Ring for Analysis: Leicester City's cautionary tale of incompetence, dysfunction and decline
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
It was just under 10 years ago, on May 7, 2016, that fans gathered outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium to celebrate their side being crowned as the most unlikely champions in the history of English football. Fast-forward a decade and the club has been relegated to League One as part of an unthinkable decline.
On today's episode, Joe & Jon perform Ring for Analysis, while reading through Rob Tanner's Leicester City post-mortem https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7218400/2026/04/23/leicester-city-relegation-inside-story/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | That's a very different intonation on hello. |
| 0:08.0 | Do you want me to do it full? I'm a bit tired. I've already said it once today. |
| 0:11.0 | So I said it again? |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, hold on, hold on. I've got to gee myself up for it. Hold on. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Tifo football podcast. I'm Joe Devine, and this is my second |
| 0:24.1 | podcast of the day. And your third intro of the day after redoing that one. That's true. I'm joined, |
| 0:29.8 | of course, by John McKenzie. Hello, Joe. Now, welcome to Ring for Analysis. This is our audio |
| 0:34.7 | exclusive series where we read very exciting articles published by |
| 0:39.5 | The Athletic and then we pause and talk about them. Here's how it works. I read it and then you'll |
| 0:44.3 | hear John ring a bell that sounds like this when he wants me to pause so he can do some |
| 0:49.8 | analysis. And today's episode is all about Leicester City who have just been relegated from the |
| 0:56.1 | championship down to League One. John, what did we touch on today? Yeah, I think it was a really |
| 1:01.5 | interesting story actually. It was nice to reminisce about Lester winning the Premier League back |
| 1:06.3 | in 2016. Big time. But it's gone very wrong for them since then And yeah, we basically spent the whole of the article sort of digging through the various |
| 1:14.5 | sediments of the history to work out who's to blame. |
| 1:17.8 | And the answer is, you know, it's hard to put your finger on any one thing, right? |
| 1:21.1 | There's lots of different external factors that have played into this. |
| 1:25.1 | And it was quite fun reading about which ones were more or less |
| 1:29.3 | impactful I guess. |
| 1:30.7 | There's lots of fingers and lots of things. |
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