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They have a game Tuesday I think, which will get postponed. How could they possibly be expected to train in preparation for the match with us, against this kind of backdrop? I fully expect our game against them to be postponed too. Although what has unfolded makes football incidental.
A really tragic accident.
Prayers for their families.
BTW: My post isn't meant to suggest that you hadn't grasped the gravity of the event or its broader impact. I can see where you were trying to come from.
Bbc reported the manager may have been on board.
Was expecting to wake up to lots of news about it today but so far nothing. My initial reaction is i don't think that's a good sign at all.
The Leicester manager most likely on board because he has not issued any statement.
I imagine players might also have been on board.
Tragic.
I’ve always been scared of helicopters myself
I post as I am about to take off from Gatwick..
Hence the complete news blackout.
It's a horrible and traumatic event. Football becomes secondary by a considerable distance. RIP those who have died and suffered in the football world this weekend. Next weeks fixture list can wait.
My heartfelt sympathies to all of the victims and their families. A very sad day.
I can't remember a worse day for football, personally.
I was too young to understand the seriousness of Hillsborough, but surely yesterday had to be the blackest day in British football since then?
Very sad.
It’s funny that if it wasn’t football related and it were a crash involving some randoms in Cumbria or Shropshire, it wouldn’t get more than a passing glance in the media, nor would the wider public really be too concerned.
Personally, I don’t have any feelings of sadness. I don’t know these people. I think the strongest feelings I have are passing shock, especially when reading the manager might have been involved. But as for their chairman, it’s bad but there are much worse things going on out there. At least he got to live the life he did.
Part of it is probably because it happened at a football stadium, a place where many of us go each weekend or maybe even live very close to. So there's something for us to relate to.
But mainly, if you don't feel any kind of sadness about it, then that's great for you. Thanks for sharing.
Leicester City owner 'on board' as helicopter crashes in King Power Stadium car park
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ium-car-park1/
Still nothing official. Sky say sources indicate the owner, his daughter, a pilot and navigator plus an unknown other person were aboard.
Respect should be shown as well as caution in response because we don't know yet the extent of what happened or who exactly was inolved - yes.
Of course respect is not a zero-sum game but I also understand the reaction that there are several other incidents this weekend that are also sad and/or dramatic. Perhaps the Leicester owner's actions during the year they won the premier league are making it hit home harder but I can't help but feel that talk of cancelling next weekend's game is over the top.
Still nothing being said in the paper about any casualties ....... Just hoping for the best I guess
My heart goes out to all those effected
I'm reading a lot of people saying next Saturdays game has already been postponed ....... any official confirmation on that?
LCFC statement: https://www.lcfc.com/news/890995/clu.../press-release
It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our Chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside King Power Stadium. None of the five people on-board survived.
The primary thoughts of everyone at the Club are with the Srivaddhanaprabha family and the families of all those on-board at this time of unspeakable loss.
In Khun Vichai, the world has lost a great man. A man of kindness, of generosity and a man whose life was defined by the love he devoted to his family and those he so successfully led. Leicester City was a family under his leadership. It is as a family that we will grieve his passing and maintain the pursuit of a vision for the Club that is now his legacy.
A book of condolence, which will be shared with the Srivaddhanaprabha family, will be opened at King Power Stadium from 8am on Tuesday 30 October for supporters wishing to pay their respects.
Supporters unable to visit King Power Stadium that wish to leave a message can do so through an online book of condolence, which will be made available via lcfc.com in due course.
Both Tuesday’s First Team fixture against Southampton in the EFL Cup and the Development Squad fixture against Feyenoord in the Premier League International Cup have been postponed.
Everyone at the Club has been truly touched by the remarkable response of the football family, whose thoughtful messages of support and solidarity have been deeply appreciated at this difficult time.