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Madness I know but I just think Leicester will lose the last 3 games and Spurs will win the last 3.

I have been enjoying these predictions from the supposed pundits all season, no reason why you can't share in the absurdity of it as well 😛

Carry on

Scandal, all the best fella, enjoy the party!.

Rockape63 - Member
This might seem harsh but Spurs have played all season with no pressure only becoming serious contenders in the last few weeks. Whereas LFC have had the spotlight on them all season.....defo not easy for a club completely unused to it. So Basically Spurs completely bottled it.

Are you talking about Liverpool (LFC) or Leicester City (LCFC)?

Pedantic I know but as a Leicester lad it annoys me that the 'City' bit gets dropped all the time. It seems we're only allowed one citeh!!

As a life long spurs fan I think its quite ironic that in the first season I can ever remember us having a real chance of winning, we get pipped by bloody leicester,

That said, good on them, much rather lose it to them than the usual crowd.

If we can keep hold of the players we have (doubtful) then we'll have a real chance next season.

As a life long spurs fan I think its quite ironic that in the first season I can ever remember us having a real chance of winning, we get pipped by bloody leicester,

[i]Binners ... calling spurs spuds I would have thought beneath you[/i]

Its a lot better than what they used to get called! 😮

[i]Are you talking about Liverpool (LFC) or Leicester City (LCFC)?[/i]

apologies...it looked wrong when I wrote it! 😕

[i]Just imagine how the Gooners feel then, beaten by both Leicester and worst of all Spurs - hence all the abuse towards Wenger[/i]

We don't mind being beaten by LCFC, and I'm still hoping for a miracle of the Spuds losing their last few games and Arsenal winning them all to sneak past them!

😯 Okay, Ive been on the wacky Baccy! Frankly us Gooners wouldn't mind (too much) finishing 5th now, as its the only way we might get the change we need.

[i]If we can keep hold of the players we have (doubtful) then we'll have a real chance next season.[/i]

Do you think TP that Spurs have been flying under the radar this season playing catch up and that now they know they are a decent side and others see that too....things might be a bit different from now on?

I think spurs are more likely to hold on to their stars than Leicester.

Arsenal fans who would you rather have than Wenger?

I think spurs are more likely to hold on to their stars than Leicester.

UNfortunately for Leicester next season normal business will probably resume

Fighting on more than one front, in europe for the first time, pressure of being champions and everyone upping their game will cost Leicester dear.

Its been a dream season for them but it really wont get any better than this for the fans.

Absolutely enjoy it , you deserve it but ....Blackburn Rovers 😉

I think they will lose one of Mahrez or Kante

Seeing my team in Europe (in person) has always been my dream ever since I wasn't old enough last time.

Anything else next season is a bonus.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36144620 ]stupid is as stupid does[/url]

Seeing my team in Europe (in person) has always been my dream ever since I wasn't old enough last time.

Spurs have been flying under the radar this season playing catch up and that now they know they are a decent side and others see that too....things might be a bit different from now on?

I don't think for the other PL teams Spurs were flying under the radar (fans maybe), they've been a decent side for a good while now.

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Sat up till 2am watching the torture flick that is NUFC....
If only they could play the 2nd half first we would probably do a lot better. A tiny little bit of me saw the penalty and thought that maybe Cabaye's heart wasn't 100% in it but what a save from the 3rd choice keeper 🙂

At this point I'm cheering on Watford and Everton, fight for your lives to make it to 10th 🙂 Not sure I can take another winner takes all final day of the season

The villa fixture is key to Newcastle win that and you'll stay up.

[url= https://gfycat.com/HighAffectionateEland ]Such a lovely man that Fellaini.[/url]

Huth's hardly the innocent party in that clip. Pulling his hair like a schoolgirl.

The elbow was cocked and ready to go beforehand. The slap was the retort to the hair pull.

Cmon Foxes nick a winner is last 5m

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would have said 1-1 was a fair result till the late penalty that was not given

TBH, we were never going to get fourth an this match was never going to decide Leicester's title ambitions. I am setting the bar low and just enjoying see Man U play in a good game that could have gone either way till the 90 th minute

Fellani clearly has form with his elbow but Huth was given as good as he ot there The Ugly side of football from both players

Ironic that the defending champions are going to be the ones to decide the winners really. It's going to be an interesting game tomorrow.

