this is just amazing. The story lines are ridiculous, Vardy not playing soccer until his later years, Mahrez being purchased for $600K and being worth like $20 million now, (Sir) Claudio's career leading to a BPL league title. Really cool to watch.
what a game!!!! Spurs were total pricks all match.
The browns are 200 to 1 odds to win the superbowl next year.
If someone put just $200 on them to win they would be a millionaire right now!!!
I read an article that British bookies were enticing people weeks ago who made that bet to take lesser amounts. The inducement was that Leicester City might not win the title. Some did, including one person who was paid 72,000 pounds to cancel his bet.
He lost to the Faroe Islands as manager of Greece and a year later is BPL champions with Leicester
Yeap, he shit the bed with Greece. I've always seen him as the type of manager to bring lower teams to contention, but I never would have imagined him winning the EPL with Leicester.
but, anyway, the below is a great Reddit post helping anyone to appreciate the fairy tale that is Leicester's season. written a few months ago - ( New Window )
RE: what a game!!!! Spurs were total pricks all match.
Hazard with the Goal of the year IMO given the situation Hazard Wins it for Leicester - ( New Window )
Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
RE: I imagine anyone clicking this thread is already in the know
Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
You're right, Costa will get three games... ... for sticking his eyes into Dembele's fingers. - ( New Window )
No, but he may for elbowing Walker off the ball and causing his nose to bleed.
Fairy tale, magic, smoke and mirrors, fantasy, call it what you will, even King Power Stadium is more like a Field of Dreams compared to The Emirates, The Etihad, etc.
But it came down to Ranieri getting the entire roster to buy in and getting the most out of all of them. What stories are Vardy, Mahrez, yes, but Okazaki's presence forced back lines to spread, Kante kept counters honest, and Huth and Morgan were pillars.
Poetic justice that Arsenal's miracle "win" to tie LC 2-2 back in early March (do I have it right on the result?) when a LC sub, coming on in stoppage time, fouled Arsenal player taking a hail mary with seconds left (akin to fouling a player on a desperation three pointer down by three in the waning second), resulting in a set piece that was headed in to give Arsenal a result. Could have been a crusher.
Something extraordinary is happening in the world of football. Something that defies logic. Something truly magical. Something that makes me well up with emotion because this something is happening to my team. The team I have supported since I was the size of a multipack of crisps.
I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like‑minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation. But nothing compares to this. Nothing. Things like this just do not happen to clubs like mine.
That magical first season, when a team you've followed for so many years makes a fairy tale run and wins it all, after all the lean years. Met fans had it in 1969; I remember 1986 like it was yesterday, watching a windy NFC Championship on TV, with all the ticker tape and tissue blowing around the Meadowlands.
After all the crushing losses on the 60's and 70's, to see your team with the banner. It's a special night in the Midlands of England for Leicester fans, one they won't forget.
on Bournemouth winning it next year. No chance, but I love what Eddie Howe has done with so little. A team like Leicester only wins it all in Football Manager.
I always looked at Leicester as the victims of that famous stoppage time Championship playoff loss in 2013 to Watford in which they missed a penalty and rebound only to allow Watford to score seconds later on the counter to advance to Wembley - one of the great last second goals in English soccer.
But now to have come from that to this is just magical and makes us all smile.
on Bournemouth winning it next year. No chance, but I love what Eddie Howe has done with so little. A team like Leicester only wins it all in Football Manager.
Eddie Howe will be the manager of Everton someday. In my opinion.
It also could be indicative of a shift back towards a strict and organized 4-4-2 and away from the more flowing 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 that has dominated recent years. In Spain Atletico plays similarly, as do both Villarreal and Sevilla who are both in the Europa semis.
Vardy and Mahrez get a lot of credit and rightfully so, but I love what Drinkwater does for them. Glue.
NBCSN's Premier League deal is one of the best in sports
They've televised the EPL for 3 years and they've had 2 phenomenal seasons. The first season was a duel to the end between Liverpool and Man City. They had a clunker last year with Chelsea running away with it by February but nothing tops Leicester's miracle this year
1 guys was from ESPN (game announcer) another guy was from NBC sports ... and I think the last guy was a print reporter.
All British guys affiliated with the game .... they could NOT believe it. They were still in awe of this team 2 -3 days later.
