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Leicester are no doubt receiving an angry phone call from Sky Sports reminding them they put a lot of time and effort into creating their fairytale narrative, and just to remind them who's boss Sky Sports News will be reporting that Man Utd are looking to seal a double swoop for Mahrez and Kante tomorrow morning.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Leicester are no doubt receiving an angry phone call from Sky Sports reminding them they put a lot of time and effort into creating their fairytale narrative, and just to remind them who's boss Sky Sports News will be reporting that Man Utd are looking to seal a double swoop for Mahrez and Kante tomorrow morning.
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Perhaps SSN "understands" that the FA and UEFA are considering giving Huth a 3 month ban for his antics today.
 
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The RDBD said:
Here's the thing.
Will the FA deal with the Huth incident on principle, or will they decide that the Drinkwater red
exonerates them from having to further derail the "fairytale ending" .
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Or Fellani ( who has been castigated here in the past) for trying an Alli, albeit with an elbow rather than a fist !
Back to the game, gotta be happy with a draw at OT with 10 men again !
Over to you tomorrow chaps, must win though, having said that beat em and prolong the pain.
Only banter boys !
All the best. M.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
I'm on Fellaini's side. You don't expect someone to pull your hair and yank your head back. It was violent enough that the natural reaction was "my neck is going to get broken if I don't do something." So the elbow was self-defense, I think. It's a natural reaction to a panic-inducing foul.
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Are you for fookin real , wuss !
" my neck is gonna be broken "
Did you take part in sports at school ? ffs don't say Chess & netball !
 
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BOTH should be banned for violent conduct / unsporting behaviour. Their PL seasons thus being over.
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Fair enough mate but as an old CB myself a few years ago Philosophy was , " If the ball went past me the player didn't but I was old school, a bit Graham Roberts esq lol
In all seriousness Rooney could have been sent off and there could also have been a pen for the foul on Mahrez but neither given..... That's Football !
 
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I don't detect a Mancs accent on either....... Was that PNP and CK ?
 
Thanks for that, Dave.
There a lot more sensible comments today on ArsenalFanTV than the usual suspects.

As for "Heavy D" , even the Goons had an extra PL point for every 6 st of his weight, they
might still fail to finish above us.
 
BuzzardFoxMick said:
Are you for fookin real , wuss !
" my neck is gonna be broken "
Did you take part in sports at school ? ffs don't say Chess & netball !
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I was captain of the tennis team, if you must know. Perhaps more to the point, I helped to organize a fight club long before it was fashionable, and boxed a bit in college. I was trying to explain the moment you feel your head suddenly jerked back. Somebody at that point could--could--break your neck. Calm reflection would reveal that possibility is remote at best. But the jolt of adrenaline you feel would make you strongly inclined to hit whomever is jerking your head around, and justifiably so. You get a similar reaction from having your air supply cut off by a choke. People say "risk your neck" for a reason. It's a very vulnerable point and will trigger a fight-or-flight response when subjected to attack.

Put another way, if one person grabs a second's hair and yanks his head back, and the second knocks him cold, who has done something wrong?

Also, please make fun of my comment to your heart's content, but personal abuse is not permitted on this board.
 
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I assume we're all expected to shut up and follow the script of the Leicester Fairytale (TM) ("LF"). It's as if you can't say anything without being called a sore loser. But some of us do so because there is a singular lack of proper analysis coming from the pundits and media - the people who are supposed to be more expert at football than we are (!) It's almost as if they've been trying to make up for their complete lack of anticipation of the LF by completely buying into it. Discussion of tactics, individual incidents and generally going "off script" is not to be tolerated. It's not like I'm saying you even have to conclude the same as some of us have, just have a bloody discussion in the first place! And I'm not a bad loser by the way, I will happily congratulate anyone that deserves to win. But I won't follow the flawed logic of the LF supporting pundit which is if you get the most points then you automatically deserve to win. That is no more than following the old cliche that somehow all the luck (by some mystical force) evens out over the season, so that the team with the most points is the best QED. It doesn't work like that. Just as you can get a lucky win in one game (which hopefully will be accepted) then you can get 38 lucky wins. I'm not even suggesting anything like that for the LF, just that the waters are far more murky than you would think by listening to the so-called experts in the media. We can list so many factors that have gone in favour of the LF this season, almost a perfect storm of factors, but you wouldn't think any of it made a difference since there is so little discussion. They're making a film about Vardy and, as we have seen from real life apparently, the script has been written and deviation from it is not to be tolerated.
 
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vimhawk :

Once it became clear there was only one club looking like derailing the fairytale, then as
some decent reporters have noted, that club was going to become the "panto villain" .

That club is Spurs. But as said reporters have noted, Spurs do not fit the Narrative (TM) .

Not one of the Sky 4 or a Sugga Daddy FC.
Looking like they will have the least goals conceded, and the best GD.
Also possibly the most goals scored, and the PL top scorer.

Spurs not winning the PL also helps the usual Narrative.
They will attempt to dismiss Leicester as one of those freak one-offs (bless em) .

But Spurs winning is very different.
The consolidation over the past decade has been gradual. The Poool have been the
first of the media darlings to suffer. Chelsky and Man Utd are in churn, and Wenger
has been playing russian roulette with Spurs far too often for that CL slot.

Whether this season is the one where the usual suspects are no longer shoo-ins, and there
is at least one potential Leicester every season now, time will tell.
 
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