You don't believe that you've seen any decisions going in your favour, because you simply won't accept them when they do. The idea that you've only got away with one all season proves that. Every team has had a lot more than that. Whether they've been in your favour overall is debatable, but only one? Ridiculous. The massive deflection that could've gone anywhere took it into a virtually unsaveable spot. That's extremely lucky, despite the ****e defending.
That is the only time this season that I can think where, without doubt, the referee has got a decision wrong and it has benefited us off the top of my head. Do you think Alex Neil would have patted his defender on the back and said "never mind son, you were unlucky" or do you think he would have screamed at him in the dressing room?
Whereas others would suggest that there have been a lot more than that. Villa's penalty appeals, for example? You'll just deny them, of course. Irrelevant as to whether the goalscorer was lucky. The defender should've done more, but the finish was completely unintentional and could've gone anywhere. That's luck. **** defending from one player and luck for the other.
I tend to look at 'luck' in the game as an influence on events on the pitch that was completely out of the players' control to mitigate for. So that Newcastle goal was not lucky, as the defender could've indeed done more to block the shot/the first defender could've shown him outside rather than allow him to cut inside/the goalkeeper could've stood a bit closer to his goal etc. Same goes for hitting the post. If you're doing it a lot, the sensible course of action would be to sit your strikers down in front of videos of Jimmy Greaves, not moan about 'bad luck'. Most common in this category are of course refereeing decisions that make zero sense. The standard of officialdom these days means that everyone is on the receiving end of multiple shocking decisions across a season; decisions that are entirely out of the players' control yet obviously greatly influence events on the pitch. There's not much point using this as a stick to poke Leicester with as we've also had our fair share of help from inept decisions this year. Both examples that spring to mind were against City, ironically...the handball that never was, and the cross Walker put in when he was so far offside he probably had to go through customs on his way back up the pitch. Other influences are extremely rare and so far beyond anyone's control that they truly smack of 'bad luck'. Lasagne-gate is a perfect example of this. One bad batch of the stuff ruined our chances to qualify for the CL under BMJ.
Oh the Villa game. The one where Gestede played basketball before scoring? I'll level with you though. I did not managed to catch the last 20 minutes as I had a wedding reception to attend. Please refresh my memory though because I did see MOTD, but I can't remember any real contentious decisions that we were seriously favoured in. That shot was completely intentional as was the block. The ball looped into the corner as a result of poor defending. How can you debate that?
It's funny that you can remember Gestede's goal but not the two penalty calls. It's almost like that's telling us something about how you remember these things... http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/01/16/aston-villa-vs-leicester-city-highlights-full-match/#2 4.05-ish on the MOTD footage. Huth elbowing Kozak in the mush in the box. "That's a penalty, for me" - Jonathan Pearce. Then again at around 6 minutes from the same two players. How you can call Gestede's handball deliberate and Huth or Simpon's from the weekend accidental is beyond me. I'd call it lucky, though. He didn't mean to control it with his arm, just as Wijnaldum didn't mean to hit the ball off the defender and into the far corner. His shot wasn't going anywhere near there. It's lucky.
Most of our posts turn into whatever the Leicester and Southampton fans decide they should turn into, it seems. Oh how I miss the days when you'd get Chelsea and Arsenal fans coming on here giving it large.
I don't generally mind other fans coming on our board and being argumentative. ...its only the fans of the lucky clubs who piss me off....and the mockney latte drinking, croissant eating yuppie fans of other London clubs...and the plastics from manchester and the next season is our season brigade can go and do one...the carrot munchers from norfolk, the fans with the worst accent known to man kind in the midlands should just have the grace to never voice an opinion... actually they should all just stay the **** away and we'd all get on fine!
"Pochettino is thought to be unwilling to consider Dier's sale as the boss instead seeks to bolster his squad in preparation for what will likely be a Champions League campaign next season. And Bayern would reportedly have to break the bank in order to pluck Dier from White Hart Lane." Gramatically incorrect and contradictory.. add in that it's total bollocks (Bayern want to pay £12.1m for Dier?) and it can only be The (Anti-Spurs) Express. Well done lads!!
Here's one I've seen today: Liverpool are out to hijack our £10m for Ignacio Camacho. Let's just ignore the fact that we were linked with Camacho eighteen months ago, no not only is saying they want to "hijack" a move utterly disingenuous, it doesn't do much to dispel the notion that Liverpool transfer policy is based on chasing players we were previously linked with.
This is the winner: According to the information from Brazilian journalist Bruno Andrade, agent Kia Joorabchian, who's influential in the Premier League, is already trying to take the striker to Tottenham or West Ham United. Pato still has a great chance to continue in English football next season, although he's outside the plans of the Blues. Kia Joorabchian, a former partner of Corinthians, is using his strong influence behind the scenes of the Premier League to negotiate the attacker, and have already contacted Tottenham and West Ham.
A cursory look at NewsNow will show the worst kinds of clickbait journalism. For example, a popular headline is something along the lines of "Spurs seal deal for €20/30/40m midfielder" or signing "in form playmaker" - but each and every one of those stories is about players already at the club signing a new contract, and the figure of €25m for Alli or €30m for Eriksen was pulled out of somewhere that you really shouldn't be pulling things you want to show to members of the public. Soccerisma are particularly blatant about it.
