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  1. I just completed this quiz. My Score 40/100 My Time 119 seconds  
  2. This is going to be a fun season
  3. 3 points on the board
  4. Is that really as bad as the commentators on my stream are making out? He did get the ball
  5. Very happy to be two up at the break but definitely feel a bit sorry for wolves. Flashbacks to 14/15 and all those games where we lost but felt we deserved something
  6. Was that really an own goal? Looked like it was on target
  7. Yunno I'm glad wolves are back up but let them experience that horrible rite of passage of playing well but somehow still losing and barely clinging on that first year back like we did
  8. Let's give these bastards a shock today and show them how tough the jump up is really going to be COYB!
  9. I might as well take a sec and explicitly recommend against Berlin - nothing to do with disliking airbnb. It'll just be ****ing freezing and miserable here in February
  10. As a customer and talking purely selfishly I think they're great. I've always had brilliant experience with them but as the company has grown their practises have started to have quite negative effects on the cities. I actually saw a very large piece of graffiti scrawled on a beautiful crumbling old building in Lisbon that last trip that has stuck in my mind. "You're killing the city you've come to see, **** you and **** AirBnb" . Pretty stark but I get it. I live in Berlin, in one of the trendier districts. The local government tried to ban Airbnb here but couldn't enforce the rule and has now have resorted to heavy controls. Even still half the apartments in my building are constantly being rented out and rents in general are skyrocketing to insane levels. Basically airbnb is too profitable and tempting and in small old cities like Lisbon, if it's left unchecked, you end up with nobody being able to actually live there because everywhere has been bought up to rent out as holiday apartments. That said, I don't really blame anyone who uses it as a customer.
  11. Lisbon at that time of year would be very romantic and not so busy. It's a pretty cheap to visit too. I stayed in an airbnb there last time and it was beautiful but it was actually that visit, combined with living in a city with similar problems that finally made me swear off airbnb, stick to hotels
  12. Ok reasons to be cheerful, we're only down to a brain fart from a player that won't be a regular starter once the new boys bed in. We've looked pretty good otherwise, just lacking the end product
  13. Who looks most likely to get a winner?
  14. Yeah I basically agree with you and I wasn't suggesting that you specifically were being problematic over this. Just the general chatter once that word was used. And yes, we've not had from any reliable source that he himself is claiming depression. I'm just saying that if that ever is verified then that's absolutely a legitimate reason to miss work. I wouldn't ever go so far as to diagnose him from a distance but I think you're probably right to view this as an ongoing thing. He's wanted his big move for such a long time. It just sucks for all involved how it's been handled and I sincerely hope he can get back into form and get the move that he clearly wants. Unfortunately the only way to convince his suitors that he's worth what our owners are demanding is to play his socks off for the next four months and prove to everyone he's worth it. Based on how he's been in the past I'm not sure he's capable of that.
  15. Your second point may very well be right. It is a word that can be thrown around for sympathy's sake and like I said, if that's the case here then I have very little sympathy for anyone involved and yeah, unfortunately we don't know. All we have is hearsay from probably the most unreliable sectors of press. Nothing would surprise me tbh. It could all be bullshit. Your first point is off though. His wealth and success don't insulate his mind from injury any more than they do his body. I work in mental health and I have a lifetime of experience from both sides. You know there's a healthy debate in the field as to whether depression is even a thing. It's basically just medicalised sadness and there are plenty of very smart people that think we should't be diagnosing it at all. But the fact is that everyone has a point at which something can hit them so hard that they lose the ability to function in life from it. From our point of view as mere mortals not earning 100k a week it can seem ridiculous that anyone so privileged could experience such an event. And it's absolutely true that someone in Riyad's position is certainly better placed to deal with it than the average person. However he's not immune and no event is too small to or too large to spark such a crisis.
  16. Unfortunately we don't really have anyway of know that and you might be right but there isn't really any benchmark for events serious enough to cause depression. Everyone is different; what could be water off a ducks back to one person might drive another to suicide. It's just this immediate ridicule as soon as the word depression was used that it so disturbing.
  17. Seriously some of the responses on here demonstrate an incredible misunderstand of mental health. It might be bullshit or paper talk or games trying to improve his position and if it is the he can go **** himself as far as I'm concerned. BUT if Riyad is having a mental crisis then the amount of money he's being paid and the responsibility he has to the team mean jack shit. If he broke his leg you wouldn't say 'well he's being paid an insane amount, he should pull himself together and get back to training' but because this is potentially psychological then apparently he should just buck up stop sulking. The man has just had a huge part of his life goals danged tantalising within his grasp only to have it torn away at the last second. That's loss on a scale with grief, at least in the short term. He may be a superhuman when it comes to the dexterity of his bloody left foot but he's a man like the rest of us and whether we like it or not we're all susceptible able to mental illness. But like I said, if he's ****ing around then **** him
  18. "Understand that City never made even one bid for Mahrez, there were informal discussions, Leicester City made a proposal worth £95m this morning and City walked away. Their absolute “top valuation of player was £60m”, no more. And: Mahrez was a target for long-term position of wide player post-Sanchez not happening, not a short-term fix because of Sane’s ankle injury." Jamie Jackson on the guardian live blog
  19. 50 mil + a man city player chosen by random number generator and you've got a deal
  20. Oh god I love when spurs lose, ****ing double when it's to us. If Liverpool and Burnley both win they could be down to 7th by Wednesday night!
  21. Jamie Jackson in the Guardian writers' best and worst list. His biggest gripe... "The view that Leicester City cannot win the Champions League. Really? If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/15/premier-league-2015-16-review-our-writers-best-and-worst
  22. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/apr/28/atletico-madrid-champions-league-leicester-city A write up on Atletico/Bayern last night with lots of very favourable comparisons to us. "Pep Guardiola will be relishing facing Leicester in the Premier League next season about as much as he is looking forward to going head to head with Diego Simeone when Bayern Munich try to overturn the 1-0 deficit in next week’s second leg." What a quote
  23. http://www.football-italia.net/81244/fiore-was-duped-leicester-city? Sciatica, apparently
  24. Love that part. Good for them. At least they've won something this season.
  25. They're even bloody horrible to each other. It feels like when people argue or disagree here we at least manage to maintain some level of respect. They're at each others throats any time one of them offers any opinion but total adoration
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