That's Hiddink. Struggling to read through your tears?
of course it's hiddink why would it be ancelotti tut tut silly me
doesn't take away from the report and accounts. wouldn't surprise me if fabregas had a large part to play in it
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of course it's hiddink why would it be ancelotti tut tut silly me
doesn't take away from the report and accounts. wouldn't surprise me if fabregas had a large part to play in it
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Who really cares about the end, it was handbags. Chelsea players had a right to be angry because Spurs players lost control and basically assaulted multiple Chelsea players on the pitch including Fabregas. Lamela stamped on Fabregas's hand, the report is that while a Spurs player was getting in his face after the game he well, **** punched him.... probably deserved it.
You really can't be remotely surprised Chelsea players were irate with Spurs players after that game and Spurs have no leg to stand on. Should have had 3 reds, Dembele, Lamela, Dier... and I could be forgetting other incidents. Big group of people pushing and shoving at the end looks dramatic but really very very little happened and wasn't a patch on the severity of other incidents.
You really can't be remotely surprised Chelsea players were irate with Spurs players after that game and Spurs have no leg to stand on. Should have had 3 reds, Dembele, Lamela, Dier... and I could be forgetting other incidents. Big group of people pushing and shoving at the end looks dramatic but really very very little happened and wasn't a patch on the severity of other incidents.
id say this means it was better for competition ! the points have been shared out amongst more teams !
if Leicester scored their usual 40-50 points then spurs/city/arsenal might have hit that 87
Sorry but I'm not getting the whole 'others lost the league' business. Leicester only lost THREE games all season. Say what you want about other teams playing poorly but every team plays every other team twice. It's fair for everyone and no one did Leicester any favours. That's title winning form right there and any team, even City or Chelsea would give a billion pounds to only lose three matches all season. You can only play the team facing you on the pitch.
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Lecisteer had a pretty much injury free season...
Fabregas wasn't there and it looks like a Spurs sub with the hump - http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation....-final-whistle-brawl-guus-hiddink-pushed-over
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and one of the smallest cheapest squads in the league
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So...?
Every other team had the opportunity to have a season relatively injury free. Same as every team had the opportunity to beat Leicester. Same as every team had the opportunity to win 3 points each weekend.
Why are people now trying to discredit/play down what they've achieved?
Leicester have a less developed, smaller, much cheaper, less individually renowned squad.
It was a total win for football, and everyone who wants to play it down should be slightly ashamed.
I'm embarrassed that United, lead by a lunatic "philosophical" manager, have spent a fortune on supposed talent and we're nowhere. It's an embarrassment to all the "big" clubs.
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but no injuries...
Take a few of your best players from any squad in the league and watch and see them drop lots of points
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Sure.
All the big teams have sacked their managers (if united rumors are correct)
To be fair, when Leicester were missing the odd player at times during the season, they kept it going.
Not very often, but then you can either call training methods as to off the pitch, sheer luck on it.
And to be fairer still, I doubt very much a single player in their declared squad would have been wanted by one of the top clubs at the start of the season.
Reminds me of forest a bit in the 94/5 season, we had a great first team... rolling at the top of the league. Stan got crocked around the back end of October, we lost a game, Roy lost some confidence, as Collymore never really got it back till the new year. After that everybody stayed fit till the end of the season. We never lost again, back to steam rolling everybody, finshed 3rd. That ONE key player, and forest might not have had that 2/3 month slump.
Not very often, but then you can either call training methods as to off the pitch, sheer luck on it.
And to be fairer still, I doubt very much a single player in their declared squad would have been wanted by one of the top clubs at the start of the season.
Reminds me of forest a bit in the 94/5 season, we had a great first team... rolling at the top of the league. Stan got crocked around the back end of October, we lost a game, Roy lost some confidence, as Collymore never really got it back till the new year. After that everybody stayed fit till the end of the season. We never lost again, back to steam rolling everybody, finshed 3rd. That ONE key player, and forest might not have had that 2/3 month slump.
Really interesting piece on the BBC about Leicester's training/recovery methods: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36189778
No idea how much of what they're doing is unique to them or whether it's done by all clubs at this level, but simply saying they were lucky not to have injuries does a disservice to all the backroom staff. Clearly there is still an element of luck to it though.
At the start of the season, if you had the choice between a full strength Leicester squad and a Man City squad without Aguero and Kompany you would have still chosen the Man City squad.
No idea how much of what they're doing is unique to them or whether it's done by all clubs at this level, but simply saying they were lucky not to have injuries does a disservice to all the backroom staff. Clearly there is still an element of luck to it though.
At the start of the season, if you had the choice between a full strength Leicester squad and a Man City squad without Aguero and Kompany you would have still chosen the Man City squad.
Surely crashing out of the league and FA cup helped a lot. I think through the feb period they had 3 matches in a month or something. Every little helps. Still incredible what they did. Still gives me hairs on the back of my neck
Fellaini and Huth both get a three match suspension:
http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2016/may/marouane-fellaini-robert-huth-three-match-suspensions
http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2016/may/marouane-fellaini-robert-huth-three-match-suspensions
True, that must have played a part too.
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Completely ridiculous, it was a fairly minor hair pull vs a directed and intentional full power elbow into someone's throat with a follow up swipe at his face to boot.
Huth deserved a yellow at the time, maybe give him one game. Fellaini does this every single game, often multiple times every game. That single elbow itself was so violent and so dangerous that it should be a 4-5 game ban and the very next time he elbows someone he should get a 10 game ban and a 10 game suspended ban. Really Fellaini should have received such a ban at least a dozen times before.
That they both get the same ban for completely different levels of violence and danger involved is nuts.