From Daniel : Rabiot
Didn’t agree on Rabiot there.
Always gave sideways passes, played no better than Arteta to be honest. Lost the ball far too many times and on the few occasions he decided to be adventurous he only got a foul. Good long distance passing but the few that didn’t come off really exposed the team, like the one pass when he switched from left to right and it was cut out before reaching Aurier which was a dangerous counter.
Maybe it was the plan to play it safe but I saw huge gaps and opportunities for him to pass forward but he chose to slow down the play and pass it backwards.
Him and Motta were looking for each other like they weren’t playing to win but to play each other, like on a Sunday League match when you and your friend like to pass to each other because… because you are friends and you don’t like the rest of the players.
From Brendan : Not luck, believe me
Hi Myles,
Barcelona are not lucky in the Champions League. There’s an agenda. They will simply get the decisions.
And that disgusting player Luis Suarez has poisoned the club since he went there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_-R4GJfag
From Pete : not history, but good luck to them.
Not history, it was done in 1962 by Ipswich, and what happened to them?
Leicester have scrapped like no team has done before, many average players, not a lot of back-up, some good fortune, 1-0 wins and not many goals, no real injuries, and one hell of a player in Vardy.
Vardy, late into the top flight, has all the energy of a young man, whilst Rooney, similar age, looks worn out at times.
I don’t subscribe that this is dawn of the underdog. It has coincided when our top teams have gone backwards, hence our continued poor showing in the Champions League in the past few seasons. Man U disastrous buys and choice of manager.
Chelsea getting old. Liverpool keep buying at Tesco instead of Waitrose, Man City buying anything that moves, good or bad, but so long as the price is high, and cutting ground from beneath own manager, and Arsenal exposed for what they really are.
It will change, and this summer will see the biggest influx of top players.
Even Arsenal, if the rumours are to be believed.
So Leicester, enjoy your day in the sun, you have earned it. But as in Julius Caesar, “beware the ides of March”.
Next year things change so quickly, injuries could strike, bad luck happen, etc etc, and I don’t believe that as a club they are equipped to ride a run of bad results, especially with the added strain of Champions league.
Sadly, I feel that they will go the way of Ipswich, back to the lower leagues, before getting back to the Championship, but never being able to challenge.
Myles says:
If Rabiot was sold, I wonder where he would go.
Suarez is an animal but, to be fair, he only bites defenders when he wants a transfer. The Secret Footballer pointed that out- and he’s not wrong.
Nottingham Forest prospered after Ipswich dipped. They had two geniuses in partnership, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor.
I would say this: With Guardiola at Man City, and Conte at Chelsea, and somebody else at Manchester United, next season will be very different from 2015-16.
Not just for Leicester. For everybody.