joecraigfanclub Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Remarkable but true Edited February 23, 2017 by joecraigfanclub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flumax Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 8 minutes ago, joecraigfanclub said: Remarkable but true Utter nonsense. Should be a statue outside the stadium. Who's going to want that job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mee Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Terrible decision. They really are trying to kill all the romance of football. Last year everyone loved Leicester now they will hate them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 I hate football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Should have been booted weeks ago, last season is gone. No sentiment in football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 I suspect that whereas last season all the neutrals were hoping Leicester would win the league, this season they all be hoping they get relegated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Jim Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 19 minutes ago, dan cake said: Should have been booted weeks ago, last season is gone. No sentiment in football Sentiment's got nothing to do with why he should still be in the job. If he's good enough to take them to a title and the last 16 of the Champions League, he's good enough to keep them up. It's a ludicrous decision. He's been badly let down by the players, plus Kante has been a huge loss. He protected what is really a pretty average defence and made them a lot better than they actually are. If this is what money does to football I'm almost glad the Scottish game is skint. I really hope they get relegated now and don't come back up until the current owners are gone. I'd like to think the Leicester fans will boycott home games. Hit the owners in the only place that matters to them, the pocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartandon Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 45 minutes ago, aaid said: I suspect that whereas last season all the neutrals were hoping Leicester would win the league, this season they all be hoping they get relegated. I certainly hope they get relegated now that they have sacked Ranieri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Giant Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 9 minutes ago, Jaggy Jim said: Sentiment's got nothing to do with why he should still be in the job. If he's good enough to take them to a title and the last 16 of the Champions League, he's good enough to keep them up. It's a ludicrous decision. He's been badly let down by the players, plus Kante has been a huge loss. He protected what is really a pretty average defence and made them a lot better than they actually are. If this is what money does to football I'm almost glad the Scottish game is skint. I really hope they get relegated now and don't come back up until the current owners are gone. I'd like to think the Leicester fans will boycott home games. Hit the owners in the only place that matters to them, the pocket. After Leicester won the league and were awarded the trophy, the players could hardly get it off the chairman and his son during the lap of honour. And there was big picture of the chairman on the front of the programme for their first home champions league game against Porto. He seems like an arsehole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Madness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macy37 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 56 minutes ago, aaid said: I suspect that whereas last season all the neutrals were hoping Leicester would win the league, this season they all be hoping they get relegated. 16/1 I got at start of the season. It was looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMcoolJ Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Didn't he win European Manager of the year just a month ago? if someone had said to Leicester two years ago that they'd still be in a decent position in the EPL relegation battle and in a good position in Europe they'd have bitten your hand off. Hope they go down. Lost the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecraigfanclub Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 They are in freefall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 35 minutes ago, Jaggy Jim said: Sentiment's got nothing to do with why he should still be in the job. If he's good enough to take them to a title and the last 16 of the Champions League, he's good enough to keep them up. It's a ludicrous decision. He's been badly let down by the players, plus Kante has been a huge loss. He protected what is really a pretty average defence and made them a lot better than they actually are. If this is what money does to football I'm almost glad the Scottish game is skint. I really hope they get relegated now and don't come back up until the current owners are gone. I'd like to think the Leicester fans will boycott home games. Hit the owners in the only place that matters to them, the pocket. with the exception of kante its the same team that won the title last year so surely their postition is down to the manager? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 no doubt lennon's name (not danny) will be mentioned as a possible successor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMcoolJ Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, dan cake said: with the exception of kante its the same team that won the title last year so surely their postition is down to the manager? You could look at it the other way though - they're in their rightful position now and only down to the manger, they won the league last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 hour ago, dan cake said: Should have been booted weeks ago, last season is gone. No sentiment in football Ah but they love to live off the sentiment when the going is good. And in any case, even from a completely hard-headed view, the 'fairytale' of leicester could be worth more milking of goodwill, even if they go down (and maybe come back up) whereas they've trashed any chance of banking that goodwill now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 1 minute ago, SMcoolJ said: You could look at it the other way though - they're in their rightful position now and only down to the manger, they won the league last year. momentum in sport is huge they finished the season before with 7 wins from 9 games (before ranieri) and he kept it going when last season started most of the "big boys" were a shambles last season which helped leicester massively Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Should have sold Vardy and strenghtened with the money - especially after the casino incident showed he was a complete arsehole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMcoolJ Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) 33 minutes ago, dan cake said: momentum in sport is huge they finished the season before with 7 wins from 9 games (before ranieri) and he kept it going when last season started most of the "big boys" were a shambles last season which helped leicester massively Ok. Pochettino didn't win the League last year (finished third in a two horse race) and just got knocked out of the Europa League. Leicester very much still in CL, oh and won the league!! EPL going to implode soon. Edited February 23, 2017 by SMcoolJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Did Leicester really win the league last season of was that fake news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellyman Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 A decent guy and a good character - his sacking just shows you whats wrong with football in the EPL - money, power hungry owners and no loyalty . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 10 hours ago, aaid said: I suspect that whereas last season all the neutrals were hoping Leicester would win the league, this season they all be hoping they get relegated. I wanted them to get relegated last season too. 9 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Should have sold Vardy and strenghtened with the money - especially after the casino incident showed he was a complete arsehole He showed he was an arsehole years ago. Assault conviction and had to wear an electronic tag for 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalgety Bay TA Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 11 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Should have sold Vardy and strenghtened with the money - especially after the casino incident showed he was a complete arsehole They did supposedly strengthen. £13m on Mendy, £16m on Musa, £7.5m on Kapustka, £29m on Slimani and £14m in January on Ndidi. What they didn't strengthen was the defence. And being honest, a defence which featured Simpson, Morgan and Huth, all decent journeyman pro's, was never going to be the long term answer. They all played out of their skins last season, no doubt high on the confidence the whole team had, but they have regressed back to their normal levels this season, as has most of the team. None of the buys have done anything of note to justify prices, ok give Ndidi longer as only been there a month or so but the remainder have hardly pushed the team on or even helped them stabilise. Team has been in freefall for a while now and nothing that Ranieri was doing was making any difference to that. I think they are, or possibly were, in real danger of going down, especially as teams like Burnley and Hull started picking up points here or there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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