What does it mean to be a football fan? Nowadays it is really not that clear. Am I a football fan? I really don’t know. What I do know is that when 4:45pm comes around on Saturday (I know football doesn’t work that way the games are spread all over the place but humour me) the one result I look for is Leicester’s. I have done that for most of my life. Would I go to a game? No. I have attended too many games in my life to have had that knocked out of my system. But still Leicester is the only team I really care about.

This is why I don’t believe the long term future of football isn’t in the deserts of the Arabian peninsula nor the boardrooms of financial organisations. Football, as far as England is concerned, is the team you care about. Leicester has been lucky over the past few years but that luck ran out last season and they went down. I read in the Athletic that Brendan Rodgers is a 3 season manager. If he stays any longer then it doesn’t go well for the team he is incharge of at that time. Well guess what he was at Leicester for nearly 4 seasons.

So a new season, a new division and a new manager Enzo Maresca. The first game was a victory – that is good even if they were lucky but 3 points are 3 points. It is a long way to May and hopefully promotion. Leicester are the favourite to win the division and over the past few years 2 of the 3 promotion places have been taken by teams recently relegated from the Premiership. So 66% chance of promotion – not bad odds – perhaps the £44 million Leicester will receive as a parachute payment from the Premiership well help them keep as many players as they can. Let’s hope so