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The "do they mean us?" thread

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Uncle Monty

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I had an argument with both of them last night about this article. One of them even said I had the "I have non-white friends so I can be racist" logic lol

 

Woke up this morning and the Yahoo writer (Netherton) has blocked me lol

The equivalent of a murderer saying "I can't be a killer all of my friends are alive".

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Number 6

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Didn't Vardy also point to fans in L1 and then to family in West stand after scoring? Not that I had an ounce of an issue with the me part of his celebration anyway.

Not sure why some have such an issue with him. Liew's comments are ridiculous.

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The New York Times joins the Vardy party again.

Leicester is known as the Foxes, and it was Vardy who picked up the scent of a goal-scoring opportunity. As he neared the Manchester penalty area, he was approached by a second defender, Matteo Darmian.

Darmian is quick, but Vardy had the advantage of knowing where he was running. He pointed to the green grass space behind Darmian, and when Fuchs responded by passing the ball there, Vardy seemed to go up a gear as he raced past the defender. He bore down on goalkeeper David de Gea and slipped the ball around him, low and precise, inside the far post.

It takes longer to describe the play than it took Schmeichel, Fuchs and Vardy to achieve it.

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Fez of Mahrez

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Hopefully a bit of an antidote...

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It's dark. It's windy. It's wet. Before kick-off, a tifo display at the Kop end shows three of City's heroes - Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and Jeffrey Schlupp.

Really, it's all about Vardy tonight and everything is building towards one moment. That moment comes almost exactly halfway through the first half. Kasper Schmeichel claims a United corner inside his six-yard box and finds Christian Fuchs with a quick throw. United's inexperienced centre-back Paddy McNair is more concerned with getting back into his defensive half than monitoring Fuchs and so the Austrian moves off McNair to an unfamiliar right-sided position. Fuchs carries the ball unopposed over the halfway line until he is level with the edge of the centre circle inside United's half. He switches back onto his favoured left foot and spots a familiar run from a City attacker.

It goes without saying. It's Jamie Vardy. United have left two defenders back to cover the counter attack: Matteo Darmian and Ashley Young. Darmian is on the near side and looks best placed to deal with the danger. Young finds himself on the far side and caught between two plans - unable to play Vardy offside and certainly not quick enough to cope with his opponent's acceleration. Vardy points where he wants the ball to go and is thankful that it will be delivered by a wand of a left foot. The pass from Fuchs is near perfect. It looks as though Darmian can cut it out but, perhaps wary of conceding a penalty, he lets it run by.

The ball reaches Vardy and his first touch takes him across Darmian and in on goal. For the second time in just over a year, Jamie Vardy is faced with David de Gea. The angle is tight and de Gea has to shift over to his left. This is where we see Vardy's confidence come into the equation. He knows he is running wide and hasn't got time to take a glance at the goalkeeper. He knows he has to hit it. Of course, he knows exactly where the goal is as well. The crowd rises. A trademark Vardy strike of the ball, launching himself into the air with the cleanest of contact. De Gea's body position leaves space for a shot into the far corner. Right in front of the away fans.

It's in.

Vardy heads off towards L1, one of the two noisiest sections in the ground. He's yelling at the United fans, at the City fans, at the cameras, at his team-mates. "All mine!" And it is. The record is his. Jamie Vardy has scored in eleven consecutive Premier League games, beating the record set by Manchester United's own Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003.

Complete pandemonium all around the King Power Stadium. This is some moment. Not just a Leicester City goal. Not just a Leicester City goal against Manchester United. A historic moment in football terms. It's two celebrations rolled into one. One for the team. One for the player. The noise is deafening. The score is 1-0.

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Why Leicester City are well worth their top-of-the-table status

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#mufc fan just said to me, with a laugh: 'You might make the Champions' League!' I replied: 'You might too.. ;)' #lcfc #LeiMnu

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Date: 1st December 2015 at 6:33 pm

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After their toughest game in quite some time, Leicester held firm against Manchester United on Saturday to come away with a point. Jamie Vardy broke a goalscoring record, but the fact that Leicester aren’t crumbling under pressure from the big boys is surely the bigger story.

The Foxes may even have won that game were it not for a possible goalkeeping error from Kasper Schmeichel for Manchester United’s goal and some uncharacteristic toothlessness on the break from Jamie Vardy when he tried to play in a team mate instead of shooting.

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I’m in no way slating Leicester, though. They weren’t big mistakes. I’m pointing them out only to show just how close Leicester came to actually winning the game.

Manchester United were their usual sterile selves, but they’re not still in touch with the leading pack for nothing. They’re a good side with good players who just need to find a spark from somewhere before they can do some serious damage. But it doesn’t look forthcoming.

Then there’s Leicester. You’d also have to say they’re second in the table for a reason. Manchester City and Arsenal have both lost three times this season, United twice. Leicester have only lost once; against Arsenal. And although they may have had a fairly favourable run of games, they’ve still had to win them. They are where they are because they’ve been better than most. And you can’t really argue that they lack that certain spark like United.

