Like the kindly pal who comforts the crying girl in the nightclub toilets, Leicester City have a habit of cheering up teams who've been feeling down in the dumps of late.
Newcastle, Liverpool, West Brom, QPR... we've given them all a lift in troubled times. Next up: Aston Villa.
City head for Birmingham tomorrow, for the first league meeting between the sides since we got thumped 5-0 back in 2004, in a season they stuck a total of eight past us.
Watch it on Sky Sports 1 from 3.30pm. Possibly from behind the sofa.
Right, The Sound of Music is up and running at Curve.
We've put our own review through the Mercury centrifuge and here are the denser words and phrases that went spinning away from the axis: Joyful, glorious arrangements, well-drilled, immense likeability, goosebumps, flawless, spine-tingling, fear, uncertainty, sheer beauty, poignancy, worth the ticket price alone. Get the picture? Good. It's on until January 17.
A little piece of history will be made at Welford Road tomorrow.
Someone in the Tigers ticket office has noticed that the club will hit a landmark tomorrow when the home crowds for European games top the one million mark.
The two-time European champions Tigers have notched up gates of 981,309 at Welford Road during European competition and after flogging more than 20,000 tickets for tomorrow's visit of Toulon, a milestone has been passed.
A fancy-that fact, ripe for pub quiz setters: The Tigers are the only club to play in Europe's elite competition in every year of English participation since 1996/97.
It kicks off tomorrow at 5.30pm, and if you can't get to the game, it's on BT Sport 2 from 5.15pm.
Manchester City croon Blue Moon. Stoke sing Delilah. Sunderland belt out I Can't Help Falling In Love With You. West Ham have I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.
But Leicester City's very own terrace anthem, the depression-era When You're Smiling, never really gets the rousing rendition it deserves.
Too mumbly. Too rushed. Nowhere near enough City fans join in.
Jersey Budd raised hopes that our premature enunciation would come to an end when he recorded a slowed-down version of the song with the team back in 2010, but it didn't do the trick. In fact, we can't recall the last time we heard his take played at the ground. Ho-hum. Jersey's at The Cookie Jar tonight.
If Leicester was a cliche-ridden American high school movie, Clarendon Park would play the role of the slacker outsiders. The ones who occasionally get shoved from behind by the jocks.
Tomorrow, the most free-spirited bit of town stages its annual Christmas Fair, when Queens Road is closed to traffic and the crowds mill about a multitude of street stalls and life is agreeable.
There are two entertainment stages and fun fair rides, too.
It starts at 11am and finishes at 5pm.
Meanwhile, over the road on Victoria Park, the Great Leicester Santa Run starts at 10.30am and finishes at 1pm. So if you were thinking of driving over and effortlessly finding somewhere to park, because it's a Sunday, you might want to think again.
www.thesantarun.org.uk/great-leicestershire-santa-run.html
Here's a jolly thing. Each year the south Leicestershire village of Burton Overy fills its church with a sparkling display of Christmas trees.
You can see it from 10am to 6pm today, and 10am to 5pm tomorrow.
Admission is £2, children go free, and there are gift stalls too. Proceeds go to the Alzheimer's Society, the church and the village hall.
