The "do they mean us?" thread

[benpicko]

They're from Hull, a place that makes Leicester city centre seem like an old Cotswold village.

Hull City Centre's actually pretty decent and filled with nice buildings, just the surrounding area's astonishingly shit

[Carl the Llama]

I always crease up at the guy at the end in the replica shirt who puts his hands on his head as if to say oh god what did we just do.

[HitchinFox]

Sir Cheshire Ben says we're boring as ****. Guess he doesn't follow the premiership now his team are back in the lower league.

 

 

 

But to Sir Cheshire Ben's credit, in his "From" bit on his profile, he manages to beautifully and accurately describe Hull with a simple letter switch...

 

 

 

http://www.not606.com/members/sir-cheshire-ben.1025763/

[Carl the Llama]

Tbf it probably is boring for other teams, remember how dull it was when Chelsea wouldn't stop winning everything?

[EnderbyFox]

I always crease up at the guy at the end in the replica shirt who puts his hands on his head as if to say oh god what did we just do.

 

Says it all really.. it's like his mum just walked in on him with his meat in his hands watching anime 

Edited 23 September 2015 by EnderbyFox

[katieakita]

But to Sir Cheshire Ben's credit, in his "From" bit on his profile, he manages to beautifully and accurately describe Hull with a simple letter switch...

 

 

 

http://www.not606.com/members/sir-cheshire-ben.1025763/

 

Like their idea of having an avatar of the first person you had sex with.

[The Blur]

Who's that AKCJ on that messageboard? Sounds familiar...

 

17'000+ posts, as well??? Top lad. 

 

He is even a forum moderator as well  

[The_77]

The famous Shoaib Ghafoori predicted 2-1 to Leicester ahead of yesterday's League Cup win, BROS.

https://youtu.be/v7KPnjBOuyw

[Stadt]

But to Sir Cheshire Ben's credit, in his "From" bit on his profile, he manages to beautifully and accurately describe Hull with a simple letter switch...

 

 

 

http://www.not606.com/members/sir-cheshire-ben.1025763/

looks like harry kane n in case you didn't know thats bad

[Dan LCFC]

Well Hull fans all seem happy to have drawn us and confident of progressing to round 5.

 

http://www.not606.com/threads/capital-one-cup-draw.311854/page-4

 

I can only assume they're joking. No way can they be that thick. Even by their standards that's pretty spectacular.

[Gerard]

Anyone from either side counting their chickens on this one is a moron.

 

Both teams should be very happy with the draw. We've drawn one of three non PL sides left and from their point of view they've got a home draw and avoided one of the real big guns. It would be greedy of both of us to expect a better draw.

 

It's as tough a last 16 for years though and it looks like if we're going to win it we're going to have to beat at least two of the traditional big 5 clubs. We don't look any closer to winning it than we did before the Bury game considering the quality of opposition left and how seriously they look to be taking this competition.

Edited 24 September 2015 by Gerard

[ScouseFox]

not counting my chickens but I'm booking the final weekend off work in half an hour but like I say not getting ahead of myself

[zante]

[C-man]

Jesus, some of the comments on that Hull site from Leicester fans. Absolutely embarrassing.

It's a good draw for both sides, clearly. Given that they just beat Swansea I'm not at all surprised that they are confident. If we take it as seriously as we did the other night there's no reason we can't progress but it will be a very tough game.

[Babylon]

Jesus, some of the comments on that Hull site from Leicester fans. Absolutely embarrassing.

It's a good draw for both sides, clearly. Given that they just beat Swansea I'm not at all surprised that they are confident. If we take it as seriously as we did the other night there's no reason we can't progress but it will be a very tough game.

They beat Swansea reserves didn't they?

[Guest ttfn]

They beat Swansea reserves didn't they?

To be fair they may well only have to beat Leicester reserves to progress.

I'd make us slight favourites but it's a good draw for Hull.

[ScouseFox]

To be fair they may well only have to beat Leicester reserves to progress.

I'd make us slight favourites but it's a good draw for Hull.

our reserves would probably finish top 6 in the prem

[Webbo]

Like their idea of having an avatar of the first person you had sex with.

Seeing your avatars that's maybe not a wise thing to say.

[Foxymcoxy]

I would have been keen to watch that, but 40 minutes?!?!? Bit OTT.

[Out Foxed]

I would have been keen to watch that, but 40 minutes?!?!? Bit OTT.

I was too until they referred to dodoo as poo poo.

[bovril]

Enough already with the home-made football blogs where men with over-exaggerated local accents regurgitate the same shit every week.

[Guest]

Enough already with the home-made football blogs where men with over-exaggerated local accents regurgitate the same shit every week.

 

"Speaking as a journalist......"

[davieG]

Leicester City a steady ship in Premier League under Claudio Ranieri

 

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri rues his side's slow start to their match against Stoke City.

Clubs habitually appoint the diametric opposite of the manager just departed, and when Leicester City made a change over the summer, it seemed that Claudio Ranieri and Nigel Pearson could have hardly been more different. While current manage Ranieri's persona appears to be that of the dotty, doting Italian uncle, his predecessor, Pearson, is the brooding, menacing presence who never suffers fools gladly.

