reynard Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 You mean stoke city who are now an established Prem team , who Havnt once had to scrape relegation like Leicester have this season? Stoke pretty much sell out every week, so hkw would you know only 30% of stoke residents support stoke ? Stoke a Mickey mouse clubs Hahahahah you keep bouncing between the league's pal. Jamie vardy should be nowhere near the England quad when all strikers are fit , however he is the beat of a bad bunch I have to admit I was frankly surprised when I noticed today that Stoke has a literary festival. This post merely confirms my amazement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lestajigs Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 The knuckledraggers at bentleys roof must be gutted we're doing well now. Wtf?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilLCFC Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 Ha that article about Pearson is class. The bit about him telling one of our fans to F off and die then grappling with an opposition player makes it sound like it was a one off day when he went on a mad one. He'd been to one of Vardy's parties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack1993 Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 Oh right. I feel a pratt now then. That will be because I was looking at the Harry Potter studios tour site earlier then That'd be why mine came up with chocolate chip... I'll get my coat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 The gulf between QPR and Leicester City appears wider than ever Don't look so surprised. This time last year, QPR finished 22 points behind a rampant Leicester City in the Championship. As Nigel Pearson's side ran away with the second-tier title, Rangers hobbled over the line via a magical playoff win. That goal by Bobby Zamora instantly erased the memories of a substandard season, one that was kept alive only by the heroics of Charlie Austin and his relentless flow of goals. This season has been no different, although Leicester took a little while to get out of the traps and Pearson threw a few curveballs at the media. But when you examine both sides, they have really stayed true to form. Not once did Leicester waver on the pitch. In the boardroom there was well-publicised confusion over Pearson's status as manager, but in a footballing sense the Foxes have never deviated from their style. Their belief, rightly buoyant from their stellar Championship tilt, seems to have been steady and they are now reaping the rewards. Way back in December 2013, Pearson's side came to Loftus Road and secured another clean sheet while Joey Barton got sent off and Jamie Vardy, selected for England duty this week in a fantastic story for the one-time non-league footballer, got the deciding goal. And the 1-0 scoreline was repeated in the reverse fixture back in April of 2014, same narrative; QPR had a man sent off, Benoit Assou-Ekotto this time, and David Nugent did his job by converting the winning goal. Incredibly, Rangers have had the most recent laugh by winning the last fixture between these sides, the 3-2 festival in West London back in November where rarities like an own goal and an Armand Traore appearance added to the mystery and intrigue around the match, like an old footballing wives' tale: The One Where QPR Once Beat Leicester. Despite that 22-point advantage and the two ruthlessly efficient 1-0 wins last season, Leicester were supposed to be relegated this time round and QPR should have stayed up. Little old Leicester tenderly augmented their squad with moves for Leonardo Ulloa and Andrej Kramaric and the shrewd signing of veteran Esteban Cambiasso, while Rangers tried and failed to mirror them with the likes of Leroy Fer, Sandro and Niko Kranjcar joining. But sadly, as is often the way at Loftus Road, while Leicester's new faces settled in and knuckled down, Rangers' recruits floundered. Both clubs have a former non-league striker in the next England squad -- Austin for the Rs and Vardy for the Foxes. Austin bulldozed his way in single-handedly with 17 Premier League goals and a handful of assists in an often-woeful side, while Vardy has struck just four times in the league -- miserly by comparison -- but his strengths have been highlighted because he has been playing in a cohesive and functioning team and structure that Austin could have only dreamed about. Even Robert Huth, who appeared spent in his final days at Stoke, has been a magnificent loan signing for Leicester. At 30 years old he is no spring chicken but somehow, someway, he has gone into Leicester and been an instant success. For whatever reason, if he had made exactly the same move to QPR, you just know it would have somehow ended in disaster with a long-term injury, a public spat or a discrepancy with the Home Office -- it's just the Rangers way. That 22-point gap doesn't mean much now. If QPR win on Sunday there will be just five points separating the two sides. But one is facing another relegation to the hotly contested Championship with the added burden of a back-breaking fine from the Football League financial fair play team while the other is set for a period of consolidation in the richest league in town with a fresh windfall from broadcast rights that could cop them £120 million. Pearson has taken on the media and won, winning over those who doubted him and vanquishing those who challenged him. Meanwhile Rangers have bravely given novice head coach Chris Ramsey a three-year contract for a rebuilding job of titanic proportions. How did it get to this? When were little old Leicester building their empire? What were QPR doing while the Midlands minnows were laying foundations? Where