Slaven Bilic.....

[fazzyfox]

Dixon has a very blinkered view on things. The world doesn't revolve around Arsenal, in fact in 2018 nothing revolves around Arsenal. I think there's still a snobbery that Vardy hasn't been coached in what they see as the orthodox proper way by coming late to league football. Bilic knows that no defender or team likes to face such pace and he has that extra spark that could make the difference. He thrives on the early ball, seeing out a win in Holland he didn't get any ball, early, timely or late, zilch service but we won. If we win the World Cup I won't care about who had how many touches. Just by being up there he occupied opponents and made them wary and reluctant to push up and leave space. Of course it's fair to say you have to move and make runs and be available which he did and was but when your team mates are playing backwards and sideways balls or just chosing to pick out their mates instead of you it's out of your hands.

[Stadt]

Ordinarily a decent pundit but he’s gone right down in my estimations after what he said, Vardy didn’t have any service in a mostly meaningless game for 22 minutes, hardly worth reading into.

[Dan]

7 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

If Kane scored that Vardy goal everyone would be waxing lyrical about his quick thinking, alertness and killer instinct.  I am usually a reasonable kinda guy but the world is a cvnt.  X

Don't want to come across as overly paranoid but I truly do think that certain players have such a bias towards them in the media and people fall for it. I do think Lingard did excellently (and had a good game, and I've really warmed to him) but very little gets said about the finish. They react totally differently if it's Kane and I don't get it really, they're both England's players, why are they waiting for one to succeed more than the other?

There's absolutely no way Dixon reacts like that if Kane doesn't have a touch for 22 minutes.

 

This Vardy not having a touch thing is a typical problem amongst some fans / media. It's pretty irrelevant in all honesty. Watch what actually happened and people will see that Vardy did actually make a couple of good runs, but Alli in-particular dallied on the ball and blew the chance. But because Vardy's is the funny statistic, Vardy is automatically the problem. It's this over-sensationalised, headline reading mentality that plagues football in England.

 

It's impossible to listen to Glenn Hoddle as well. He along with Steve McManaman is the most biased commentator of the lot. 

 

I've gone a little bit off on one here but it's better out than in

Edited 30 March 2018 by Dan LCFC

[Crazy Kop Corner]

Sky Sports have been running a stat which shows Vardy is a more lethal finisher than Kane and therefore by statistics, at least, the better striker.

 

When he goes on instinct Jamie is as a great finisher and with his whole round game a tremendous asset for us. In my time of watching Leicester he is the best striker we've had and that includes Gary Lineker.

 

Lee Dixon has made himself look a right berk in this instance and highlighted the bias against certain players. (usually from non top 6 teams).

[norwichfox]

8 hours ago, mod hero said:

I know a bloke who got arrested for lobbing seamen 

Dwarf throwing, particularly of sailor dwarfs has been banned for years....

[NewquayFox]

Watched it last night, firstly, how many adverts did they slot into the first 15/20 minutes, unbelievable to be honest.

Secondly, Dixon had a mare, he must have had sleepless nights planning his attack on Vardy (the player that turned his beloved Arsenal down) he was absolutely seething and what a rant (not a spelling mistake).

Thirdly, I would love to have seen his & Bilics reaction to yet another cracking goal from Vardy, Bilic should have slowly turned round winding his middle finger up.

Finally, Ian Wright is still sat in the studio nodding his head agreeing and contorting his face...

Up the City.....

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Top man Bilic, liked him ever since he stood out in the rain during the England Croatia match, the wally with the brolly game ☔️

[TheUltimateWinner]

Crazy that some people, especially paid pundits still don't understand Vardy's game.

 

He's a predator, you give him one chance and he will take it. Just so happens in that game he was given zero service as you had 'superstar' Deli Alli giving away the ball everytime he had it.

[Far Post Gerry]

31 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Crazy that some people, especially paid pundits still don't understand Vardy's game.

 

He's a predator, you give him one chance and he will take it. Just so happens in that game he was given zero service as you had 'superstar' Deli Alli giving away the ball everytime he had it.

I enjoyed it during the game when the pundit asked if vardy had touched the ball, and the commentator (clive tyldesley was it?) replied; "you'd know if he had; the ball would be in the back of the net." Probably the only time i've enjoyed tyldesley's commentary.

