Danny Simpson (now retired)

[Darth Crooks]

It's like watching a chat room for deaf people trying to type phonetically.

[Heron]

Racism

 

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[Ndegwa]

Lakini nakubaliana na wewe on HBA!

 

Ndiyo, kila Wakenya rafiki yangu. Watu kutoka nchi ambazo ni makahaba wote wauaji. Nafurahi sisi kukubaliana juu ya bwana Hatem ingawa!

 

Mimi, pia, wanaamini mabango mengine yote hapa ni malaya wauaji. hasa Taylor. Yeye ni kituko haki ya malaya muuaji.

 

Wait...you're (kinda) saying that you have belief in the prostitution of killer posters, especially with Taylor?!  And that he's a remarkable murderer? :lol: gotta love Google translate.

 

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[Guest Howaythetoon]

Lakini nakubaliana na wewe on HBA!

 

Ndiyo, kila Wakenya rafiki yangu. Watu kutoka nchi ambazo ni makahaba wote wauaji. Nafurahi sisi kukubaliana juu ya bwana Hatem ingawa!

 

Mimi, pia, wanaamini mabango mengine yote hapa ni malaya wauaji. hasa Taylor. Yeye ni kituko haki ya malaya muuaji.

 

Fala

 

Usiamini Google!

[Guest chopey]

Have this Leicester team just copied off Keegans Les Ferdinand team but have hit lucky that the rest of the league is shite

[Marmoset]

Nah not really bud

[Guest chopey]

I just want some credit for their success and I don't think the fact that we moulded Simpson into a premier league winning right back is enough

[Guest Howaythetoon]

KK's NUFC side would walk this league as would Sir Bobby's side - both better than this Leicester side. They are a very very good team, however, and deserve to be champions.

[The College Dropout]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

[Incognito]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah.

[nufc4eva]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

Their defence is no nonsense, makes a big difference having aggressive, strong centre halves that want to win the ball. Huth and Morgan both dominate in air while we have weak and soft defenders with no idea how to clear their lines or win it back and yet our defence will have cost a lot more.

[Wallsendmag]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah.

 

They are defensively better though. The amount of clean sheets and 1-0 wins they've racked up is what will win them the title.

[Ally]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah.

 

Correct but invariably we played 2 out of Dabizas, O'Brien and Bramble

[Incognito]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah.

 

Correct but invariably we played 2 out of Dabizas, O'Brien and Bramble

You wouldn't call OB soft either, nor Nick the Greek tbh.

[The College Dropout]

This Leicester side is defensively better.  Certainly than SBR's side which was soft down the middle.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah.

 

Correct but invariably we played 2 out of Dabizas, O'Brien and Bramble

You wouldn't call OB soft either, nor Nick the Greek tbh.

 

Woodgate rarely played. Gary Speed was such a tactically smart footballer but a central midfield of himself and Dyer didn't give the defence tremendous amount of protection. Our CB's weren't the best and would get exposed. We were also wedded to a more expansive game. Leicester have had 14 clean sheets already. If they win the league they will probably get 16-17.

 

Another issue was a lot of our best players down the spine were injury prone. Woodgate, Dyer & Bellamy.

[Darth Crooks]

The difference is Leicester are absolutely no nonsense beasts as the back with a well balanced and creative midfield in front, with an absolute viper leading the line. Such a great balance of talent, explosive power and physicality. We have done talented players occupying 20% of the positions available, the rest are just mediocre or shit. There's no comparison to be made beyond that.

[mozy]

He's comparing the Leicester side of today with our 2003 ish side under SBR.

 

Different era's and styles aside, I think this Leicester team would have finished hgiher in the league than that 2003 team.

[TRon]

Leicester do play really good football as well. Yes they are set up defensively but they pass the ball really well with quick one twos. They never seem to lose the ball under pressure like we do. I said in another thread that they remind me a bit of Liverpool under Rafa.

[Kanj]

Regarding 2001-2002 team...Had Bellamy and Dyer stayed fit that season we probably would have been higher up the table come year-end but let's be honest with ourselves here, we beat Arsenal at Highbury and went top of the table, and they turn that around with never losing again that season and out of 20 matches, won something like all but 2 or 3.

 

Looking a the 2002-2003 team...same difference, injuries destroyed us but when we had a bit of steam and momentum (just beat Chelsea at home) we followed it up by losing to Boro and then going on a 3 match loss streak to Everton, Fulham and Man Utd 6-2 at home.

 

Leicester's been fucking so lucky with injuries this year and the Arsenal and Man Utd and Newcastle of those years would have beaten this Leicester side IMO. Those CBs of Leceister would have not have been able to handle Henry, Shearer or Van Nistelrooy IMO.

[Wullie]

It's mighty impressive the way Leicester have changed their game. They couldn't stop scoring until Christmas, and they'd usually concede too. The amount of goals in their games was as high as anyone in Europe's major leagues for a long while.

 

Then when they've needed to, when it became apparent that they might actually do it, they've been able to turn into a formidable defensive unit and start winning narrowly to nil every single week. We tried to do the same in '96 late on but messed it up at Blackburn and Forest. They've been doing this for months now with barely a hitch.

[Disco]

It's mighty impressive the way Leicester have changed their game. They couldn't stop scoring until Christmas, and they'd usually concede too. The amount of goals in their games was as high as anyone in Europe's major leagues for a long while.

 

Then when they've needed to, when it became apparent that they might actually do it, they've been able to turn into a formidable defensive unit and start winning narrowly to nil every single week. We tried to do the same in '96 late on but messed it up at Blackburn and Forest. They've been doing this for months now with barely a hitch.

 

The two ways they beat us were chalk and cheese. Blitzed us at home with waves of attacking and did the bare minimum at the KP.

 

They're the archetypal old style Italian team now. Get 1 up, defend well and pick off without risking the lead as the game becomes stretched.

[TRon]

Even more laughable that people try to credit Nigel Pearson with their charge for the title. He deserves some credit for getting these players but it's ludicrous to think he could have got them playing the slick stuff they are playing now. They've got better and better as the season has gone on and that's got to be down to the coaching.

[Heron]

Even more laughable that people try to credit Nigel Pearson with their charge for the title. He deserves some credit for getting these players but it's ludicrous to think he could have got them playing the slick stuff they are playing now. They've got better and better as the season has gone on and that's got to be down to the coaching.

 

I spoke to a fair few Leicester fans last week down there and nearly all of them claimed he laid the foundations though. He didn't have much part in this season but I think he instilled the right attitude and discipline in them from what I can tell. Ranieri has simply worked wonders since though. Proven that he's still a top manager.

[Impossibly Daft]

Even more laughable that people try to credit Nigel Pearson with their charge for the title. He deserves some credit for getting these players but it's ludicrous to think he could have got them playing the slick stuff they are playing now. They've got better and better as the season has gone on and that's got to be down to the coaching.

 

The run in at the end of last season was some really good stuff too, though Ranieri's been the difference between being able to get results in a bunch of different ways. If Pearson had still been around, it'd have been the kind of season that teams like Southampton and so on have been doing; a brief run into the Top 4 then a slide down to about 6th-8th - not quite the lightning-in-a-bottle thing it's turned out to be, but none too shabby.  All the behind-the-scenes stuff was put in place by Pearson & co as well - medical team, etc. He'd do a good job at something like turning Villa into an Everton.

 

 

[The College Dropout]

The owners deserve credit too. You end up with the shambles with us and Villa from the very top. Leicester owners have invested in the club without going the QPR route. They're no more wealthy than Ashley or Lerner but have a better attitude, focus and ability to run the club.