Popular Post cjslcfc Posted 10 February 2016 Popular Post Posted 10 February 2016 A post in here about our score line on Saturday being cheered at the Fulham/Derby game got me thinking about how it would feel observing this as a neutral and a supporter of another team... I've not really had chance to consider it before as I've been enveloped by the emotional madness our season has provided. So here's my attempt: Could you imagine if we were back in the Championship (hard, I know ). You've spent the first part of the season watching your team perform pretty inconsistently, winning a few and losing a few but never getting a real run together. As you would do, you've been watching MOTD, Super Sunday and the like to get your fix of top flight football. You see Leicester putting a nice little run together. It's nice for a while and you think "isn't this great, love it when a lesser team sets the pace early on". You buy into the media's idea that it will all fade away soon. Week by week passes and the results keep coming. "This is bloody brilliant" you think. Slowly you start looking for the Leicester result every week. You and your mates discuss it down the pub. "No they can't win it", "Not a chance". Now when you watch a Leicester TV game you and your mates are gunning for them. You're in the pub and every Leicester goal is cheered almost like your own team's. Then you head to your usual Saturday fixture, have a few drinks and don't really notice the lunchtime kick off. You're in your seat at around half two perhaps completely unaware of the final score and it comes across the PA system - "final score in the Premier League, Manchester City 1 Leicester City 3". The stadium cheers at the news. People around the stadium suddenly get a lot more chatty, you can tell there's a buzz about that result even though it's completely irrelevant to your league and team. There's an element of shock as well, shock that you now actually have to seriously consider "Leicester bloody City" for the title. When you think of it like that, looking at it from a neutral perspective (I may be wrong of course), it's no wonder the momentum is suddenly building around us and the media are starting to board the optimistic bus! For me it actually feels like the whole country is behind us. Stories from this thread, personal tales from people who are now the "celebrity" Leicester City fan around their area. And that willingness for us to win it I think will actually help. As one article I read spoke about pressure from the media it simply said something along the lines of "we won't be putting any pressure on them, we want them to win it". And to be fair I think he is right. Usually it's about how Man Utd or Man City might slip up, how Arsenal will bottle it as usual etc.... but now a team is up there who the majority want to win. There's no history of failure, expensively assembled squad or expectation to weigh us down. There's no reason for the media to get their knives out. It's a different kind of pressure and one that, in my opinion, resonates with what our team is about. People are enjoying our success to an extent they wouldn't if it were the usual suspects. They are enjoying the way our team plays. They are enjoying the togetherness and happiness of our squad. They are simply enjoying how much our players and our fans are enjoying football right now. I like that. I like that a lot. 6
shiv Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Simpson? Schwarzer? Or Hamer if he is still alive. Can't think of any other players that we got from London clubs.It's Schwarzer. Was on the train with him after the Stoke game.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07166cq Sorry if already posted. 5 Live Sport show on Monday night with quite a big part about Leicester. Sean Dyche is a guest and is very complimentary about the way we play. skip to around 20 mins. The first 20 mins is about Derby. Great listenCheers bud Personally that is what has pleased me most about this season is the recognition we are playing super super football Up the Foxes
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07166cq Sorry if already posted. 5 Live Sport show on Monday night with quite a big part about Leicester. Sean Dyche is a guest and is very complimentary about the way we play. skip to around 20 mins. The first 20 mins is about Derby. Thanks for that, decent listen.
Fox92 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j3kkb Sven: Leicester "deserve" to win the Premier League Edited 10 February 2016 by Fox92
MC Prussian Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j3kkb Thanks for the kind words, sell-out. Plying his trade in China for mega bucks. But who can blame him.
Rusko187 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07166cq Sorry if already posted. 5 Live Sport show on Monday night with quite a big part about Leicester. Sean Dyche is a guest and is very complimentary about the way we play. skip to around 20 mins. The first 20 mins is about Derby. Was Dyche referring to us as "Moneybags Leicester" again?
kingcarr21 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Was Dyche referring to us as "Moneybags Leicester" again? Not quite. He did throw in a comment about us signing Huth in that Burnley wanted him but he was out of their wage bracket. Tbf he is very complimentary towards us
Rusko187 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Not quite. He did throw in a comment about us signing Huth in that Burnley wanted him but he was out of their wage bracket. Tbf he is very complimentary towards us Fair enough, will give it a listen tonight. Lost a lot of respect for him when we both went up, he didn't seem too complimentary of us implying that we'd "bought" the league with our high spending. It's just nice to see that we have among one of the cheapest squads in the league.