did those 22 points come from? How will QPR ever get back to the Premier League? Will QPR ever get back to the Premier League? Those are all questions we have a long, long, ever-so-long summer to mull over. Wally Downes Jr. is a reporter for Hayters sports agency in London and a contributor to ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter @WallyDownes_Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevosevic Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 (edited) Little? Minnows? We are a far bigger club than QPR Edited 23 May 2015 by Stevosevic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangecity23 Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 (edited) The only thing at QPR that is massive is their debts. Edited 23 May 2015 by orangecity23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmono84 Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 The definition of backhanded compliment!! Reads like a bitter qpr fan trying not to appear bitter but couldn't resist it at the very end haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnaldo Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Little? Minnows? We are a far bigger club than QPR Probably looking at it from money spent in transfers, and I'm sure a lot of pundits at the beginning of the year thought QPR would finish ahead of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Leicester play good football, to get that comment from Wenger is a honour that is for sure 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Probably looking at it from money spent in transfers, and I'm sure a lot of posters on Foxestalk at the beginning of the year thought QPR would finish ahead of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4everfox Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Little? Minnows? We are a far bigger club than QPR Does he realise we have been the most successful club from the East Midlands in the last 20-25 years. We are unquestionably a bigger club then QPR by quite a distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Christ I usually think clubs are much of a muchness but on this occasion there's no comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 I think he's trying to be ironic but it isn't really working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 The gulf between QPR and Leicester City appears wider than ever Don't look so surprised. This time last year, QPR finished 22 points behind a rampant Leicester City in the Championship. As Nigel Pearson's side ran away with the second-tier title, Rangers hobbled over the line via a magical playoff win. That goal by Bobby Zamora instantly erased the memories of a substandard season, one that was kept alive only by the heroics of Charlie Austin and his relentless flow of goals. This season has been no different, although Leicester took a little while to get out of the traps and Pearson threw a few curveballs at the media. But when you examine both sides, they have really stayed true to form. Not once did Leicester waver on the pitch. In the boardroom there was well-publicised confusion over Pearson's status as manager, but in a footballing sense the Foxes have never deviated from their style. Their belief, rightly buoyant from their stellar Championship tilt, seems to have been steady and they are now reaping the rewards. Way back in December 2013, Pearson's side came to Loftus Road and secured another clean sheet while Joey Barton got sent off and Jamie Vardy, selected for England duty this week in a fantastic story for the one-time non-league footballer, got the deciding goal. And the 1-0 scoreline was repeated in the reverse fixture back in April of 2014, same narrative; QPR had a man sent off, Benoit Assou-Ekotto this time, and David Nugent did his job by converting the winning goal. Incredibly, Rangers have had the most recent laugh by winning the last fixture between these sides, the 3-2 festival in West London back in November where rarities like an own goal and an Armand Traore appearance added to the mystery and intrigue around the match, like an old footballing wives' tale: The One Where QPR Once Beat Leicester. Despite that 22-point advantage and the two ruthlessly efficient 1-0 wins last season, Leicester were supposed to be relegated this time round and QPR should have stayed up. Little old Leicester tenderly augmented their squad with moves for Leonardo Ulloa and Andrej Kramaric and the shrewd signing of veteran Esteban Cambiasso, while Rangers tried and failed to mirror them with the likes of Leroy Fer, Sandro and Niko Kranjcar joining. But sadly, as is often the way at Loftus Road, while Leicester's new faces settled in and knuckled down, Rangers' recruits floundered. Both clubs have a former non-league striker in the next England squad -- Austin for the Rs and Vardy for the Foxes. Austin bulldozed his way in single-handedly with 17 Premier League goals and a handful of assists in an often-woeful side, while Vardy has struck just four times in the league -- miserly by comparison -- but his strengths have been highlighted because he has been playing in a cohesive and functioning team and structure that Austin could have only dreamed about. Even Robert Huth, who appeared spent in his final days at Stoke, has been a magnificent loan signing for Leicester. At 30 years old he is no spring chicken but somehow, someway, he has gone into Leicester and been an instant success. For whatever reason, if he had made exactly the same move to QPR, you just know it would have somehow ended in disaster with a long-term injury, a public spat or a discrepancy with the Home Office -- it's just the Rangers way.That 22-point gap doesn't mean much