Am I The Only One Who Finds The Histrionics From Leicester City the Past Few Days Hilarious?

[Dirkus_Circus]

First off Jamie Vardy, the Goblin faced dope is having his once in a lifetime magical season and at the first sign of adversity that he has had this season (adversity created by him) he loses his cool and potentially worsens his red card ban by telling off the referee.

He has effed and jeffed at referees all season and I'm glad the FA has finally punished the pointy faced bastard.

Secondly the Robert Huth "penalty shout" is beyond laughable. It could be argued that the foul against him could have been whistled as a penalty but his and his teammates moaning comes across as extremely disingenuous when both he and Wes Morgan wrestle opponents in a similar fashion on almost every defensive set piece.

Never mind that Leicester got the dubious penalty a few minutes later when Andy Carroll made a tackle in the box that allowed Leicester to steal a point.

I can't a remember a single title challenge the last ten seasons that had more lucky breaks and bounces than this from the Foxes and for the first time they get some "bad luck" and completely lose the plot.

 

[manwithnoname]

I have to agree, especially about your last point. They have enjoyed an almost Faustian level of good fortune, which has made me almost want Spurs to overhaul them.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

I have to agree, especially about your last point. They have enjoyed an almost Faustian level of good fortune, which has made me almost want Spurs to overhaul them.

Did you see Kouyate's chance right at the beginning Sunday? Header off the right post rolls along the goaline with the ball spinning towards the goal...hits the other post and inexplicably pops right into Schmeichel hands.

Every title run needs a bit of good fortune but I feel like they have had an inordinate amount this season, and yes I'm still bitter about 13'-14'.

 

[Silver Sean]

First off Jamie Vardy, the Goblin faced dope is having his once in a lifetime magical season and at the first sign of adversity that he has had this season (adversity created by him) he loses his cool and potentially worsens his red card ban by telling off the referee.

He has effed and jeffed at referees all season and I'm glad the FA has finally punished the pointy faced bastard.

Secondly the Robert Huth "penalty shout" is beyond laughable. It could be argued that the foul against him could have been whistled as a penalty but his and his teammates moaning comes across as extremely disingenuous when both he and Wes Morgan wrestle opponents in a similar fashion on almost every defensive set piece.

Never mind that Leicester got the dubious penalty a few minutes later when Andy Carroll made a tackle in the box that allowed Leicester to steal a point.

I can't a remember a single title challenge the last ten seasons that had more lucky breaks and bounces than this from the Foxes and for the first time they get some "bad luck" and completely lose the plot.

No, but you are the only one who capitalises Every Word In Your Thread Title. Are You American?

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

No, but you are the only one who capitalises Every Word In Your Thread Title. Are You American?

No, welsh

 

[Silver Sean]

No, welsh

That's Ok Then 😉

 

[cloggypop]

No, but you are the only one who capitalises Every Word In Your Thread Title. Are You American?

I usually do that as well. Probably.

 

[refugee]

Did you see Kouyate's chance right at the beginning Sunday? Header off the right post rolls along the goaline with the ball spinning towards the goal...hits the other post and inexplicably pops right into Schmeichel hands.

Every title run needs a bit of good fortune but I feel like they have had an inordinate amount this season, and yes I'm still bitter about 13'-14'.

Schmeichel actually got a fingertip to that. It was still lucky, but it was a great save.

 

[Rosco]

Also the fact that they are only in the Premier League because they cheated and some of their team are on PEDs.

 

[gkmacca]

Personally I find the inconsistency among refs far more irritating than anything else. If they pounced on every incident like that buffoon did on certain incidents on Sunday, we'd have most of our defenders banned multiple times, as would most other clubs. Leicester's defending is often outrageously illegitimate, but so are most other defences. If a ref suddenly seizes on one incident and ignores the rest, of course they'll go berserk.

Harry Kane dived once yesterday, and blatantly kicked the ball away on another occasion - two yellow cards that didn't happen. If you're in a title chase, that kind of thing would drive you crazy, and it's disingenuous to claim you'd react in any other way.

I know I'm in a minority but I also usually side with players who give the ref some candid feedback like Vardy did. The FA should realise that refs get such flak when they've had a fecking awful game - they don't tend to get it when they've done well. There's an obvious lesson there, and it's not, simply or primarily, to ban the player.

 

[Insignificance]

I think they have the same rights as Man U and Chelsea to act like cunts when Things are against them....

