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The "do they mean us?" thread

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Have you ever seen a single thread like that about another player who is performing well where the overriding opinion is that he must be doping? Very disrespectful.

Absolutely. The 'fans' of ' big ' teams can't handle being beaten by a team they perceive as not worthy so go out looking for excuses or concoct them out of nowhere.

Pretty pathetic

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https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3u20e1/comparison_of_jamie_vardys_form_to_this_time_last/

 

Pretty disgusting, half the people in this thread just throwing accusations of doping around with absolutely nothing to base it on. Hard to believe the bitterness.

thing that annoys me is when they're confronted they basically reply saying yeah idk what im talkin about lol but wuld make sense

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thing that annoys me is when they're confronted they basically reply saying yeah idk what im talkin about lol but wuld make sense

thing that annoys me is when they're confronted they basically reply saying yeah idk what im talkin about lol but wuld make sense

So bitter, yep a small club are doing really well, so team must be on drugs. Surprised they haven't surgested "Even bribed the fixture list to get easy games or bunged the ref to win matches" some fans just don't have any class

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Sorry if this has already been posted. La Vanguardia is a pretty serious Catalan newspaper http://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/futbol/20151124/30354756878/leicester-milagro.html

 

I particularly liked this (apologies for Google translate):

 

Claudio Ranieri, coach of foxes is to some extent the anti Mourinho. Not to be presumed or special, or be anything. In any case having lived and seen a lot of football 63 years. Football globetrotter, has trained fourteen different teams (and the Greek national team, of bad memories) over three decades.Elegant, polite and courteous man, starts press conferences hand crashing every journalists. But that does not mean it is not soft and silly. In and out of costume is enforced based on intelligence, class and wisdom.

His big blow in Leicester has been implementing a 4-4-2 that often becomes 4-5-1, largely renounce possession of the ball, use the bands and counterattack Vardy speed advantage, Jeffrey Schlupp and Marc Albrighton, three of the fastest players in the Premiership, so much so that they are known as the RAF (Royal Air Force). Rivals know exactly what awaits them, but they can not offset stagnant in the 4-3-3 that has become the norm in England, and almost no one is prepared to leave.

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Sorry if this has already been posted. La Vanguardia is a pretty serious Catalan newspaper http://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/futbol/20151124/30354756878/leicester-milagro.html

 

I particularly liked this (apologies for Google translate):

 

Claudio Ranieri, coach of foxes is to some extent the anti Mourinho. Not to be presumed or special, or be anything. In any case having lived and seen a lot of football 63 years. Football globetrotter, has trained fourteen different teams (and the Greek national team, of bad memories) over three decades.Elegant, polite and courteous man, starts press conferences hand crashing every journalists. But that does not mean it is not soft and silly. In and out of costume is enforced based on intelligence, class and wisdom.

His big blow in Leicester has been implementing a 4-4-2 that often becomes 4-5-1, largely renounce possession of the ball, use the bands and counterattack Vardy speed advantage, Jeffrey Schlupp and Marc Albrighton, three of the fastest players in the Premiership, so much so that they are known as the RAF (Royal Air Force). Rivals know exactly what awaits them, but they can not offset stagnant in the 4-3-3 that has become the norm in England, and almost no one is prepared to leave.

 

"known as the RAF'

 

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Nope. I can't get any of their surname initial combinations to spell RAF. Perhaps it's first names  :ph34r:

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"known as the RAF'

 

ASV

AVS

SAV

SVA

VAS

VSA

 

Nope. I can't get any of their surname initial combinations to spell RAF. Perhaps it's first names  :ph34r:

 

I liked the thought of Ranieri "hand crashing every journalist". But nice to see Schlupp and Albrighton mentioned (and no mention of Mahrez - so hopefully he won't be off to Barca)

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Positive piece but I doubt it will get universal approval on here.

 

 

Who Is Behind Leicester City’s Success This Season?

David Preece | November 24, 2015 | 0 Comments

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With the shocked and horrified expression of Heather Donahue from The Blair Witch project etched upon everyone’s faces, Jamie Vardy powered Leicester City have catapulted themselves all the way from relegation avoiding miracle workers to title contenders within the space of six months. “Title contenders????” you mutter out loud to yourselves in complete incredulity, but yes, you heard me right, title contenders. Why not?

Okay, so you can probably give me a hundred reasons why Ranieri’s men won’t be able to sustain this incredible run they’re on but wind yourself back to July and had Marty McFly tell you Chelsea would lie at in fifteenth position, two points behind Watford at this stage in the season, you’d be pulling the same puzzled expression you were pulling whilst reading the last paragraph as well.

