Match Thread Sunderland v Leicester

[Jeff]

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Great stuff! The Foxy 11 as ever! COYF!

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Sky and BBC both have Chilwell as sub rather than Schlupp.

 

[City Fan]

Sky and BBC both have Chilwell as sub rather than Schlupp.

So does the official LCFC twitter

 

[Miles Away]

And Dyer for Was.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Dyer instead of Wasyl as well.

edit: beaten to it.

 

[glyn]

Souness going on about how we have been scraping through matches recently and he fancies Spurs for the title, suggesting we won't be able to take a defeat.

And I notice that in the Sunday Times he has left out Mahrez from his team of the season, has 5 Spurs players and just Vardy from LCFC. Hilarious.

 

[FOX Franks]

This is another huge chance to get ahead of Spurs. Hoping the boys are more relaxed than I am.

 

[FOX Franks]

Souness going on about how we have been scraping through matches recently and he fancies Spurs for the title, suggesting we won't be able to take a defeat.

And I notice that in the Sunday Times he has left out Mahrez from his team of the season, has 5 Spurs players and just Vardy from LCFC. Hilarious.

And yet sometimes he talks and it makes sense.

 

[Brown Nose]

I like Souness. He often talks great sense.

We don't need to be offended by pundits that prefer other teams/players. In fact, a smattering of them is good for us.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

I like Souness. He often talks great sense.

We don't need to be offended by pundits that prefer other teams/players. In fact, a smattering of them is good for us.

He talks sense? Have you seen his team of the season?

 

[Robin127]

And yet sometimes he talks and it makes sense.

I'd like to have heard his team talk when he put Ali Dia in his match day squad.

 

[Brown Nose]

He talks sense? Have you seen his team of the season?

There are several pundits that have some history with Ranieri from his time at Chelsea. I think Ray Wilkins openly admits that he doesn't like him for example. Any top level manager with many years of battles won and lost will have gathered up a lot of people that don't like him.

Maybe Souness had a spat with him. I vaguely recall him being manager at Blackburn when Ranieri was at Chelsea so they'd have clashed. I do remember Souness trying to angle for the Chelsea job around 2003 time which could have caused some bitterness.

Lots of football people don't like each other. It's not worth getting your knickers in a twist about. Loads of pundits can make total sense about one player/manager/team and utter drivel about another because of some bias.

I put Allardyce's comments about us being lucky down to his friendship with Pearson for example.

 

[Mawsley]

Well this is new - I'm nervous.

 

[camberwell fox]

There are several pundits that have some history with Ranieri from his time at Chelsea. I think Ray Wilkins openly admits that he doesn't like him for example. Any top level manager with many years of battles won and lost will have gathered up a lot of people that don't like him.

Maybe Souness had a spat with him. I vaguely recall him being manager at Blackburn when Ranieri was at Chelsea so they'd have clashed. I do remember Souness trying to angle for the Chelsea job around 2003 time which could have caused some bitterness.

Lots of football people don't like each other. It's not worth getting your knickers in a twist about. Loads of pundits can make total sense about one player/manager/team and utter drivel about another.

But surely if you are a pundit presumably employed to report the facts and analyse teams it should be impossible for someone to leave Mahrez out of a team of the season?

 

[Brown Nose]

But surely if you are a pundit presumably employed to report the facts and analyse teams it should be impossible for someone to leave Mahrez out of a team of the season?

I don't know the team he picked but he's entitled to his opinion isn't he?

There is a lot of difference between the best eleven players and the best team as well.

 

[MerseyFox]

Come on Leicester

 

[camberwell fox]

I don't know the team he picked but he's entitled to his opinion isn't he?

There is a lot of difference between the best eleven players and the best team as well.

Fair enough.

 

[Brown Nose]

FFS Okazaki. So wasteful again.

 

[homer]

We are stinking the place out

Mahrez has been truly dreadful so far