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I have to say United are playing some very good football although the ref appears to be blind to their obstruction techniques. Watford will need to beat him and United.
 
Burnley are a tough team to beat at home. Sh*te away.

Can't see Chelsea slipping up, but all the chasing teams must be ruing dropped points here and there. They're not that much better - just been more consistent.
 
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I think last season Leicester played every game trying not to lose and coming away with many 1-0 wins.
This season they are thinking they are a better than they actually are....and coming unstuck.
Another thing.Last season everyone else was beating up on each other allowing Leicester to "walk away" with the championship.

Funny thing.This season everyone is beating up on each other again except for Chelsea,who in turn have been racking up several 1-0 wins.

The Italian touch,would you say?
 
bigsmithy9 said:
I think last season Leicester played every game trying not to lose and coming away with many 1-0 wins.
This season they are thinking they are a better than they actually are....and coming unstuck.
Another thing.Last season everyone else was beating up on each other allowing Leicester to "walk away" with the championship.

Funny thing.This season everyone is beating up on each other again except for Chelsea,who in turn have been racking up several 1-0 wins.

The Italian touch,would you say?
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Similar could be said a couple of seasons ago, where everyone was beating each other up to allow Chelsea to bore their way to the title.
 
bigsmithy9 said:
I think last season Leicester played every game trying not to lose and coming away with many 1-0 wins.
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Certainly agree with this part. And it happened so often that the all-knowing pundits and media assumed that it was all planned and deserved. But if you look at some of those results the individual matches told a different story. Look at their fairly lucky 0-1 win over us. The point is that a mass psychosis seems to have enveloped the media and officials who were so keen to buy into the fairytale (TM) that no other result was permissible - particularly because it was not one of the Sky favourites in pursuit. By the time the end of the season those very narrow wins had been converted into tactical masterpieces and it was assumed that they were far better than they actually were. But you can't say anything like that because you are accused of sour grapes. So now we have the media looking for explanations for the huge gulf between where they are now and where they were then, forgetting that where they were then was partly a media creation in the first place.

This is then combined with officials not letting them continue to defend pretty much how they wanted, missing a key element of midfield (indeed one of the best midfielders in the country), and players who realise that no matter how well they perform they are not going to reach those heights again. It is a rather unique position to be in. And I am surprised that they are quite so low this season, but not surprised that they are nowhere near they heights of last season.
 
bigsmithy9 said:
I think last season Leicester played every game trying not to lose and coming away with many 1-0 wins.
This season they are thinking they are a better than they actually are....and coming unstuck.
Another thing.Last season everyone else was beating up on each other allowing Leicester to "walk away" with the championship.

Funny thing.This season everyone is beating up on each other again except for Chelsea,who in turn have been racking up several 1-0 wins.

The Italian touch,would you say?
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Similar could be said a couple of seasons ago, where everyone was beating each other up to allow Chelsea to bore their way to the title.
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Am I to assume from these statements that the team who is good enough not to get beat up too often is the team that wins the league?
 
vimhawk said:
Certainly agree with this part. And it happened so often that the all-knowing pundits and media assumed that it was all planned and deserved. But if you look at some of those results the individual matches told a different story. Look at their fairly lucky 0-1 win over us. The point is that a mass psychosis seems to have enveloped the media and officials who were so keen to buy into the fairytale (TM) that no other result was permissible - particularly because it was not one of the Sky favourites in pursuit. By the time the end of the season those very narrow wins had been converted into tactical masterpieces and it was assumed that they were far better than they actually were. But you can't say anything like that because you are accused of sour grapes. So now we have the media looking for explanations for the huge gulf between where they are now and where they were then, forgetting that where they were then was partly a media creation in the first place.

This is then combined with officials not letting them continue to defend pretty much how they wanted, missing a key element of midfield (indeed one of the best midfielders in the country), and players who realise that no matter how well they perform they are not going to reach those heights again. It is a rather unique position to be in. And I am surprised that they are quite so low this season, but not surprised that they are nowhere near they heights of last season.
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So it was all a big hoax played by the media and officials then?
It wasn't true that certain other teams couldn't step up and take advantage of the fact United, Liverpool and Chelsea were ****, they were stopped from winning by the media.
 
Diego said:
So it was all a big hoax played by the media and officials then?
It wasn't true that certain other teams couldn't step up and take advantage of the fact United, Liverpool and Chelsea were ****, they were stopped from winning by the media.
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I may not have explained myself well, but I was only alluding to the fact that the gulf between their performance this season and last season appears to be all the greater because of how much they were built up last season. I didn't say anything about the media causing the Sky favourites to be universally crap.
 
vimhawk said:
I may not have explained myself well, but I was only alluding to the fact that the gulf between their performance this season and last season appears to be all the greater because of how much they were built up last season. I didn't say anything about the media causing the Sky favourites to be universally crap.
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TBH, that is the way I read it, sorry if I got the wrong impression :emoticon-0150-hands
 
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