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ozleicester

ozleicester

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Gday folks.

 

A favour task if i may, unfortunately being outside of the UK, we dont see any of the reports, stories or videos of the promotion.  

 

If you see/have ANYTHING related to the promotion on video... news reports, sky sports, twitter, MOTD...anything, please put it up here if you have time.. or a link to it.

 

Most appreciated.

 

EI EI EI O  :)

ozleicester

ozleicester

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Brilliant, thanks.. i see someone mentioned about Sunday supplement...anyone have video?

Happy Fox

Happy Fox

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http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2013-14/apr/pearson-relief-as-leicester-seal-return-to-barclays-premier-league.html?

 

 

Manager Nigel Pearson described feelings of "relief" as his Leicester City side earned promotion to the Barclays Premier League on Saturday after a 10-year absence.

"I think it's a relief for a lot of people. It's been a tough couple of years in the sense that we've been trying to get back into the top flight and it's never easy"

Nigel Pearson

The Foxes claimed a 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday on Friday, knowing that promotion to the top flight would be confirmed if results on Saturday went their way. After Queens Park Rangers succumbed to a 2-1 defeat at their manager Harry Redknapp's former club Bournemouth, and Derby County lost at Middlesbrough, Leicester held an unassailable lead over rival clubs in the play-off places.

"It's a relief for a lot of people," Peearson told BBC Radio Leicester. "It's been a tough couple of years in the sense that we've been trying to get back into the top flight and it's never easy.

"We're in Shropshire at the moment and on the way over my wife and daughter wanted to listen to the radio and I said, 'No.' They were texting each other in the car to keep each other up to date. I found out when we arrived and it was rather nice. It's been an interesting two or three hours."

Leicester's return brings to an end the club's decade-long exile from England's top tier, with the club having suffered relegation from the Barclays Premier League in 2004.

It also soothes the heartache of last year's play-off semi-final defeat to Watford, when Anthony Knockaert, who scored the winner against Wednesday, missed a late penalty at Vicarage Road before Troy Deeney went up the other end to score to take the hosts to Wembley.

Pearson declared after the Hillsborough victory that his sights were set on winning the title and Burnley's 1-1 draw at Watford leaves his side nine points clear at the top with six matches to go.

He told BBC Sport after Friday’s game: "I want us to win every game that we can and I want us to be champions, but we'll have to fight very hard to do that."

Stadt

Stadt

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I think it's just a regional thing, they did the same when we were promoted from League 1.

Happy Fox

Happy Fox

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Leicester City's Nigel Pearson shows staying together is a good thing
Other managers would have been torn up by Leicester's failure in the Championship play-offs last season but Nigel Pearson knew his team would only mature
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The Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson celebrates after the 2-2 draw at Wigan Athletic. Photograph: Paul Greenwood/BPI/Rex

More than a few Leicester City supporters thought the club's best chance of returning to the Premier League in the near future had disappeared in the space of 20 seconds at Vicarage Road last May. As Foxes fans in the stadium or watching on television will never forget, what would have been a tie-winning penalty in the fifth minute of added time in the second leg of the play-off, taken by Anthony Knockaert, was saved by Watford goalkeeper Manuel Almunia. A few bewildering moments later Troy Deeney had scored for the Hornets, the final whistle had blown, and to a man, Nigel Pearson's players crumpled to the turf in disbelief.

The gloom extended over the summer. The teams relegated from the Premier League, Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Wigan, looked to have retained stronger squads than Bolton, Blackburn and Wolves, the previous year's relegated sides. Other championship clubs, including neighbours Nottingham Forest, were spending far more than City, whose Thai owners King Power International, were being forced by the advent of the financial fair play regulations to limit Pearson's incursions into the transfer market to a minimum.

The general consensus seemed to be that the best that could be hoped for was another shot at the play-offs.

However, in his post-Watford press conference, Pearson had been remarkably upbeat, and not in the standard "Rally the troops and go again" sort of way. As those who have regular media dealings will readily attest, the former defender can be a difficult and defensive interviewee, distrusting and wary, wearyingly quick to take offence at questions not necessarily intended as such.

That day in Watford, however, he was relaxed and open. Despite being aware of the financial constraints that had been placed on him, his optimism appeared unforced. Pearson, it seemed, genuinely believed that his squad would still be good enough to compete with the best – and that the experience they had been through over the season would make them even stronger.

And such has been the case. Starting from the back, retaining Kasper Schmeichel was vital. The Denmark goalkeeper – signed by Sven Goran Eriksson, lest we forget – has been linked to any number of top division clubs, both home and abroad (including, during the January transfer window, Real Madrid) but Pearson is well aware of his value. City's is not the tightest defence in the Championship but time and again Schmeichel has kept them in games before the strikers have picked up a vital goal. The game at Leeds in January was a case in point, Schmeichel making three outstanding saves before David Nugent's goal in the 87th minute took the points. At the time that was City's sixth win on the bounce. Friday night's 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday was their 21st match unbeaten, and if it was in some ways it too was unconvincing, the two games serve to illustrate one of the Foxes' most important qualities under Pearson: that of winning, or sometimes just not getting beaten, when not being particularly fluent.

