josh_baskin Posted 8 October 2016 Posted 8 October 2016 Read the the book on the back of fishing Jeremy Paxmans, slight contract in memoir you could say but the only thing I found enlightening was his mention of Claudio's frequent tendency of refering to his players as w@nker! Made my week!
trabuch Posted 8 October 2016 Posted 8 October 2016 I don't really care what he says. In the last two years on the pitch he has given me so many moments of joy and seemed to represent the Leicester spirit of never quit to perfection. He really should be accepted as a Leicester legend.
Wymsey Posted 8 October 2016 Posted 8 October 2016 He's a legend with what he's achieved, but legend can be extended out of the pitch in terms of persona. Hence he probably won't be well-regarded such as not doing things with the fans when he retires - such as the Birch in doing his annual runs and being caring/sociable with fans on match days, Walshy/Marshall being around doing talks etc and the like.
trabuch Posted 8 October 2016 Posted 8 October 2016 We'll see. I think he is sharper than he seems. I think what he has done with his life is admirable - and I am happy that Leicester were a part of his story and he was part of ours.
Bert Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 I'm team Vardy here. Could've easily left but chose to be loyal (regardless of what people think of him using us to get a new contract, he'd have got that at Arsenal anyway, plus an extra 25%) and stayed with us. Cambiasso left us, could've stayed and gained further hero status.
Fox92 Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 13 hours ago, sylofox said: Where did I say anyone else had or had not played well. But Vardy has been so poor and my point was perhaps he should forget the books and films and get on with his job. But I am looking fwd to all the other players books and films do you know when they are all due out. You didn't but this whole thread seems to have turned into "ahh he's been shit this season". My point was so has everybody else apart from Drinkwater. As for books and films, why would he reject extra income. He's probably going to make millions off the back of this.
filbertstreet Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 9 hours ago, trabuch said: We'll see. I think he is sharper than he seems. have you seen his chin, sharp enough to open a tin of beans that
sylofox Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 1 hour ago, Fox92 said: You didn't but this whole thread seems to have turned into "ahh he's been shit this season". My point was so has everybody else apart from Drinkwater. As for books and films, why would he reject extra income. He's probably going to make millions off the back of this. As long as he makes millions on top of the 5m a year we give him that's fine. And no I am not picking on him as you say bar Drinky they have all been poor. He was away at the euro"s and we had a punishing pre season that has not helped any of our players. But like a lot of top players he should concentrate on his job not off field money grabbing. But part of our problem is caused by the club. The early deals fine then we seemed to be doing nothing then spent the end of the window after another striker and CM. Yet we all know we are weak at the back. We are now stuck until January with a back four that due to a rule change can't play the game. And 3 of the four places have no quality to replace or push the players that play. Let's hope come jan we can get a quality RB and 2 CB to push or replace those 3. Yes I include Wes in that to captain or not. In all my years watching the game I have never heard such a daft excuse as we are struggling with the new rules. Oh perhaps once the famous Fergie comment "The players change shirts at half time as they could not see each other"
Strokes Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 Do we really need to start slagging off our own players? I get this is a warts and all book about his life and is open to critique but some of the comments are a bit more than that. The guy on top form for us, is an absolute beast and we have a part to play in him getting back to this form. Support the lad, he will go down in folklore. He feeds off us and is clearly a guy that suffers when his confidence is low.
Fox92 Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 11 minutes ago, sylofox said: As long as he makes millions on top of the 5m a year we give him that's fine. And no I am not picking on him as you say bar Drinky they have all been poor. He was away at the euro"s and we had a punishing pre season that has not helped any of our players. But like a lot of top players he should concentrate on his job not off field money grabbing. But part of our problem is caused by the club. The early deals fine then we seemed to be doing nothing then spent the end of the window after another striker and CM. Yet we all know we are weak at the back. We are now stuck until January with a back four that due to a rule change can't play the game. And 3 of the four places have no quality to replace or push the players that play. Let's hope come jan we can get a quality RB and 2 CB to push or replace those 3. Yes I include Wes in that to captain or not. In all my years watching the game I have never heard such a daft excuse as we are struggling with the new rules. Oh perhaps once the famous Fergie comment "The players change shirts at half time as they could not see each other" Oh I agree with that. The problem starts when you pay certain players 100k(+) a week for me. We were very loyal in the summer when we shouldn't have been. The defence should have been looked at - we need a quality centre half and if that means dropping our title winning captain then so be it. Considering you brought Fergie up, you only have to look at him - Bruce, a superb player, but once his times up he's dropped. Same happened to Ferdinand, to Keane etc etc.... We're stuck, I agree, with an aging back two we can't change. The only change/rotation we do make often is at right full back and that's all.
