Leicester PL champions
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They won't.
No chance. European footy will fuck them over.
I have a feeling they'll be doing some smart business in the summer. Buying the best players from relegated team or the Championship to strengthen their squad. But yeah, they won't be able to cope and I don't think any of the top teams in the premiership will be that interested in raiding them.
Yeah, kinda feel that he deserves it but you know...fuck Spurs.
It was hard to feel aggrieved for him. AndI didn't.
Ranieri is a don.
Probably the greatest team achievement in the history of sport.
Stunning.
The movie should be good but as its about football it probably will be shite.
Stunning.
The movie should be good but as its about football it probably will be shite.
Lettuce beef cereal, they got the benefit of the doubt from many of the referees because they are a small team and the referees didn't want to mess up the fairytale storyline.
Still a great achievement but they got away with more and had more luck than any modern champion I can remember.
And yes, I am still bitter about two years ago.
Still a great achievement but they got away with more and had more luck than any modern champion I can remember.
And yes, I am still bitter about two years ago.
Apparently they're 5000 to 1 to be relegated next season. I'm all over that.
Fair play to them, table doesn't lie.
It's unreal. Was going through their squad, and I realised I barely knew 3 players before this season - Schmeichel, Ulloa (because he had a good last season) and Mahrez (he'd scored some nice goals last year too). Oh, and I knew Cambiasso, but he's not even there anymore.
Nobody had ever even heard of Vardy or Kante. Their spine is made up of bang average footballers - Schmeichel is no better than Mignolet, Morgan and Huth are career junkyard dog journeymen. Drinkwater looks like United's Danny Guthrie.
And not to mention that their manager has won pretty much nothing of note in his career.
How the fuck have they done it? They finished 14th last season FFS.
My only theory is that they've done an Ipswich in a season where all the other big clubs have collectively been in shit form. That's major luck, but fair play to them for sticking to it the entire season.
I think they'll struggle to finish top 8 next season.
Nobody had ever even heard of Vardy or Kante. Their spine is made up of bang average footballers - Schmeichel is no better than Mignolet, Morgan and Huth are career junkyard dog journeymen. Drinkwater looks like United's Danny Guthrie.
And not to mention that their manager has won pretty much nothing of note in his career.
How the fuck have they done it? They finished 14th last season FFS.
My only theory is that they've done an Ipswich in a season where all the other big clubs have collectively been in shit form. That's major luck, but fair play to them for sticking to it the entire season.
I think they'll struggle to finish top 8 next season.
Leicester 1st new champion of England since 1978. That one, Nott Forest, won European Cup each of the next 2 years.
Leicester's ability to keep their best XI fit has been a trend for a few yrs. From their 13/14 season
Leicester's ability to keep their best XI fit has been a trend for a few yrs. From their 13/14 season
Made me chuckle ... 
[article]Peter Schmeichel's sperm has beaten Liverpool to a premier league title.
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[article]Peter Schmeichel's sperm has beaten Liverpool to a premier league title.
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How did they do it?
Still, these 7 points only explain so much. I mean, at the beginning of the season you think ok they do all 7 and maybe they have a shout at top 8.
- Striker that has a hot scoring streak during the season
- Goalkeeper that is solid
- Being able to field a very settled line up week by week
- Playing a counter attacking 4-4-2 which caught many by surprise. Each player knowing the system inside out.
- Generally knowing how to defend
- Strong team ethic - something that is rare in top teams
- A couple of key players having the season of their lives
Still, these 7 points only explain so much. I mean, at the beginning of the season you think ok they do all 7 and maybe they have a shout at top 8.
Put a tenner in for me. Ill paypal you.
One important point is missing obviously.
Game-winning tackles.
You don't win the league without them.
It's strange but fans already claim there's been hatred there since the 1960s, but I've not seen any explanation as to why, apart from a couple of players moving from the former to the latter, and Spurs beating them in a cup final. Hardly the basis for a Hatfields v McCoys enmity but apparently it's gone on for decades.
Seven years ago Jamie Vardy was working for my brother-in-law in Sheffield picking prosthetic limb orders in a warehouse earning £8 an hour and playing non-league football.
Pretty amazing really.
Congrats to the club and what an incredible story. Remarkable.
Deffo an element of 'where were you when we were shit?' going on when you saw the scenes in the city after they won it, but fuck it. Just what this hideous, cynical, bloated bunch of bullshit league needed.
Pretty amazing really.
Congrats to the club and what an incredible story. Remarkable.
Deffo an element of 'where were you when we were shit?' going on when you saw the scenes in the city after they won it, but fuck it. Just what this hideous, cynical, bloated bunch of bullshit league needed.
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