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Manley Farrington-Brown

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  1. Ah, I get you. Yes, that would be bloody typical.
  2. I think us being down with three games to play would need Portsmouth to beat both Middlesbrough and Ipswich, as well as West Brom winning and us losing everything. The us losing everything bit is perfectly possible, but the rest sounds unlikely.
  3. West Brom certainly aren't. Above them might well be.
  4. They're not, although they head more in that direction the longer it takes us to win any of them. It's looking like the Portsmouth game might be a genuine must-win...
  5. This. Most goals are the result of defensive errors, one way or another.
  6. Of course we can. All we need over the remaining games is to do one point better than one rubbish team and no worse than another rubbish team. That might happen. If it's two from three now then we basically have a 33% chance of staying up. Although tbh if I supported West Brom or Blackburn I'd hardly be thinking they were safe. So perhaps it's still two from five. Let's just say it's about 50:50 whether we stay up or go down. Not great, and performances are hardly inspiring confidence, but it's never over till it's over.
  7. I've heard lots of good things about this one, and Hot Streak.
  8. I mean, you can, possibly, almost understand why some people might not like the police, without condoning abusing them. But attacking ambulance crews? Good god some people are beyond understanding.
  9. Concordia, Carcassonne and Spirit Island for me. But yes, these are the things that make life worth living.
  10. But - it's not as if you'll know you're not experiencing it. Death is nothing to be scared of. Dying might be, it can sometimes be uncomfortable and/or painful - but there's nothing to be scared of about the state of being dead.
  11. Daka's capable of awful mistakes; he's also capable of sublime skill. He's not actually half as bad as some on here say. Like almost all our players, he could be perfectly ok in a really good team. Luke Thomas for example was perfectly ok in a really good team. The trouble is we don't have any of the players who make a team really good, just the ones who could be carried by the good ones if we had them. Basically what we have is a team of Danny Simpsons. But without even any Okazakis or Albrightons, let alone any Kantes, Mahrezes or Vardys...
  12. Two actors who it would be really disappointing to find out they're actually utter c&*#s coz they seem really nice, are Paul Rudd and Kelly MacDonald.
  13. With this a close second!
  14. This. Still probably my favourite football song ever!
  15. Your preference clashes with mine and is therefore wrong. Mine would be: 1st - Blue and white. No yellow, no gold. 2nd - Red. Like in the 70s and 80s. 3rd - Whatever. They can have fun with it. But then my preference would also be for kits to last longer. Change one of the three each season, so each kit is around for three years and has time to actually mean something to people.
  16. Unfair. Homer Simpson was brilliant, sat in front of the back four, directing play for Anderlecht in the 1980s. Also, McLintock and Taylor took over decent to good first division sides and destroyed them in no time flat. Pretty much everyone else mentioned here was handed a load of shite and just failed to make it any better.
  17. Exactly. Over eleven games we need to get one point more than West Brom and not let Oxford make up more than two points on us. Now, we're clearly absolute rubbish, so it's perfectly possible we won't manage even that. But it's hardly out of the question, especially as they're both as bad as we are (arguably a tiny bit worse, as they're down there without having had six points deducted).
  18. Nonsense. In 2015-16 we were a three man team.
  19. "We were in League One once, you know." "Yeah. Once. Literally once. One season." Obviously we're not Man Utd or Liverpool, but neither are we Rochdale or Plymouth. Not being in League one is hardly something we should be astounded and delighted by.
  20. Just an accident of history. Loughborough were a league club once upon a time; if things had gone differently they could still have been one. Or potentially Leicester Utd could have had more success and been a league club. Could have happened - just didn't. The Tigers probably don't help, although Bristol managed to have two football clubs and a decent rugby club. (Although neither football club matches our historical size/success.)
  21. Yeah, I remember all that. I also remember winning the League Cup twice. I remember four play off finals in five years. I remember Matt Elliott. Steve Walsh. Tommy Wright. Gary Mills. McAllister & Mauchlen. Paul Ramsey. Smith Lineker Lynex. Worthington Weller and Wallington. And so many other players, managers and moments, good and bad. The 1991 great escape. Peter Taylor. Frank McLintock. Junior Lewis. Lee Philpott. Jon Sammels. Tim Flowers. Dennis f*#$ing Wise. Joey from his own half. The Southampton swimming pool game. Alan Woollett. Paul Reid. Harvey Barnes. Tony Spearing. Manley, Farrington and Brown. I remember Filbert Street. My dad remembers Arthur Rowley and Howard Riley. My kids remember Steve Howard and David Nugent, as well as 2016 and Jamie Vardy. I'd like my kids to have more things to remember. I'd like their kids to have things to remember, and their kids after them. The whole last 142 years have given generations of us things we'll never forget; it isn't just 'this past 10 years.' I'd like there to be another 142 years, thanks, and much as I've enjoyed winning the league and the cup and stuff, it doesn't mean I should tolerate the people who happened to own the club when that happened taking the club into oblivion.
  22. I think the problem is that buying Leicester City would be more like paying a stupid amount of money for a house that needs a new roof, complete rewiring, has massive subsidence, doesn't have central heating or even running water, has sitting tenants with long-term contracts for a peppercorn rent, and has covenants preventing any of the work actually beinf done. And you'd be taking over an existing mortgage that is twice the size of the value of the house even if you did all the work. Only an idiot would do that. Assuming KP won't willingly sell, certainly not for a massive loss, maybe the best (only?) hope is that KP goes completely bust and Leicester City is one of the things that gets sold off cheaply to pay something back to creditors. Then someone might consider buying the club...?
  23. Do you mean the late 80s? The best part of being a fan in the early/mid 90s was going to Wembley loads and winning two play-off finals. But the late 80s was dire. Worse than now, although youngsters today won't believe that. Pleat Out! Shipman Out! Sack the Board!
  24. Yes, absolutely. Because yesterday showed a massive improvement. Four more weeks of playing like yesterday and we'd have been doing really well. Marti wasn't the one to fix the problems, but he wasn't the problem.
  25. Well if Kingy picks him and gets him to play well that's fine by me.
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