Leicester chairman's chopper crashes outside Stadium

That surely can’t be the case?

There’s a weird element of secrecy about the identities of the passengers that makes no sense.

 

Probably had a brass with him.

 

I have no idea why but this just made me spit coffee all over the front room... my daughters both asked what I was reading a nd when I said it was a thread about the helicopter crash they looked at me with disgust...when I fully explained they looked at me with pity ... while slowly shaking their heads in despair...

you **** Spurlock ... they used to look up to me

 

Confirmed that he and 4 others have all died, awful

One of the good guys in football it seems too.

RIP

 

What he did for my football club and my city is beyond words ...

RIP Vichai and thank you ... you made dreams come true

 

RIP

They should name the stadium after him.

 

One of the victims name is Kaveporn.

 

**** man, bad ****. Thoughts are with you Fossy

On a serious - this is such a tragedy, puts football in perspective.

 

I know there's 5 dead people here, which is extremely sad...

But - How will this effect Leicester as a club, financially etc.?

 

I tend to think you’re taking the piss

 

As you rightly point out, the most important thing is the 5 lives lost but I’m sure lots of our fans are wondering that.
Even from the start, it was Vichai and his eldest son Aiwatt (known as Top) as his second in command and between them they seem to always represent the family at games. I believe theirs another son (known as Tip) who is an exec on the board and 2 daughters who have involvement.
It has been suggests Top will take the reigns and Tip step up to second in command.
I guess we won’t know as the family will need to grieve and I guess it begs the question whether they’ll be able to face it given he died at the stadium. Personally I think they’ll continue the vision. They didn’t buy us as a short term thing and tragedy aside, Vichai would have passed away in the future and I’m sure the plan would have been to pass down in the family.
I hope so anyway..

 

Thought he was just a football chairman, only just found out about the donations he made to hospitals and stuff in Leicester.

Seems there are some people who genuinely use their wealth to help others, and he was one of them.

Wait for the skeletons to come tumbling out the closet now I’ve said that.

 

I hope you're right mate because this could be extremely bad for the club otherwise.

Such a sad thing.

 

After what he's done for the club he deserves some kind of memorial. A stand named after him... even a statue, the guy was heavily involved in Leicester doing the impossible.....


He even bought the players matching blue cars

 

He’s a big reason for Spurs not winning the league that year and for that we should all be grateful.

 

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He definitely deserves some special awards for that.

 

As I say, if he’d passed away for example in Thailand of a cause like a heart attack, I don’t think it’d be in question. The only reason I believe they wouldn’t continue is whether they can face coming back. But they are invested in the city and know we count them as our own so we can’t do any more. Might be interesting to know from @Archers Road @The Liebherr Legacy and other saints what the thoughts were of your fan base when you lost your owner

 

I agree, the stadium is already named after his business legacy so I’d not change that but certainly a stand and a statue

 

Dont ask them. They had fat kat who wasnt interested in making them a superpower and ended up as liverpools feeder team. Now sold off to some tight chinese owners out for a buck