Bryn

Dude.

The bird in Shinji's is fit.

Vardy's 1st goal against Liverpool is the commentary for the latest 5Live advert.

To be fair insurance companies are wise to people settling these things without using their insurer and can make life very difficult for you if it ever comes to light. I have these days started to come to the conclusion it's best just to do everything above board, silly as it is for you not to be simply able to foot his bill for a respray.

That's quite good actually.

Great film that. Can see the comparisons ::

I'd say the last 20.

great interview with Ranieri here:

http://www.90min.com/posts/2938726-claudio-ranieri-reveals-how-he-made-a-title-challenging-team-out-of-leicester-city?utm_medium=share&utm_source=fotmob

Claudio Ranieri Reveals How He Made a Title Challenging Team Out of Leicester City

Should Leicester City continue their incredible march to the Premier League title, Claudio Ranieri will have masterminded one of the most surreal and unparalleled achievements in the history of English football as we know it.

With a five point gap and 13 games to go, it seems more or less certain that the Foxes will be in the Champions League next season so the question on everyone's mind is of just one word: How?

Ranieri explained his methods and how he's tried to keep the fire lit under his players, warning them that this is their only shot in an in-depth interview with ​Corriere della Sera (h/t ​101greatgoals).

“In an era when money counts for everything, we give hope to everybody.

“I arrived in August and I started to look at the recordings of all games from the previous season. I saw that the team had produced a great ending, ran a lot, and looked confident. When I spoke with the players I realised that they were afraid of Italian tactics… I said that I trusted them, I would talk very little about tactics. For me the important thing was to continue what we had done (running hard) in the final part of last season.

“In my opinion it [training] is less important in England. Here everyone trains with great intensity, there’s competitive spirit even when doing sprinting exercises. And the games are always hard fought. My idea is that first of all the players need to recover and then to train."

Corriere della Sera could hardly believe the manager's revelations, calling it heresy to which Ranieri replied: “Maybe it is, I do not know. I believe in training, but I also believe that everything is relative. My boys are training a lot, but not too many times. In England the game is always high intensity, it exhausts them. You need to recover. We play on Saturdays, Sundays are free for everyone. We resume on Monday with light training, like in Italy. Hard training on Tuesday, Wednesday absolute rest. Thursday another hard workout, finishing on Friday, match again Saturday.

“We have at least two days of no training a week. And this is what I said when I arrived at Leicester: ‘I trust you.’ I’ll explain a little football in a while, but you must always give everything. I do not think it’s a perfect formula. Football is not chemistry, there are no universal rules. You have to take the best from the group you have. Here at Leicester everyone feels like they are participating, so playing badly means betraying the others. They are free men, aware that they have a job and responsibility. They enjoy maintaining that.

“I have a player who comes every morning from Manchester, one travels from London. It would be unthinkable in Italy, but frankly in England it’s very odd too. At Leicester it can be done because the team allows it. This is what makes me proudest. Sometimes I am at the dinner table and I am frightened by how much they eat. I’ve never seen players so starved! The first few times I was surprised, then I learned to smile. If they run so much, they can eat what they want."

The difference between English and Italian players? Ranieri responded: “To have fun. In Italian football it is a struggle to have fun, I also believe they train with less intensity, less conviction. It’s more a duty. Here there is a strong awareness of being young, healthy and doing a great job. It would be stupid to waste all that. When they train, they always put the same effort in as a match, I never had to once tell off someone for being lazy. They also need to be relaxed and not harassed. They expect calm and respect in the dressing room, so if you want to be a Prima Donna they won’t forgive you for it.

“In England they always play like it’s a derby. I saw Milan-Inter a few days ago, that was an English game. Running, hitting, teams stretched out and a lot of competitive spirit, it’s not very Italian. I always tell my players to find the fire within themselves. A chance like this will never come round again. Seek that fire, don’t be ashamed of it. And, they are not ashamed. If anything, they demand to dream.

“I know it doesn’t always work like this, but nobody knows how it really works. We found something that works by itself, so we must at least respect it all the way. Leicester City is what I’ve always sought – half style of football and half awareness of an objective. None of us really think we are working for a living, otherwise we’d get up tired every day. If we live to work, then let us give meaning to what we do. I’ve been fortunate enough to have experienced this before at the end of my playing days. It was Gianni di Marzio’s Catanarzio. That was a side like Leicester. A group of friends who lived together."

