I can't believe that you're all doubting the saviours of football.

I can't believe that you're all doubting the man who essentially built the greatest side in the history of the Premier League.

I mean, sure, they have an ersatz Bielsa... that doesn't mean they really understand what that Leicester side is capable of.

I don't think those who were a part of it do either...

 

 

For what it's worth, I don't think a city has ever celebrated a 2-1 defeat so loudly!

On 2/21/2017 at 21:33, Bobbywoodhogan said:

God that was some game wasn't it? Might be the best CL game I've ever seen that.

Apart from the fact that I was so f**king worried I felt sick!  I was pacing round the kitchen muttering and swearing and I could barely eat before it.  When they got their penalty I thought I was going to throw up.  As a neutral it might have been a great game, all I remember is that it added 10 years to my life!

It was a horrible night. When they were 2-0 up, we were still heading through. So when we scored 3, I thought I could finally relax. WRONG!

f**king great game though.

Leicester got a lucky break, but I still expect them to go out in the return leg, that defence wont keep a clean sheet against most EPL teams, let alone a top 4 side in Spain. I reckon this results adds more selection headache for Ranieri, 2:0 down they can forget about it and focus on the league rescue, now he has to pick his best team again. Even Torres scored, I swear his career was over when we let him go to Milan, now he looked a decent backup striker for a top team.

Leicester will be very happy with that result. Would love to see them advance to the quarter final stage.

Wonder if the English media will call rooney a mercenary for going to china at the age of 31. Oh, of course not. The evil Portuguese probably forced our brave Englishman to move abroad against his wishes. 

11 hours ago, Ivanov87 said:

We need the Premier League big boys back in the champions league next season. Chelsea, City, Utd and Liverpool. They have the team and managers capable of reaching further. The Ones we sent this year are probably the worst yet. Oh for f**k sake can someone please stop Arsenal from getting another top 4. They're a f**king waste of space. 

This is so true, I agree with everything you said. The Champions League needs strong English sides back in it as soon as possible, Arsenal are toothless and achieve nothing year after year. I won't even start about Tottenham and Leicester. Man City are fine but they can do much better I think.

Also, I'm tired od Spanish sides dominating the European Cups every year, it's annoying. 

1 hour ago, cRyptic said:

This is so true, I agree with everything you said. The Champions League needs strong English sides back in it as soon as possible, Arsenal are toothless and achieve nothing year after year. I won't even start about Tottenham and Leicester. Man City are fine but they can do much better I think.

Also, I'm tired od Spanish sides dominating the European Cups every year, it's annoying. 

I don't think this current Chelsea or Utd teams would do well against most of Europe's bigger teams.

On ?21?.?02?.?2017 at 22:34, Maksimov said:

I've always interpreted that as meaning that if you wrote that into a movie or a book, it wouldn't be believable. Truth is stranger than fiction and so on.

Problem is its getting so overused, its lost it meaning. If Jonathan Nolan can write a Television series about how humans build a park full of Androids for their own amusement only to realise the androids managed to develop a conscious mind, then surely someone could write about a game of football that ended 5-3.

Edited February 23, 20179 yr by Xfaxtor

Only football related story I struggle to believe could actually happen was us winning the CL that year. That was movie level hurdles overcome. And then as a result it kicks spurs out of a qualifying spot? Puling my leg surely.

Coming back against Napoli believable, but the bit where you come back from 2 nil down against Barcelona with 10 men is pure fantasy

Edited February 23, 20179 yr by Stim

31 minutes ago, Xfaxtor said:

Problem is its getting so overused, its lost it meaning. If Jonathan Nolan can write a Television series about how humans build a park full of Androids for their own amusement only to realise the androids managed to develop a conscious mind, then surely someone could write about a game of football that ended 5-3.

I agree that it gets used too often, but it's a totally different thing to write about something as outlandish as building androids and all that, than it is to write a movie or a book about a sports team. When you write sci-fi, you pretty much set up the rules about how the world works. It's about events and a world unlike anything that people have seen in real life, so the audience will go along with it as long as the world in the story makes sense according to the rules set up by the author. When it comes to football matches, people have seen plenty of those and know how likely certain events are. When writing a fictional sports story, it's easy to go over the top and it won't sound plausible to most sports fans. Some real life events would just sound too "perfect" if they were written into a fictional storyline. So... "you couldn't write it". It's not that you couldn't come up with a story like that, but that it wouldn't be believable in a fictional story. I'm not specifically talking about the City match, mind you.

Last nights Leicester performance just shows what a truly pathetic club Arsenal are, In their first attempt at knockout European football they went and did something Arsenal can only dream of.

Fingers crossed Leicester will do the business at home. 

10 hours ago, Ivanov87 said:

Wonder if the English media will call rooney a mercenary for going to china at the age of 31. Oh, of course not. The evil Portuguese probably forced our brave Englishman to move abroad against his wishes. 

He just said he won't move. But I doubt that will still be the case after this season.

 

 

I think Leicester will be able to turn things around at home.

So Petit says Greizmann will definitely be joining United in the summer...

Claudio has been sacked 

Claudio Ranieri has been sensationally sacked as Leicester City manager, Sportsmail understands.

The brutal decision to dismiss the man who lead them to arguably the greatest triumph in English football history was made after the 2-1 Champions League defeat in Seville.

Sportsmail attempts to confirm this with the club have proved unsuccessful tonight with representatives unavailable for commen

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4253994/Claudio-Ranieri-sacked-Leicester.html#ixzz4ZXYjt7Cv 
 

Edited February 23, 20179 yr by Chelsbear

Seems odd to do it after the CL game when they are still in the tie.

Sky Sports is saying it too. How sad. The players ought to be ashamed of themselves. 

I wonder who will be manager now. 

I hope they go down. 

Edited February 23, 20179 yr by offside

Correct decision, we all say players shouldn't keep position based on past achievement (Ivanovic, Malouda), why shod it be different with managers?

BBC are also reporting it. I'm surprised, I would of thought they'd at least give him the chance to turn it around against Sevilla in the second leg. 

BBC confirmed too. 

"Dily ding dily dole." Trending 

They should hire Di Matteo.

1 minute ago, Zeta said:

Seems odd to do it after the CL game when they are still in the tie.

They were lucky not to get battered, if they make a similar astute appointment as to what Hull did, they might just might scrape past Seville.

I'm surprised they would do it now. They are still well in their Champions League tie. If they had lost it 3-0 then it would be more understandable, but not now.