eastendfox

Poor game, I think the pitch looks really hard and difficult to play on, which is probably the main reason. Amazed the BBC team haven't mentioned it, but balls bouncing above heads isn't normal.

I would love Nacho to be a good player. But it's quite clear he isn't, a finisher yes, but in all other respects simply not good enough - indeed on what I've seen to date one of the worst players to represent us in the Premier League. Worse I think than Musa, though both are very poor for the Premier League. Slimani is obviously on his way out which is a shame, as he has at least shown something in his appearances. We must have a chance though while Mangala and Bravo are playing for City.

Just finished reading it, a great book that really brings the season back to life

A rival for the Julian Barnes piece as best writing about Leicester http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15454368/after-incredible-win-leicester-city-complicated-place

Leicester fan and former editor of the Economist - "This column should begin with a financial disclosure -- of the writer’s own ineptitude. For around 20 years, every August I have bet 20 pounds on Leicester City to win their league. The wall of my office at The Economist in London was festooned with the resulting betting stubs, to be mocked by my colleagues who followed more successful teams. True, Leicester did once finish second -- but that was back in the 1928-29 season; their main battle in my lifetime has been to avoid relegation, a struggle they have lost seven times. Last summer, having moved to New York to work for Bloomberg, I missed making my routine bet; the odds being offered on Leicester winning the title were 5,000-1, but, somewhere deep down, I assumed it was 20 pounds ($29) saved." - http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-26/leicester-city-dirty-dozen-or-harvard-case-study

Good piece from tonight's Evening Standard http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tony-evans-leicester-and-tottenham-will-never-win-prizes-for-style-but-it-s-great-for-the-league-a3222401.html

Just checking the comparative records of Dick Advocaat and Cloudy and there really isn't much in it. Cloudy was a disaster for Greece, Advocaat a disaster for Serbia. Other than that they generally do ok, not too different at least. Then again I remember O'Neill's teams never getting any recognition beyond the general idea that they worked hard. Clearly they don't like us very much, these journos.

Novelist Julian Barnes "In my writing I once allowed myself to compensate for Leicester's lack of achievement. In A History of the World in Ten and A Half Chapters, Leicester win the Cup 5-4 in heaven after coming from behind on four separate occasions. Then the England manager picks the whole Leicester team en bloc for the World Cup and they beat Brazil 4-1 in the final. It's clearly a work of fiction! "