halfcenturyup
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Notwithstanding the conspicuous lack of paragraphs that makes your post unnecessarily hard to follow, you make some worthwhile points about the media and the world we live in - which is unquestionably venal - as it always will be when human beings are involved, but that doesn’t make the notion that there was a widespread conspiracy involving (inter alia) the game’s authorities, the media and the playing staff and management at Leicester to make them Champions in 2016/17 before a ball was kicked that season, anything other than extremely unlikely.
Too many actors, too many variables, too many extraneous factors to make the desired outcome likely enough to justify the effort and risk. For such a theory to be true, the protagonists would have needed to have exercised control over the number of points City, Chelsea, Spurs et al garnered, which simply doesn’t bear any objective scrutiny.
There is nothing wrong with displaying scepticism towards what the powerful tell us. Quite the opposite. It is a healthy and sensible place to occupy, but I’m afraid that’s a non-sequitur to theories that are so unlikely as to render them absurd, as I believe any notion that there was a operational plan in effect to make Leicester PL champions in the summer of 2016 in order to win huge sums on betting on the outcome. It simply doesn’t stand up to logical analysis.
I can accept (whilst not necessarily agree with) ancillary arguments around favourable decisions and PEDs once the season was underway, but that isn’t remotely the same thing.
Which is fine. A few people may believe that the season was fixed from the get-go, a few may believe there wasn't any thing unusual at all about it, but I would guess most will just think there was something highly unusual about where Leicester came from, their performance that year and where they have gone since. We all have our theories I suppose, but while we shouldn't be encouraging the more extreme theories, we shouldn't be applauding those who put them down without a second thought, either. As always, the truth will be somewhere in the middle I imagine.
Btw, just adding to your point, not criticising. You have been very reasonable in your thought process, as always m'Lud.