What is right with it???
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What is right with it???
Grendel
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I fail to see what's wrong with it. Bournemouth and QPR breached championship rules as well to get promoted.
People going back to the admin issue years ago are just plain stupid. If we'd done the same we'd be a million times better off.
Grendel
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So you never see any man utd Chelsea or man city tops in the town then?
Really odd argument that.
rupert_bear
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Here here. Leicester played the rules as they were at the time
Wyken Sky Blue
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They have proven that you dont need to spend £150M+ or whatever to challenge and win a league title. They have lived within their means and I really hope they do go all the way.
They have fantatsic team spirit, the determination to get results and they have proven the majority of pundits wrong. They could be in the Championship right now but they gained the results to stay up and look at them now.
Funny how nobody mentioned their overspending last season when they were promoted.
Our team in L1 can learn a lot from Leicester!
Otis
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Not an odd argument at all. Surely it is bleeding obvious. Leicester are right on our doorstep and considered by most as a close rival.
That is completely and totally different from Chelsea (who I believe are in London) and Man City ( who I believe are in Manchester).
Leicester is 22 miles from us. If loads of people in Leeds started supporting and wearing Sheff Weds tops how do you think that would go down?
It's all about the proximity and close rivalry.
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There could be a lot of Leicester shirts in charity shops in a couple of years time
lifeskyblue
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Haha...probably by Xmas this year
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Otis
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May well be right.
Grendel
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So when villa derby and forest won the league loads supported them instead of the normal glamour clubs.
Don't think so.
Grendel
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Leicester owners are mega rich. The notion they are going to do a Blackburn is nonsense.
The main problem will not be players leaving but retaining the squad following an influx.
Leicester net spend was in the top 7 or 8 last season.
These owners will easily commit £100 million plus for new players.
People forget Chelsea were a tin pot club who'd won a championship once in the 50's and had desperate crowds in a decaying stadium.
There is no reason why they will now not be a very strong member of the premier elite.
The main problem will not be players leaving but retaining the squad following an influx.
Leicester net spend was in the top 7 or 8 last season.
These owners will easily commit £100 million plus for new players.
People forget Chelsea were a tin pot club who'd won a championship once in the 50's and had desperate crowds in a decaying stadium.
There is no reason why they will now not be a very strong member of the premier elite.
Liquid Gold
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that was a different era, before the hyper saturated over exposed premier league
Grendel
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No it wasn't. Kids still supported big teams. Leicester aren't that yet. Also they haven't any prestige - we won't lose any fans if they win the league. Tottenham have more glamour if anything.
Your extremely welcome to your opinion as its a forum purely for opinions and debates, but please note, Leicester have actually spent over £150m - You may be thinking on players, but their owners wiped over £100m in debt alone when they come in and purchased the stadium for over £25m.
Add to the few odd £5-£7m player here and their, as well as wages and your talking alot of cash.
I have a mate who supports Leicester and I give him shit all the time for overspending in the championship
A- I never went back to their Admin issue ( which they did cheat and got away with which resulted in new rules for all instead of a saction)
B - Saying if we did the same we would be better off, so its ok to cheat in sport now Grendel?
covcity4life
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chelsea were never tin pot before abramovic. were in europe on merit and did well in domestic cups too
ccfc1234
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Has any Champions league team ever relegated from their respective league?
Grendel
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Chelsea had won one championship. They had two relegations in the 80's and didn't win a major cup until 1970 - league wise they were far poorer than most London rivals. I remember some dire crowds at Stamford bridge
Grendel
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Blackburn and Leeds for a start.
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although Chelsea may have been an average sized club but they have one advantage over Leicester location players want to live in London, even with champions league football Leicester will not be as attractive, they will have to overpay to sign players and overpay for their wages
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Brylowes
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Spurs were always a glamour club, Chelsea had regular crowds of around
10,000 15,000 in the 1980s , I would say West Ham were considered
bigger . Chelsea were doing well and had money well before Abramovich
turned up courtesy of Mathew Hardiing, before he met a sticky end.
Aparantly Abramovich was first interested in spurs but chose Chelsea
after advice from Sven G Ericsson
10,000 15,000 in the 1980s , I would say West Ham were considered
bigger . Chelsea were doing well and had money well before Abramovich
turned up courtesy of Mathew Hardiing, before he met a sticky end.
Aparantly Abramovich was first interested in spurs but chose Chelsea
after advice from Sven G Ericsson
ccfc1234
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Sorry, I was meaning the season they were taking part in the competition.
Both good shouts tho given the ambiguity of my quote
Brylowes
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I'm sure it's never happened,Chelsea were looking good for it for a while
this season though.
Hobo
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They never really started winning things until 1997. In the 70's and 80's they had collection bins on the terraces to keep going.
The Shed was a very appropriate name.
It's amazing to look back at just how run down Stamford Bridge was prior to it's rebuild. The away end was shocking, and the views were terrible as you were a mile from the pitch.
Bumberclart
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It was lovely on a sunny day, bloody awful if it was raining.
Your extremely welcome to your opinion as its a forum purely for opinions and debates, but please note, Leicester have actually spent over £150m - You may be thinking on players, but their owners wiped over £100m in debt alone when they come in and purchased the stadium for over £25m.
Add to the few odd £5-£7m player here and their, as well as wages and your talking alot of cash.
I have a mate who supports Leicester and I give him shit all the time for overspending in the championship
I dont think anyone is interested on what they have spent off the pitch, on the pitch the team that has played week in week out cost buttons which is why it is such an incredible acheivement. Their starting 11 cost 23mil to put together, some mid table championship teams cost more.
Brylowes
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I think the sun peeped out from behind a cloud for them in about 1994 ,
And then really started to shine in 2003 , with regular outbreaks of
trophys.
Cost 23m to put together and then theirs wages, win bonuses etc etc etc....... If your that impressed foxes talk will welcome you.
Brylowes
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How impressed would they be if they had a nose on here and discovered an
18 page thread dedicated to them. :facepalm:
Exactly embarrassing and to see some thinking its superb what they doing makes me sick to be honest.
I really couldnt care less about them yet some seem fixated.
Stop talking about it then. I think its superb, really superb. Youve attributed about 2 of the 18 pages.
Dickheads like you is why I comment, go and have a wank over Vardy, sounds like you want to.