The Leicester City Thread (merged)

[dario2739]

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

Maybe abilities was the wrong word – it's like steroids in bodybuilding/weight training – you can build muscle with a good training programme... but if you take steroids...

 

[Father Paul]

Foinavon.

Yes. That is probably the biggest factor. Chelsea imploding. The rags just plain shite until the last month. Arsenal failing to seize their best chance in a decade. While we have been dire for most of the campaign.Finally,Liverpool in transition, Spuds only flattered to deceive in the end. This is probably a once in 30 years event in which all the top teams fail to turn up. Teams like Everton under Moyles probably would have won it if all the competition failed to show up. If you are out in front in a race and the pack fails to close the gap you grow in confidence and that is what has happened with Leicester.
The fact that they have played far less games is also a huge factor particularly as this has helped with regard to injuries. I wonder how they would fare on a Saturday if they had to play Real Madrid on a Wednesday night.
A good manager who knows the league and who has devised a clever system which is hard to match and in the latter part of the season a defensive solidity which is remarkable really. In Many respects they are the English version of Athletico and we know how hard they are to beat.
Finally, 5 or 6 players Vardy, Drinkwater, Marez, Kante, Huth, Kasper who have played absolutely out of their skin for most of the season.
All one can say is that it is the footballing equivalent of a perfect storm and something that many of us will never see the likes of again.

 

[danielwood5]

Yes. That is probably the biggest factor. Chelsea imploding. The rags just plain shite until the last month. Arsenal failing to seize their best chance in a decade. While we have been dire for most of the campaign.Finally,Liverpool in transition, Spuds only flattered to deceive in the end. This is probably a once in 30 years event in which all the top teams fail to turn up. Teams like Everton under Moyles probably would have won it if all the competition failed to show up. If you are out in front in a race and the pack fails to close the gap you grow in confidence and that is what has happened with Leicester.
The fact that they have played far less games is also a huge factor particularly as this has helped with regard to injuries. I wonder how they would fare on a Saturday if they had to play Real Madrid on a Wednesday night.
A good manager who knows the league and who has devised a clever system which is hard to match and in the latter part of the season a defensive solidity which is remarkable really. In Many respects they are the English version of Athletico and we know how hard they are to beat.
Finally, 5 or 6 players Vardy, Drinkwater, Marez, Kante, Huth, Kasper who have played absolutely out of their skin for most of the season.
All one can say is that it is the footballing equivalent of a perfect storm and something that many of us will never see the likes of again.

They always seemed to have had a game or two in hand on the chasing teams and they always seemed to play before any of the chasing pack on a weekend too so there was never really any point when they had to look at the table and see that teams were only one, two, three points behind and have that playing on their minds or have to play after a team had gone ahead of them in the league when it got to the sharp end of the season, I think that's another of the positive effects of having no cup games. That and some extremely friendly refereeing performances, I said to the Mrs around Christmas time that if they had been held to the same refereeing standards as the rest of the teams at the top end of the table they'd be around 8-9th, if Huth played for us he'd be sent off every time he played with the holding, neck grabbing and shirt pulling and the racist witch faced twat would have been serving a few more suspensions for diving, I thought it would get highlighted more and they'd start getting treated the same as everyone else but that didn't seem to happen. They have found a set way of playing though and have been able to stick with the same team and game plan pretty much all season though, will be interesting next season to see if other mid to upper mid table sides just play their kids in the first rounds of the domestic cups though, that could get interesting.

 

[1.618034]

Great article about Ranieri..

http://www.theguardian.com/football...utm_term=169731&subid=282353&CMP=EMCFTBEML853

The right man at the right club at the right time. Got to be the managerial appointment of the century.

Good luck to him and to Leicester City.

Now everyone can dream. Again.

Brilliant



As for all this drugs bollox it just smacks of raggish sour grapes, as if it's got nothing to do with hard work, team work, quality players and an excellent manager.

 

[Bob the Baker]

Something stinks about Leicester & it'll all come out in the wash sometime. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, or fairy tales, but ibis sort of anomaly just does not happen these days.

 

[purplenose]

Great article about Ranieri..

http://www.theguardian.com/football...utm_term=169731&subid=282353&CMP=EMCFTBEML853

The right man at the right club at the right time. Got to be the managerial appointment of the century.

Good luck to him and to Leicester City.

Now everyone can dream. Again.

Brilliant



As for all this drugs bollox it just smacks of raggish sour grapes, as if it's got nothing to do with hard work, team work, quality players and an excellent manager.

Got to agree that this drug talk is very raggish and very probably a complete load of bollocks.

Yes things have gone for Leicester, not alot of injuries always helps. not playing in Europe or having many domestic cup games, and a good manager who clearly galvanised the team into playing above the level expected.

It is increasingly difficult to compete in the Champions league and to prosper in the Premier League. Watch out for whoever misses out on Europe next season for a top four spot. Liverpool perhaps, Southampton maybe or even Newcastle should they stay up and keep Benitez. With the injuries City have had regardless of squad size and budget etc to be looking ok for a top 4 spot, winning a domestic cup and at worst being beaten Semi finalists in the champions league is some achievement, to read some on here you would think we are Aston Villa!

Give Leicester the credit they deserve, hopefully tommorrow they will be Premier league champions and will have completely earned and deserved that title......oh and be thankful we dont have the monotonous certainty that the top 4 will each year consist of Rags, Scouses Chelsea and Arsenal any longer.

 

[chaddblue]

Today, Leicester City FC are gonna become the champions of England

Strange days indeed !!

 

[sir baconface]

A perfect storm, as one poster put it.

But credit to them for making their own luck. Kante, Mahrez and Vardy combined cost less than one of Sterling's or Mangala's boot laces.

P.S. Please win at the swamp, Leicester. We need the help!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Zzzzzz BBC , oh here's a fan from New Zealand, another who decorated her house with all her Leicester stuff (6 fucking shirts and some plastic print of the badge, here's a guy who has been a Leicester fan for 35 years wearing a retro shirt who hasn't got a ticket zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

We'll done to Leicester but fuck me you'd think they've just won the world cup.

Nobody has said anything about it being a poor Premier League this year either, that must only happen when the real City win it.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

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.

glad someone else has noted the amazing transformation of the spurs players.if you look at their main attacking trio( inc eriksson),they all must have access to incredible gyms/nutrition plans,that are not available to most other clubs cos they have amazing physiques...and appear able to run all day,even when back off international duty..all ignored by the press but not by those who choose to observe football with their own eyes and enquiring minds...i cannot remember ever being impressed by Lamela before quite recently,and your description of him as a" crazed monster" is interesting when you look at the temper -control problems of nigel pearson,vardy,and Ali..all "interesting...very interesting!!"