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fucking good job. I hope to see all the glory hunters wearing their Leicester City shirts tomorrow.

booooo

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Fair fucking play i say. Gives hope to everyone else

Brilliant, took advantage of the poorest Premier League in history. Much deserved, especially to Ranieri who has finally won a top flight title!

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Completely and utterly mind bogglingly fantastic.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the best thing that could have possibly happened to the Premier League. If it's got me watching again there must be a couple of million others I would have thought.

Fair play to Leicester  :clap:

What's the odds on them being relegated next season ;)

Shorter than them to win it again!

4-3. That is all.

Fucking livid right now.
Might be a bit happier for them tomorrow.

Still, at least none of the England players (Harry Kane) got injured tonight.

Massive achievement but much like the Bournemouth 'fairytale' the importance of a billionaire owner can't be underestimated. Already seen some of our more deluded elements trying to use it as another stick to beat Power with!

The best and worst of football was on show last night. Leicester is a great story. Hopefully there is someone out there who can articulate the sporting importance of it. At Stamford Bridge, the other end of the scale. Chelsea fans hissing at Spurs fans.


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Amazing achievement. Cynics be damned.

Care to elaborate? I didn't have you down as a closet Spurs fan  :hmmm:

Quite so sir :nod:

Heaps pressure on the managers of the other 'also ran' clubs - if Leicester can do it, so can we from the chairmen.

I'm struggling to see how or why the so called big clubs will improve greatly next season. 2 will have new managers and the 'top' clubs will all be looking to improve their squads and, as usual, will decide only spending big will do. Yet, there are so few genuinely top class players available they will inevitably end up buying 2nd raters at inflated prices.

There's no way the would even take a punt on players like Mahrez for £400,000. Could be times they are a changing with the Hammers also on the rise and even Liverpool under Klopp would be a first.

Anyway, sooner Muff's bubble bursts the better

Leicester's success reminds me a little of the last time a Midlands club won the league.... Villa back in 80/81.  It was remarkable for the fact Vila only used 14 players in a 42 games season. (Quiz question: no cheating: which future Town player was one of the 14?)

Leicester similarly have managed to put out a mostly stable XI, right through the season, a rarity.

Donkey Geddes

Was the man.  3 goals for us all on the road. Brought in as back up for Shearer and White. 

It will surely only be a matter of time before Leicester's success is wheeled out by the Remain campaign for the EU, as an example of what multi-cultural global capitalism can achieve.

I must admit the funniest bit is that Spurs finally finish above Man Utd, City, Arsenal and Chelsea in the league.... and then lose it to Leicester. And to lose it in a game that you were two nil up in and draw is beautifully Spurs in a nutshell!

Hopefully will lead to some unity in north London as both teams will feel some sort of perceived entitlement all summer.

Before everyone unthinkingly swallows the Leicester dream story, just remember that 'little Leicester; spent 32m on players and around £57m a year wage bill - I know its all proportionate in the premier league but that's still a hell of a lot of money!

Good luck to them and just what football needed to shake things up a bit!

Saw his first goal for us at Shrews after we got him from there, was a little bit like the Blackburn/Shearer transfer with us, but on a smaller scale if memory serves.

I rarely watch Prem football, despite paying for it....it's the cricket that got me  :(   however this has been a more interesting season than usual. Apparently ManU spent more on transfers in the last 2 seasons than Leicester have in their entire history.

Best thing to happen to that league in a generation or 2, found myself pretty interested in the title race for the first in about 20 years.

Afraid so. My family are from Tottenham. My Dad literally went to school on WHL, so I was brought up with them. I learnt to revere Hoddle either way.  :)

I'm calmer now, the title was already gone before last night. I think it being Chelsea just made it especially aggravating  :crash: I really despise that club. Still, congrats to Leicester. Everyone has their own definition of "fairy tale", but at least theirs has more reality than Bournemouth's.

If you want to be a downer on everything, it really doesn't.

I try to be, would you like to elaborate?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/apr/11/leicester-city-finances-football-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

One of the clearest examples of financial "doping" you'll see, and certainly parallels between them and Bournemouth.

