Today's other games....

[hamstrung_pigeon]

While we did beat them once this season, I think no other club in the league has helped them more than us in stalling the challenge of their nearest title rivals. With the Spurs game concluded, we took 6 points from City, and cost Arsenal and Spurs 4 points each (we even should've won at least 2 of those 4 games).

We did yield 6 points to each of West Ham and Man Utd (yeah I know right - how the fuck did we let that happen?) but they were never in the title race anyway.

Leicester's upcoming fixtures list isn't easy so hopefully they can hold their nerves and push to the finishing line.

 

[cloggypop]

Everton singing Manchester is full of shit.

 

[manwithnoname]

While we did beat them once this season, I think no other club in the league has helped them more than us in stalling the challenge of their nearest title rivals. With the Spurs game concluded, we took 6 points from City, and cost Arsenal and Spurs 4 points each (we even should've won at least 2 of those 4 games).

We did yield 6 points to each of West Ham and Man Utd (yeah I know right - how the fuck did we let that happen?) but they were never in the title race anyway.

Leicester's upcoming fixtures list isn't easy so hopefully they can hold their nerves and push to the finishing line.

Yayyyyy!

Oh wait.

 

[manwithnoname]

Still hard to fathom this Leicester rise to the brink of the Title lark. Crazy, crazy shit.

Not worth trying to work it out, it's a total fluke and will never happen again. They won't even finish Top 4 next season.

I saw some cretin talking up Pearson as manager for Villa, or Forest or whoever. And they said 'Look at Leicester! That's basically his team at the top of the premiership! Imagine what he could do here!'

His team finished 14th and he got sacked.

 

[gene hughes]

Everton are so very poo.

 

[Judge Jules]

Shame innit.

 

[cloggypop]

Everton are so very poo.

They have adapted to their surroundings nicely.

 

[Kay Age El]

Not worth trying to work it out, it's a total fluke and will never happen again. They won't even finish Top 4 next season.

I saw some cretin talking up Pearson as manager for Villa, or Forest or whoever. And they said 'Look at Leicester! That's basically his team at the top of the premiership! Imagine what he could do here!'

His team finished 14th and he got sacked.

It may be a once in a lifetime appearance that a team with so little backing prior to the season goes on an win it all but of course it's not a 'total fluke'.

You don't win 1-nil week in week out and lead the Premiership with a decent gap with 7 games to go solely down to luck or chance. I am not even sure you really believe that yourself or is that indeed what you are saying? I am not sure what you are saying actually.

Whilst it may not occur again that's not the same as saying as Leicester was only lucky, because everyone who has watched them player more than a couple of times this season know that they are actually quite a balanced, talented, hard working team with a core of key players capable of playing in almost every team out there.

You can win a game or two by fluke - not the Premiership. Obviously.

PS Even though they might regress and get a far rougher ride next year I am not as convinced as you that they will drop deep at all. They have been the best team now since March or April, 2015, point wise. And as you say yourself the best team is the team with the most points over the course of a Season (see your Spurs vs Pool argue in other threads).

 

[Judge Jules]

I don't really believe anyone thinks Leicester are where they are purely on luck, but there's no question they've had that too. Other teams around them (a) have been in transition and (b) have had to cope with many more fixtures, as well as with the injuries those bring. That's absolutely not to take credit away from Leicester and what will be a magnificent achievement, but the stars really have aligned in their favour this season, though they deserve a whole lot of credit for making it count in a way which, sadly, we failed to do a couple of seasons ago under similar circs.

Just been listening to a queue of Mancs on the radio saying how Mourinho would get them playing good football and bringing youngsters through. It's amazing what people can persuade themselves to believe if they're desperate enough.

 

[tombrown]

While I love the idea of Leicester winning the title, I also dread it as it would take away our excuse of not having the financial advantage that Chelski, Scum & Citeh have.

Still, on balance, still want them to win it

 

[gkmacca]

The way we crumbled under pressure a couple of seasons ago should merit a permanent yellow stripe down the back of the shirts, much like the champions league sticker they so gleefully incorporate. Even Leicester won't collapse like that.

