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The "do they mean us?" thread

By jonthefox, in Leicester City Forum

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st albans fox

st albans fox

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The Carolina Panthers are pounding the ever-loving piss out of their opponents on their way to the Super Bowl. May this be a good omen for the Foxes!

If some of the networks begin to publicise the correlation between us and them, it will be fantastic for our profile stateside. The commercial boys should be all over this.

Jimbo

Jimbo

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If some of the networks begin to publicise the correlation between us and them, it will be fantastic for our profile stateside. The commercial boys should be all over this.

 

That's why they were sent Leicester city shirts??

sylofox

sylofox

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My apologies if this has been posted before but I thought this posting on a QPR forum just showed how football fans can (at times) appreciate when another so called “smaller” club tries to break the strangle hold of the bigger ones. In other words a Leicester love in.

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/forum/163798/we-are-all-foxes-now./#19

That's a turn around from them even a little obsessed.

I know we seem to be most peoples second team now.

Thinking the KP will need 100k seats zoon lol

yorkie1999

yorkie1999

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My apologies if this has been posted before but I thought this posting on a QPR forum just showed how football fans can (at times) appreciate when another so called “smaller” club tries to break the strangle hold of the bigger ones. In other words a Leicester love in.

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/forum/163798/we-are-all-foxes-now./#19

Plus someones posted a proper song for a change...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vprXBHqmaxo#t=83

stox259

stox259

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Usual Monday morning for me.

 

*Checks 'do they mean us thread'

*Gets wound up by some idiotic, uninteligent opposing fans

*Checks Premier League table

*Smiles uncontrolably and chills out.

 

:thumbup:

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queensguardfox

queensguardfox

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When you write about football on the internet, you expect people to abuse you. This was especially true 10-15 years ago when everyone thought they were anonymous on the information superhighway.

In 2004, I wrote a piece about Leicester City and someone e-mailed to say ‘I will bite your face off if you ever come to Leicester’ because I said they’d get relegated. They did get relegated. I wasn’t sure if this absolved me of being bitten. But I always thought this was a rather odd threat because biting a whole face off requires, at the very least, a double-jointed jaw and I’d have to stand very still while you do it. Either that or you sit down with a knife and fork and take your time over it. No, it’s just not practical. But as is often the case in a situation like this, the incident rather turned me against Leicester and their cannibalism-inclined fans.

 

But now, Leicester City are top of the league by three points with 15 games to go. They are 10 points ahead of fifth place and have only lost twice. Better still, they’re usually really good fun to watch. At a time when far more highly regarded, flushed-of-cheek-managers are haplessly floundering, how has Claudio Ranieri done this?

 

Leicester are the 16th club the smiley Italian has managed in 30 years. I’ve always liked him, going right back to his Chelsea days, primarily because he seemed to have a slightly clownish, amused aspect to his character. He seemed very polite and good-natured and to not take things too seriously. He has a twinkle in his eyes and he smiles. These are important aspects to the thing we humans call likeability.

 

As Chelsea manager from 2000-2004 he got the ‘Tinkerman’ title from the grunt press because he changed his side all the time – something that is now entirely typical – and hours were dedicated to discussing how he didn’t know his best team and that’s why he was always messing with it, like it was a character weakness, unlike a good old British manager who would play the same 14 players every week until they died. Turned out actually, like Rafa Benitez, he was ahead of the curve in this respect. Nowadays, if you don’t tinker, you get accused of exhausting players.

 

You might have noticed that the same grunt press, still in thrall to its relationships with English managers, now feels almost morally obliged to credit a large portion of Claudio’s success this year to Nigel Pearson, because Pearson is a proper football man and is English and thus must be vaunted at every turn and decried as being treated badly by a foreign chairman. You know how the PFM game works, right? You must also rhetorically ask, in an exasperated tone, what Nigel has to do to get a job? Pearson is an interesting character and not without qualities but it’s worth just recalling the bald facts of what actually happened last season.

After being bottom at Christmas 2014, they’d crawled up, in a remarkable and unlikely late-season revival, to 14th. So the argument presumably goes that Ranieri has inherited a squad on the up. But, it shouldn’t be forgotten that, as much as it was under Pearson’s management they got out of the relegation places, it was also under his tenure that they wallowed at the bottom of the table in the first place. He’d been sort of sacked once and then reinstated. His relationship with the Thai owners had been messy for a while and fell apart after his son, a player at the club, was involved in that most loved of tabloid things, a ‘racist sex tape’.