Every club (hell, every business) finds financial shortcuts, back doors and loopholes so not demeaning Leicester's achievement - just merely mentioning the similarities between their "fairytale", and Bournemouth's.

Unusual name, any relation to our donkey?

I'm with you here, effing well done Leicester City!

It seems that more than a few TEF-ers take a Shania Twain approach to this 5,000-1 shot

Slinky leopard skin outfits dribble dribble.

Man, they feel like women?

We were once stabled together.

Always thought Audrey might do.

But no, that don't impress me much.

Every God Damn news broadcast started and ended With Leicester. I don't begrudge them their victory but Im getting a little pissed of with it now.
However, like Reg I don't watch football on TV so know little of their style of play, Gordon Banks seemed to suggest they didn't go in for this pissy, shitty passin around the back until the crowd and the opposition fall asleep but preferred a more exciting form of football. is that correct?

Why did I read this in a redneck voice?
A lot of their results were 1-0s. I wouldn't call them consistently exciting to watch.

just glad you read it little lady.

Wouldnt say particularly exciting, I suppose their biggest strengths are organisation, effort, etc which just made them pretty dam hard to break down.

Having a solid back 4 and couple of superb defensive midfielders can do wonders

This. It's "keep it tight, and hit them on the break" style football. Lots of long balls to nobody. Lots of time without the ball. Our fans would hate it just as much as keeping possession and playing from the back.

Apparently the last first time winners of the championship in England were Nottingham Forest, they went on to win two European Cups.

I know this was before real football started (ie the premier league) but I would suggest that was quite an achievement

Atletico, have just reached the final of the CL, and Leicester play a similar basic 4-4-2...built on strong defence and 2 holding midfielders, counter attack and set pieces. So why not?  :)

The interesting thing with Atletico is watching just how well drilled they are, which in the day of the modern millionaire footballers must be tough to sustain.  They initially press with 4 or 5 players when they lose possession.  If they don't disrupt you then see all of them bar the old number 9 drop back into set positions - they literally turn their backs on play and run to where they need to be set-up the next line of defence.  Almost military in precision.  With enough trust they cover pretty much every option once a team gets in their half, they are also then quick to break.  Despite giving up a lot of possession and being fairly defensive, the full backs can still attack when it's on and they can get numbers forward.  Very impressive to watch and all the more impressive that they've kept it going for so long - maybe helped by the fact the best players are always sold on?

Their defenders defend.
Their central midfielders, press and tackle without the ball. Then pass the ball when they have it.
Their wingers run at the full backs
Their strikers score goals.

Football at its basic and best. No need to over complicate it.
No emphasis on possession - all about scoring more goals than the opposition.

It will never catch on.

The problem is that most modern footballers believe they are more than that, I present the Chelsea squad.

I have enjoyed the spurs meltdown more than them winning it to be honest. Spurs are in for a massive shock next season.

http://newsthump.com/2016/05/03/john-terry-surfaces-in-full-leicester-kit-at-jamie-vardys-party/

I cannot deny I am a little bit jealous, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-leicestershire-36286088

To think that once we seemed to have a fairly big rivalry with them in the early 1990's.

How tinpot!

Lived there for 7 years, ran the student union.  Lived up the street from where they are having the celebration where no doubt Kasabian will be doing an improptu show.

I have a tiny vestige of affection for them, but thats all washed away by the media hype that has ensued.

Fuck em.

Come on, their squad only cost 58M, it a fairytale.

Well, it sort of is compared to most of the Prem I suppose, but ...

That said, rather them than Arsenal, Spurs or City.

Indeed.....now this is a real celebration...

I've enjoyed my evening with some very happy friends of mine. I'll settle for us just getting promotion, though.

Yesterday I saw a thick-accented Bristolian in their 30's with a shiny new Vardy Leicester shirt on. Call me cynical...

I used to support Leicester as a kid, before I started watching swindon on the regular, due to family ties

Got this glory hunting thing all wrong

Remember when we had that end of season party/concert thing when Paolo sang with Toploader? That was tin pot :)

They're having a fucking parade out here on Thursday as well.

No, I will not be in attendance.