sylofox Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 9 minutes ago, Fox92 said: Oh I agree with that. The problem starts when you pay certain players 100k(+) a week for me. We were very loyal in the summer when we shouldn't have been. The defence should have been looked at - we need a quality centre half and if that means dropping our title winning captain then so be it. Considering you brought Fergie up, you only have to look at him - Bruce, a superb player, but once his times up he's dropped. Same happened to Ferdinand, to Keane etc etc.... We're stuck, I agree, with an aging back two we can't change. The only change/rotation we do make often is at right full back and that's all. But you will never win on here and you are right I hate the he's white comments. But then you get the he deserves to play because of last season. No nobody deserves anything because of last season. They got paid for it plus cash bonus plus a car. New season clean slate the inform guy deserves it and i don't care if that player got us promoted and won the prem. So if we get to the CL final are we going to play the Birch because he has spent 40yrs with the club. I support LCFC first then the players. But it will always be for the good of the club never a player. Like managers players come and go. I will have Forever a Fox on my headstone I doubt many players will think about us after they leave. Yes last seasons players will always have one season but that will be it. I will always have getting soaked at meadow lane and again at boundary park. Standing in pen 2 with only 11k in the ground
stripeyfox Posted 9 October 2016 Author Posted 9 October 2016 Some of the criticism on here is unbelievable. I don't think he's been anywhere near as bad this season as is being made out. Regarding the book, yeah it's not everyone's cup of tea but the narrative is "working class hero" all the way through and it plays up to that. I don't know Vardy but I do know a couple of people who have had dealings with him. The first, an old colleague of mine is married into Vardy's (now estranged) family and he will testify that the guy is a complete bellend - although I think most of his dealings are from around the time when JV joined Leicester. The second, is someone who works at the LRI and was on duty when the players - Vardy, Kante and Inler I think - visited the kids (some of whom are/were terminally ill) just before Christmas last year. Now that is not an environment that I would be comfortable in at all but our boy Jamie was, by all accounts, and absolute star. And it wasn't a case of just walking round dishing out football shirts and posing for selfies, he showed real interest and compassion - maybe not quite Princess Di, but he did spend well over their allocated time sitting on a bed with a young lad whilst the kid showed him videos on his ipad. It seems to me that he has done a lot of growing up and knuckling down in the last few years. It is a shame that he is now not talking to his family - hopefully they can patch things up soon.
daddylonglegs Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 On 7 October 2016 at 18:09, Chico1958 said: The second saddest day in recent history when Cambiasso left us The first saddest day when this Little Guy from France decided we were to small for him As for Vardy, last year top of the world, this year............. we can only hope As for the book, I'll wait for it to be in the bargain bin in the Works Knockaert wasn't that small...
shade Posted 9 October 2016 Posted 9 October 2016 Jamie, if you're reading this, word of advice mate; use hard boiled sweets (kola cubes, sherbert strawberries, sour apple balls) instead of skittles, you don't get that annoying waxy froth in the vodka that you do with skittles. Now you know that you can concentrate on firing us back up the league kid.
ScouseFox Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 you don't be rude about esteban and expect to get away with it
Mark_w Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 On 09/10/2016 at 09:40, Bert said: I'm team Vardy here. I think we should send him on loan to Preston
Guest MattP Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 Least he's honest, I'd much rather a book like that then one like Beckham's where everyone is wonderful. We all know he's a bit of a bellend, I think that's obvious in his general attitude but he's our bellend and one of the main reasons we'll all be dying happy.
tyfox Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 He's been inconsistent this year but I think the blokes a legend
MPH Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 On 10/8/2016 at 04:50, MarkDeVirus said: Laughing my head off at the response Vardy's book is getting. Bloke was a massive part of the reason we somehow won the league. A few iffy games this season, and our fans are on his back slating him. Our fans really are the worst. Cambiasso did have a great impact behind the scenes, but was he really that great until the latter part of the season? Supporters speak like he was some messiah, he had one season with us? If he hadn't left, then we wouldn't have brought in Kante so... Err what? Cambiasso was a play maker, Kante a defensive midfielder. You cant get two more different roles for a CM On 10/8/2016 at 13:37, FireFox said: Inler was bought to replace Cambiasso (but Drinky did instead), not Kante. Kante was brought in to replace James. How is this not obvious. And why does this matter. Kunte is a snake. Cambiasso is a Leicester legend. Vardy is a Leicester legend, but also a bit of an idiot who shouldn't have been disrespectful toward Cambiasso.
lgfualol Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 On 09/10/2016 at 11:19, filbertstreet said: have you seen his chin, sharp enough to open a tin of beans that I read a comment that likened Vardy's face to a bird waiting for an starving African child to keel over.
Spudulike Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 3 hours ago, MattP said: Least he's honest, I'd much rather a book like that then one like Beckham's where everyone is wonderful. We all know he's a bit of a bellend, I think that's obvious in his general attitude but he's our bellend and one of the main reasons we'll all be dying happy. Sums it up.
ARM1968 Posted 10 October 2016 Posted 10 October 2016 Should have been 'From Nowhere to Somwhere and back again!!' the story of ALL our lives.
Dan Posted 11 October 2016 Posted 11 October 2016 I don't buy that the other players aren't pulling their weight, I just think there's a flaw in our system and it's exposing a lot of the weaknesses that we were able to patch up. Can people really accuse Huth, Morgan, Simpson or Albrighton, for some examples, of not trying this season?
Wymsey Posted 11 October 2016 Posted 11 October 2016 We badly need a young CB who can compete straightaway. Morgan is doing alright but he does seem to get knackered from 10 minutes to half-time.
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