yackandandah
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Hmm, indeed. I thought Vardy might go into the book for that.
Post Match Leicester 3 Liverpool 1
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Miles Away
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Immediately thought "We will end up with ten men at some point"
Miles Away
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The Mane/N'Didi one was quite nasty.
LES Fox
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The Fiver. True dat.. kinda.
SHAME ON YOU, TRIUMPHANT FOXES
Today should really be a sombre day for Leicester City. Sure, they won their first game in two months on Monday night. Sure, they scored a league goal for the first time since New Year’s Eve. Sure, they played with a vibrancy that’s been missing from their game for weeks, if not months. But this is not something to be pleased about. No, in fact the Leicester players should instead be spending their time in quiet contemplation, possibly on a bed of nails and with only stale bread and water for sustenance. They should not receive the applause of a relieved city. They should not celebrate. Why? Well, because why weren’t they beating Liverpool 3-1 every week? Why didn’t it occur to them to play well before, instead of choosing to play badly? Why didn’t they try? The latter part seems to be the thrust of things, as people have decided that the Leicester players had checked out, downed tools and decided they weren’t going to give a flying one while playing for lovely old Claudio Ranieri, nation’s grandpa. Jamie Carragher said this was the first game he’s seen where “both teams should hang their heads in shame.” One journalist called them ‘snakes’. Assorted other pundits, both professional and armchair, decided that the Leicester players should be embarrassed for not doing well for a while, then doing well in one game.
More: Jamie Vardy claims ‘unfair’ criticism fired up Leicester City to hit back
This of course all feeds into the idea that the Leicester players stabbed Claudio in the back, front, sides, top and bottom, that they forced him out because they didn’t like him all of a sudden. Now that he’s gone the players, having not tried for the last few months, humiliated themselves with a string of defeats, greatly devalued their own standing and put themselves in danger of relegation which would presumably come with a hefty pay cut as well as loss of face … well now they can suddenly put their collective back into it.
Leicester winning the league last year seemed to do weird things to people. The reason that it was such an incredible thing was that these players were, by and large, not much good. It just happened that basically all of them, somehow, had the greatest season of their lives, and all at the same time. That doesn’t mean that this collection of relatively-average-to-slighty-above-average players are now brilliant. Expecting Leicester to even come close to last season is a bit like asking some chancer who somehow hits a nine-darter in the pub darts tournament to then beat Michael van Gerwen. Last year Ranieri made Leicester much more than the sum of their parts. This season they are roughly the sum of their parts, and that sum is not much. And when a team that isn’t much good plays 38 games in a season, they’re going to win a few that people might not have expected them to. Take, for example, the side who back in December, when they were one point off the relegation zone, beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City thanks to a hat-trick from a player who hadn’t scored in his previous 16 club games. We forget who that side was, or who their manager was at the time, but we assume they were trying really hard that day.
We should also point out that everyone assumes it was the players letting Ranieri down - but what if it was the other way around? What if it was Ranieri who kicked back after his once-in-a-lifetime achievement last season and completely lost the thread this time? The Fiver doesn’t know which way round it was, but then again neither do most of the people declaring them to be cowardly reptiles of some description. Even if Vardy, Mahrez, Morgan and pals did in fact decide not to try, for some reason, shouldn’t the manager take some responsibility for that too? Ranieri received plenty of praise last season for fostering a good team spirit, for creating an atmosphere in which these players could make the most of their relatively modest gifts. So when the reverse became true, it’s a bit weird to completely absolve him of blame.
SHAME ON YOU, TRIUMPHANT FOXES
Today should really be a sombre day for Leicester City. Sure, they won their first game in two months on Monday night. Sure, they scored a league goal for the first time since New Year’s Eve. Sure, they played with a vibrancy that’s been missing from their game for weeks, if not months. But this is not something to be pleased about. No, in fact the Leicester players should instead be spending their time in quiet contemplation, possibly on a bed of nails and with only stale bread and water for sustenance. They should not receive the applause of a relieved city. They should not celebrate. Why? Well, because why weren’t they beating Liverpool 3-1 every week? Why didn’t it occur to them to play well before, instead of choosing to play badly? Why didn’t they try? The latter part seems to be the thrust of things, as people have decided that the Leicester players had checked out, downed tools and decided they weren’t going to give a flying one while playing for lovely old Claudio Ranieri, nation’s grandpa. Jamie Carragher said this was the first game he’s seen where “both teams should hang their heads in shame.” One journalist called them ‘snakes’. Assorted other pundits, both professional and armchair, decided that the Leicester players should be embarrassed for not doing well for a while, then doing well in one game.
More: Jamie Vardy claims ‘unfair’ criticism fired up Leicester City to hit back
This of course all feeds into the idea that the Leicester players stabbed Claudio in the back, front, sides, top and bottom, that they forced him out because they didn’t like him all of a sudden. Now that he’s gone the players, having not tried for the last few months, humiliated themselves with a string of defeats, greatly devalued their own standing and put themselves in danger of relegation which would presumably come with a hefty pay cut as well as loss of face … well now they can suddenly put their collective back into it.
Leicester winning the league last year seemed to do weird things to people. The reason that it was such an incredible thing was that these players were, by and large, not much good. It just happened that basically all of them, somehow, had the greatest season of their lives, and all at the same time. That doesn’t mean that this collection of relatively-average-to-slighty-above-average players are now brilliant. Expecting Leicester to even come close to last season is a bit like asking some chancer who somehow hits a nine-darter in the pub darts tournament to then beat Michael van Gerwen. Last year Ranieri made Leicester much more than the sum of their parts. This season they are roughly the sum of their parts, and that sum is not much. And when a team that isn’t much good plays 38 games in a season, they’re going to win a few that people might not have expected them to. Take, for example, the side who back in December, when they were one point off the relegation zone, beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City thanks to a hat-trick from a player who hadn’t scored in his previous 16 club games. We forget who that side was, or who their manager was at the time, but we assume they were trying really hard that day.
We should also point out that everyone assumes it was the players letting Ranieri down - but what if it was the other way around? What if it was Ranieri who kicked back after his once-in-a-lifetime achievement last season and completely lost the thread this time? The Fiver doesn’t know which way round it was, but then again neither do most of the people declaring them to be cowardly reptiles of some description. Even if Vardy, Mahrez, Morgan and pals did in fact decide not to try, for some reason, shouldn’t the manager take some responsibility for that too? Ranieri received plenty of praise last season for fostering a good team spirit, for creating an atmosphere in which these players could make the most of their relatively modest gifts. So when the reverse became true, it’s a bit weird to completely absolve him of blame.
Thats what Raniere did not understand and he tried to get the team play differently.
FryattFox
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CS should pin that on the wall. He's got his seige mentality without even doing anything.
spionfox
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I'm not quite sure how a generally supportive article can help create a siege mentality. Did you read as far as the last paragraph?
FryattFox
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FIF
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Big difference between power and effort. After the prem title we had Max headroom.
City Fan
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Not even the slightest bit interested.
yackandandah
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It's neither Simpson nor Carragher, it's 2 rogue AI bots locked in an endless loop.
fitz
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I had a quick glance. Not got a ****ing clue what was going on. Twitter is beyond my tech capabilities.
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