 

[King Binny]

Talking about mental strength and "bouncebackability"
- 2012/13: 6th in Championship, knocked out in Play-off semi finals
- 2013/14: Championship winners by 9 pts
- 2014/15: Bottom at Christmas with only 10 points gained from 17 matches, and still rooted to the foot of the table 12 games later with only nine more points
- 2014/15: Survived a 13-match winless streak (11 defeats and 2 draws) at the turn of the year (2014/15) to finished the season strongly by winning 7 of their last 9 league games to stay up last season
-2015/16: 7 1-0 wins, unbeaten in last 12 at home, best away side (P16 W10 D4 L2) with best away attack (29 goals, failed to score in 1), won 11 points from losing position (bettered only by West Ham and Tottenham)

 

[Dreambeliever]

3 wins and a draw should be enough now

 

[Kay Age El]

I don't really believe anyone thinks Leicester are where they are purely on luck, but there's no question they've had that too. Other teams around them (a) have been in transition and (b) have had to cope with many more fixtures, as well as with the injuries those bring. That's absolutely not to take credit away from Leicester and what will be a magnificent achievement, but the stars really have aligned in their favour this season, though they deserve a whole lot of credit for making it count in a way which, sadly, we failed to do a couple of seasons ago under similar circs.

Just been listening to a queue of Mancs on the radio saying how Mourinho would get them playing good football and bringing youngsters through. It's amazing what people can persuade themselves to believe if they're desperate enough.

Agree with all of that.

 

[HC]

there's so many 'nice' stories in this Leicester side , obviously vardy steals the show but you can look at the majority of the squad and think 'ow the fuck has he managed that !?

Fair play to them

 

[manwithnoname]

there's so many 'nice' stories in this Leicester side , obviously vardy steals the show but you can look at the majority of the squad and think 'ow the fuck has he managed that !?

Fair play to them

Vardy isn't a nice story, he's a horrible, thick, nasty council estate, twat.

 

[HC]

You mean footballers aren't nice people ?

Gerard,messi, Rooney, terry and whoever yes , they aren't saints but that's doesn't make vardys rise through the footballing system anything other than meteoric

 

[manwithnoname]

You mean footballers aren't nice people ?

Gerard,messi, Rooney, terry and whoever yes , they aren't saints but that's doesn't make vardys rise through the footballing system anything other than meteoric

Lots of them are quite nice people, probably.

I think Vardy just seems a particularly virile strain of the thick-as-fuck-white-van-lad mentality with his ankle tags, chat shit get banged meme and casual, drunken racism in casinos. He now earns 80,000 a week instead of £20,000 a year, but still looks like he'd be very at home in Halifax, in a pair of white Reeboks and trackies, downing Blue WKD in a Wetherspoons while snorting £20 bags of low-grade cocaine and chatting up local teenagers to try and film them giving blow jobs in the toilet

 

[HC]

Ahuh , tax avoidance is a crime above Vardys station haha, agreed.

He does strike you as the type to batter a DJ over Phil Collins or bang a family members partner ?

Also I like the fact you attribute the perpetuation of a meme to the individual it's based around. Ultimately ,I think you're stereotype is applicable to the majority of the above no matter the level of their nouveau richeness'

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

Vardy isn't a nice story, he's a horrible, thick, nasty council estate, twat.

There's a few on the Leicester team who are a bit dodgy. I read last week that Danny Simpson was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend before. Huth got in some sort of racism/homophobia trouble last year I think too.

 

[manwithnoname]

Ahuh , tax avoidance is a crime above Vardys station haha, agreed.

He does strike you as the type to batter a DJ over Phil Collins or bang a family members partner ?

Also I like the fact you attribute the perpetuation of a meme to the individual it's based around. Ultimately ,I think you're stereotype is applicable to the majority of the above no matter the level of their nouveau richeness'

No, there's something uniquely provincial and small-time about Vardy's brand of council, and the various memes around him are perpetuated for a good reason.
He's exactly what a Premiership footballer would look like if it had grown in a petri dish cultivated from Jeremy Kyle's TV audience.

Obviously I dislike Terry more. That's a given.

 

[King Binny]

 

[Gary25]

There's a few on the Leicester team who are a bit dodgy. I read last week that Danny Simpson was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend before. Huth got in some sort of racism/homophobia trouble last year I think too.

Wes Morgan looks like a big cuddly bear though.

 

[Judge Jules]

Doesn't play like one. He's one of the nastiest players in the Prem and I don't like the idea of that thug lifting the Prem trophy on the day it happens.

 

[LarryHagman]

Anyone know of any decent B&Bs in Halifax?