The Leicester City Thread (merged)

[woolleyback blue]

Foinavon.

 

[foxedup]

well.......there was 3 websites that i read and video evidence of a "doctor" saying he had prescribed PED's to certain players and stats that backed up the rumours about the whole thing and not to mention the inside trader betting. but they have all mysteriuosly vanished now. it opened my eyes anyway.

Please, for goodness sake please don't tell me you believed that utter nonsense. Yes, they probably have disappeared when the moron got a solicitors letter threatening him for writing and posting up utter utter bull plop with zero evidence and zero foundation for anything he was writing. You can't go around accusing people of doping and match fixing etc like he was, literally naming peoples names. I think he even accused people on match of the day for being in on it FFS.

Do people just believe everything they read theses days? Did you not consider fact checking anything, because people did... and he was talking totally out of his arse.

 

[foxedup]

You'd think they would struggle if teams just parked the bus against them next season but what I don't understand is why teams wouldn't have been doing that against them for the last few months. They have been top of the league since god knows when and consistently in the top three or four pretty much all season. Surely opposition managers realised ages ago that they needed to be treated with respect. Or are we saying that managers in this country are so stupid that Leicester literally need to win the league to flag up to managers that they need to consider appropriate tactics against them?

We've had loads of people be much more defensive with us. There is a good article by Danny Higginbottom where he talks about our new tactics. We've basically had to out wait people, we were playing a lot of teams who still needed three points, whether it was to try and stay up or get europe.

They would start out really tight, but come 65/70 minutes they needed to start opening up if they wanted to win the game... then... bang, we hit them on the counter. The last 6 or 7 games haven't been pretty because of this, but it worked like a treat. Just show more patience than the opposition and not panic.

Next season will be different, at the start of the season teams won't be so desperate for three points like they are when it gets to the business end. So I'd imagine the start of next season will be much harder, when teams see a point as a good result.

I imagine and hope, that in the summer Ranieri will implement slight change in style. We'll need to be able to play with more possession and to break down those teams. So we'll make a few additions to compliment what we have, whilst adding a few more strings to our bow.

 

[linekers boxers]

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We've had loads of people be much more defensive with us. There is a good article by Danny Higginbottom where he talks about our new tactics. We've basically had to out wait people, we were playing a lot of teams who still needed three points, whether it was to try and stay up or get europe.

They would start out really tight, but come 65/70 minutes they needed to start opening up if they wanted to win the game... then... bang, we hit them on the counter. The last 6 or 7 games haven't been pretty because of this, but it worked like a treat. Just show more patience than the opposition and not panic.

Next season will be different, at the start of the season teams won't be so desperate for three points like they are when it gets to the business end. So I'd imagine the start of next season will be much harder, when teams see a point as a good result.

I imagine and hope, that in the summer Ranieri will implement slight change in style. We'll need to be able to play with more possession and to break down those teams. So we'll make a few additions to compliment what we have, whilst adding a few more strings to our bow.[/QUOTE
Foxy, me ode. Well done for fighting the goid fight, but you appear to be having a prolonged argument with yourself! Why not have a lye down?

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Please, for goodness sake please don't tell me you believed that utter nonsense. Yes, they probably have disappeared when the moron got a solicitors letter threatening him for writing and posting up utter utter bull plop with zero evidence and zero foundation for anything he was writing. You can't go around accusing people of doping and match fixing etc like he was, literally naming peoples names. I think he even accused people on match of the day for being in on it FFS.

Do people just believe everything they read theses days? Did you not consider fact checking anything, because people did... and he was talking totally out of his arse.

Do you believe there is any doping/PED in top class football in this country?

 

[goatinho]

Please, for goodness sake please don't tell me you believed that utter nonsense. Yes, they probably have disappeared when the moron got a solicitors letter threatening him for writing and posting up utter utter bull plop with zero evidence and zero foundation for anything he was writing. You can't go around accusing people of doping and match fixing etc like he was, literally naming peoples names. I think he even accused people on match of the day for being in on it FFS.

Do people just believe everything they read theses days? Did you not consider fact checking anything, because people did... and he was talking totally out of his arse.

so your saying that there are no players on PEDs? there were no insider bets with big money at 5000/1? the stats about the referees are all made up?

 

[dario2739]

I hope for football's sake that everything is above board and clean with Leicester – but even the most diehard Foxes fan must have that nagging doubt.
Foxedup has put up a spirited defence, fair play to him, it's only what I have done with City on other forums... but let's address things.
Firstly Ranieri's tactics being genius and a main contributor. Well the guy is likeable, and must be a decent coach, but he's been sacked from the last three jobs he's had - the last being Greece where they got beat by the Faroe Islands!!!
Secondly - the team itself... ok say their training has made them fitter naturally, it doesn't also improve players abilities! The difference between the last few seasons and this... is unbelievable! Take Vardy - while at Fleetwood they described him as a headless chicken, last season he was average at best! The analogies have all been used already, but they're right - it is like a sprinter suddenly knocking a couple of seconds off his time, or a Tour de France cyclist who usually finishes near last, suddenly pissing the Tour and winning the yellow jersey! The press are so concerned with this Cinderella story though, that nobody seems to be questioning it!
You could understand Spurs pushing on like this, even Liverpool perhaps - but Leicester is pure 'Roy of the Rovers' stuff... and as somebody once said - "if something seems to good to be true, it usually is!"

 

[penguins4kompany]

Vardy was great last season though- Roy even called him up for the England. dele alli- from league one last year to suddenly tearing up the premier league- lamela ,namby pamby to crazed monster- dier ,versatile defender of sorts to never played there before holding midfielder supremo- harry kane: struggling championship loanee to england star striker! i know where my suspicions lie.

 

[Cityfan]

Secondly - the team itself... ok say their training has made them fitter naturally, it doesn't also improve players abilities! The difference between the last few seasons and this... is unbelievable! Take Vardy - while at Fleetwood they described him as a headless chicken, last season he was average at best!

If training won't improve players abilities , drugs certainly won't.

 

[Dubai Blue]

There were no insider bets with big money at 5000/1?

Tell me more about this. Not heard it mentioned before. What kind of sums are we talking?