Talked about the redemption of the coach ... " Was fired after 4 games for leading the mighty Greece to a loss against the Pharoah Islands whose team consisted of 4 players and a goat"
I laughed my ass off at that line .... it was a great 20 minute segment.
"The chances of finding Elvis alive are 5,000 to 1" .
The way they described the team it reminded me of the Raiders of the 70's and the 80's. They called them a bunch of has beens, or never wases, ne'er do wells - who just played with a chip on their shoulder's and the winning became inffectious.
I will see if I can find that segment .... worth watching.
Hazard with the Goal of the year IMO given the situation
Hazard Wins it for Leicester - ( New Window )
If someone put just $200 on them to win they would be a millionaire right now!!!
If someone put just $200 on them to win they would be a millionaire right now!!!
I read an article that British bookies were enticing people weeks ago who made that bet to take lesser amounts. The inducement was that Leicester City might not win the title. Some did, including one person who was paid 72,000 pounds to cancel his bet.
He lost to the Faroe Islands as manager of Greece and a year later is BPL champions with Leicester
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Claudio Ranieri.
He lost to the Faroe Islands as manager of Greece and a year later is BPL champions with Leicester
Yeap, he shit the bed with Greece. I've always seen him as the type of manager to bring lower teams to contention, but I never would have imagined him winning the EPL with Leicester.
Also nice to see Hazard returning to from the past few weeks. It's nice to see world-class talent playing well.
written a few months ago - ( New Window )
Hazard with the Goal of the year IMO given the situation Hazard Wins it for Leicester - ( New Window )
Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
Good read. I was most definitely not in the know, and had no idea how much I was missing:
None of the other fairytales I've read start with a Thai gangbang.
Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
You're right, Costa will get three games...
... for sticking his eyes into Dembele's fingers. - ( New Window )
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Yeah and the Chelsea players were complete angels, like always. Especially Costa who is a known to be a class act (sarcasm off). It's a London Derby dude, and Tottenham are the youngest team in the league who had the whole world rooting against them.
You're right, Costa will get three games... ... for sticking his eyes into Dembele's fingers. - ( New Window )
No, but he may for elbowing Walker off the ball and causing his nose to bleed.
If someone put just $200 on them to win they would be a millionaire right now!!!
Simon Cowell becoming Prime Minister was 500 to 1.
What a terrific story.
But it came down to Ranieri getting the entire roster to buy in and getting the most out of all of them. What stories are Vardy, Mahrez, yes, but Okazaki's presence forced back lines to spread, Kante kept counters honest, and Huth and Morgan were pillars.
Poetic justice that Arsenal's miracle "win" to tie LC 2-2 back in early March (do I have it right on the result?) when a LC sub, coming on in stoppage time, fouled Arsenal player taking a hail mary with seconds left (akin to fouling a player on a desperation three pointer down by three in the waning second), resulting in a set piece that was headed in to give Arsenal a result. Could have been a crusher.
Nothing compares to this truly magical title charge by my Leicester City
I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like‑minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation. But nothing compares to this. Nothing. Things like this just do not happen to clubs like mine.
That magical first season, when a team you've followed for so many years makes a fairy tale run and wins it all, after all the lean years. Met fans had it in 1969; I remember 1986 like it was yesterday, watching a windy NFC Championship on TV, with all the ticker tape and tissue blowing around the Meadowlands.
After all the crushing losses on the 60's and 70's, to see your team with the banner. It's a special night in the Midlands of England for Leicester fans, one they won't forget.
But now to have come from that to this is just magical and makes us all smile.
Eddie Howe will be the manager of Everton someday. In my opinion.
Vardy and Mahrez get a lot of credit and rightfully so, but I love what Drinkwater does for them. Glue.
All British guys affiliated with the game .... they could NOT believe it. They were still in awe of this team 2 -3 days later.
Talked about the redemption of the coach ... " Was fired after 4 games for leading the mighty Greece to a loss against the Pharoah Islands whose team consisted of 4 players and a goat"
I laughed my ass off at that line .... it was a great 20 minute segment.
"The chances of finding Elvis alive are 5,000 to 1" .
The way they described the team it reminded me of the Raiders of the 70's and the 80's. They called them a bunch of has beens, or never wases, ne'er do wells - who just played with a chip on their shoulder's and the winning became inffectious.
I will see if I can find that segment .... worth watching.
Worth checking out - ( New Window )