That is not for a moment intended to damn the club with faint praise. Financially, they appear to be more solidly positioned to go into the Premier League than many who have gone before, with the chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, having effectively wiped out the £103m debt hanging over the club after Eriksson was given an open cheque book by converting it into shares, and buying the ground (for £17m) to boot. Both Manchester City and Chelsea have done something similar in recent years.

How much will be made available to Pearson to strengthen his squad during the close season remains to be seen, but Srivaddhanaprabha's swapping of debt for equity unquestionably increases the club's leeway under financial fair play.

It will be interesting to see both those whom Pearson targets, and those he is able to bring in. In some respects he resembles Mick McCarthy who, after steering Wolves into the Premier League in 2009, kept his promotion side largely intact. Spirit and togetherness can take you a long way, even in the Premier League.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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And the bit from the Guardian:

Leicester City's Nigel Pearson shows staying together is a good thing

Other managers would have been torn up by Leicester's failure in the Championship play-offs last season but Nigel Pearson knew his team would only mature
 

More than a few Leicester City supporters thought the club's best chance of returning to the Premier League in the near future had disappeared in the space of 20 seconds at Vicarage Road last May. As Foxes fans in the stadium or watching on television will never forget, what would have been a tie-winning penalty in the fifth minute of added time in the second leg of the play-off, taken by Anthony Knockaert, was saved by Watford goalkeeper Manuel Almunia. A few bewildering moments later Troy Deeney had scored for the Hornets, the final whistle had blown, and to a man, Nigel Pearson's players crumpled to the turf in disbelief.

The gloom extended over the summer. The teams relegated from the Premier League, Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Wigan, looked to have retained stronger squads than Bolton, Blackburn and Wolves, the previous year's relegated sides. Other championship clubs, including neighbours Nottingham Forest, were spending far more than City, whose Thai owners King Power International, were being forced by the advent of the financial fair play regulations to limit Pearson's incursions into the transfer market to a minimum.

The general consensus seemed to be that the best that could be hoped for was another shot at the play-offs.

However, in his post-Watford press conference, Pearson had been remarkably upbeat, and not in the standard "Rally the troops and go again" sort of way. As those who have regular media dealings will readily attest, the former defender can be a difficult and defensive interviewee, distrusting and wary, wearyingly quick to take offence at questions not necessarily intended as such.

That day in Watford, however, he was relaxed and open. Despite being aware of the financial constraints that had been placed on him, his optimism appeared unforced. Pearson, it seemed, genuinely believed that his squad would still be good enough to compete with the best – and that the experience they had been through over the season would make them even stronger.

And such has been the case. Starting from the back, retaining Kasper Schmeichel was vital. The Denmark goalkeeper – signed by Sven Goran Eriksson, lest we forget – has been linked to any number of top division clubs, both home and abroad (including, during the January transfer window, Real Madrid) but Pearson is well aware of his value. City's is not the tightest defence in the Championship but time and again Schmeichel has kept them in games before the strikers have picked up a vital goal. The game at Leeds in January was a case in point, Schmeichel making three outstanding saves before David Nugent's goal in the 87th minute took the points. At the time that was City's sixth win on the bounce. Friday night's 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday was their 21st match unbeaten, and if it was in some ways it too was unconvincing, the two games serve to illustrate one of the Foxes' most important qualities under Pearson: that of winning, or sometimes just not getting beaten, when not being particularly fluent.

That is not for a moment intended to damn the club with faint praise. Financially, they appear to be more solidly positioned to go into the Premier League than many who have gone before, with the chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, having effectively wiped out the £103m debt hanging over the club after Eriksson was given an open cheque book by converting it into shares, and buying the ground (for £17m) to boot. Both Manchester City and Chelsea have done something similar in recent years.

How much will be made available to Pearson to strengthen his squad during the close season remains to be seen, but Srivaddhanaprabha's swapping of debt for equity unquestionably increases the club's leeway under financial fair play.

It will be interesting to see both those whom Pearson targets, and those he is able to bring in. In some respects he resembles Mick McCarthy who, after steering Wolves into the Premier League in 2009, kept his promotion side largely intact. Spirit and togetherness can take you a long way, even in the Premier League.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/apr/05/leicester-city-nigel-pearson-championship-play-offs

Jordan

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I'm sorry for the poor video quality, but this is how Leicester's promotion was announced on NBC in the U.S.:

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