GLC Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Not quite. He did throw in a comment about us signing Huth in that Burnley wanted him but he was out of their wage bracket. Tbf he is very complimentary towards us i bet Huth was on a fair amount at Stoke, Leicester would have matched it, Burnley wouldn't have
The Doctor Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/10/who-will-win-the-premier-league-title Some interesting teams of the season in there
MC Prussian Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/10/who-will-win-the-premier-league-title Some interesting teams of the season in there To me, that's a strong indication that either Vardy, Mahrez or Kanté will win Player of the Year. As for Paul Wilson's Team of the Season: Good lad.
Livid Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07166cq Sorry if already posted. 5 Live Sport show on Monday night with quite a big part about Leicester. Sean Dyche is a guest and is very complimentary about the way we play. skip to around 20 mins. The first 20 mins is about Derby. I listened to that and give Dyche his due he was very complimentary about us. I believe he has a new target in his sights this year in "Moneybags" Middlesbrough.
Oxfordfox83 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 To me, that's a strong indication that either Vardy, Mahrez or Kanté will win Player of the Year. As for Paul Wilson's Team of the Season: Good lad. I like his reasoning as well: "As for the team of the top four, you only have to look at the league table for the answer. As Claudio Ranieri said after the last win at Manchester City, Leicester have a true team mentality, they work as an 11 and fight for each other on the pitch. Hence the five point gap. It would be easy to decorate a fantasy line-up with a Sergio Agüero or a Mezut Özil, but that would be to miss the whole point." #hegetsit
loAf Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 (edited) http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/leicester-city-reinforces-suspension-on-bandwagon-20160209106031 haha made me chuckle Edited 10 February 2016 by loAf 3
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 (edited) https://www.facebook.com/442oons/videos/1730373853860761/ http://youtu.be/iNqSjdMYazE It seems every other article on my Facebook feed is some third party thing to do with Leicester City... The above made me cringe a bit initially, but it's actually quite well done. Edited 10 February 2016 by DJ Barry Hammond
Fox Ulike Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/leicester-city-reinforces-suspension-on-bandwagon-20160209106031 haha made me chuckle :D "“Some of these passengers are still wearing Manchester United shirts."
Larry_LCFC Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 https://www.facebook.com/442oons/videos/1730373853860761/http://youtu.be/iNqSjdMYazE It seems every other article on my Facebook feed is some third party thing to do with Leicester City... The above made me cringe a bit initially, but it's actually quite well done. That video is rather amusing to be fair 1
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 That video is rather amusing to be fair Did you get to the end - guest appearance by Drinkwater!
Larry_LCFC Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Did you get to the end - guest appearance by Drinkwater!Yeah Sounds like a drugged up down and out haha
EnglishOxide Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-City-OPINION-Thanks-support-Robbie/story-28696406-detail/story.html An opinion piece on Robbie Savage. I don't mind him too much because he's an easy target and he gets a lot of undeserved stick, but I didn't know he tweeted that. Cock.
Webbo Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-City-OPINION-Thanks-support-Robbie/story-28696406-detail/story.html An opinion piece on Robbie Savage. I don't mind him too much because he's an easy target and he gets a lot of undeserved stick, but I didn't know he tweeted that. Cock. I find it hard to take serious the opinions of a grown man whose mother still takes him to the football.
Fox92 Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 Savage is harmless. He played in a successful team here so for that I will always like/appreciate him. He makes 606 a fantastic listen, too.
ScouseFox Posted 10 February 2016 Posted 10 February 2016 a weird article but he has a point. savage distanced himself from anything to do with us in the ten years after he left, and i remember articles saying he was basically a derby fan because he loved his time there way more than he did with us. then every time we're in the news he makes sure everyone knows he LOVES leicester. bin.
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