Forget all of the reasons why they might/will (delete as appropriate) fall away as the season progresses though and concentrate on why they can achieve the unthinkable. Even if you think a title challenge is an impossibility, before the ten match unbeaten run towards Premier League safety last season, you’d have said a Europa League place this year would be unthinkable, yet it’s wholly realistic target for them now and I’ll give you four reasons why without even the mere mention of Jamie Vardy and his freakish goalscoring run.

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His success is in a large part down to three of the players who are aiding and abetting their chief raider of goals and I’m a little put-out that they don’t play their football an hour’s drive west because that would have given me a chance to have called them “The Brumudan Triangle” but I guess I’ll have to keep that one for a later piece on the other Midland’s blues.

The form of Riyad Mahrez has hardly gone unnoticed with the lithe Algerian giving a meaningful contribution of six assists and creating twenty nine clear-cut chances for his teammates but he’ standing out from the ocean of modern day attacking players who are easy on the eye without giving you something real, or something tangible for you to take away from their performances in way of effectivity. Mahrez gives you that.

He’s the type of player you’d have to resort to physical violence to stop him, if only you could get close enough to catch him. He’s like a magician who specialises in sleight of hand card tricks, showing you the ball as if it’s the card you picked, before making it disappear back into the pack and making it reappear somewhere else before you you’ve had a chance to work out what he’s done with it. If you can be sure if Ranieri is in danger of losing any player during the transfer window, he’ll find Mahrez the most difficult to hold on to.

As Leornardo Ulloa struggles to discover the form that brought him plaudits to go with his 12 Premier League goals last season, Shinji Okazaki has stepped in from his four years of German football with Mainz and Stuttgart and provided Leicester with an intelligence of movement that the likes of previous strikers such as David Nugent lacked. The work output in offering himself as an option to deeper players in possession adds to the already industrious qualities his team possess and will no doubt become more appreciated as his experience of Premier League football broadens.

The support provided from the deeper positions in midfield have come from Danny Drinkwater, a player whose future under Nigel Pearson was placed in doubt because of his relationship with the manager, or lack of, and a desire to play more than the 24 appearances he made last season. Whilst a few commentators of note have stated Drinkwater has “come from nowhere to becoming an integral part of their success under Ranieri”, his willingness to break lines and join attacks, his quality of passing, especially drilling diagonal balls out wide with missile-like accuracy, and his danger to goalkeepers from distance has always marked him as a player who would make him a perfect all round midfielder.

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It was his front-foot work rate and spectacular goals against Leicester during a loan spell at Barnsley that earned him his million pound plus move from his first club, Manchester United and the appreciation and confidence shown by the new boss has finally allowed him to blossom into the player Pearson initially thought he could become.

Finally, the maturing of Kasper Schmeichel over the past two seasons has given the team the luxury of a keeper who is making difference when called upon to keep the opposition at bay but with the pace and willing runners he has in front of him, Schmeichel’s accuracy of delivery over distance, via arm or foot, and his ability to begin quick counter attacks is a major weapon in their armory.

For me though (Clive), the biggest turning point for Schmeichel was when he stopped over-imitating his father’s “starfish” technique when dealing with shots. I know he has been quoted recently saying he has done everything not to be compared his father but you can’t deny genetics and in certain parts of his game in the past, it has looked as if he was trying too hard to be a “Schmeichel” rather than just a “Kasper”.

Quite often, instead of trusting his reactions, waiting and forcing the striker’s hand, he would all too often try and spread himself when the opponent was too far away and able to place it out with Schmeichel’s already committed reach. He has always had a good anticipation in closing down on-rushing players but now he is more selective when sliding out to block and making himself harder to beat. Finally, he looks like his own man and not only is he a better keeper for it, Leicester are a better team too.

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Just a bit of fun on Bleacher Report, Imagining teams as simpson characters.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2592370-imagining-every-premier-league-team-as-a-simpsons-character/page/2

Villas is the most accurate imo

 

Got to be Liverpool for me - formerly hugely successful star whose glory days are long behind them, and the "Hi, I'm Liverpool, you may remember me from such successes as the 1980s" just cracks me.

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Who cares what Liverpool/United/Arsenal fans from Mexico and India have to say about our club on Reddit.

 

I find it amazing the lack of knowledge by or research from people when they type on the internet, as if a quick google before they post is too much effort.  It was bad enough on Sunday Supplement on Sky this Sunday when they were talking about Vardy.  It amazes me the lack of research for people with such a wide voice.  They said we could lose Vardy as he is out of contract in the summer ad also be hard to keep as clubs could come in and pay more than the 10/15k a year he would be on.  These are the papers who reported him being o 40/50k when he was being fined wages.

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