Dan LCFC Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 I cannot be bothered arguing with anyone who says "it could've gone anywhere" in a serious manner, as if that's supposed to make it a worse goal. So, so bitter it's unreal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Voll Blau Posted 18 February 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 18 February 2016 "Nothing makes me happier". I swear all Arsenal fans are virgins. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 (edited) Some Bournemouth fans seem alright. Some Bournemouth fans seem like they've let the whole 'if it's not us it should be nobody' thing go too far. Christ, one of them even says they'd rather Spurs or Everton win the league than teams like us, Watford, or Southampton. As for the whole 'Leicester are shit they never keep possession' thing, I can't begin to imagine being that uneducated, feel sorry for the fans on their forum who understand the game and are getting shot down. Edited 18 February 2016 by Carl the Llama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooksy Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 To be fair the majority on the Bournemouth forum seem to be commending our achievements this season but this one post did make me laugh. I must admit I don't want Leicester to win the Premier League. They don't play great football and are a team that are happy to lose possession every game (42% on average this season!) and live for the a goof up field for Mahrez and Vardy. Obviously their achievements so far this season are indiscernible but I would rather the "best team" won the league like Spurs, Man City or Arsenal. Teams that when you play them you think "bloody hell, we're in the Premier League" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Year Of The Fox Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 (edited) The only funny part in an otherwise shite day on Sunday We got fined £60 by the police but at £1 each that was a bargain Wish someone had pictures of me and someone else hanging out the skylight of the upper deck with Arsene. Hopefully the only open top bus ride he'll be having this season Edited 18 February 2016 by The Year Of The Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 (edited) 42% average possession isn't that bad, it's still a fair amount of the game. I prefer to look at the 48 goals we've scored (joint best with a football team who pass the ball to each other) which suggests our thuggery, hoofball, shitty players must have some semblance of accuracy or ability. But you look at the passing stats mate if it makes you feel better. Edited 18 February 2016 by Corky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 I cannot be bothered arguing with anyone who says "it could've gone anywhere" in a serious manner, as if that's supposed to make it a worse goal. So, so bitter it's unreal. Couldn't agree more, Vardy attempted to do this and it came off. More times than not he doesn't score that goal but neither does anyone else in the world. If Messi, Ronaldo or Zlatan scored that goal people will say it's pure talent and skill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mapperleyfox Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 Most Bournemouth fans seem to be those kind of whoppers that got into football after Euro 96. How they can take a holier than thou stance after knocking about in div 3 & 4 all their lives is beyond belief. At least half of them wouldn't have been to a game before this season, so for that reason I'd take them with a pinch of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steflcfc Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 (edited) It's all jealousy, as we are currently bucking the trend of a select few teams of breaking the top 4 for a season maybe longer. (I will include Spurs also) And u have clubs like Everton/Stoke/ that have been trying to do this for the last 10/15 years and have been unable! They just wish it was them instead of us, they all would have a different tune if that was the case. Edited 18 February 2016 by steflcfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post st albans fox Posted 18 February 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 18 February 2016 to be fair, if we had josh king upfront, we would probably keep possession at the back aswell 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 to be fair, if we had josh king upfront, we would probably keep possession at the back aswell lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 Leicester valuations go up in FM http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/football-manager-reveals-staggering-amount-7375725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajthefox Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 I cannot be bothered arguing with anyone who says "it could've gone anywhere" in a serious manner, as if that's supposed to make it a worse goal. So, so bitter it's unreal. Exactly, I mean isn't the fact it could've gone anywhere but it went in kinda the whole point of football... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Ulike Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 They don't mean us directly, but this is a rather wonderful bit of myopic journalism disguised as hyperopia by Sarah Winterburn who I normally rate. She’d have a point if England ever vaguely looked like they were capable of winning a tournament with the current ‘big club players’ mentality. Truth is, we embarrass ourselves at major tournaments. Wellbeck and Sturridge are more technically gifted than Vardy. However, they are poor when compared to the defenders that Spain, France and Germany have at their disposal. So why not try something different? Every time we try and match the top teams for class we come up short. Gerrard is class but he’s a donkey against Pirlo. Wellbeck is class but he’s hopeless against an Italian defence. The only way England can win the Euros is the Leicester way or the Greece 2004 way. The frustrating thing is that if we ever decided to go for this option, and play an England team with 11 young Premiership players like Vardy and Drinky, who would bust a gut for the team, it would frighten Germany etc to death. OK we might not win it - but surely that’s better than the last WC when we had to watch a 34 yo Steven Gerrard huff and puff his way through three games in the space of a week.. Class is permanent. True. But since the Euros consist of only SIX games then surely it’s more important to pick the players in form. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ_Foxile Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/9243766 THE BLOG Has the Clock Ticked Past Midnight for Leicester's Cinderella Story? 15 hours ago | Updated 15 hours ago Chris Deeley Writer for 90min.com Time to jump once again, then, into this season's worst idea. Talking about Leicester City. It's very easy to look like an idiot when talking about Leicester this season. I personally started quite well, nailing my flag to the Claudio Ranieri mast back in mid-August, but stumbled and fell face-first into a pile of my own feces in November when I insisted that the Foxes were about to slide down into mid-table. Easy come, easy go. But enough about me - it's self-indulgent enough to assume you want to read 800 words of my opinions, never mind 800 words actually about me. Back to the matter in hand - Leicester City's title challenge. It looked for all the world like the fairytale was going to keep spinning out of control at half-time in Sunday's crunch lunchtime clash against Arsenal. Jamie Vardy's penalty gave the Foxes the lead going into the break, and they looked narrow favourites to take an eight-point lead into the rest of the afternoon's games. What happened in the second half was perhaps even more 'fairytale', in its own way. After all, what are the unwritten rules of fairytales? By the end, the bad guys lose and order is restored to the kingdom. By the end of Sunday afternoon, the bad guys were on the losing team and order was, generally, starting to return. And yes, that said 'bad guys'. Leicester's low profile coming into the season didn't just mask their genuine quality and top class players - it meant that their scandals were also kept pretty quiet. No conspiracy or anything, just the media and public not paying much attention to a couple of stories featuring players who were, at the time, barely newsworthy. Jamie Vardy's indiscretions have been fairly widely covered in comparison to those of his teammates, but mentions of his racial abuse just this past summer are met with near universal blank stares, even now. At the time, the video of Vardy racially abusing an Asian man in a casino could have ripped an already shaken squad apart, coming less than two months after three Foxes players had been sacked following a racism row in Thailand. It's a credit to Claudio Ranieri's management that he's managed to keep the team pulling so universally in the same direction since joining the club, but it doesn't exactly conform to the whole 'lovable underdogs' tag thrust upon the team since their rise up the table. Another sizable stain on the squad's reputation? Danny Simpson. Another name which draws faintly bemused stares when he's mentioned in venomous tones as a loathsome toad - convicted at the end of last season of assaulting the mother of his child, the police having found him straddling his ex-girlfriend with "his hands firmly placed around her neck" after a 999 call. It was Simpson who was sent off for a pair of bookings in Sunday's game, showing that his ability to let down the hard-working, genuinely likeable majority of his teammates isn't just limited to his off-field persona. From here, Leicester's path to the title is tricky. They've got a decent run of fixtures to get themselves back on track, but what could have been a massive lead in the league has been reduced to a single kick - with the pair of north London clubs playing hound and horse to Ranieri's Foxes. There's little point throwing out statistics in favour of the leaders or the chasing pack at this point - the Premier League has shown that it cares little for form or expectations at the moment - and gut feel has been notoriously unreliable. What comes next for the Foxes is anybody's guess. They could find themselves shellshocked by Danny Welbeck's 95th minute winner, drop points against Norwich this coming weekend and fall to third. From there, a loss of momentum, a fight with Manchester United for the final spot in the Champions League, failure, obscurity, a name in the books as an 'almost'. Equally, they could take heart from their excellent performance with 10 men against the Gunners, and go on revitalised. They've now played all of their title rivals twice - not something any of the