The Official Leicester City thread

[Evil Jack]

Riyad Mahrez seriously has the best first touch of any player I've ever seen. It's just ridiculous.
A shame he's been largely anonymous in the PL this season, but I suppose he's just that kind of luxury player. 1 good game in 4 or something.
Absolutely immense yesterday though...especially in the rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COdgs7HxpGs

Ridiculous.

Edited by Evil Jack on Sunday 11th December 16:25

[fullbeem]

Saturday game left me speechless.

I'd disregarded them even scoring against Man City. And then they go bang 4 in the net with 3 from Vardy.

How much are they to win the league atm?

[g4ry13]

Evil Jack said:

Riyad Mahrez seriously has the best first touch of any player I've ever seen. It's just ridiculous.
A shame he's been largely anonymous in the PL this season, but I suppose he's just that kind of luxury player. 1 good game in 4 or something.
Absolutely immense yesterday though...especially in the rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COdgs7HxpGs

Ridiculous.

Edited by Evil Jack on Sunday 11th December 16:25

This is a better clip.

[XslaneyX]

Midfielders in jan please? 442 and hoofball needs to change!!

[fullbeem]

XslaneyX said:

Midfielders in jan please? 442 and hoofball needs to change!!

I'm guessing they holding on as best they can before Kasper can get back between the sticks.

[Flying Phil]

We seem to be frustratingly inconsistent....4 - 2 win against Man City, then 1 - 0 lose against Bournemouth
Ranieri must be so p....d off.

[Flying Phil]

Our away form is dire! So we will see how we go against Stoke - away!

[Flying Phil]

Two down at half time....Vardy sent off..... and then pulled back to 2 all in the last minute!
It is a valuable point - the hard way!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Watched MOTD. Couldn't believe the comments. That was a straight red all day long, and a nailed on penalty.

[Cobnapint]

Never a red. The pace of the tackle deceived the ref into thinking it was violent.

Vardy got the ball and the Stoke player thought he'd get something out of it by doing the dying fly until he realised what he'd achieved, whereupon he instantly recovered.

I know JVs done his fair share of going down easy, but it wasn't a red. The slow-mo doesn't lie.

[Black can man]

I suppose what goes round come round.

[bitchstewie]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Watched MOTD. Couldn't believe the comments. That was a straight red all day long, and a nailed on penalty.

When I saw it my first thought was that was a ref making up for a fk up earlier in the week with Rojo.

And that was before I knew it was the same ref.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Cobnapint said:

Vardy got the ball

Not relevant when it comes to two footed tackles. They are a red card offence regardless.

[Northbloke]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Watched MOTD. Couldn't believe the comments. That was a straight red all day long, and a nailed on penalty.

Not even a yellow according to former ref Keith Hackett and not a penalty either:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/12/18/cra...

[Borroxs]

Another trophey. Well done Leicester!

[chrisb92]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Watched MOTD. Couldn't believe the comments. That was a straight red all day long, and a nailed on penalty.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Two footed lunge challenge and a blatant handball with his arm no where near his side.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

chrisb92 said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Watched MOTD. Couldn't believe the comments. That was a straight red all day long, and a nailed on penalty.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Two footed lunge challenge and a blatant handball with his arm no where near his side.

Listening to that twit Hackett on talkSPORT this morning. He was going on about "no malice in the challenge". If he can find me the bit in the laws that says 2 footed tackles are ok so long as there's no malice intended, then he's a better man than me.

He also said the arm was in a natural position, which it was, if he's changing a light bulb!

[chrisb92]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Listening to that twit Hackett on talkSPORT this morning. He was going on about "no malice in the challenge". If he can find me the bit in the laws that says 2 footed tackles are ok so long as there's no malice intended, then he's a better man than me.

He also said the arm was in a natural position, which it was, if he's changing a light bulb!

Haha.. what a load of bks, you leave the ground like that two footed and you intend on putting in a tough challenge and you're probably a bit pissed off. I've played football my whole life and would only ever jump into a tackle like that if I was pissed off for whatever reason. No place for it in the Premier League. Red card all day.

Too right, again handball all day, whether he meant it or not is irrelevant he went to ground and left his arm flailing about.

[anniesdad]

Yellow card for Vardy at best. Not a red. No studs, went in with his laces to win the ball which he did. A robust challenge granted and he probably knew he would get the man as well, slight red mist perhaps but not a red for me. Ain't football great!

[Black can man]

The ref has around 10 seconds to see the tackle & make a decision.


I reckon the ref was spot on, these leg breaking tackles need to stamped out .