Match Day Thread 2015/16 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

whats happened to the leg-endary baines corners!!!!!

I mean this is all down to coaches. Has to be.

If southampton can lay in pitches to match every ground then the must practice set pieces.

You have to be able to deliver at your home ground and then have some idea of away ground tightness to get things right

LFC are DISASTEROUS at set pieces.

Martinez must only pracitce with the ball not defending nor set pieces nor anything that doesn't involve passing sideways.

 

The bookies in total will pay out about £20m on Leicester winning the league.

Most of that liability didn't come from the handful that had a go at 5000/1 at the seasons start, but from many more who had a go when the odds were still 1000/1 in November.

The overall book i.e. the PL winners market, will no doubt see them at worst break even imo.

Don't forget all of the pre-season league winners accas that people have either, none of which will contain Leicester.

 

We don't practice defending them or scoring from them

Neither do we practice free kicks

Funny that..........

 

yeah there has to be a fair few on 1000/1

I'd have to say equating it to horse racing (which is not ideal given the multitude of opportunities to bet as it goes on... Well a favorite didn't win so would they not make a profit?

 

shocking.

pulis training involves nothing but set piece and running round the pitch 20 times.

 

Given the size of the odds against Leicester on this occasion that's not a given, as the odds compilers had made them waaayyy too long.

They'll never cough if they have like. But there'll have been thousands of punters on City and Chelsea at the seasons start, not to mention the thousands of Kopites who lumped on when Klopp appeared......

 

And you also need to account for all the people who would back Leicester to go down and also those who would have wanted to back leicester go down after their odds shot up. Works both ways

 

Osman talked about it in his book last year.

The players were shocked that they didn't practice defending set pieces under Martinez. The answer was - we only have to face X number per game, so why waste ages practicing them......

Sums up his complete lack of defensive focus, and the end result? 3 years into his tenure we ship goals like a pub side at times.

He deserves the sack for that alone....

 

The relegation market is a different book though. Whether they win or lose on that market depends on who goes. I'd imagine their liability on Villa is large, but I doubt they took much early money on both NE clubs.

 

Of course they will. The bookies will take it in on 5,000-1 bets in the next couple of seasons with load's of idiots piling on it thinking there will be a repeat

 

I'd imagine there will have been more than £5,000 bet on the others teams convened for every pound put on Leicester anyway. The bookies won't be out of pocket at all.

Count future seasons with load's of idiots now jumping on the 5,000-1 bets and they're custy.

 

Huth and Fellaini both to be banned. Huth misses rest of the season and 1 game of next, Fellaini would still be able to play in the FA Cup.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36185450

Seems fair that both should be banned for 3 games.

 

Seems unfair that Fellaini should only be banned for 3 games when he has committed the same offence multiple times this season. So not only was he not punished for previous elbows he doesn't receive the additional 2-3 games for being a repeat offender.

 

Will Huth kit up to collect the trophy though?

 

John Terry is going to kidnap him at half time and disguise himself at Huth in full kit

 

Rightly so, both pair of horrible thugs.

 

I see Llandudno are in the Europa league next year

 

Who?

 

Sounds like it's all Bayern... queue Atletico goal then

 

Think Atletico are being a little too negative this time. Bayern getting through more than Barca did.