EPL : Leicester City 3 Arsenal 0
Apr 28, 2019 10:53:04 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 28, 2019 10:53:04 GMT
If this match was being played as originally scheduled, on Monday night, there may have been somewhere around here to find something to eat. As it is we are here, courtesy of Arsenal's involvement in Thursday's Europa League, faced with a noon kick-off on a Sunday, and there are a lot of hungry fans milling about with nowhere open where they can eat some grub.
I was looking forward to trying a pint at the Local Hero pub, just by the King Power Stadium, but it opens at precisely the time of kick-off, so nothing doing, brahs. This game's gonna be witnessed by a lot of fans on a belly-rumbling empty gut. You simply can't succumb, despite your hunger, to the snack shacks in and around the stadium where they peddle lined-up burger patties slapped unceremoniously between two halves of a dry bun and call it Lé Fox Deluxe.
But as for me, I'm okay, Jack, and ye can pull up the ladder any time ye want - my belly is full. My overnight stay at the Leicester City Centre Premier Inn (£49 advance booking and just over one mile from the stadium) was very pleasant indeed and I had the foresight to pre-book the all-you-can-eat hot and cold breakfast buffet at an additional fee of £8.95.
The food on offer, kept well-heated and topped up at regular intervals, is just the ticket, and those Lenny Henry TV ads do not lie, brahs. Enjoy your nine sovs' worth of unlimited fayre - fat mouth-watering sausages, medium-to-well rashers of chewy back bacon, freshly prepared scrambled or fried eggs, tender glistening nuggets of button mushrooms, seared slices of succulent well-done black pudding, baked beans smothered with thick tangy sauce, plump halves of delicately charred fried tomatoes, golden brown vegetarian sausages, crispy hash browns with delightfully soft fluffy fillings, toast-your-own-toast white or brown with unlimited hygienic individual 10mg portion packs of rich creamy butter, and also a number of branded cereals with pour-your-own fresh full-fat or skimmed milk, as well as buttery or chocolate croissants, various other light pastries, steaming aromatic coffee, pleasingly scalding tea (Traditional Breakfast, Assam and one or two others) and a refreshing ensemble of four or five different chilled juices including orange, grapefruit and pineapple.
It's a marvellous feast to behold. You won't hear cries of "Oh, bah, the bacon has run out" here because every ten minutes or so out pops chef from his kitchen bearing trays of top-up grub just a-sizzlin' and a-steamin' to keep the buffet nicely replenished.
The breakfast here will keep you going for at least 4-5 hours and if you've a mind to you might even smuggle a couple of croissants into your bag for the meantime, nay worries. Nine quid and you're well in.
The Top 4 situation is becoming quite an issue as we approach the final hurdles of the season. Spurs, sitting third, lost at home, their proper home, yesterday to a vibrant West Ham, and are still not certain of a Champions League spot (unless they win it this year, of course) Chelsea faltered v Bastard Burnley on Easter Monday, Arsenal have lost to Palace and Wolves, and Man Utd have now just a glimmer of Top 4 status after defeats to Everton and City.
Let's see what Arsenal can do today. Leicester will be out to give them a rocketing good account of themselves following the 3-1 defeat at The Emirates back in October.
My Easi-Trav portable barometer informs me that at 12.00pm the temperature inside the stadium will be a mild 12c with clouds above and a north north westerly wind of 11mph (gusts reaching up to 20mph giving fans and players the illusion of a real-feel temperature of 10c) Humidity will clock in at just 54% and with visibility categorized as G for good and a one in ten chance of rain there can be no excuses for anything other than an entertaining game of football here today.
I was looking forward to trying a pint at the Local Hero pub, just by the King Power Stadium, but it opens at precisely the time of kick-off, so nothing doing, brahs. This game's gonna be witnessed by a lot of fans on a belly-rumbling empty gut. You simply can't succumb, despite your hunger, to the snack shacks in and around the stadium where they peddle lined-up burger patties slapped unceremoniously between two halves of a dry bun and call it Lé Fox Deluxe.
But as for me, I'm okay, Jack, and ye can pull up the ladder any time ye want - my belly is full. My overnight stay at the Leicester City Centre Premier Inn (£49 advance booking and just over one mile from the stadium) was very pleasant indeed and I had the foresight to pre-book the all-you-can-eat hot and cold breakfast buffet at an additional fee of £8.95.
The food on offer, kept well-heated and topped up at regular intervals, is just the ticket, and those Lenny Henry TV ads do not lie, brahs. Enjoy your nine sovs' worth of unlimited fayre - fat mouth-watering sausages, medium-to-well rashers of chewy back bacon, freshly prepared scrambled or fried eggs, tender glistening nuggets of button mushrooms, seared slices of succulent well-done black pudding, baked beans smothered with thick tangy sauce, plump halves of delicately charred fried tomatoes, golden brown vegetarian sausages, crispy hash browns with delightfully soft fluffy fillings, toast-your-own-toast white or brown with unlimited hygienic individual 10mg portion packs of rich creamy butter, and also a number of branded cereals with pour-your-own fresh full-fat or skimmed milk, as well as buttery or chocolate croissants, various other light pastries, steaming aromatic coffee, pleasingly scalding tea (Traditional Breakfast, Assam and one or two others) and a refreshing ensemble of four or five different chilled juices including orange, grapefruit and pineapple.
It's a marvellous feast to behold. You won't hear cries of "Oh, bah, the bacon has run out" here because every ten minutes or so out pops chef from his kitchen bearing trays of top-up grub just a-sizzlin' and a-steamin' to keep the buffet nicely replenished.
The breakfast here will keep you going for at least 4-5 hours and if you've a mind to you might even smuggle a couple of croissants into your bag for the meantime, nay worries. Nine quid and you're well in.
The Top 4 situation is becoming quite an issue as we approach the final hurdles of the season. Spurs, sitting third, lost at home, their proper home, yesterday to a vibrant West Ham, and are still not certain of a Champions League spot (unless they win it this year, of course) Chelsea faltered v Bastard Burnley on Easter Monday, Arsenal have lost to Palace and Wolves, and Man Utd have now just a glimmer of Top 4 status after defeats to Everton and City.
Let's see what Arsenal can do today. Leicester will be out to give them a rocketing good account of themselves following the 3-1 defeat at The Emirates back in October.
My Easi-Trav portable barometer informs me that at 12.00pm the temperature inside the stadium will be a mild 12c with clouds above and a north north westerly wind of 11mph (gusts reaching up to 20mph giving fans and players the illusion of a real-feel temperature of 10c) Humidity will clock in at just 54% and with visibility categorized as G for good and a one in ten chance of rain there can be no excuses for anything other than an entertaining game of football here today.