The truth is that the pair are not so dissimilar. Pearson, popular with players and fellow managers and even some journalists, is rather different without a microphone under his nose, while Ranieri is a character of considerable steel. No football man can be in the 30th year of his managerial career without genuine inner strength.

"When we came in 2-0 down, he said it's all about us, the fight we've got inside us," said striker Jamie Vardy of Ranieri after Saturday's 2-2 draw at Stoke. "He wants to see warriors out on the pitch."

It was not difficult to imagine a Pearson team talk driving home similar sentiments. In leading the Premier League's only unbeaten team to third position, Ranieri has continued the form that took 22 points from the 27 available from Leicester's last nine matches of the 2014-15 season. The playing style may be different -- an open 4-4-2/4-2-3-1 against Pearson's more cautious three at the back -- but the Italian has harnessed the team spirit that spectacularly achieved safety last season.

"I love these players because of this character," Ranieri said after a 3-2 keynote comeback win at Aston Villa on September 14. "They never, ever give up."

Pearson's team performed a truly great escape; they had spent 140 days of the season from November to April rock bottom of the division, yet still finished 14th. Its mastermind's sudden departure came on June 30, in the fall-out of a postseason tour of Thailand that led to Pearson's son, James, and two other reserve players being sacked for serious breaches of club discipline.

"The working relationship between Nigel and the Board is no longer viable," said a terse club statement, as Leicester swiftly moved to near-favouritism with bookmakers to be relegated at the end of the 2015-16 season, a position not much altered by the arrival of Ranieri. Sam Allardyce, free from his West Ham contract, had been widely speculated as leading candidate, but a close friendship with Pearson precluded his interest.

Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City are the Premier League's lone unbeaten side.

The widespread derision aimed at Ranieri's appointment after two weeks of deliberation currently looks misguided. Its chorus included Foxes legend and BBC pundit Gary Lineker, who tweeted -- "Claudio Ranieri? Really?" -- before describing the Italian as an "uninspired" choice. Being sacked by Greece after the embarrassment of a Euro 2016 qualifying defeat to the Faroe Islands was a regularly quoted negative, as was the departure of Esteban Cambiasso, the midfield mainstay of Leicester's rescue job.

However, international management is rather different to running a club, and has caught out many a distinguished club manager, with Fabio Capello's problems in leading both England and Russia providing prime evidence, as the Italian's tenure at both jobs ended before his contract was to end. And while Ranieri may not have coached in England since 2004, when he was sacked at the close of Roman Abramovich's first season of Chelsea ownership, the Rome native is a manager considered good enough to be appointed by the club dignitaries of Napoli, Fiorentina, Valencia (twice), Parma, Juventus, Roma, Inter Milan and Monaco.

He is mocked as a manager without silverware, but Leicester did not turn to Ranieri to win trophies. That ambition is currently beyond the horizons of their magnate Thai owners. Instead, they chose someone with an enviable contacts book within European football, who has frequently delivered improvement at his many clubs. Ranieri is few people's idea of a long-term appointee, but has unrivalled experience in adding stability at unsettled clubs looking for a new direction.

Leicester's long-term objective is to become established in the Premier League, in the manner of Southampton or Swansea City, where careful squad development has been the foundation of stability. And in Riyad Mahrez, the Algerian winger signed from French Ligue 2 side Le Havre in January 2014, Leicester have already landed a scouting coup that those peer provincial clubs would envy.

 

For £400,000, and with five goals and five assists, Leicester have the player of the Premier League season so far, a performer of pace, balance and finishing power. Ranieri's formation has freed up a player described by captain Wes Morgan at the weekend as "unreal in training", while the new manager affectionately calls his star man "Roadrunner".

 

Quicker yet are Vardy, who recorded the fastest speed of any Premier League player when reaching 35.44 km/h against West Ham and Mahrez's fellow winger Jeffery Schlupp, timed at 35.26 km/h against Bournemouth. It adds up to a counterattacking danger that any club would covet, with Vardy's equaliser at Stoke on Saturday coming straight from a goal kick. With Stoke's players still arguing over a wrestling match between Morgan and Jon Walters, Vardy was bursting through to seal the latest comeback for a team that has escaped defeat despite being behind in each of their last four games.

A slump could come soon enough, but the experience of last season should prove useful. Tuesday was the anniversary of the famous 5-3 victory against Manchester United that was followed by a three-month, 14-game winless run, and Vardy, scorer of Leicester's glorious fifth, did not notch again until March 21, just as the revival under a publicly snarling Pearson began.

Arsenal, their confidence jolted by last week's defeat at Chelsea, travel on Saturday to the King Power Stadium, which has gained a reputation for housing the Premier League's most fervent atmosphere, with the crowd whipped into a frenzy by energetic PA announcer and former player Alan "Birch" Birchenall, and booming intro music from local rockers Kasabian.

The Gunners will visit a club riding high, currently enjoying the thrill of Ranieri keeping Pearson's team's flame burning, with speed married to determination in a so-far unbeatable style.

John Brewin is a staff writer for ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter@JohnBrewinESPN.

 

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/barclays-premier-league/23/blog/post/2627731/leicester-city-strong-and-steady-under-claudio-ranieri?

[lgfualol]

I thought Mahrez had 3 assists

[AKCJ]

I thought Mahrez had 3 assists

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