Leicester v West Ham SS1 on now (title winning season)

[dayday]

What a game of highs and lows.

[StanSP]

Utterly shite refereeing as well from Jon Moss  

 

Defenders pulling shirts all game. Let's pick on one occasion and give a penalty to West Ham.

Vardy goes down in the box? DIVE! Off you go. 'You fvcking cvnt!'

Schlupp goes down in the box? NOT A DIVE! (probably was not a foul though ) PENALTY.

 

 

Leo 'balls of steel' Ulloa smashes in the penalty with ease.

 

Cresswell's goal was quality as well. 

 

What a game. So glad we didn't lose it. Would have put more pressure on us I think. Spurs smashed Stoke the day after as well.

[dayday]

It’s the only game ever that I couldn’t watch a Leicester penalty through pure nerves

[goody2028]

Much needed point as spurs won convincingly the next night. Still surprised I made it through the second half without having a heart attack. 

[ithuriel]

I lost it at one point and was really saying in a loud manner what I thought of the Hammers and the referee, when the penalty was taken by Ulloa it was quite a relief to say the least.

[st albans fox]

I’ve paused it for ten mins whilst I sorted out the youngest ...... don’t spoil it and tell me what happens ........

[fuchsntf]

I like Alan Smith,but his commentary that day...was dross.I Think I lost vor to hate him that day, & I am usually chilled on commentators...

I didnt then and still dont believe it was either a penalty or sending off...poor ref descision. clash of bodies & legs Full stop.!!!i

 

Whams was IMO a penalty..our CBs had been playing on the Borderline all day,but Wham strikers equally had been playing for penalty descisions.

 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Schlupp always got a battering from our fans but he gave his all in this game, was closing down a lot.

[Angus Scott]

First time I have seen this since the actual day & indeed have seen very few games again from that fabulous season

 

It really confirms what I have thought since that glorious season, it really was a miracle. We had 3 outstanding players, 3 distinctly average & the rest good. What we were though was a complete team in which everyone knew exactly their job. Whether this was down to Claudio or just good fortune I  have no idea. I have recently watched again this season's wins at Villa & Saints & our present team look light years ahead of the 2016 team, indeed it is hard to imagine that even half of the 2016 team would be selected nowadays.

 

It's only 4 years but it seems a lifetime ago

[goody2028]

7 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Schlupp always got a battering from our fans but he gave his all in this game, was closing down a lot.

If Jeffrey scores we’re on the pitch! 

[dayday]

All the memories flooding back, how tough was that to watch?

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, dayday said:

It’s the only game ever that I couldn’t watch a Leicester penalty through pure nerves

There were plenty around me the same. I watched as I figured that I could do a Uri Geller and will it into the net. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

That team to a man, were absolutely ****ing brilliant. Drinkwater was everywhere! None of them will ever be forgotten here. Get some statues up Top!

[st albans fox]

Didn’t remember  that 

a) we were winning till 83 min 

b) we were losing with 30 secs left

[Leicester_Loyal]

20 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Didn’t remember  that 

a) we were winning till 83 min 

b) we were losing with 30 secs left

I thought that too. I thought we scored in about 90th minute and it was 1-1 about 75 minutes. I forgot how close to losing this game we actually were.

[Mike Oxlong]

I exhausted my daily ration of F and C words during that game 

[Chiltern Fox]

I was a wreck after this game. Absolutely exhausted.

[shailen]

The sending off was a farce. Never a dive by Vardy. 

 

Their penalty decision was a little soft against Wes.

 

Huth being dragged back in the 90th minute was a stone waller especially given that the one against Morgan was given. 

 

The only dive in that game was by Schlupp who managed to win a penalty in the last minute. 

 

It could have cost us big and still annoys me even though we all know the outcome. John Moss really isn't fit to referee. 

[Freeman's Wharfer]

I hate Jon Moss to this day for that game but afterwards you could look at that and say that’s exactly why you go to football. From joy to absolute rage to absolute relief and ecstasy. Full range of extreme emotions.

 

When Ulloa scored the penalty I genuinely lost my head for a few seconds. Remember the West Ham fans had been rubbing it in with “1-0 and you ****ed it up” which I thought was pretty tasteless given a) the way we’d lost that lead and b) the magnitude of that game. I joined the hoardes emptying out of my row in L1 to pile over to the away fans with the equaliser. 

Also remember the masses waiting at the mouth of the tunnel in the usually mild mannered West Stand for Jon Moss at full time. Police escort more or less and thoroughly deserved.

[Guest ttfn]

7 hours ago, shailen said:

The sending off was a farce. Never a dive by Vardy. 

 

Their penalty decision was a little soft against Wes.

 

Huth being dragged back in the 90th minute was a stone waller especially given that the one against Morgan was given. 

 

The only dive in that game was by Schlupp who managed to win a penalty in the last minute. 

 

It could have cost us big and still annoys me even though we all know the outcome. John Moss really isn't fit to referee. 

Come on! It was a clear dive by Vardy. Enough time has passed now that it’s ok to admit that.
 

The thing that irritated me about the dive most was that Ogbonna had been fouling Vardy pretty clearly 2-3 times earlier as he tried to get clear, pulling his shirt and shoulder but Moss didn’t want to know until Vardy went down. 
 

As for Schlupp’s being the “only dive” of the game, Payet (on a yellow card too), threw himself to the ground outside the penalty area about 10 minutes after Vardy was sent off and Moss just waved it away. But the best dive of the lot was Winston Reid’s for the West Ham penalty. Amazing that Morgan gently holding his sides managed to see him propelled forwards through the air.
 

 

 

With hindsight I do have a bit of sympathy for Jon Moss, it wasn’t an easy game to referee. There were probably 10-12 big decisions for him to make when an ordinary game might only have 1 or 2. But it takes a special type of Fvck up to have fans of both sides convinced you’ve screwed them at the end of the game.

 

Probably the most engrossing game I’ve ever been too.