Premier League 6-7 February.

06 Feb 12:45 Man City v Leicester
06 Feb 15:00 Aston Villa v Norwich
06 Feb 15:00 Liverpool v Sunderland
06 Feb 15:00 Newcastle v West Brom
06 Feb 15:00 Spurs v Watford
06 Feb 15:00 Stoke v Everton
06 Feb 15:00 Swansea v Crystal Palace
06 Feb 17:30 Southampton. v West Ham
07 Feb 13:30 Bournemouth v Arsenal
07 Feb 16:00 Chelsea v Man Utd

Another day in Paradise

Newcastle 0:3 West Brom

McClaren: "The boys were tremendous"

Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Otamendi, Demichelis, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Delph, Silva, Toure, Sterling, Aguero.
Subs: Sagna, Fernando, Caballero, Clichy, Celina, Iheanacho, Aleix Garcia.

Leicester City: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Kante, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy.
Subs: King, Gray, Ulloa, Dyer, Wasilewski, Chilwell, Schwarzer.

Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire).

It's remarkable what confidence and belief does for players. Huth and Morgan look like Maldini and Nesta.

Leicester should win this title now if they can win this match.

2-0 not even a shock any more.

This cant be real no? They cant win it...that would be such an amazing achievement..with shitty raneiri even.

3-0!!!

Haha 3-0, this is hilarious.

Corner wasn't a corner and actually looked like it might've curled out of play but everything just rolling for Leicester at the minute.

3!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nobody saw that coming.

And they are doing it playing 4-4-fucking-2 and with Ranieri as their manager

Of course it's the only way to play 4-4-2 these days - defend deep, two banks of four, hard working CMs (Kante Twins, what an amazing nick it is and Drinkwater are doing very well) and plenty of pace up front (Okazaki work is seriously underrated).

They are very well drilled, play to their strength (so even Huth and Morgan look good) and now have a ton of confidence as well. They also somehow stay injury free (except for Schlupp who would be probably a solid bench player).

And Mahrez is showing Ben Arfa what he could be. Similar set of skills, but doing it being still a team player.

This would never happen in La Liga. Atletico winning that was a 'shock'.

To be fair Leicester don't sit on the edge of their box then give it to Mahrez and expect him to take on the whole team, ofcourse when Ben Arfa was dropped we didn't even have that, so we scored less and conceded more.

Luis wrote:This would never happen in La Liga. Atletico winning that was a 'shock'.

It was but, they havent won it yet, they might do a Newcastle.

This is like the old days when random teams would win the league. It wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

City fans doing an 80th minute walk out in protest of signing Raheem Sterling.

Murray wrote:This is like the old days when random teams would win the league. It wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

Well small clubs can still win, if they are being bought by some rich owner, look at CHelsea and City, But Leicester....still, the pressure is now gonna be real, lets see how they cope with that.

Fey wrote:

Murray wrote:This is like the old days when random teams would win the league. It wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

Well small clubs can still win, if they are being bought by some rich owner, look at CHelsea and City, But Leicester....still, the pressure is now gonna be real, lets see how they cope with that.

But Leicester haven't been bought by a rich owner

Luis wrote:City fans doing an 80th minute walk out in protest of signing Raheem Sterling.

Liverpool fan trying to make fun of someone leaving early with 3 goals down

Murray wrote:

Fey wrote:

Murray wrote:This is like the old days when random teams would win the league. It wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

Well small clubs can still win, if they are being bought by some rich owner, look at CHelsea and City, But Leicester....still, the pressure is now gonna be real, lets see how they cope with that.

But Leicester haven't been bought by a rich owner

They actually were. That's how they got promoted from Championship - they spent more than any other club there.

Their owners are quite rich (whatever it means these days...), they just didn't go Sunderland way to spent huge money on players who really don't want to be there,

Yeah being able to play basically the same lineup every week is a big part of it for Leicester. they've hit on a winning combination and been able to stick with it.


Spurs go 2nd if they beat Watford.

Fey wrote:

Murray wrote:This is like the old days when random teams would win the league. It wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

Well small clubs can still win, if they are being bought by some rich owner, look at CHelsea and City, But Leicester....still, the pressure is now gonna be real, lets see how they cope with that.

The thing is these rich clubs think English football is normal football, it's not, it's basketball played with the feet. Getting yourself a fancy new German/Spanish/Dutch coach that can win everything on the continent using clever tactics is no guarantee of anything, same with the players. Ranieri realises this which is why he's such a different coach to the one he was at Chelsea.

Midlands football doesn't suck anymore.

Some more thoughts on Mahrez vs Ben Arfa - if (when?) Mahrez will leave this summer maybe trying to replace him with Ben Arfa would not be such a bad idea. They are very, very similar in skills and maybe someone like Ranieri would find a way to get to Ben Arfa, at least for a few months.

stinger wrote:Some more thoughts on Mahrez vs Ben Arfa - if (when?) Mahrez will leave this summer maybe trying to replace him with Ben Arfa would not be such a bad idea. They are very, very similar in skills and maybe someone like Ranieri would find a way to get to Ben Arfa, at least for a few months.

I would definitely advise them to not go near Cabella or Thauvin.


Tony Pulis is horrific. 4 CB's, 4 DM's, 1 shit winger, 1 big shit CF. If we don't win against this lot....

Kimbo wrote:

stinger wrote:Some more thoughts on Mahrez vs Ben Arfa - if (when?) Mahrez will leave this summer maybe trying to replace him with Ben Arfa would not be such a bad idea. They are very, very similar in skills and maybe someone like Ranieri would find a way to get to Ben Arfa, at least for a few months.

I would definitely advise them to not go near Cabella or Thauvin.


Tony Pulis is horrific. 4 CB's, 4 DM's, 1 shit winger, 1 big shit CF. If we don't win against this lot....

It's actually true

Still, their wall won't be easy to break.

Even Everton are above us as it stands - if it wasn't for the cups I'd have done a Kimmy by now and pretended not to watch any more football this season.

Luis wrote:Even Everton are above us as it stands - if it wasn't for the cups I'd have done a Kimmy by now and pretended not to watch any more football this season.

Not only we are leading at Stoke 2:0, but Seamus Coleman just scored with a header after a set piece

Crazy day so far

Our game has been crazy. Suicidal tactics from WBA, terrible refereeing, Pulis and his entire coaching staff going mental at every decision.

Wise of QSF to break up front 2 and try and plug midfield - expect nothing today though and sounds like we are being dominated.

And now Lennon has scored... again

Crazy, crazy times.