others can say - and have time to lick their wounds before they face their next real test against a resurgent Southampton in April. For better or for worse, the clock has struck twelve and the Cinderella story is coming to a close. Turns out the narrative runs slightly differently when both of the nasty, ugly stepsisters are on the side of the 'hero'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose2010 Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 ^^ what utter dross that is basically yet another witch hunt to say yep soon be back where they belong and that we could be fighting it out with man utd for 4th spot? the same united that are about 12 point behind us who had just lost to Sunderland. Getting a bit tired of these articles now! next Saturday cant come soon enough at least they will have something new to write about! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphericalfox Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/9243766 THE BLOG Has the Clock Ticked Past Midnight for Leicester's Cinderella Story? 15 hours ago | Updated 15 hours ago Chris Deeley Writer for 90min.com Time to jump once again, then, into this season's worst idea. Talking about Leicester City. It's very easy to look like an idiot when talking about Leicester this season. I personally started quite well, nailing my flag to the Claudio Ranieri mast back in mid-August, but stumbled and fell face-first into a pile of my own feces in November when I insisted that the Foxes were about to slide down into mid-table. Easy come, easy go. But enough about me - it's self-indulgent enough to assume you want to read 800 words of my opinions, never mind 800 words actually about me. Back to the matter in hand - Leicester City's title challenge. It looked for all the world like the fairytale was going to keep spinning out of control at half-time in Sunday's crunch lunchtime clash against Arsenal. Jamie Vardy's penalty gave the Foxes the lead going into the break, and they looked narrow favourites to take an eight-point lead into the rest of the afternoon's games. What happened in the second half was perhaps even more 'fairytale', in its own way. After all, what are the unwritten rules of fairytales? By the end, the bad guys lose and order is restored to the kingdom. By the end of Sunday afternoon, the bad guys were on the losing team and order was, generally, starting to return. And yes, that said 'bad guys'. Leicester's low profile coming into the season didn't just mask their genuine quality and top class players - it meant that their scandals were also kept pretty quiet. No conspiracy or anything, just the media and public not paying much attention to a couple of stories featuring players who were, at the time, barely newsworthy. Jamie Vardy's indiscretions have been fairly widely covered in comparison to those of his teammates, but mentions of his racial abuse just this past summer are met with near universal blank stares, even now. At the time, the video of Vardy racially abusing an Asian man in a casino could have ripped an already shaken squad apart, coming less than two months after three Foxes players had been sacked following a racism row in Thailand. It's a credit to Claudio Ranieri's management that he's managed to keep the team pulling so universally in the same direction since joining the club, but it doesn't exactly conform to the whole 'lovable underdogs' tag thrust upon the team since their rise up the table. Another sizable stain on the squad's reputation? Danny Simpson. Another name which draws faintly bemused stares when he's mentioned in venomous tones as a loathsome toad - convicted at the end of last season of assaulting the mother of his child, the police having found him straddling his ex-girlfriend with "his hands firmly placed around her neck" after a 999 call. It was Simpson who was sent off for a pair of bookings in Sunday's game, showing that his ability to let down the hard-working, genuinely likeable majority of his teammates isn't just limited to his off-field persona. From here, Leicester's path to the title is tricky. They've got a decent run of fixtures to get themselves back on track, but what could have been a massive lead in the league has been reduced to a single kick - with the pair of north London clubs playing hound and horse to Ranieri's Foxes. There's little point throwing out statistics in favour of the leaders or the chasing pack at this point - the Premier League has shown that it cares little for form or expectations at the moment - and gut feel has been notoriously unreliable. What comes next for the Foxes is anybody's guess. They could find themselves shellshocked by Danny Welbeck's 95th minute winner, drop points against Norwich this coming weekend and fall to third. From there, a loss of momentum, a fight with Manchester United for the final spot in the Champions League, failure, obscurity, a name in the books as an 'almost'. Equally, they could take heart from their excellent performance with 10 men against the Gunners, and go on revitalised. They've now played all of their title rivals twice - not something any of the others can say - and have time to lick their wounds before they face their next real test against a resurgent Southampton in April. For better or for worse, the clock has struck twelve and the Cinderella story is coming to a close. Turns out the narrative runs slightly differently when both of