1 - 1 was a fair result. United won't get top four because they don't deserve top four. It's a sign of how poor everyone else, bar Spurs and Leicester, have been that we were in with a shout at this point. The football has been woeful all season!

Woeful? Not if you're a Leicester fan.

I'm no fan of Fallani but he should have made sure he got a proper connection there and knocked him out. Huth is a persistent cheat and pulling hair is pathetic behaviour. Leicesters behaviour over the last few weeks is really starting to take the gloss off any win.

To confirm the point about nobody else being particularly good, City are getting battered by Southampton here!

Swansea humped Liverpool 😆

A possible good weekend for Arsenal. There is no science behind it but I've always felt how you do at Anfield and Old Trafford is a good gauge of the champions elect . Leicester did pretty good but could have gone either way. Hope Chelski take points off Sp*ds tomorrow

Swansea humped Liverpool

Any faint glimmers of fourth disappeared a few weeks ago. Klopp's sole focus now is on the Europa, not for the prestige but for the champions league place it brings. I expect he sees Thursday night's game as the most important of the season so far. It is eminently winnable. [i]If[/i] they do, then it's a cup final worth £30m+ (and that's just for playing the group stages).

He's had to put all his eggs in one basket. Any higher position in the league is worthless so that basket has to be the Europa.

This is all football though Piggie and I realise you don't really understand a lot about it. So, if you have any more questions, we're a friendly bunch on this thread, ask away.

On the plus side for Klopp, he must be watching the 50 million man Raheem Sterlings performance today, and laughing his tits off!

Your right pretty clueless but I like Swansea 😆 been an odd season with all sorts of shenanigans going on behind the scenes.

Stirling was truly woeful today, along with Bony I found it hard to believe either had ever played football before in their lives. But ultimately today was a day that demonstrated why Pellegrini is being replaced, he may be a gent, but he is also too often tactically lacking.

Surely no one is surprised that Stirling is rubbish he is the new Aron Lennon or Theo Walcott, fast but no end product. Looses the ball easily, doesn't track back, he's very average, true price should probably have been about £12M and playing in a team around 8th.

'm no fan of Fallani but he should have made sure he got a proper connection there and knocked him out. Huth is a persistent cheat and pulling hair is pathetic behaviour. Leicesters behaviour over the last few weeks is really starting to take the gloss off any win.

Utter toss of the highest order.

We have been penalised for offenses that people have been getting away with all season.

Everyone else is whiter than white, naive toss.

Enough of your 'top of the premiership' first world problems!

Now that Derby and Birmingham have done the business, it's time for the main event.

Come on Burnley!

Everyone else is whiter than white, naive toss

I dont think Leicester are a dirty team or Man u but fellani is a flailing elbow fool whilst that one was intentional in general he is such a clumsy battering ram i cannot tell how much is physical play and how much is malice.

I may of had a few beverages yesterday so my post may have been slightly more emotive than would be usual.

I still think we are being picked up on things that referees have not enforced all season.

the total lack of consistency and timing is rather strange

😀 Fair point sir, I salute you.

I think we all feel like that in general as its been a poor season for referring

your west ham match being the nadir of that - though i do think he dived.

Just wait till you are dominating and they will tweet pics of the ref in your shirt 😉

the total lack of consistency and timing is rather strange

To quote an oft mentioned cliche, the only consistent thing about football refereeing is the lack of consistency.

We have to accept, as fans, that while the technology exists to help officials make (or indeed reverse) decisions, and FIFA, UEFA, EPL, etc refuse to use it, then we will see "our" teams be the victim of, at times, shocking mistakes from referees (and their assistants).

With players playing the pantomime villains, diving, simulating injury, winning dubious penalties, blah blah blah, it's what we have to live with. We shake one fist angrily at it while we pump ( 😀 ) the other.

I can understand fans of "smaller" teams whinging that they don't get the decisions, especially against the "big" sides, but FFS, you're about to win the league, stop moaning. 😀

Out of interest, apart from stats on penalties, has anybody ever bothered to drill down through a season's decisions to work out if indeed the big teams get it mostly their own way or is it just perception?