When asked if the Foxes can win the title, Ranieri replied: “I do not know, but it’s fantastic to have already earned the question. When I arrived the president asked me for 24 points by Christmas. We made 37 or 39, I do not even remember how many. And now we are still up there now. In an era when money counts for everything, we give hope to everybody.”

This is beautiful. He's a very poetic man.

Miserable ****, horsey countryside folk are always like that.

Worth mentioning as well that 40% of Junior Doctors have gone to work today according to the BBC, so despite the huge vote to strike, nowhere as many appear to have carried out the threat.

Erm, we were providing emergency care, how many doctors do you think provide this? Probably 30 to 40 percent of us at a time.

You know full well we're not asking for more money as this situation has been well described to you. "More money all of a sudden", blimey. You really haven't got a handle on the situation at all.

I've already made my arguments to you, go read them again. Thankfully the Great British public haven't swallowed the Tory script the same way you have.

Does anyone else think this thread has run its course? It used to be a cool thread from when we were in the FL and as such national media coverage was much more sparse so it was really nice when there was an article on us. Now it's just twats going on other forums, finding one bad post and linking it. It's shit.

Either bin it or make two threads, one for other forums/articles slagging us off, and another which just has good quality national coverage of our club.

I'm looking forward to seeing Benny play at CB. I wouldn't say Huth has been undroppable this season so the competition can only be a good thing.

That's a brilliantly written article, for a sports piece.

Gonna have to explain this one to me.

 

What can you read "between the lines"

 

 

 

 

 

I'm caught between "In no way does that article suggest he's hinting he'd leave" and "Obviously he'd leave for a chance of winning trophies".

Class from Carragher that

 

Forgot G Nev was on the England staff, good to see him gush with praise. Can't see him losing his squad spot on current form. I've faith that they're just using him wide to ease him into the team, I think long term he's seen as a back up centre forward which is far more appropriate.

Nice one mate thanks.

Anyone got a link to the MNF discussion on Vardy?

Why do morons quote massive posts full of gifs?

He got paid to write that garbage, ****ing hell.

Was a discussion about this on Radio 1 recently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33760649/footballs-lgbt-fans-want-more-help-from-clubs

 

Don't eat chicken sandwiches, no matter what.....

 

A little boy and a little girl attended the same school and became friends. Every day they would sit together to eat their lunch. They discovered that they both brought chicken sandwiches every day! This went on all through the fourth and fifth grades, until one day he noticed that her sandwich wasn't a chicken sandwich.

He said, 'Hey, how come you're not eating chicken, don't you like it anymore?'

She said 'I love it but I have to stop eating it.'

'Why?' he asked.

She pointed to her lap and said 'Cause I'm starting to grow little feathers down there!'

'Let me see' he said.

'Okay' and she showed him..He looked and said, 'That's right. You are! Better not eat any more chicken.'

He kept eating his chicken sandwiches until one day he brought peanut butter.

He said to the little girl,

'I have to stop eating chicken sandwiches, I'm starting to get feathers down there too!' She asked if she could look, so he showed her!

 

She said, 'Oh, my God, it's too late for you! You've already got the NECK and GIZZARDS!!!

 

 

 

This is a really weird joke.

This used to be a good thread...

 

This. Absolutely pathetic "my clubs bigger than your club" bollocks, it's probably my least favourite thing about football. Worse than FIFA.

Christ I usually think clubs are much of a muchness but on this occasion there's no comparison.

Yet he did play games and was then dropped.

He disappeared off the bench after 'the sacking' which seemed strange.

 

 

Does it not make more sense that this was because he played Premier League football and then was completely ****ed and needed time to recover, because his natural fitness wasn't high enough?

You'll notice in the run-in his fitness, his ability to press and last 90 minutes and play 3 games a week, is suddenly right up there with anyone else in the squad? Whereas before he was playing an hour or so.

I think it's fairly obvious Pearson didn't choose to not play Albrighton, rather he wasn't able to. I assumed he wasn't fit enough.