…..but, while I’m at it, can I piss myself laughing at the mug-fest that was Tottenham 2, Arsenal 2.
Remember those Tom and Jerry’s where Tom, invariably, would do something stupid and turn into a jack-ass.
Ee-or, ee-or……we are not laughing AT you, we are laughing TOWARDS you!
As long as they win the league and Norwich stay up I will be happy.
It’s looking more likely by the week.
Can it actually happen?
From a team fighting for their Premier League lives, who made an un-inspiring managerial appointment and spent little to refresh/re-build the squad to Champions inside a year – good luck to ’em I say.
Gives hope to all other teams that it can happen.
Even finishing in the Top 4 would be a monumental achievement.
Apart from West Ham their remaining fixtures look relatively easy: Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Sunderland, Swansea. Let’s hope they don’t choke.
as a spurs fan we obviously have aspirations of our own but if we cock it up, which we seem to be in the process of doing, I will still raise a cheer and probably a glass to Leicester. what a wonderful season they have had showing that should the greedy bastard top 5 have their way and desert to a European super league there is enough talent among the so called minor clubs to ensure that they will not be missed
It’d be amazing to see them win it. And it’d make fools of us all. Leicester weren’t just outsiders, they were prime relegation candidates.
and Ranieri on short odds to be the first to be shown the door
I have sadly lost touch with a good mate who is an avid Leicester City fan. He always used to say ” I would rather be winning every week in the Championship than hovering just above the relegation zone in the Big Boy’s League”.
As a Norwich City fan I used to heartily agree.
I can only imagine what he is feeling right now – ” worst case scenario we finish fourth”. Bastard…never liked him
I would rather be winning every week in the Championship than hovering just above the relegation zone in the Big Boy’s League…
Exactly how I feel about Hull City. Apart from a few crazy results in the first few games in 2008-9, City’s time in the PL was in general a slow-motion car crash. With everybody watching.
But then again if Leicester can do it…
Is it time to start the Conspiracy Theories?
Maybe the FA and Premier League had a quiet chat during the summer to try and put some excitement and/or unpredictability into the coming season.
The sacking of Mourinho and continuing moribund football of van Gaal were all part of the conspiracy.
note: I don’t actually believe this (obviously).
Leicester are where they are by playing good football, tactically savvy and exploiting other teams weaknesses. No-one has yet caught them out and found any holes/weaknesses in the Leicester set-up.
The relative disaster seasons at Chelsea and ManU have helped, but that is not the reason they’re on top.
Apparently, more than a few Arsenal fans are genuinely talking up a conspiracy concerning Leicester’s lack of injury problems. They’re all doped up, don’tcha know? Hilarious.
“More than a few” being three or four half wits on Twitter, presumably? This is certainly the first I’ve heard of it.
Given the likely alternative winners if we don’t manage to pull our shit together, I can assure you that the vast, vast, vast majority of Gooners will be blowing wind into Leicester’s sails all the way.
As for the rest, it’s lovely to see deram continuing to play Glenn Close to the Arsenal’s Michael Douglas. Nice to see someone thinking about the Gunners even more than I do.
One of many reasons I’d like Leicester to make it is to shit all over the jug-eared plank Lineker who slagged Ranieri off before he’d been in charge for one game.
There is no such thing as a bad premiership manager… Until they fail.
Except…. isn’t linker is a director at Leicester?
I would love to see Leicester win it. I’m particularly enjoying watching Tottenham fumble the best chance they’ll ever get. I’m more focussed on Slaven Bilic’s Claret and Blue Army’s FA Cup campaign but if we get Champions League via a top four finish I’ll be delighted. Great result today! COYI!
Yes, 2-0 down and conceding a penalty after 78 minutes, there weren’t many people (me included) who would’ve bet on the Irons to take all three points. Tremendous stuff.
As a Tottenham fan I was starting to believe, which is unfamiliar and disconcerting territory. After this week however it seems business as usual…
This season has re-ignited a long lost association with Englands top division. I would love Leicester to win it for all the reasons stated above. I am fascinated by how things would play out in the summer, Leicesters owners and management will have some huge decisions to make and I fear they could end up in the Champions League with half of this years squad elsewhere. I really hope not but the influence of agents and the shortness of a window of opportunity for the likes of Vardy, Schmeical, Mahrez and Kante could see an exodus which would be a real shame,
The real plus for me is in the season that Mourinho was finally exposed the man he replaced at Chelsea could win the league with Leicester. It was Ranieris team and you could say Mourinho took them backwards as they should have won the Champions league in Ranieris last season. I doubt Ranieri is bitter, he doesn’t seem the type so I will be bitter for him. I just hope his seemingly endless good nature, smile and talent are able to take Leicester over the line. Then his toughest job starts…..
I don’t think any Chelsea supporter would agree with your take on Jose/ Don Claudio Dave.
Ranieri is held in great affection by the blue faithful but the consensus is that Jose was the push the club needed to really deliver.
Whatever one thinks of Jose, such was the perfection of the whole enterprise in 2004/5 that pundits were actually discussing when Chelsea would even concede a goal, let alone lose a game. That was new.
There was no room for too much affection at that stage – Don Claudio was primarily remembered footy wise as the guy that fucked up the Champs Leage semi v Monaco with his famous ‘tinkering’. – if these matters were based purely on affection the supporters would have voted for Vialli to stay – he is still LOVED at the Bridge & Ranieri took his job. CR also inherited all the work Nigel Pearson put in at Leicester.
No doubting that Jose went mental this season & may well be a toxic basket case evermore, but there was a time he was bang on the money & his team were pretty much invincible.
Ranieri has probably become a better manager than he was back then, so nobody is going to begrudge his winning the league ( hopefully).
But how about a word for Robert Huth? What great symmetry if he were to get a league winners medal playing under both guys!
Huth’s story is remarkable. Farmed out on loan by Stoke, then banned for playing a transphobic Twitter game called cock or no cock, he looked for all the world like a faded pro heading towards the end of his career. Look at him now.
That Leicester central defence of Morgan & Huth has been fabulous all season and don’t get enough credit. Reminds me of the Lloyd & Burns pairing that made Nottingham Forest win that final against a very good Hamburg side 36 (?) years ago.
In an ideal world West Ham and A.N.Other would make a late push to join Spurs and Leicester in a final top 4, leaving both Manchester clubs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool with their noses pressed against the toyshop window. Childish and ultimately self defeating ? Quite possibly, but worth it none the less.
I’ve never forgiven Leicester for beating my lot in the 1997 League Cup final, but I hope they win the league. So nice to see the puffed-up, self-defined ‘Big 5’ trailing in their wake. Good for Big Bob Huth as well, he had a few good seasons with us and is an all round good egg.
I’m hoping Leicester make it as they are my local Premier League team but my heart is with Brighton, who seem determined to squander any chance of going up, after fooling us into thinking they’d finally woken up with their two recent 4-0 wins.
We’re looking at failing in the playoffs. Again.
If Leicester do this it will be one of the all greatest sporting achievements. Because this just can’t happen in the current Prem set-up – I mean you need shedloads of cash don’t you and pedigree – its an affront to the ‘Big 4’ monopoly. Treasure the moment folks I doubt we will ever see it again.
Meanwhile down in the foothills of the Championship relegation places my team – Rotherham United – are attempting some kind of miracle comeback of their own. They looked totally out of it but with 2 back to back wins under the leadership of the Warnock (the last being at Hillsborough on Saturday and what sweet, sweet joy that was) hope is back.
Isn’t football wonderful at this time of the season ?