Old blue eyes falls victim to Thai chop again.
Some wished and some feared, about the eventual departure of Leicester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson. Well it's happened, Leicester's mega rich Thai owners felt that in Mr. Eriksson’s brief tenure he did not deliver enough to ensure to them that promotion was on the cards. Thirteen league games in one might say that it is absurd to conclude this and subsequently carry out a very expensive dismissal. During Sven's rein it has arguably been Leicester's most exiting period for many years, the softly spoken Scandinavian always reassured the Leicester faithful that he would try his best to achieve the owners dreams of owning a team in the premier league, and his of managing again at England's highest level, however a 3-0 home defeat at the hands of struggling Millwall proved to be the final chapter for Sven.
During the summer thousands of Leicester fans were impatiently awaiting Sven's first summer signing, and what a pleasant surprise it turned out to be, Lee Peltier was the first name through the King Power's freshly polished doors, this was reassuring to me as a fan because it proved that Sven and his team were not going to spend all summer chasing dreams and missing out on one or two hidden gems. Once one came through the door several followed, Kasper Schmeichel, Neil Danns, David Nugent and Matt Mills, all established championship players, Sven also managed to use his contact book to bring in Players such as Gelson Fernandes and Michael Johnson. Over all I was personally over the moon with our summer signings, but I never once took for granted that we would smash every opponent that we came up against.
We got off to the perfect start in beating bitter rivals Coventry away, and managing to defeat both high flyers in Southampton and Brighton, which we rarely managed last year, In fact you could count on one hand how many top six teams we defeated last year, this year we have seen off the Saints, Brighton and derby and held draws with both Boro and Cardiff, granted we had one or two slip ups along the way but we still managed to succeed in areas where we failed last year, for instance Q.P.R we lost, also Norwich, Swansea and Cardiff we were pushed over buy, so there is a definite improvement. As for the table, look back to this time last year, we were recovering from a really disastrous start and lets face it if it wasn't for Sven and his contacts, we will most likely have been involved in a relegation scrap.
I think Sven worked nothing short of a miracle last season and was very unlucky not to get us into the play offs. This season was a case of getting promotion at the end of the season, and I strongly believe that Sven would have delivered that. I believe that this is a rash and naïve decision from our owners, As history has shown sending managers packing early has never helped Leicester City, I feel both disappointed and let down by our owners for not giving Sven until at least Christmas to get the team into gear. Ultimately the owners made the decision and it is what they do next that is important, It's easy to say I want a big name like Martin O'Neill or Mark Hughes but it is a case picking who we need, not who they want! We need a manager with experience of taking over a team in our position before, we need a manager who has experience in this league, we need a manager who can get the best out of his players, we need a manager to pick up the pieces of this frustrating period and piece back together our promotion charge, Ultimately we need Billy Davies.
On behalf of most Leicester City fans I thank Sven for his time at the club and wish him all the best with his managerial future, he is a true gent.
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