Monday Night Club: Why Leicester have gone down & what Leeds & Burnley can learn from it
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Leicester City relegated, while Leeds United & Burnley are promoted. Mark Chapman, Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Joe Hart react to Leicester going down & Leeds & Burnley going up.
Leicester City Correspondent for BBC Radio Leicester Owynn Palmer-Atkin joins the pod to dissect what has gone wrong at the club, from Steve Cooper’s appointment to Ruud van Nistelrooy’s takeover to disgruntlement with the ownership.
Leeds and Burnley secure automatic promotion to the Premier League after wins over Stoke City and Sheffield United. Hear from Leeds winger Dan James and Burnley captain Josh Cullen.
Timecodes: 00:30 What’s gone wrong at Leicester? 11:10 Steve Cooper’s management of young Leicester players 17:15 Entitlement culture in football 26:35 Players & manager demands 35:25 Burnley captain Josh Cullen post-promotion 40:00 Leeds winger Dan James post-promotion 41:40 How Leeds & Burnley stay up next season
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| 0:44.7 | This is Five Live Sport. |
| 0:47.6 | The Monday Night Club with Mark Chapman. |
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| 0:54.2 | Welcome to the Monday Night Club, Rory Smith, Chris Sutton and Joe Hart with us. |
| 0:57.9 | Coming up, we'll get reaction to Leeds and Burnley's promotion from the championship. |
| 1:00.9 | But we'll start with a club going in the opposite direction. |
| 1:04.4 | Rud van Nistroi's Lester relegated to the championship. |
| 1:12.5 | Their season in a nutshell, two managers, four wins, no home lead goals for almost five months. So last time they scored at home, December the 8th. No side has gone nine straight home defeats without scoring until |
| 1:19.4 | Lester. A plane flew over the stadium pre-match with the message King Power clueless sack the board. |
| 1:26.0 | Jamie Vardy this afternoon tweeted this. At this point, |
| 1:29.8 | I don't even know what to say. No words I have can ever express my feelings of anger and sadness |
| 1:34.7 | with the way this season has gone. There are no excuses. Collectively, as players and as a club, |
| 1:40.2 | we've failed, there is simply no hiding. I refuse to entertain any suggestion of doing so. |
| 1:45.9 | Having been at this club for so long, we've experienced so many highs and successes, |
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