Since 1992 the only clubs that have won the prem title apart from Arsenal, Chelsea, united and city are Leeds (relegated a few years later) Blackburn (relegated a few years later) and Leicester...
Are you saying Pochettino threw the PL last season to avoid an appointment with the wicker man this May (if so, very prescient move on his part) ??
I think Leeds won the last 1st Division League Championship before the premier started, but they still went down later lol
You're right...Leeds were the last winners of the old 1st division. Unlike most on here I genuinely do not want Leicester to go down but I am amazed how little their players are trying.
That`s a red card tackle in my opinion and yet another United player to have escaped a red card this season.
As a neutral, you start to think has a new power emerged out of nowhere with a system of play that the usual suspects cannot deal with. And regardless of whether you like that system, how good that event would be for the PL etc. But sadly all this season has shown is just how much of a "black swan" event 2015-16 was. The loss of Kante does not wholly explain what is happening now (the guy is not Messi etc) . There are systemic problems, and time is running out to correct them.
Leicester were always going to struggle this year - they are not a club yet ready to mount a European campaign as well as compete full in domestic competition. Even ourselves and Everton had a taste of Champions league followed by a tough campaign the year after. This time we are just a stronger club all round. Next year ...... - better still. If we can get to compete in the Champions league a few times on the trot we will just get stronger.
I didn't see the game, but that's a certain red card (to anyone other than United of course). If United are down to 10 men when the score is 0-0 you just don't know what's going to happen. You can't go by what happened later in the match because it would be different. We all know that games don't always end how they are expected to or we wouldn't need to play them and the table could be determined by some committee. There are unexpected results all the time so game changing decisions have to be right. And now we have the continued "unbeaten run" of United that contains at least three red cards and several offside goals, doesn't anyone think that if those decisions had gone the other way then the "unbeaten run" might just have not happened?
That doesn't wash. Leicester had a good CL group, all their PL games after the group ties were at home, and they had qualified as group winners after round 5. They have fallen apart in the period between no UEFA competition and now.
It's their managers plan.Screw the PL.That's easy to win.We're going for the CL and will meet Real in the final.......
I know the timing does not coincide but the number of games and the toughness of the competition builds up. They just do not have the squad to cope with such competition over a whole season. For their sake it would have been better to go out early in the FA Cup. Too many games
According to their fixture list, they have a 3 WEEK gap between their two CL KO ties against Sevilla. Again, the CL stuff does not wash.
Can't stand ****ty behaviour like Monk's, the gaffer celebrated with his players, it wasn't to wind Monk up. Comes across as a fanny to me for behaving like that. Well played Town though, hope they make the play offs at least.
