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The "do they mean us?" thread

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They have published their token quarterly sports article.  The subject was inevitable, the content fairly predictable. 

 

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21698271-there-are-lessons-learn-city-much-football-club-foxes-and-tigers

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21698059-leicester-city-management-lessons

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"No Mill would be complete without Arsenal lining up a bid for an up-and-coming star, and Arsène Wenger duly obliges in the form of Rob Holding, who the Sun has claimed has “enjoyed a stunning breakthrough campaign” in Bolton’s back four, a defence that has conceded just 81 goals on the way to finishing rock-bottom of the Championship."

 

lol lol lol

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I am currently in Crete and it has dawned on me how big this is outside of Leicester my son had his City top on and people can't wait to talk about it, saying how good we are.

Best bit was the miserable Spurs fan who had to bring up the exciting football they play.

My response was, ' I'll take the mentality of our players over your exciting football every year mate'.

He then admitted they needed more experienced players.

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I was in Rome when we lifted the trophy on Saturday.

 

On Sunday I was in a group touring the Colosseum and the guide asked where we were from. 4 were from the UK, (not including us 2), and 2 from America.

 

Oddly, when I said we were from Leicester, only the Americans said "wow, your soccer team were fantastic this year"!

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Yes he is a nob, but I don't normally wear my scarf at work, last week was an exception.

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Leicester City benefit financially from Middlesbrough's promotion?

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By Liam Apicella, Features Editor

Filed: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 09:53 UK

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 09:55 UK

Newly-crowned champions Leicester City will reportedly pocket an extra £1.5m from last summer's sale of David Nugent to Middlesbrough.

The striker headed for Teeside in August for a fee in the region of £2m.

However, according to Sky Sports News, the Foxes inserted a promotion clause into the deal that would see them earn an added windfall were Boro to join them in the Premier League.

Aitor Karanka's men did just that on Saturday thanks to their 1-1 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion, which sealed the Championship's second automatic promotion spot.

Nugent scored eight goals from his 40 appearances for Boro during 2015-16.

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Claudio Ranieri: Nottingham Forest success greater than Leicester's

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Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri says the club's shock success cannot yet compare with the achievements of Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.

Leicester beat odds of 5,000-1 to take the title this season, just a year after a late surge saw them avoid relegation to the second tier, prompting suggestions Ranieri's men had achieved the most unlikely feat in sporting history.

However, Forest were crowned champions in 1977-78 after having scraped promotion to the top flight a year earlier, and they then won back-to-back European Cups in the two seasons that followed.

Ranieri told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "People always try to look for something exceptional in sport but I think that, 30-40 years ago, Nottingham Forest did something even greater than what we have done.

"They got promoted from the second division, then they won the First Division title and then won the European Cup twice, so let's just wait a few more years."

Leicester can now look to emulate that achievement in Europe with their Premier League title ensuring they will be one of the top seeds in the draw for next season's Champions League group stage.

"Life is beautiful and is there to be lived to the full," Ranieri said. "We woke up from this dream to discover it was all true, that we had won a title which was unimaginable at the start of the season.

"I want to thank the magnificent players I had this season because they were the ones who made this dream come true for so many people."

Former Valencia, Chelsea, Juventus and Roma boss Ranieri says the team spirit was one of the secrets to his side's success.

He told the Italian newspaper: "When I met my players, I said to them: 'It's going to take me a bit of time to get to know you because there are so many of you, but you just have to get to know one person -- me. All I ask of you is to give everything you have got for each other.'

"For example, did you know that most of the lads don't even live in Leicester? Some live in London, some in Manchester or Birmingham. Yet when they all went to [Jamie] Vardy's house together on the day we won the title, they travelled and stayed in hotels just so that they could be together."

Ranieri also thanked his backroom staff for their hard work in preparing the team for every match.

"I'm obsessed with video analysis," the 64-year-old said. "Just think that when I was coach of Cagliari, I had two VHS video recorders that I would use to produce a single film.

"Well, up there [in Leicester] I found a huge room full of televisions, with people recording every match and every training session with three cameras, and other people looking at players all over the world to satisfy my demands on the transfer market.

"Then, before every match, we would download onto the tablet of each player a video of their next opponents with their characteristics. It was a perfect organisation."

That all contributed to Leicester lifting the Premier League trophy last Saturday, after Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli had started the celebrationsat the King Power Stadium.

"If I could have imagined the perfect ending to this story for Leicester, this is precisely the way I would have imagined it, with Bocelli singing 'Vincero' in the middle of the stadium," Ranieri said. "It was he who called me in April to tell me, 'Boss, if you do it, I'm going to come and sing for you.'

"When he was here, he came close to me and said, 'I'm feeling enormously emotional.' Imagine this -- his wife revealed to me that it was the first time she had ever seen him happy to get on a plane. I still have goosebumps now."

Ranieri took the Leicester job when his reputation was particularly low after adisastrous stint in charge of Greece, and he had talked up his desire to return to England -- or even Scotland -- last July.

"I was delighted," he said. "I was so desperate to come back that I would even have accepted a job in the second division.

"Two other Premier League clubs had also contacted me, but then they chose somebody else. Leicester convinced me with their management, their plans and their structures. Then I got to know the chairman's family, who I will only mention by his first name because I don't even know how to pronounce his second."

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Jamie Vardy: Leicester City FC won the 2016 English Premier League title on a sunlounger

 

Jamie Vardy has described Claudio Ranieri’s decision to give the Leicester Cityplayers a week off in February as a “great idea” and described it as one of the defining moments in the club’s title‑winning season. The England striker also revealed that his break in Dubai was made all the more enjoyable by the fact that the Sunderland players were pounding the beach across the road while he was topping up his tan.