I think the score tonight will be 1-1 which is still not quite enough for LCFC to celebrate, but then I'm sure they would enjoy it much more if the win their next game to secure the prem. I find myself (strangely) hoping for a Chelski win on the basis that it's still poss for AFC to go past Spurs, which would be a priceless moment for us Gooners, at the end of such a frustrating season.

(Unlikely, but priceless! )

I think the score tonight will be 1-1 which is still not quite enough for LCFC to celebrate

A draw would be plenty enough to kick start the celebration. Spurs need to win all three remaining games and hope Leicester get a draw and a loss or two losses.

its hard to say n the ref think I know they tried with utd ad say penalties at Old trafford

Problem is the better teams also attack more, and generally, foul less so its so hard to be definitive. Ie it was just more information to allow fans to argue.

IIRC surveys do show refs tend to always be "homers" and all teams get more 50/50 decisions at home than away

I am not sure that is intentional bias. I have no source for that claim but think I read it somewhere

I also think we should be more annoyed at cheating players than mistaken refs. A point you made so well 😉

Exactly.....so whilst their fans will be celebrating, the Tinker Man won't be having any of it

PS: Van Gaal on form in the post match interview. 50 Shades of David De Gea?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36183247

He does do a good media interview and i thought it was funny

I think the score tonight will be 1-1 which is still not quite enough for LCFC to celebrate

And Spurs would be 7 points behind with 2 games to play, why would foxes not be celebrating?.

Well the way this has started, whatever the final score, it's probably unlikely there will be 22 players still on the pitch. Handbags are well and truly out already 😆

Come on Chelski you vile team full of vile players owned by a vile man with a nice manager !

BOOM!

....no skin in the game, but want to see it go to the wire 😛

Costa/Vertonghen to last 90mins?

Game on.

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This game is like a Royal Rumble....eye pokes and everything.

Looks like Dembele will be joining Fellaini on the retroactive naughty step.

https://streamable.com/q166

No way can this end with all the players on the pitch
Two well taken goals though so spurs really need to calm down as they can only beat themselves from this position

I thought eye gouging was a rugby thing? I reckon there should have been at least two reds already. Think there will definitely be some retrospective slapped wrists after this.

It's like watching pub football! 😆

Been flicking back and forth wiv the snooker and missed a few bits but now set on footie for the 2nd half.

( good come back on the snooker looking likely BTW)

[i]And Spurs would be 7 points behind with 2 games to play, why would foxes not be celebrating?.[/i]

What odds Leicester losing it now ....less than 5000-1 I'll wager?

Impressive from Cahill.

Been a cracking game.

😯

BOOM! Going to be an interesting last ten minutes now!

Never ever uttered the following....

Come on Chelsea!!!

how is this still 11 v 11?

It's like watching a Leeds match from the 70's. 😀

Apologies, got my maths wrong !! 😳

Chelsea have never won a Premier League game in which they've trailed by 2+ goals at half time (D1 L30).

well done Spuds,

This is hilarious

FA panel are going to be busy after that

Congrats to Leicester no one saw that coming

To quote Alex:

Football. Bloody hell!

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Brilliant!

congrats claudio

Amazing, well done Leicester

Disappointed Spurs lost the title with such poor grace at the home of the charmless and graceless. Need to secure second place now.

Congratulations to Leicester - played great football all season and deserved winners. Tottenham's turn next year....

Well done Leicester. Fantastic.

Danny Rose.....such a charmer.

scandal42 - Member
Top of the league, we're Leicester City, we're top of the league.

That a was a nice '**** you' to all of those supposed pundit experts, we were rampant.

Will be upset if we don't take the title off Chelsea now.

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Spot on scandal42! Amazing how even not really being interested in football one can still enjoy Spurs failing 🙂

There's probably a few Spurs players who's season is over after that display.

Well done Leicester! Thoroughly deserved

Yes. Well done Leicester. What a great story.

Am I right in thinking the only Spurs player not be booked at the end was the goalie?

Job done! Yesssss!!!!!!!!!

Amazing season....what a story, someone should do a film about it.

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By the looks of the footage on Sky, Jamie Vardy is indeed having a party. Gonna be some sickies getting chucked in Leicester tomorrow 😀

What a wonderful outcome for Leicester and for football, many congratulations

@binners game of two halfs, always dissapointing to give up a two goal lead but 2-2 away to Chelsea where we have a very modest record is decent enough, just not good enough to keep the chase alive for another week.