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Aus Fox

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5 minutes ago, RussianFox said:

Why joint 5th? We lost 1-2 on aggregate, Barcelona lost 0-3, Bayern and Dortmund lost 3-6.

We are 5th, ahead of them all. :)

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

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brucey

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6 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

sounds good, we could even have a 5th place 'mini champions league' trophy for our cabinet! Or even better, a trophy for each game played?

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18 minutes ago, brucey said:

sounds good, we could even have a 5th place 'mini champions league' trophy for our cabinet! Or even better, a trophy for each game played?

If Riyad gets his dream move to Barca we could be playing for the Riyad Mahrez trophy on an annual basis.

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5 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Maybe we could have a play off tournament, us, Barca, Bayern and Dortmund we could play it in pre season.

To make it fair on a neutral venue in say China, America or Australia - maybe across all three and Europe?

It could be annual thing? I think this has legs

Let's make it happen - though given our exploits last summer we should perhaps make those neutral venues more exotic but better placed to aid our preparation for next season. I'm thinking the Ricoh Arena, Meadow Lane and Peterborough's ABAX stadium. 

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5 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Let's make it happen - though given our exploits last summer we should perhaps make those neutral venues more exotic but better placed to aid our preparation for next season. I'm thinking the Ricoh Arena, Meadow Lane and Peterborough's ABAX stadium. 

Bayern v Barcelona at Vale Park. Beautiful 

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Having scored twice at Palace last week we need to update the stats on our scoring hot streak in the league. We've now extended the run of scoring at least twice to seven games (Shakespeare's first 7 league games).  So - it's now more than 50 years since we had a longer run, in ANY division.

 

But to get an idea of just how good this run is, let's come at it from another angle:

 

The total number of goals we've scored in Shakespeare's first seven league games is 17. How does that compare with other managers' first seven games?

 

If you look at the 25 year history of the Premier League, there have been around 300 managers. And only THREE of them have made a better start, each with just one more goal than Shakespeare. And look who's sitting there joint top: 

 

 

Pep Guardiola               Man City    2017       18 goals

Claudio Ranieri           Chelsea     2000       18 goals 

Kenny Dalglish              Newcastle  1997      18 goals

 

Craig Shakespeare     Leicester   2017       17 goals

Manuel Pelligrini           Man City     2013       17 goals

Andre Villas-Boas         Chelsea      2011       17 goals

 

 

Claudio popping up like that really made me smile.

 

Remember his first game as Chelsea manager? This insanely entertaining game at Man U:

 

But let's get back to Shakespeare. You'd think some Daily Mail journalist might get on to our hot streak and put together an article like 'Can Leicester continue their amazing scoring run at Arsenal?', but it wouldn't fit the narrative, would it?. And anyway they're too busy filling their site with stuff like 'Depay and Lingard share a joke as United resume training'.

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On 26/04/2017 at 22:07, Collymore said:

When we play WBA next game, that'll be our 4th away game in the league in a row after playing Everton, Crystal Palace and Arsenal. 

 

Is it me or this quite a rare occurrence to go this many games without a home game?

It's an extremely rare occurrence, mainly for the fact the PL dictate it shouldn't happen!

 

"A team will never have more than two home or away matches in a row"

 

Save for the odd occasion for stadium reasons (Liverpool this season, West Ham next season)

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51 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Was yesterday Shinji's first ever assist? 

Vardy's second v Liverpool at home last season. He scuffed a shot and it went straight to Vardy who tapped it in.

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5 - Craig Shakespeare is only the 4th manager to win his first 5 PL home games in charge, after Pellegrini, Eriksson and Ancelotti. Poetic.

 

60 - Jamie Vardy has now been involved in more PL goals than any other @LCFC player (41 goals, 19 assists), one more than Muzzy Izzet. Fox.

4:52 PM - 6 May 2017

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2 hours ago, davieG said:

5 - Craig Shakespeare is only the 4th manager to win his first 5 PL home games in charge, after Pellegrini, Eriksson and Ancelotti. Poetic.

 

60 - Jamie Vardy has now been involved in more PL goals than any other @LCFC player (41 goals, 19 assists), one more than Muzzy Izzet. Fox.

4:52 PM - 6 May 2017

When you think that Muzzy was involved for 7 seasons whilst Vardy has had 3, even more impressive.

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Mahrez created history during the Watford  game after becoming the first Algerian to reach 100 Premier League appearances

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