The true secret of Leicester City's success / doping thread merged

malg said:
If we're talking about the doping allegations we could drop Leicester from the thread title, as it's more than just them being accused. The thread has a whiff of 'bitter' about it.
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Exactly. "The true secret" in the title is stating it as fact when, at the moment, it's just speculation.
 
mcfc1981 said:
where is all this Leicester are the fittest team in the league coming from??
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Because you're being selective. Vardy returned from surgery after 9 days and if that was not enough, he gone from not in top 20 fastest to fastest player in EPL. And then there is Kante. Something is definitely wrong.
 
Those who watch and play cricket know that this sort of instant transformation is not practically possible. And Kante too is definitely doping, he has literally covered every blade of grass.
 
Latics Fan SJK said:
In a nutshell, really.

Chelsea have had a mare.
United have, once again, shown they're not a patch on the team during the Ferguson era.
Arsenal have been Arsenal.
City - perhaps down to Pellegrini - have been pretty dire.

Had any of the usual big-hitters (mainly Chelsea or City) managed to put in a season-long performance that's come to be expected of them, then they'd be above Leicester. Funnily enough, the usual "top 4" have been shite, whereas the ones at the top are Leicester - which is a complete anomaly - and Spurs, who are normally the perennial 5th/6th placers.

It's not Leicester's fault that City can't win 2 games on the bounce. It's not Leicester's fault that the two teams that are closest to them are, generally, perennial bottlers. It's not Leicester's fault that Chelsea didn't have a pre-season which ultimately screwed their PL season up. It's not Leicester's fault that LVG is an idiot.

Arsenal have shown how to beat Leicester this season - they twatted them 5-2 on their own patch and completely dominated them at the Emirates but only managed to win thanks to a stoppage time goal. In that same game, Vardy should have had a nailed on penalty to put them 2-0 up. At the end of this game, the momentum was with Arsenal, but like I said earlier, with Arsenal being Arsenal they bottled it.

What has helped Leicester is two or three players who have had excellent seasons at the same time (Kante, Vardy & Mahrez), a lot of luck on the injury front, a significantly less number of games and poor standards from their competition.

As for the fixing comments - it was only a couple of years ago that people were saying the PL would do everything they can to ensure United win the league as that was good for the PL. You know - what with the massive Sky fan-base they have, they have to appease those masses somehow. It just so happens that United are now in 5th, probably going to miss out on the CL, so now the agenda-focus has shifted elsewhere.
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Good post
 
sam663 said:
Because you're being selective. Vardy returned from surgery after 9 days and if that was not enough, he gone from not in top 20 fastest to fastest player in EPL. And then there is Kante. Something is definitely wrong.
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Yeah it's called hard work and great management
 
the_game_161 said:
Yeah it's called hard work and great management
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Last time I saw that sort of hard work was when a fast bowler bowled straight ten overs and got injured. Came back in two or three weeks, just before the start of the world cup and then got injured again. Turned out, ICC was just too smart, that rapid recovery was due to doping and he faked his injury before the world cup to evade doping test.
 
Not only that, Leicester have only used 18 players in the whole league, and no serious injuries.
 
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