Ranieri made the bold call to give everyone an extended breather after Leicester lost 2-1 against Arsenal on Valentine’s Day. With no match for a fortnight because of their FA Cup elimination, Ranieri reasoned that it was an ideal opportunity for his players to switch off from football following the injury-time defeat at Arsenal that Vardy described as a “killer blow”.

The striker said: “I think a good thing that helped us straight after that game was the gaffer had seen exactly how much we’d all fought for each other and put into that game, and because we weren’t in the week after because we’d been knocked out of the FA Cup he gave us a week off to completely forget about everything and recharge the batteries.

“We all ventured off, quite a few of us went to Dubai together as a team, and I think that moment, for him to even think about doing that, showed what he’d thought of us as a team and how much work we’d already put in. So to get those batteries recharged for that week and come back fighting stronger was a massive part [in winning the league].

“It was a great idea. I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness. For me to be relaxing while they’re doing the training was quite nice. It worked out perfectly, no one was going to go on a seven-day bender. It was a case of being there to relax with family and that’s all we did until we got back to training.”

Speaking at the launch of his V9 Academy in Manchester, which has been set up to give non-league players a chance to break into the professional game and follow in his own footsteps, Vardy was on good form as he reflected on winning the league with Leicester and that slightly mischievous tweet he sent out showingthe Lion King’s Mufasa falling down a cliff. “That’s just my favourite kids’ film!” he said, smiling.

Vardy posted that picture immediately after Leicester claimed the title on the back of Tottenham Hotspur being held to a 2-2 draw at Chelsea, and in response to the picture Harry Kane had put on Instagram after Ranieri’s side had dropped points at home against West Ham United a fortnight earlier. Kane’s image showed a pack of lions about to go a hunt.

Asked whether there was a friendly rivalry between himself and Kane, who could be playing alongside one another at Euro 2016 this summer, Vardy replied: “We’re away with England to do a job for England and that’s all we focus on while we’re there. After that when you go back to your own clubs, I’m sure a few of us can put a few pictures out and let the media join the dots up themselves.”

 
 

Mauricio Pochettino, the Spurs manager, has criticised other managers and players for expressing their “personal opinion” about who they wanted to win the title before it had been decided and implied that some clubs may have got caught up in the Leicester fairytale, yet Vardy was dismissive of the idea that his team benefited in any way during the run-in. “I can’t see any team doing that, to be honest with you. I don’t think anyone would like to just turn up and be rolled over to let someone else win, I don’t think that is inside anyone, it wouldn’t look good on the club if they were doing that and I’m sure the fans wouldn’t like it. So I can’t see that being true whatsoever.”

Vardy’s Premier League winners’ medal is hung up by the side of his bed and he has not given up hope of picking up the golden boot to go along with the Football Writers’ player of the year award that he will receive in London on Thursday. He is on 24 league goals, level with Sergio Agüero and one behind Kane with the trip to Stamford Bridge to come on Sunday. “I’d have been level if I’d not put that penalty in the garden,” he said, smiling at the memory of the spot-kick that sailed over the crossbar in the 3-1 win against Everton on Saturday and which cost him the chance of a first Premier League hat-trick.

Alluding to the team spirit that has been such a cornerstone of Leicester’s success, Vardy described his team-mates as being like “brothers” and said that the camaraderie among them is “the main thing that has got us where we are”. He expressed his hope that their achievements this season will keep the squad together. The 29-year-old also suggested that his own future – in February he signed a contract extension until 2019 – is secure.

“We’ve just won the league and will be playing in the Champions League next year. I am happy here,” Vardy said.

Vardy’s rag-to-riches story is the inspiration behind his academy, which receives its first intake of players in May next year. Held at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus, the academy will host 42 non-league players across five days and offer elite coaching as well as the opportunity to train and play in front of scouts from professional clubs.

Sat alongside his agent, John Morris, who is the co-founder of the V9 Academy, Vardy talked about wanting to “give something back” after his own experiences in non-league football. Released from Sheffield Wednesday at the age of 16 for being too small, Vardy spent seven years with Stocksbridge Park Steels and another two with Halifax and Fleetwood Town before breaking into the professional game with Leicester at the age of 25.

“I think you have got to give everyone the full time to develop, to see how big and strong they become, up until 21,” Vardy said. “It is a long time to keep someone on, for teams to hope you are going to fulfil that potential. But [it cannot be right if] you’re telling them six years previously. When I was released, I was only 4ft 11in, so I probably was too small. Two months later I had a massive growth spurt, so who knows what difference it would have made. I doubted myself as soon as I got released. It was my boyhood club, I had made them the highlight of everything. To be told at that age I was not big enough or strong enough was hard to take. The important thing was playing non-league football and enjoying it again, but it was a long hard process.”

For information about the V9 Academy, see www.V9academy.co.uk

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City FC won the 2016 English Premier League title on a sunlounger

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Vaz doesn't even support the Foxes if you read the article

Having had to put up with Vaz for a number of decades here, it's clear to me that his only interest is furthering his own political aspirations. If the Leicester women's synchronised swimming team won a medal he'd come out in a fvckin batho.

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Having had to put up with Vaz for a number of decades here, it's clear to me that his only interest is furthering his own political aspirations. If the Leicester women's synchronised swimming team won a medal he'd come out in a fvckin batho.

Let's hope they're vastly unsuccessful for the rest of his days on earth then

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