 

These interpersonal issues between Pearson and the club are largely brushed under the carpet now because, as we know, it is important to the English media never to give a foreign manager who takes over from an English manager much praise, if at all possible. So, in a typically passive-aggressive way, it’s been a regular journalistic staple this season to say that Claudio hasn’t changed much and that he was ‘sensible enough’ to leave Pearson’s ‘achievements’ in place and by doing so, elevate them from 14th to…err…first. Yes, first.

 

But I was as guilty as anyone in thinking Ranieri would be a disaster. It looked like he had lost his mojo and that, given last season’s wranglings between Pearson and the owners, Leicester City was a basketcase waiting to happen. Claudio’s job managing Greece had been a total disaster. He had lost an air of credibility. That’s why he seemed like a comedy appointment by a club destined to be relegated. How wrong we all were.

But not now. What has happened this season is little short of a miracle. It has forced us all to reassess what is possible for a club of Leicester’s size, but more lovely than that, Ranieri himself seems almost amused by it all. We know football is chaos, and he is as in thrall to that wonderful fact as the rest of us. He knows it is a glorious convergence of factors, mixed with their own abilities.

 

At times he looks dazed by their success. In an era where we’re fed the notion that there is a football management elite, almost as though it is inviolate and all-knowing, along comes the Tinkerman to tell us different. Everyone wants a brilliant manager, but how brilliant does your manager really have to be, if Ranieri, who has won relatively little in his 30-year managerial career, can command Leicester to the top in late January? Maybe it just shows what is possible if you keep plugging away. A good scouting network and a feel-good manager has worked wonders for Leicester. There is a lesson there for others to learn. Maybe it’s not the high science it is often painted to be.

Imagine, for a brief hallucinogenic moment, that the Foxes win the Premier League. I’m starting to feel, because I’m a hopeless romantic, that it could happen. Imagine. Just imagine. It would be thrilling and incredible and, given the context, the most incredible thing to ever happen in English football in the modern era. Obviously, large sections of the media would still paint it as mostly Pearson’s victory, but I want to believe it can happen, for Claudio, for football and also to stop my face being bitten off.

 

John Nicholson

http://www.football365.com/news/looking-at-ranieris-lovely-face-and-dreaming

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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I enjoyed that article.  It would indeed be an incredible turn of events if we continue this and win it.  I was thinking earlier that in a less open season we would be a surprise challenger for a CL spot, like Everton when they got in a few seasons back.  With Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool all of the pace, it opens things right up, and we are in with a shout at the title.  I can see this happening more and more, and I hope so, it is so much more interesting.

Out Foxed

Out Foxed

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jul/30/premier-league-2015-16-preview-leicester-city

 

good for a laugh as always.

 

check out this from the comments:

 

 

 
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The Austria international Christian Fuchs, who originally seemed to have been signed in the summer to replace Jeff Schlupp as a wing-back, may instead be deployed as a left-sided centre-back now that the Ghana international has agreed a new contract.

I know Ranieri has a reputation for tinkering, but who made this up? Fuchs can hardly be trusted with fullback duties, let alone in the centre.

Sampson

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Wtf has he been watching? Fuchs has been one of the best full-backs in the division.

edit: oh I just realised

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TrentFox

TrentFox

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My apologies if this has been posted before but I thought this posting on a QPR forum just showed how football fans can (at times) appreciate when another so called “smaller” club tries to break the strangle hold of the bigger ones. In other words a Leicester love in.

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/forum/163798/we-are-all-foxes-now./#19

You sure that isn't from our forum with a few R's crests thrown in to fool us all????

TrentFox

TrentFox

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That's just insane. They talk more glowingly about us than we do!!! Can you ever imagine if we were going for the title and then wishing our competitor won it instead of us, just because it would make a great story? Wow! What must it be like being a top side every season - how the other half live. Actually, to hell with that .... let's go find out!!

Jimmy

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That's just insane. They talk more glowingly about us than we do!!! Can you ever imagine if we were going for the title and then wishing our competitor won it instead of us, just because it would make a great story? Wow! What must it be like being a top side every season - how the other half live. Actually, to hell with that .... let's go find out!!

its a Liverpool forum, they aren't going for the title

Footballwipe

Footballwipe

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Even stranger was sky Sunday supplement where they were also complementary

 

Big fan of Martin Samuel and his comments were fantastic. Plus he rubbished Sky Sports and talked about BT on a Sky Sports show so he's even better in my estimation.

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