sadoldgit

Or more accurately, toddlers with guns. Not sure that they would do much damage with a Farley's Rusk.

You only need to read the meltdowns on here when we lose to know that it is win first, win pretty second. High pressing and possession is all well and good if you score goals. Playing on the counter is all well and good as long as you score goals. No matter what system you play, as Cruyff said, you need to score one more than the opposition. Do that frequently and you will keep the fans happy. And remember, for all of the beautiful "Total Football" they didn't managed to win anything in the 70s.

But it is not that simple. If players indicate that they are not going to resign, we either sell them in their final year of contract or let the contract run down and lose them for nothing. As we have seen with several of our players in the last couple of seasons, many of them would rather go to "bigger" clubs than stay and try and make us a "big" club. We can tell clubs to do one but it is more about what the players' aspirations are.

And this is the thing. Leicester had players this year who managed a level of consistency through the season that they hadn't before. City, Arsenal, United and Chelsea all struggled to find that level despite having stronger squads on paper. You put together the strongest squad you can at the start of the season and you work hard to get the best out of them. Pelle, Mane, Tadic and I should add Wanyama all had patches of poor form. Not just a question of making poor decisions, but as Ron would say "not playing out of their level." Lighthouse pointed out quite rightly that many other clubs also had players who were not performing as they can. That is what winning and losing is all about - getting the best out of what you have. The margin between the two is very fine. Spuds nearly made it three before Chelsea equalised. If that third one went in everything changes. If Pelle, Tadic, Mane and Wanyama had found this level of form a few weeks back we would probably be looking at European football again next season. If the players that Lighthouse mentioned had all performed more consistently we probably wouldn't be talking about Leicester today. None of this means that we have a poor squad or that we don't have enough quality.

Not in the context it was said. Don't you think we have a decent squad on paper? Would you have thought at the start of the season we would all be raving about Vardy, Mahrez, Kante and Drinkwater?

Doesn't make it wrong though does it?

I think there is plenty of quality in the squad but our problem has been consistency. If Pelle, Tadic and Mane had played to their potential more frequently we would have more points.

MotD put together a montage of the bad fouls last night and despite Chelsea's habit of making a meal of any physical contact, it was pretty damming.

Following your own logic cheating with a "hotel stick insect" would be okay as long as said stick insect wasn't family.

How many times did he play for Wales though? I seem to remember he was always "injured."

This.

They were lucky to finish the match with 11 men still on the pitch. Several could have been sent off. North London Classless Yobbos.

gang

taylor

blackadder

And yet Ruud Gullit says that Pelle is your man when teams come and park the bus so I guess it is horses for courses. Fair play to Ron for dropping him. Doesn't mean that he is a poor player though.

Because you have been saying the same things for 15 years Dalek!

We are pretty rampant ourselves at the moment.

Why would anyone be looking at her chin?

robert

This would have been controversial at the start of the season, but not now.

I bet you creamed your tights a bit when you read the OP didn't you?

Box of frogs. Swivel eyes. Dinlow. Need I go on? You are a grade A hypocrite. Mocking people? Who are these people? I asked Hypo if he had a couple of conditions but feel free to show where I mocked him. Also feel free to show where I have "mocked" other people who I think are autistic. The wonderful and superior CB Fry gets it wrong again.

mallow

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