the nasty, ugly stepsisters are on the side of the 'hero'. Absolute dogshite article that doesn't address the subject title bar about 2/3 sentences, just drags up indiscretions of some of our players that has nothing to do with our title bid, and/or our loss against Arsenal. No mark who writes for 90mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticMrFox&Son Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 Well that was weird football journalism(?) at the Huffington Post. Pick a footballer and add a "scandal". Let's start with...........Wayne Rooney as the lad, Ryan Giggs as the serial womaniser, John Terry screwing his team-mates wives & girlfriends. All THEIR careers bombed didn't they, NOT!! What a load of bolloxs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koke Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 Well that was weird football journalism(?) at the Huffington Post. Pick a footballer and add a "scandal". Let's start with...........Wayne Rooney as the lad, Ryan Giggs as the serial womaniser, John Terry screwing his team-mates wives & girlfriends. All THEIR careers bombed didn't they, NOT!! What a load of bolloxs!! People are using class warfare to insult and belittle Vardy. It's sad but typical. Walcott is clean cut and speaks in a clear and articulate manner but they won't highlight that he's nicking a living and is a shocking footballer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ScouseFox Posted 18 February 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 18 February 2016 People are allowed not to like us. agreed, i would prefer it if fans actively hated us than tried to geg in on our success. we are football fans. we're tribal. we support a team and we hate everyone else because they aren't our team. "oh yes go on leicester always had a soft spot for them hope they win the league" - a random sheffield united fan or something. yeah sure you were checking our results as we were drawing away at stockport or being humiliated at home to millwall. support your team and leave ours alone. we're winning this for our players and our fans, not "for the good of football". it's nothing to do with the good of football. everton fans? you can't enjoy this season because "IT'S GOOD FOR FOOTBALL" you should be hating every minute of it because you're shit and a team who's meant to be shitter than you is going to win the league. get fvcked. however there is something fundamentally wrong with football from top to bottom if the main reason some fans of bournemouth don't want us to win the league (any team, not just us) is "they average 42% possession". what a state this game's in/ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 ^^ what utter dross that is basically yet another witch hunt to say yep soon be back where they belong and that we could be fighting it out with man utd for 4th spot? the same united that are about 12 point behind us who had just lost to Sunderland. Getting a bit tired of these articles now! next Saturday cant come soon enough at least they will have something new to write about! To be honest I'm much more comfortable reading that these "shitty little no marks will plummet down the league to where they belong" rather than the "Champions elect, no one will stop them now". It's easier to keep defying our critics than live up to the heady heights of high expectations. I'm hoping to hear we'll still bottle it when we go to Sunderland away 12pts clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEGGSY Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 agreed, i would prefer it if fans actively hated us than tried to geg in on our success. we are football fans. we're tribal. we support a team and we hate everyone else because they aren't our team. "oh yes go on leicester always had a soft spot for them hope they win the league" - a random sheffield united fan or something. yeah sure you were checking our results as we were drawing away at stockport or being humiliated at home to millwall. support your team and leave ours alone. we're winning this for our players and our fans, not "for the good of football". it's nothing to do with the good of football. everton fans? you can't enjoy this season because "IT'S GOOD FOR FOOTBALL" you should be hating every minute of it because you're shit and a team who's meant to be shitter than you is going to win the league. get fvcked. however there is something fundamentally wrong with football from top to bottom if the main reason some fans of bournemouth don't want us to win the league (any team, not just us) is "they average 42% possession". what a state this game's in/ I love you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 I love you. haha, i try my best, just saying it as it should be brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 People are using class warfare to insult and belittle Vardy. It's sad but typical. Walcott is clean cut and speaks in a clear and articulate manner but they won't highlight that he's nicking a living and is a shocking footballer. Mate you need to get over the Walcott thing, it's bordering on obsessive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted 18 February 2016 Share Posted 18 February 2016 All this hate directed towards us from fans.........only means we are a serious threat.......enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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