 

[Woland]

Defo. Vardy getting charged for something Rooneh does every fucking match

 

[darkstarexodus]

Nothing amusing about seeing Spurs back in the race.

And I still can't understand why the "dive" was a yellow card. There was plenty of contact even if Vardy did his best impression of a ballistic missile.

 

[cloggypop]

It's because he ran away from the ball into the player.

 

[Judge Jules]

Up till now I thought Jon Moss was actually one of the better refs.

Tragically, he probably still is.

 

[Shadey]

I wonder if the opponent fans will sing a song about vardy like they did when Gerrard slipped that cost us the title?

 

[peekay]

 

[gkmacca]

The league reminds me of that scene in Annie Hall where the guy is showing off his canned laughter machine ('Now add a medium-sized chuckle...') and Alvy Singer mutters, 'Are there boos in there?' A ref has a great game and he gets applauded for it. A ref has a stinker and everyone he's enraged who show he's enraged them gets fined and/or banned. The ref should apologise to them, not the other way round.

 

[Oliver Twist]

I know I'm in a minority but I also usually side with players who give the ref some candid feedback like Vardy did.

I think your attitude is pervasive. And that's why officials in football get dog's abuse by the participants when in every other sport it is frowned upon and cracked down on.

Football is a joke on that front. In my view, anyways.

 

[gkmacca]

I think your attitude is pervasive. And that's why officials in football get dog's abuse by the participants when in every other sport it is frowned upon and cracked down on.

Football is a joke on that front. In my view, anyways.

Well the players get dog's abuse anyway, so it's a pretty even playing field. I'm much more suspicious of any group being protected from criticism rather than exposed to it. If referees behaved as if they were merely representatives of the laws of the game, rather than vain and smug schoolmaster types forever playing up to the cameras, I'd have more sympathy.

 

[JurgenKlopp]

They can have all the luck, foul or whatever they want, as long as it prevents Spurs from winning the league

 

[Buddha]

Spurs have also had a disproportionate amount of lucky penalty / card decisions go their way too.

 

[Buddha]

The cunts.

 

[manwithnoname]

First off Jamie Vardy, the Goblin faced dope is having his once in a lifetime magical season and at the first sign of adversity that he has had this season (adversity created by him) he loses his cool and potentially worsens his red card ban by telling off the referee.

He has effed and jeffed at referees all season and I'm glad the FA has finally punished the pointy faced bastard.

Secondly the Robert Huth "penalty shout" is beyond laughable. It could be argued that the foul against him could have been whistled as a penalty but his and his teammates moaning comes across as extremely disingenuous when both he and Wes Morgan wrestle opponents in a similar fashion on almost every defensive set piece.

Never mind that Leicester got the dubious penalty a few minutes later when Andy Carroll made a tackle in the box that allowed Leicester to steal a point.

I can't a remember a single title challenge the last ten seasons that had more lucky breaks and bounces than this from the Foxes and for the first time they get some "bad luck" and completely lose the plot.

I must take time to show my appreciation of 'Gobin faced dope' and 'pointy-faced bastard'

Not as glorious as the description someone (cloggy? Mac?) coined, which was some thing about him being made of bad whizz, greyhound piss and elastic bands or similar, but nice anyway.

 

[Oliver Twist]

Well the players get dog's abuse anyway, so it's a pretty even playing field. I'm much more suspicious of any group being protected from criticism rather than exposed to it. If referees behaved as if they were merely representatives of the laws of the game, rather than vain and smug schoolmaster types forever playing up to the cameras, I'd have more sympathy.

If some refs play up to the cameras, they are in the minority in my view. But, yep, I despise an attention seeker as much the next guy who despises an attention seeker but, when it comes to officiating football, I think that issue is quite far down the list of problems.

 

[gkmacca]

You need mutual respect. Football refs have no respect for players, whom they treat like primary school kids, but always get outraged when - quite often as a consequence of their stupid finger-wagging pomposity - they fail to get treated like the vips they think they are. Don't think it's a one-way problem. It isn't.

 

[Oliver Twist]

As I say, I don't feel the majority of refs think they are vips but accept that some will believe so.

 

[doctor_mac]

I must take time to show my appreciation of 'Gobin faced dope' and 'pointy-faced bastard'

Not as glorious as the description someone (cloggy? Mac?) coined, which was some thing about him being made of bad whizz, greyhound piss and elastic bands or similar, but nice anyway.

That sounds like a Wolandism to me.

 

[cloggypop]

Yeah, I would say Woland as well.

 

[Woland]

How very dare you