It wont be long until someone does another 'Leicester'

I'm not sure about that. Leicester were one of the relegation favourites.

People would say a team like Brighton would be doing a Leicester if they won it but it wouldn't be similar at all. Brighton are already in Europe, easily in the better half of teams in the league and are a handful for anyone on their day. If they sort their defence out and add a bit more quality, they'll be a very good outfit.

So if Brighton were to do it, it wouldn't be the same at all.

For any team now to do Leicester, it would havr to be someone like Bournemouth or Forest. That's why the odds were 5000/1.
 
5000/1 tells you everything you need to know... Massive inside trading making a lot of doe for certain people in Thailand and elsewhere. Peds for the players, other teams players underperforming and a bit of help from the refs. Won't be long until it happens again I'm sure. Maybe be united next. But in all seriousness maybe Brighton or Brentford with their squeaky clean owners
 
Crooked_rain said:
I'm not sure about that. Leicester were one of the relegation favourites.

People would say a team like Brighton would be doing a Leicester if they won it but it wouldn't be similar at all. Brighton are already in Europe, easily in the better half of teams in the league and are a handful for anyone on their day. If they sort their defence out and add a bit more quality, they'll be a very good outfit.

So if Brighton were to do it, it wouldn't be the same at all.

For any team now to do Leicester, it would havr to be someone like Bournemouth or Forest. That's why the odds were 5000/1.
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It’d have to be a club that played shit football too.

The rags are probably the closest thing these days.

or maybe Brentford.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
100% fair play. Still say morgan and huth were given free reign to foul their way through games. Honestly think the prem league decided to turn a bind eye to assist the fairy tale
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I think it was more that no referee wanted to be the one who burst the media's Leicester Fairytale narrative. Can you imagine the outcry in the press if a referee hadn't given the obligatory penalty for a Vardy dive and Leicester finished second by a point?
That meant that every game they played was always tilted in their favour and after their great start to the season that pushed them through in the second half, especially with everybody else playing so badly.
Their entire gameplay was to run really fast, initiate contact and throw themselves over for either a penalty or a free kick. If it was a free kick then Huth and Morgan would step up with one grappling the nearest defender and the other climbing on anyone near them to get a head on the ball.
I said to my Mrs around Christmas that year that with Leicester staying in and around the top and challenging for the league then they would eventually have to start playing to the same rules as everyone else but that never happened.
Same thing happened when Liverpool were gifted a league title, a combination of referees being scared/unable to make a decision unless someone flopped to the floor because of uncertainties about the use of the newly introduced VAR (a big help to teams who's gameplan was already to run fast, initiate contact and throw themsleves over in and around the box), a positive press campaign allowing them to play to different rules and a team with no shame who knew how to bend and break the rules to take advantage of the referees insecurities.
Spurs fans would be livid about the Leicester league win if their own team hadn't gone for their usual self inflicted implosion that year.
 
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