Sheaf Saint

So it's perfectly OK for Cameron to comment publicly on Jimmy Carr's tax affairs and proclaim it as 'morally wrong', but when it comes to his own family's dubious and potentially illegal tax affairs it is a 'private matter'? Is that not just the absolute pinnacle of hypocrisy?

Well, my point was that when we were up in the CL places in the early part of that season, somebody started a thread asking if we were in a genuine title race, only to be belittled and ridiculed by certain posters for it. The consensus at the time was that IF we could keep our starting 11 fit and injury-free we were a match for anybody and could be in with a serious shout of the CL. Then we had a horrific run of injuries and had to start quite a few games with Gazza in goal, and it all went pear-shaped. Undoubtedly, earlier in this season there was a similar discussion on the Leicester forum when it was clear their early season form was no fluke. And undoubtedly the Foxes forum equivalent of Turkish came along and slapped down anybody who dared to suggest that they might actually be in with a shout of the title. But they have proved that our discussion at that time was not so far-fetched, because they have shown that with hard work, a good defence and some very good luck with injuries, a 'little' team can have a good season and mix it with the big boys right to the end. So when I said I am ambivalent about their success, it's because although I'm happy to see a smaller team break the stranglehold of the mega-money clubs, I'm obviously a little bitter that it is Leicester that have done it and not us when we looked like we might threaten to over the last two seasons.

As long as Ron drops Pelle we should beat them.

Well it's not an entirely unexpected result, although it's a little frustrating. Overall we played quite well but our final balls were terrible and we had nobody to get on the end of anything anyway, because Pelle had one of his worst games for us so far IMO. As for the Leicester love-in - I'm ambivalent about it really. Yes it will be great to see a team other than one of the usual suspects win the title, but seeing what they have done this season just makes me wonder what we might have achieved in our Pochettino season had we not been so horrendously unlucky with injuries. Leicester have been amazingly fortunate in that respect this season. If they had been forced to play a whole month with 6 first-choice players out injured, as we did, they wouldn't be anywhere near where they are now.

What the actual f*ck was that from Pelle!?

Pelle just stood there with the ball at his feet then, and let Leicester steal it off him and make a break. Absolutely unforgivable.

Double substitution. Austin and JWP on for Clasie and Davis.

When, oh when, oh when are the management of this club going to address the problem of our abysmal crossing ability? It has been like this for years now. Wow - what a save from Forster there!

We're looking the much better side at the moment. delivery into the box is getting better. Is Austin on the bench? If so I would get him on for Pelle for the last half an hour.

Phew. That was a let off. Great save though.

No. It was completely unintentional and would have hit his ribs if his arm wasn't where it was. What do you expect him to do? Cut off his arm in a split second so it doesn't hit the ball?

That was all down to Clasie being too small and lightweight to be trying to defend a header in that situation. Shame because we were looking really good in the run-up to that incident.

There has to be a deliberate movement of the arm towards the ball, or if the ball hits the arm when it is an un-natural position (or something like that). We're much better now. What a shot from Fonte!

We've been the better team for the last 5-10 minutes. A goal to show for it would be nice.

Best chance of the game so far. Accidental handball but never a penalty.

Decent move and not a bad effort from Pelle.

F*ck me, some of you lot are just unbelievable. Just to remind everyone - we are away at the team that is 4 points clear at the top of the league FFS. They are where they are on merit, and they are going to have possession and trouble our defence. They are going to press us and force errors because that's how they have been playing all season. A little reality check is needed for one or two posters I think.

I think we are sitting too deep and showing them too much respect at the moment. They have had most of the possession but so far they haven't seriously tested our defence.

Exactly. Its clearly just drivel. And regarding Tadic, I think Ron does treat him fairly in the sense that he is not good enough to be starting every game for a PL club chasing a potential Champions League place. He occasionally shows quality but tends to go missing for huge chunks of games and doesn't contribute enough defensively.

Cracking game at Anfield. I know I'm in a small minority here but I really don't care if Spurs win the title. I don't particularly like them but I certainly don't have the bitterness towards them that many SW members do. I would like to see them win this game if it helps us to finish above Liverpool.

You are quite wrong... http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/ Not only have the Tories borrowed more per year in office over the last 70 years, they have repaid less as well.

Our poor run earlier in the season was overwhelmingly down to our strikers not doing the business (6 goals in 10 games with one of them an OG and two coming from a CDM) Now that Pelle and Mane have re-discovered their scoring touch, there's every reason to believe we can finish the season in good form, as long as our defence holds up as well as it has so far.

Yeah that always seems to be the way. And considering our first game back from the break is away at the league leaders, it doesn't bode well. We'll have to be at the very top of our game to get something from that, given the way they have been playing lately.

4 mins of squeaky bum time!

Well I never. If someone had told me on 30 minutes we would go on to take the lead, I would have told them to get their head seen to. He's useless that Mane ;-)