No, Leicester didn’t disappoint this weekend. They set up to stifle Manchester United, and stifle them they did. The goal came from a set piece, but those two banks of four were too solid for United to break down from open play - though it may be argued that a wet cardboard box is too structurally sound for United to break down these days. The two up top did their job linking up well in possession to facilitate the counter. And the counter is Leicester’s food and drink.

There will, at some point, come a slump. And not because Leicester aren’t as good as the other teams around them either. The form of Vardy and Mahrez surely mirrors Arsenal’s Sanchez and Ozil or City’s Silva and Aguero, without whom the big teams are understandably weakened. For all intents and purposes, Vardy and Mahrez are Leicester’s pair of world class players.

But the slump will arrive because it arrives for every team every year. Most teams rely on the form of one or two individuals to light up the side. It’s normal for a team to have a particular creative spark that they rely on, or a leader on the pitch who make the team better. That’s part of the normal team dynamic.

What is also normal is an injury scare. So every team has a slump because no team can go a whole season on super-human form. Especially Leicester, given they put so much effort into playing without the ball, staying solid and counter attacking with so much pace and precision. There’s only so many times you can come back from two goals down!

There are still some huge games for Leicester between now and the end of the year, and it would be no surprise to anyone if they slipped down the table quite a bit over the next few weeks.

But they didn’t disappoint this weekend. The game had the feel of a cagey top-of-the-table clash in some ways. It was a game of few clear cut chances, decided by breakaways and set-pieces. It remains to be seen if they can cope with the more all-action styles of Manchester City and Liverpool who may have enough to trouble Leicester more than Manchester United did.

Leicester’s display at the weekend was worthy of their top-of-the-table status, and even if they won’t win the league, surely they can now start dreaming of a top four finish.

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Hopefully a bit of an antidote...

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It's dark. It's windy. It's wet. Before kick-off, a tifo display at the Kop end shows three of City's heroes - Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and Jeffrey Schlupp.

Really, it's all about Vardy tonight and everything is building towards one moment. That moment comes almost exactly halfway through the first half. Kasper Schmeichel claims a United corner inside his six-yard box and finds Christian Fuchs with a quick throw. United's inexperienced centre-back Paddy McNair is more concerned with getting back into his defensive half than monitoring Fuchs and so the Austrian moves off McNair to an unfamiliar right-sided position. Fuchs carries the ball unopposed over the halfway line until he is level with the edge of the centre circle inside United's half. He switches back onto his favoured left foot and spots a familiar run from a City attacker.

It goes without saying. It's Jamie Vardy. United have left two defenders back to cover the counter attack: Matteo Darmian and Ashley Young. Darmian is on the near side and looks best placed to deal with the danger. Young finds himself on the far side and caught between two plans - unable to play Vardy offside and certainly not quick enough to cope with his opponent's acceleration. Vardy points where he wants the ball to go and is thankful that it will be delivered by a wand of a left foot. The pass from Fuchs is near perfect. It looks as though Darmian can cut it out but, perhaps wary of conceding a penalty, he lets it run by.

The ball reaches Vardy and his first touch takes him across Darmian and in on goal. For the second time in just over a year, Jamie Vardy is faced with David de Gea. The angle is tight and de Gea has to shift over to his left. This is where we see Vardy's confidence come into the equation. He knows he is running wide and hasn't got time to take a glance at the goalkeeper. He knows he has to hit it. Of course, he knows exactly where the goal is as well. The crowd rises. A trademark Vardy strike of the ball, launching himself into the air with the cleanest of contact. De Gea's body position leaves space for a shot into the far corner. Right in front of the away fans.

It's in.

Vardy heads off towards L1, one of the two noisiest sections in the ground. He's yelling at the United fans, at the City fans, at the cameras, at his team-mates. "All mine!" And it is. The record is his. Jamie Vardy has scored in eleven consecutive Premier League games, beating the record set by Manchester United's own Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003.

Complete pandemonium all around the King Power Stadium. This is some moment. Not just a Leicester City goal. Not just a Leicester City goal against Manchester United. A historic moment in football terms. It's two celebrations rolled into one. One for the team. One for the player. The noise is deafening. The score is 1-0.

Lazy journalism

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Purely out of curiosity, was there a particular reason why my post got nuked from orbit?

 

Haha, and mine. Someone's allowed pedo-accusations to stand but deleted our posts knocking the childish behaviour...what?!

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Purely out of curiosity, was there a particular reason why my post got nuked from orbit?

 

Haha, and mine. Someone's allowed pedo-accusations to stand but deleted our posts knocking the childish behaviour...what?!

Well, to be honest I deny any wrongdoing. Whatever followed after my initial post is/was out of my hands. :D

 

I didn't do it and I certainly didn't report your posts to the Forum Police, for they were unbelievably reasonable.

Most people usually don't mind a bit of sense on here.

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