Leicester City FC

[carmine]

Well that was just like rolling the clocks back twelve months wasn't it!!  I wonder what Claudio Ranieri thought of that performance?

[dabhand]

1 hour ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Someone do me a favour and check when/what channel is an evening/weekend rerun of the Leicester vs Liverpool game on Truevisions. Cheers.

BeIN 1 - 19.10

BeIN 2 - 13.50

BeIN 3 - 22.00

BeIN 4 - 17.40

 

All times are for today.

[Bredbury Blue]

^Thanks dabhand

[Chicog]

4 hours ago, carmine said:

Well that was just like rolling the clocks back twelve months wasn't it!!  I wonder what Claudio Ranieri thought of that performance?

Probably unprintable.

[balo]

I watched the game , it's amazing to see how the big change in mentality was , suddenly their back at their best from last season . Very strange indeed.  

 

Now Sevilla could be in trouble here,  I wonder if the dream will continue. 

 

 

[champers]

I would love to see them win the CL. All clubs are pretty ruthless when it comes to sacking managers. Leicester are no different. Shakespeare is well in contention after last night. Dramatic or what?

[balo]

5 hours ago, champers said:

Shakespeare is well in contention after last night. Dramatic or what?

It's Shakespeare , of course it's dramatic...   

 

 

Edited February 28, 2017 by balo

[Chicog]

3 hours ago, balo said:

It's Shakespeare , of course it's dramatic...   

 

 

Why, it could be comedic.

[carmine]

18 hours ago, Chicog said:

Probably unprintable.

Especially seeing Drinkwater running around like he's on steroids having spent the rest of the season looking like he's semi disabled.

[mrbojangles]

Mmmm. Louis Enrique leaving Barcelona at the end of the season. Coincidence  

[Bredbury Blue]

^He's coming to the Etihad to manage our u15s

[Chicog]

8 hours ago, mrbojangles said:

Mmmm. Louis Enrique leaving Barcelona at the end of the season. Coincidence  

Now we know where Wenger's going.

 

[StevieH]

18 minutes ago, Chicog said:

Now we know where Wenger's going.

 

 

bookies have the lad sampaoli from sevilla going there don't they?

[champers]

On 3/1/2017 at 2:40 AM, Chicog said:

Why, it could be comedic.

Or tragic.

[champers]

Mancini ruled himself out cos he is in Italy's version of Strictly Come Dancing (not a joke, it is true). Will he do the foxtrot?

[champers]

14 minutes ago, StevieH said:

 

bookies have the lad sampaoli from sevilla going there don't they?

Ex Barca skipper Koeman is fancied as is ex Barca Laudrup.

[Chicog]

They tried to get Wenger in 2000 but the club blocked it.

He's out of contract in the summer.

Willing to bet they've already been in touch.

[mrbojangles]

10 minutes ago, Chicog said:

They tried to get Wenger in 2000 but the club blocked it.

He's out of contract in the summer.

Willing to bet they've already been in touch.

I would imagine they have but I reckon they'll have quite a few on the short list alone and I don't think they will rush to make their minds up.

 

Names touted around at the moment are Jorge Sampaoli (fav as stevieH said) Valverde, Koeman, Pocchetino and Wenger. Probably more to come.

[carmine]

Remarkable turn around for the team since they got their manager the sack.  The new long term appointment would be well advised to watch his back.

[Jip99]

4 minutes ago, carmine said:

Remarkable turn around for the team since they got their manager the sack.  The new long term appointment would be well advised to watch his back.

 

Further justification of the decision to sack Ranieri.......

[carmine]

6 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

 

Further justification of the decision to sack Ranieri.......

Yes in the sad world that football is becoming i suppose it is.  

[StevieH]

42 minutes ago, carmine said:

Remarkable turn around for the team since they got their manager the sack.  The new long term appointment would be well advised to watch his back.

 

bunch of sh*thouses. i've lost a lot of respect for the players who pulled off that incredible title win last season. way they stopped playing for ranieri and then stabbed him in the back was disgraceful.

[balo]

The Thai munk is doing ok so far with his predictions. The owners must be thrilled.

[bangkok blue]

Went balistic last night and woke up half the condo, especially when Kasper saved the peno! Planning on going back for 1st leg game and Palace away, as off for Songkran!

[dabhand]

I watch the CL games on True and checked when the Leicester game was being shown this morning. It was on at 9.10 so decided to forego the 'pleasures' of getting up at 2,45 and placed an internet block on the house in the period up to 11am. Worked a treat and really enjoyed watching the game at a more civilised time, plus managed to avoid the temptation to have a look at the score when it was getting rather tense towards the end.

 

Will do the same for the Man city game as the replay is also on at 9.10am on BeIN 4.

[3 minus 2]

bac to 'pearsons' team last night. and  no doubts they are bloody good with  it 

#

using 'that ' way would you bet against them winning the champons lge?

 

why not?

 

they absolutly 'smashed' the prem with it for a season and a half

 

so why not the top boys in europe

 

juve imo is the one to avoid

 

 

[jellydog]

9 minutes ago, 3 minus 2 said:

bac to 'pearsons' team last night. and  no doubts they are bloody good with  it 

#

using 'that ' way would you bet against them winning the champons lge?

 

why not?

 

they absolutly 'smashed' the prem with it for a season and a half

 

so why not the top boys in europe

 

juve imo is the one to avoid

 

 

Buffon says Leicester is the one to avoid.

[jellydog]

[3 minus 2]

7 minutes ago, jellydog said:

Buffon says Leicester is the one to avoid.

yeah i can almost ' feel the point vardy is wanting to prove

 

and almost goes the same for marhez,,,

[oldgit]

10 hours ago, StevieH said:

 

bunch of sh*thouses. i've lost a lot of respect for the players who pulled off that incredible title win last season. way they stopped playing for ranieri and then stabbed him in the back was disgraceful.

Tut tut Stevie, blaming the poor players. Didn't you know this Shakespeare character (how can he possibly fail with that name) is a tactical master? He said that his plan was to "press Sevilla high up the pitch" and "it worked a treat", something that Ranieri would never have thought of doing, right? and Schmeichel gushed that "we had a game plan and kept to it." completely ignoring the fact that for a "game plan" to work, you've got to have the players on board before it can have any hope of working..

It makes you wonder how the 53 year old Shakespeare has been allowed to live in the shadows for so long without somebody picking up on his brilliance. He's had three home games in a row and, with the clapper happy Leicester crowd doing their best to lift the team, it's been a carnival. 

Danny Mills, a pundit who's got that superior air about him and talks as though everybody else is a complete c**t, reckons that "those people who said Ranieri shouldn't have been sacked, should be eating humble pie now". What is particularly galling is all the players, without exception, denied that they were instrumental in Ranieri's dismissal , the same set of players who made great play of the fact that they were down to earth, rough and ready types who had started from the lower reaches of the Leagues yet, when things started to get tough and  weren't going their way, they downed tools and left Ranieri hanging by a thread. The same man who, nine months earlier had lifted them up by their bootlaces  and cajoled them to realise an achievement that not one of them thought would ever be possible.  That's typical of the 'gratitude' you're likely to get from the luvvies who call themselves professional footballers nowadays.