now. If QPR win on Sunday there will be just five points separating the two sides. But one is facing another relegation to the hotly contested Championship with the added burden of a back-breaking fine from the Football League financial fair play team while the other is set for a period of consolidation in the richest league in town with a fresh windfall from broadcast rights that could cop them £120 million. Pearson has taken on the media and won, winning over those who doubted him and vanquishing those who challenged him. Meanwhile Rangers have bravely given novice head coach Chris Ramsey a three-year contract for a rebuilding job of titanic proportions. How did it get to this? When were little old Leicester building their empire? What were QPR doing while the Midlands minnows were laying foundations? Where did those 22 points come from? How will QPR ever get back to the Premier League? Will QPR ever get back to the Premier League? Those are all questions we have a long, long, ever-so-long summer to mull over. Wally Downes Jr. is a reporter for Hayters sports agency in London and a contributor to ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter @WallyDownes_Jr. What the fvck is this guy on. I think we flew out the traps hit the first bend back straight and final bend stalling. We then hit the finishing straight at 200mph. Could not read anything after that. Did he miss Everton Arsenal Man u and Stoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 That is as weird an article as you're ever likely to read. QPR have had a few moments under Francis and even Vegetables - but saying we are minnows is quite bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinFox Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 About time players like Vardy were chosen over the pampered greedy fecks who often can't be arsed to play for the national team. I remember watching Greece a few Euro's ago. No one gave them a chance because they had no 'players'. What they did have were a team willing to fight for the country and each other. Vardy will do that all day long. As a Leicester fan I e had to watch England fail to turn up year after year, tournament after tournament. If Roy picked a team full of players who wanted to play for their country we might get somewhere. The whole country should get behind the team and stop whinging like parochial village idiots. Quite. Look at Costa Rica. Full of belief, fight and just enough ability. They qualified from the group, we didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 That is as weird an article as you're ever likely to read. QPR have had a few moments under Francis and even Vegetables - but saying we are minnows is quite bizarre. Bit mean, some were reasonably intelligent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Pretty confident that was tongue in cheek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambridgefox Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Pretty confident that was tongue in cheekmy thoughts exactly.As he said 22pts ahead last year and people wrote us off and still thought we would go down,and QPR survive.Think the guy must have been one of the only journalists not to believe the QPR hype and as you say " tongue in cheek" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxoffderby Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 (edited) Come on Star, even with my blue tinted specs, I love the guy, I hope he enjoys the experience, but were foooked as a nation if we cant develop better. Your wrong Mr Singh. JV is result of the monster that is the Premier League. More money more imports more oversees players managers and coaches. There will a time when the national team coach will have to to go to the Championship to get players. You cannot have the best domestic league in world and a world class national team. People will bring in players they know. I'm not saying its right. But this is what is happening Edited 23 May 2015 by foxoffderby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxoffderby Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Argentina Brazil is the norm.Germany is an extra ordinary example. Great national teams poor domestic leagues.Money talks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxoffderby Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 (edited) Im old enough to remember the start of the Premier League. There were about 3/4 top oversees players in every team max. Now the majority of teams have at least 5+ oversees players plus mangers and coaches and oversees owners. Hence our National team is poor. Edited 23 May 2015 by foxoffderby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr The Singh Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Your wrong Mr Singh. JV is result of the monster that is the Premier League. More money more imports more oversees players managers and coaches. There will a time when the national team coach will have to to go to the Championship to get players. You cannot have the best domestic league in world and a world class national team. People will bring in players they know. I'm not saying its right. But this is what is happening Tell the Germans that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Im old enough to remember the start of the Premier League. There were about 3/4 top oversees players in every team max. Now the majority of teams have at least 5+ oversees players plus mangers and coaches and oversees owners. Hence our National team is poor. So the question begs... Why did we fail to qualify for USA '94 if the vast majority of domestic players were English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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