Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [12th - 16th March 2016]

Eastern Blvd is excellent though, next to the canal. It is brilliant because if you're there early you get 12 hours of parking for £4. You're then parked next to the Uni, but more importantly you're about ~5-10~ minutes from the City Centre (and FiveGuys :p, but more importantly a 'bunch' of food places and places to grab a drink), you're not too far from the Narb road (plenty of drink/food), and not far from the ground. After the match you can realistically be back at your car within ~5/10~ minutes.

Providing you're quick at moving away, you can either exit on the Narb road, or go towards the ring roads or even double back.
 
smr said:
"Absolute madness that Leicester might actually win the League. They barely ever play well, they're just finding ways of grinding out results. "

That's what you said yesterday which I called as being rubbish...

We have played well this season, in many games, not all of them but a good majority of games we've played good football. Granted, last night - no, just about anytime we've been on TV this season infact we've not played particularly well but to say that we barely ever play well is ridiculously harsh - and very surprising considering you watch Liverpool.

I don't see how I'm talking differently to any other Leicester fans either - if you go on foxestalk or talkingballs forum and see what masses of Leicester fans think of the digs other club's supporters are giving us it's basically the same thing. Just because I'm sticking up for my club means I talk in a certain way? Right...
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It's just a coincidence that when you're on TV you don't play well? ;)

And it's not a dig, it's just my opinion. Do you honestly believe this Leicester side would have challenged for the title in any of the last 5 seasons?

I think it was after the Leicester - Liverpool game where I made a similar comment referencing both sides fortunes. In general, we're the exact opposite of Leicester. We've tended to play decent football but find ways of losing games through crazy defensive moments and when without Sturridge, an inability to score. Iinm the stats show (or at least until a few months ago when I saw it) that Leicester are often on the back foot in games with less possession than their opponents but they manage to keep things tight at the back and have 2 forwards in the form of their life that are winning games for them. It just shows you that good football doesn't get you points, scoring more than the opposition does. Now you can take that as a criticism or a backhanded compliment but all that matters, or should matter to you, is that you're in the race for the title and Liverpool aren't. My opinion isn't going to change though, the quality of this League is the lowest in my memory and that's what's enabled Leicester to get to where they are.
 
Define 'good football'. Barcelona used to have 96% possession under Pep but they were boring to watch where as Leicester are a joy to watch in my opinion due to the breakneck pace that they play the game.

They remind me of Villa back in the O'Neill days, swift counter attacks with a solid defence. Back then this Leicester side would probably finish in a similar position to Villa or possible break the top 4 but it takes nothing away from the way they've stepped up and made the most of the faltering 'top 4' sides.
 
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Just saw this on my news feed. Quite a staggering amount of money.
 
planty said:
They have won FA Cups, League Cups, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup in that time though. Not a bad return!
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I was thinking that, to be fair. Winning the Premier League would trump all of them though!
 
BaZ87 said:
Iinm the stats show (or at least until a few months ago when I saw it) that Leicester are often on the back foot in games with less possession than their opponents but they manage to keep things tight at the back and have 2 forwards in the form of their life that are winning games for them. It just shows you that good football doesn't get you points, scoring more than the opposition does.
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Leicester have deliberately adopted a strategy based around the counterattack. They've let their opponents kick the ball around, stopped them when they threatened the goal, or intercepted in midfield, and then reversed the situation with a dynamic counter-attack. It's these tactics that have proved so effective this year. Saying they're playing bad football because they don't dominate on possession statistics is missing the entire point.
 
smr said:
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Just saw this on my news feed. Quite a staggering amount of money.
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<insert Liverpool fans talking about net spend here>

planty said:
They have won FA Cups, League Cups, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup in that time though. Not a bad return!
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smr said:
I was thinking that, to be fair. Winning the Premier League would trump all of them though!
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European Cup > all other domestic titles.
 
Tummy said:
European Cup > all other domestic titles.
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Only when you are winning other stuff regularly. When United were winning everything it was another big trophy but it's much more of an achievement to win the league. It requires consistency over 38 games where the other is just another cup competition that is regularly won by a side that didn't even win the league or best performing side.

I'd rather Everton won the league than the European cup.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Only when you are winning other stuff regularly. When United were winning everything it was another big trophy but it's much more of an achievement to win the league. It requires consistency over 38 games where the other is just another cup competition that is regularly won by a side that didn't even win the league or best performing side.

I'd rather Everton won the league than the European cup.
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League is far more important than a European Cup as I'm sure most will agree.
 
A) Would us Leicester fans rather finish 1st and win the Premier League or

B) Finish 4th in the Premier League and win the Champions League.

I'd much rather we won the Premier League, winning any league is special but winning the Premier League must be absolutely unreal.
 
Nate75 said:
League is far more important than a European Cup as I'm sure most will agree.
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The European Cup is a bigger competition but I don't think it has the same place in most English fans' heart. I would certainly rather see Leicester win the Premier League this season than the European Cup next year.
 
Nate75 said:
League is far more important than a European Cup as I'm sure most will agree.
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Depends on whether you go through a sustained period of domestic success like Liverpool or United and see Europe as more of a challenge but I'd certainly rather see Liverpool win the league before the European Cup again.
 
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