. Today would have been his 68th birthday.

Did you knowKhun Vichai?

When Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester City in 2010 for £39 million, the club had just come out of League One and had been in administration eight years earlier. They were a second tier club with an unstable recent history and no real expectation of anything beyond survival.

What Vichai did in the years that followed was more than money. Plenty of foreign owners bring money. Almost none of them bring what he brought.

He immediately wiped out £103 million of the club's loans and bought a stadium on behalf of the club. He invested in the squad, promoted the club back to the Premier League by 2014, and then did something no owner at any level of the game had ever managed before.

He won the Premier League title in 2015-16 with a club that started the season at odds of 5,000 to 1. They won it by ten clear points with two games in hand. It remains the most improbable league title in the history of professional football.

But the numbers are not why people loved him. What made Vichai different was the culture he created around the club. He attended virtually every home game. He handed out free beer, doughnuts and scarves to fans. He brought Thai monks to bless the pitch. He gave players Buddhist amulets. He converted a room next to the referees' dressing room into a prayer space. He gave each title winning player a BMW i8 worth £100,000 as a personal thank you. He was present in a way that most billionaire owners simply are not and never are, and the players, staff and supporters felt it every single week.

On 27 October 2018, his helicopter took off from the pitch after a draw with West Ham and crashed in the car park outside the King Power Stadium. He died alongside four others.

Kasper Schmeichel, who had been Leicester's goalkeeper through the title win and who Vichai had loaned his helicopter to for a family holiday, witnessed the crash and ran towards the wreckage. He was powerless to help.

What followed was an attempt by his son Aiyawatt to carry the vision forward. There have been genuine moments, including a first ever FA Cup title in 2021. But the financial architecture built was designed around consistent Premier League revenue and European football.

When that dried up, the walls came down- especially with relegation in 2023. They got an Immediate promotion in 2024 but got relegated again in 2025. and a points deduction in 2026.

They have now accrued losses exceeding £180 million across two seasons and employed eleven managers in under ten years. Aiyawatt himself recently said publicly that his football club is "falling from the stars to the ground."

He is right. And the brutal truth is that the star it fell from was built by one man, with a quiet dignity and a genuine love for a club and a city that loved him back completely.

Rest well, Khun Vichai.

My name is Ajoje and I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I talk about the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow me if you want to read more posts like this.

[Blue Tinted Glasses Tom @BTG_Tom_]

I’ve given Luke Thomas a lot of stick this year, but after sitting down and watching the goal again, there’s really only one person to blame — Mavididi. He doesn’t track his man at all. It’s very lazy defending and it’s what really cost us the three points.

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@PolicyExpert Hello My Name is Nick McCarthy you recently took a payment for House insurance which Before my existing policy has run out and and payment of £212.16 without my permission when will I get my refund please

NJ McCarthy 66 Edendale road

[Craig Wright @craig_wrighty]

@jslovechild Thr glory days, back when East Fife signed Robert De Niro.

"You tackling me? You tackling me???"

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@MarkgLcfc That's really smart did she get it off that bloke off market

[Nick McCarthy @nickmccarthy241]

@MarkgLcfc Bade Aluko looked good to me

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@MarkgLcfc 😂

[London Boxing History @LDNBOXHISTORY]

Boxing News tip Micheal Watson to beat Mike McCallum for his WBA World Middleweight Title at The Royal Albert Hall in April 1990. Watson’s broken nose had caused the fight to be postponed for 5 months.
“The Force” would put up a brave challenge against but be stopped in the 11th

[EverythingBoxing | Darshan Desai @EverythingBoxi2]

🚨 DAVIS & ALLEN ON WOOD-WARRINGTON 2

✅ Eddie Hearn has said that British and Commonwealth champion Ishmael Davis and heavyweight Dave Allen will return on the Feb. 21 Leigh Wood-Josh Warrington undercard.

👀 "The most active man in British boxing, Ishmael Davis. We'll announce the fight on Saturday but very very tough fight for him to go straight back into."

💥 Allen is expected to return in a 8/10 round fight before headlining in the summer.

[London Boxing History @LDNBOXHISTORY]

One for my favourite posters in my collection ❤️