 

 

Edited 30 March 2018 by Far Post Gerry
Typo

[sylofox]

11 hours ago, Tuna said:

If he's made those comments he's clearly clueless 

 

 

 

 

 

My Mrs was in a restaurant one night and Dixon and a few of his cronies walked in. He was not happy all the tables around his where in use. All he kept saying while complaining about it was "Do you know who I am"

[RumbleFox]

7 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Don't want to come across as overly paranoid but I truly do think that certain players have such a bias towards them in the media and people fall for it. I do think Lingard did excellently (and had a good game, and I've really warmed to him) but very little gets said about the finish. They react totally differently if it's Kane and I don't get it really, they're both England's players, why are they waiting for one to succeed more than the other?

There's absolutely no way Dixon reacts like that if Kane doesn't have a touch for 22 minutes.

 

This Vardy not having a touch thing is a typical problem amongst some fans / media. It's pretty irrelevant in all honesty. Watch what actually happened and people will see that Vardy did actually make a couple of good runs, but Alli in-particular dallied on the ball and blew the chance. But because Vardy's is the funny statistic, Vardy is automatically the problem. It's this over-sensationalised, headline reading mentality that plagues football in England.

 

It's impossible to listen to Glenn Hoddle as well. He along with Steve McManaman is the most biased commentator of the lot. 

 

I've gone a little bit off on one here but it's better out than in

Yeah I fully agree.  I don't want to sound like a small club conspiracy theorist but there is genuine bias, I don't think that can be argued.  I just don't understand why?  Surely people should like a fairytale or an underdog?  Also, I can't quite work out how Spurs have put themselves in that big club bracket?  So many times in recent years the England team has been in desperate need of some new energy in the form of players from"unpopular" teams and yet every single time the squad is filled with the same unimaginative players from the big teams.  I know we are Leicester fans so are slightly biased but we won the league.  I will say that again..... LEICESTER CITY WON THE LEAGUE.  We created history and had a spirit and togetherness almost unheard of.  Roy should have tried to bottle that.  Albrighton, Vardy, Drinky should have been definite starters in that team.  As mush as I hate Spurs so should Kane, Dier and Alli.  That none of our players were nailed on starters in that team after what we did shows you everything wrong with the English national team.  If a player like Albrighton plays almost every game in the biggest miracle in world sporting history and doesn't even get a sniff then where is the joy in football?  Where is the incentive for all those young players dreaming of England?  What more could Albrighton have done?  I ask that again WHAT MORE COULD ALBRIGHTON HAVE DONE?  Not even one cap.  Not even tested in a friendly.  The message was "Even if you win the league you will have more chance of playing if you spend a season injured at Arsenal".

 

Sorry, rant over.  X

Edited 30 March 2018 by RumbleFox

[RumbleFox]

Fvck it, I like ranting so will continue and get even more blue tinted............

 

When you think about what us and Spurs (even though I hate them) did that season Roy's team really should have been.....

 

                  Pickford

Walker  Jones Stones Rose

               Dier  Drinky

Albrighton                       Alli

              Kane  Vardy

Edited 30 March 2018 by RumbleFox

[lcfc sheff]

The media don't seem to see this coming, but people are tired of pundits who genuinely have no idea about the game, some just seem to say controversial comments to keep themselves relevant e.g. Garth Crookes, Merson and Dixon. Sooner or later Football pundits won't be able to get away with this rubbish once statistics truly come into play. 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

1 hour ago, sylofox said:

My Mrs was in a restaurant one night and Dixon and a few of his cronies walked in. He was not happy all the tables around his where in use. All he kept saying while complaining about it was "Do you know who I am"

? the “don’t you know who I am” comment must be the single most nauseating comment anyone could say

[sylofox]

10 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

? the “don’t you know who I am” comment must be the single most nauseating comment anyone could say

Just sums up what an arrogant cvnt he is. Thinks a restaurant should be kept half empty because he's there.

[Steven]

2 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

Yeah I fully agree.  I don't want to sound like a small club conspiracy theorist but there is genuine bias, I don't think that can be argued.  I just don't understand why?  Surely people should like a fairytale or an underdog?  Also, I can't quite work out how Spurs have put themselves in that big club bracket?  So many times in recent years the England team has been in desperate need of some new energy in the form of players from"unpopular" teams and yet every single time the squad is filled with the same unimaginative players from the big teams.  I know we are Leicester fans so are slightly biased but we won the league.  I will say that again..... LEICESTER CITY WON THE LEAGUE.  We created history and had a spirit and togetherness almost unheard of.  Roy should have tried to bottle that.  Albrighton, Vardy, Drinky should have been definite starters in that team.  As mush as I hate Spurs so should Kane, Dier and Alli.  That none of our players were nailed on starters in that team after what we did shows you everything wrong with the English national team.  If a player like Albrighton plays almost every game in the biggest miracle in world sporting history and doesn't even get a sniff then where is the joy in football?  Where is the incentive for all those young players dreaming of England?  What more could Albrighton have done?  I ask that again WHAT MORE COULD ALBRIGHTON HAVE DONE?  Not even one cap.  Not even tested in a friendly.  The message was "Even if you win the league you will have more chance of playing if you spend a season injured at Arsenal".

