Leicester Mercury

but took over as lead of the under-18s just a month or so ago.

I spoke to him last week, along with the Leicester Mercury's Josh Holland.

You'll hear him pop up with a question during our chat.

This is my conversation with Leicester City's under-18s coach, Matt Rains.

Yes, indeed he was.

Josh Holland for the Leicester Mercury.

Again, very good copy there from Josh regarding Leicester.

And during the game, there was one or two instances, of course, there was the offside goal.

That's what it kind of looks like.

And so for five weeks, but this was later put back to about two weeks during the summer.

And that was Josh Holland from the Leicester Mercury reporting that.

So it looks like there was a period of time at the start of the summer, at the start of the transfer window where Leicester couldn't really spend and it was kind of kept quiet.

There we go, two Reeses.

Praised in the Leicester Mercury.

Bargain who Russell Martin loves is already proving his worth.

I wanted to bring this up because this is an article Josh Holland wrote this week for the Leicester Mercury, obviously the Leicester Reporter.

and he talked about how emil risks obviously has been a right bargain for us he's now got four goals and six league one appearances russell martin has been quoted when asked about it and saying it's a huge signing for us you know and he's always been first choice for the football club and it's taken a long while because we had to get players out the football club to be able to bring him in and he could have gone to a lot of other places like we said i mean reese what's your thoughts on how emil reese has done so far for us

I think for me he gives us that old school centre forward play.

Because every now and then, and again, you mentioned it in that Meg Hillier interview earlier, Every now and then there is some nugget in the budget that everybody focuses on.

This is a phenomenon I first noticed years and years ago in my days working for the Leicester Mercury, where I cover the budget meetings for Leicestershire County Council.

And a billion pounds worth of expenditure would be waved through, and they'd then have a five-hour argument about paperclips.

And sometimes that's what happens with budgets.

How you doing? Welcome to When You're Smiling with me, Owen Palmer Atkin.

With me on the show today, former Foxes defender Matt Heath and the Leicester Mercury's Josh Holland.

We're going to start though with some news that broke today regarding the summer business done by Leicester City.

BBC Sport revealed that the Foxes were working under a transfer embargo for five weeks in the summer.

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I'm sure Leicester City's, uh, the Leicester Mercury journalists are finding that out this season.

They've app- apparently they get bugger all nowadays.

I think they've, they've, uh, withdrawn all sorts of, um, all sorts of stuff at Leicester.

Is there a sense in the local area that the Annie Elizabeth is renowned and celebrated in any way?

Well, the Leicester Mercury, the local paper, every year in October used to publish an article, there's one or two here, about the Annie Elizabeth tree and saying it's somewhere in the Knighton area and nobody knows where it is.

it's time to seek out some hard facts.

So I'm heading to the records office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rotland, where archivist Jeanette Ovenden has been doing some digging of her own.

I said, "Why are you here?" It, it's from the Leicester Advertiser.

Le- anyway, but Leicester Mercury.

Leicester Mercury.

And, uh, I said, "Could you just have a picture?" And I put my arms behind my back like this, like I've been arrested.

It made 46 national newspapers.

And we ended up with Facebook groups, um, Facebook pages, I think 20 different volunteer-led news agencies.

We had a newspaper every month for young people called The Wave in the Leicester Mercury in partnership with them.

We had a college of journalism, use of their room in the BBC Radio Leicester.

That building's not in any public use at all now.