So another season for Leicester City has come to an end.
Our final match was a 4-2 home win against Ipswich on May 7th, but the season effectively finished on Good Friday when we lost 3-2 at local rivals Nottingham Forest in a game we needed to win to have any realistic chance of making the Play-offs. Ironically, Forest's winner resulted from a goalkeeping howler by fans' favourite Chris Weale, recently restored to the team in place of the erratic Ricardo.
Looking back on the last nine months, 2010-2011 has to be considered a disappointment. A missed opportunity. There were no outstanding teams in the Championship this year, no Newcastles or West Broms, and after coming within a fluffed penalty kick of the Play-off final in 2010, hopes were high for this campaign. But things just didn't work out. Why? Well there are lots of reasons.
Parting company with Nigel Pearson in the summer was a big blow, and the short, disastrous reign of Paolo Sousa didn't help. The arrival of Sven Goran Eriksson got our season under way again, but we'd left ourselves too much to do. In the end we were like the runner who fell over on the starting line, ran like a maniac to catch up with the pack, but was too tired to kick on round the last bend. Considering we were bottom of the table after ten games, to finish tenth was a decent achievement. But really, we were hoping for so much more.
Perhaps our biggest problem was our inconsistency. Two statistics sum up Leicester City in 2010-2011. Firstly, we scored more goals at home (48) than any other side in the Championship. But balanced against that, we conceded more goals away from home (44) than Preston and Sheffield United, two of the teams relegated to League One.
All in all though, I'm not too downhearted. I've seen worse. Much, much worse. And as the transfer speculation starts to mount, I can't help thinking this is going to be an interesting summer.
Roll on August...
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