 

Sorry, rant over.  X

But Spurs have heritage. That counts for something surely.

[justfoxes]

WTF Lee Dixon is a complete COCK WOMBLE he doesn’t realise that Delle Alli is another complete COCK WOMBLE who refused to pass to Vardy v Holland that’s probably one reason why the little shit didn’t feature against Italy but with Lingard and Sterling Playing sweet balls into Vardy’s feet showed that Vardy city sore and as per some of the write ups I’ve seen say Vardy suits this New England formation more than Kane does ?

And wasnt it that CW Dixon who said on talkshite last night how Maguire was far too light weight in the England set up how Salah embarrassed him and Chelsea took him apart in the quarter Final?

Only shows you really that some pundits are so biased if you’re not a top 5 prem team or from Landan you’re not a decent PL side !!

Mind you That CW Dixon still sobs in his Horliks that Leicester beat Arsenhole to the 15/16 EPL Title he also misses the fact that it wasn’t a little gap it was 10points between us as Champions and the crying Goonies !!

[Sammy]

19 hours ago, Hammo said:

I have realised the error of my TV football-watching ways and decided to live my life pundit-free.

 

I turn the game on at kick off, watch the first half, make a cup of tea and turn the sound off for 15 minutes, then watch the second half and when the final whistle goes I switch off. I see what I see and form my own opinions from that. I don't need some overpaid, biased, illiterate, cliche-loving never-has-been ex pro to tell me what's what.

 

Try it. Your life will be enhanced.

Think this is definitely the best way to watch football. 

 

Love Gary Neville and have watched some clips with Mike Calvin (on young people in football) and Christian Purslow and Alyson Rudd (on West Ham owners) and have found them excellent watching those with more expertise discuss interesting topics. Until punditry takes a turn to expert analysis rather than throwing more money at awful ex-pro pundits like Henry, Jenas etc only the games interest me

[Stadt]

The Spurs media bias is exaggerated on here, it definitely exists and it's annoying definitely but it's not that bad when you take our rose tinted glasses off.

[Lambert09]

20 hours ago, Hammo said:

I have realised the error of my TV football-watching ways and decided to live my life pundit-free.

 

I turn the game on at kick off, watch the first half, make a cup of tea and turn the sound off for 15 minutes, then watch the second half and when the final whistle goes I switch off. I see what I see and form my own opinions from that. I don't need some overpaid, biased, illiterate, cliche-loving never-has-been ex pro to tell me what's what.

 

Try it. Your life will be enhanced.

When I lived in Thailand I didn’t understand the commentators and I realised how much better it was without them. They chat constant rubbish with pre-noted down opinions so that armchair Steve can talk about the game after. 

 

The opinion on our players from footy fans who don’t watch the games is bewildering. But you expect more from pundits, it’s hard to find one who doesn’t live in the top 6 bubble. 

[HighPeakFox]

Nobody is to disagree with me - don't you all know who I am?

[Far Post Gerry]

13 hours ago, Sammy said:

Think this is definitely the best way to watch football. 

 

Love Gary Neville and have watched some clips with Mike Calvin (on young people in football) and Christian Purslow and Alyson Rudd (on West Ham owners) and have found them excellent watching those with more expertise discuss interesting topics. Until punditry takes a turn to expert analysis rather than throwing more money at awful ex-pro pundits like Henry, Jenas etc only the games interest me

I'd quite happily watch jacqui oatley stare and nod at glenn hoddle for an hour. It gets a bit hypnotic. 

Edited 31 March 2018 by Far Post Gerry

[Guest]

Glenn Twaddle

[CarbonVirtine]

I'm another that mutes the pre/mid/after match analysis, though I am sometimes interested in after match player interviews, just to hear what such and such a player sounds like.

 

My real dislike for pundits probably started with Alan Hansen. I like to listen to opinion but it's the opinion as fact that gets me, and Hansen did that every damned time he opened his mouth. He saw himself as some kind of purveyor of truth, the only purveyor of truth. The man is the colossally up himself.