That Vardy goal was a bit special.
It was indeed.
Vardy scoring an absolute peach after a stunning inch-perfect pass from Mahrez?
Its got a very familiar ring to it this season, that
Yep, it was even better live 😀
I ****ing love being a Leicester fan right now.
I bet you do! I genuinely hope you do it! You're playing some sublime attacking football!
I think the way Ranieri is dealing with managing the expectation, saying they're under no pressure, and are just enjoying themselves, is genius.
Looks like you'll definitely be champions league next season, at least
The only thing thats been predictable is Arsenal 'doing an Arsenal' at the same point they do every season
Derby are also doing a 'Derby' in the Championship. Top at Christmas again, and now gradually slipping down the table!
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/naturalists-observe-annual-phenomenon-of-arsenal-shedding-spine-20160204105902 ]The Mash nails it again[/url]
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You can laugh Binners, but when we get Welbeck back........
I hear Wilshere is back to walking....
Brilliant
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Pep will be wishing he was joining the other City!
1-3. Never saw that!
The impossible dream continues!
There's only one Citeh!!
20 years of hurt (a few years of delight) it feels like ill wake up in the double decker at Filber St any moment, 4-0 down to Bolton.
Happy 😥
Good Lord Tottenham, don't want to say too much just yet, but Good Lord. 🙂
The Leicester score wasnt as much of a shock as Newcastle actually managing to get 3pts...
I think we are all Leicester fans now. I actually care who wins the league this year as West Ham are probably out of the running.
Unbelievable. In the sense i still don't believe it, and can't convince myself that it'll last. Not a Foxes fan myself but a mate is a mad one; he too keeps thinking he's going to wake up and it was all a dream.
If Arsenal lose to Bournemouth today, then I imagine all their fans will be routing for Leicester 😛
Everyone likes an under dog story and this is way into the realms of fantasy- the sort of thing that only really happens on manager sims games.
It remains to be seen how they cope with the pressure and then the expectation next season but until then what a dream they have and what season they have had even if they lose every game till the end of the season.
It is all falling into place for them now, up until yesterday I was expecting them to start falling away at some point, but now I think they are probably favourites. Being out of all cup competitions gives them a big advantage, they will be hoping city, arsenal and spurs all keep going in Europe right to the end.
I hope Vardy and Mahrez stay fit, it's maybe a little unfair to focus on just those two players, the whole team is playing out of their skins, but those two do seem to be the catalyst. They are the team up at the top with the shallowest squad, I don't recall them having any key injuries so far, that could cost them yet.
We have the best medical team in the premier league, the injury situation is certainly no fluke, it's a part of the club that is managed as seriously as the tactics and football itself.
In terms of shallow squad, i'm not so sure it's as shallow as neutral fans think, we have the Swiss international captain unable to get a game of football, potentially we are short on numbers up top if Okazaki or Vards are out for prolonged periods, however that looks unlikely, it took Vardy 10 days to recover from a groin op 😀
Up the Citeh
the injury situation is certainly no fluke
you dont play the most games and IMHO injuries do involve luck
Manu - Luke shaw for example the best medical team in the world would not have prevented that nor, IMHO, most injuries in a match
I am sure there is variation between team but its probably more down to bad luck and having some injury prone players - stares intently at Daniel Sturridge- than all down to the medical team.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35313650
Injury league table here- second FWIW with only 9 injuries- Luke shaw has missed more than your team .
The style of football we play is prime for players picking up strains and muscle injuries, it simply doesn't happen.
As for not playing the most games, that is only just true now we are out of the cup, however I'm quite sure our players run more in one game than some teams players do in 3 😉
Everyone ready for the clash of the mid-table sides? 😉
Could be anything this. Hopefully he'll have learnt this week to let Mata play where we bought him to play. And it'd be nice to contribute to John Terry finishing his last season at Chelski in the bottom half of the table 🙂
Fair play to Leicester. Again! They totally outplayed City yesterday. Battered them. They're definitely playing the best football in the league, and thoroughly deserve to be where they are.
Arsenal have just been a tad fortunate, to say the least. They should have been down to ten men there. Though I'm sure Arsene must have been watching something else at the time. Lucky that Cech was on form
I could hear Kurt Zouma's screams 200 miles away. Hope it's not as bad as it sounds.
Great goalkeeping today
Yep we got away with headless chicken flamini not getting a straight red . not a great performance but beat Leicester next week and we are two points behind them. Only to have my dreams shafted when we lose at Newcastle or zummitlikethat
beat Leicester next week and we are two points behind them.
you sound like a man shitty fan. how did that work out ?
you sound like a man shitty fan. how did that work out ?
You sound like you don't know the fixture list.
...and are possibly drunk.
really enlighten me 😆
Paid the price for sitting back and letting Chelski attack us. Good match though. And as THM said, some absolutely top draw goalkeeping on display at both ends. Lingards goal was an absolute peach too!
we do at least seem to be playing better and a draw was probably a fair result
Annoying so late on
Both keepers were the best players on the pitch.
Both man utd keepers were the best players on the pitch.
fify
Nice to see the ovation the Chelsea fans gave Mata too. Who had a great game again
Yeah - he was their player of the year twice running I think. Won't get a look in when the special one shows up though.
Klunk - Memberreally enlighten me
I'll let you work it out it's more fun
I could hear Kurt Zouma's screams 200 miles away.
Won't link to pics as they're Daily Mail and not nice. I was listening on the radio in the car and had to turn it off.
Get well soon.
Hope he's ok. He clearly wasn't putting it on! Seeing the slo mo replay it looked like a possible compound fracture. Let's hope not.
Hyperextended knee. Pics are horrible.
I was listening on the radio in the car and had to turn it off.
...but then went to check out the pics on DM? 😛
But the feed I was watching on replayed the incident and Graham Le Saux and Lee Dixon were like...nah, let's not see that again.
I know, it's strange. But I can choose to look and choose to look away plus it's a still picture which somehow is easier to look at. On the radio I had no option but to listen to the screaming and so hit the off. By the time I turned it back on they were treating him but they must have cut the pitchside mikes.
So.....
A Leicester fan has a fiver on at 5000-1 for them to win the title. The bookies offered to buy his bet out for £3000
Would you take it?
What would they have to offer before you would?
I know bookies are in it for the money, but why they're offering £3000 against a £25000 possible value - that's (very roughly) an 8-1 offer. Yet they're only offering 9-4 on new bets to win the league. I'd be holding out for £10K on that basis!!
No chance, stick with the bet. Much cooler story, bro.
The bookies are totally trying it on, hoping he's an idiot. Its a bit rich to install them as favourites in one breath, then make an offer like that with the next.
I heard the guy interviewed on Five Live yesterday, and he's far from an idiot. He had a great attitude. He said there was no way he was taking any offers. He was in it until the end because he was enjoying the ride so much, and at the end of the day if he didn't win, he'd only lost a fiver, and had a great time in the process!
Good luck to him and Leicester!
So Derby sack their manager - I wonder if the 'special one' fancies a lower league challenge!...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35528402
