Champions league

Still, they'd much rather have some Dom.

 

Undoubtedly.

Anyone can beat anyone, it's magical.

Might not have a 'Barca' or a 'Real' or a 'Bayern' but from 1 to 20 it's got superb quality.

It's why a side currently in 15th are into the last 8.

 

You should go on Sky Sports. Sound just like Paul Merson or Jamie Redknapp.

News flash, there isn't some sort of pre-arranged table where sides are filtered by how "big" they are. Sides are able to have a bit of success and have the ambition to sustain it.

Leicester City Football Club won the Premier League, not Claudio Ranieri. Heplayed a big big part in it, of course. But that doesn't mean he gets to fail without punishment. He made far too many changes and didn't trust the players to continue to play to their strengths. No goals in the league in 2017, he had to go.

 

But the players get to fail without punishment?

Wait. The players were the victims?

Wow.

 

Sacre bleau

 

I have no idea what you mean by that, it has zero relevance to anything I said.

 

Biggest ****ing myth ever that this only happens in England. The media say it enough so you all believe it, as long as you ignore already relegated Parma, on the way to one of the lowest top flight points totals ever, players not paid for 6 months beating Juve on their way to winning another title.

As for a side in 15th doing well in Europe, remember, a relegation threatened Dortmund still performing on the continent? Or not probably, because it doesn't suit the narrative.

 

The players were continually booed for their half arsed efforts.

Unfortunately if you sack the players you definitely will go down.

 

You do come out with some pearlers every so often

You're right. One win nearly two years ago.

You've said we should just accept relegation.

Why? It's one of the most moronic things ever said on here.

 

I chose that example cos it was so extreme. When was the last time an already relegated team on their way to the lowest points total in the Premier League beat the team on the way to being champions?

Why should you accept it? Cos less than a year earlier he was a God to you and deserved the chance to have a full season afterwards. Simple really. If you can look yourself in the mirror and think what happened to that brilliant man is right then fair enough, if I was a Lester fan I'd be ashamed.

 

Must be a hell of an experience attending a top match in Istanbul. Anyone on here ever done that ?

 

That rarely happens in England because sides are generally relegated on the last or penultimate weekend of the season, such is it's competitiveness.

So we just had to accept relegation? Listen to yourself ffs.

He'll get his statue and probably a stand named after him, but that doesn't mean we have to write off 10 years of this club working it's arse off to get to where it got.

Results have so far vindicated the owner's decision. Leave that Sky Sports bollocks alone, i'll be far, far, far happier about staying up than going down with Ranieri.

 

I used to work with a Man Utd fanatic, so fanatical that he hadn't missed a match (anywhere in the world) for 15 consecutive seasons - he reckoned Fenerbahce and Galatasaray matches were incredible experiences, despite the unfortunate events when Leeds visited Istanbul he was adamant that the Turks were FAR from the worse fans he came across.

 

The Captain Kirks are left to do what they want by their nationalistic police, a bit like the Russians. They are about 40 years behind our coppers. It will take a few deaths to change that.

 

I've played with and against a number of Turkish lads in my time. Typically they were very clever footballers, with a tendency to be rather emotional on the park. Great guys after a match mind you - very sociable. I'd love to go to a match in Istanbul just for the atmosphere - seems electric.

 

He reckoned the Eastern Europeans were the ones to be most wary of too; Roma fans the worst he'd encountered- no warning, no fisticuffs, just sneak attacks on small groups with blades etc.

 

Hattrick for Ibra tonight ?

 

Add the Italians to that list.

In these countries, the police are used politically. They are used against foreign fans to show how much 'resolve' a government has and how it can stand up to foreign aggressors. Plus many of the police themselves are cowards, bullies and xenophobic puppets.
Not sure whether to add the Belgians to that list after Lokeren.

 

Manure poor in the first half, lot of possession but little end product.