Leicester vs Saints match thread

I’ve not seen the incidents but that won’t stop me from having a strong opinion!

Could it be that we have had our 7th or 8th crap ref out of the last 9 or 10 games?

The only way the infamous and flawed swings and roundabouts myth will work now is if we are given one or two unwarranted penalties in EVERY remaining fixture.

If that happens the season will have evened out.

I’ll apologise later if having seen the highlights I disagree with myself!

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Seems I missed this latest Premier League Referees Directive that did the rounds recently:

From: PGMOL General Manager.

To: All Premier League Referees.

Dear colleagues.

Please be advised of a new update to your Discretional Game Management Guidelines:

You are hereby instructed not to award any penalties against Leicester City FC for the remainder of the season. Not even for the most blatant handballs in the box, even should they prevent the ball from crossing the line of an otherwise open goal. Not even if you are just yards from the incidents with a clear view and could subsequently be accused of bias, or worse - being a cheating cunt.

Please ensure your fullest cooperation with these new directives at all times.

Don’t worry, we shall deal with any complaints arising from your decisions (or obviously lack of them) at Management level.

Regards,

A. Bunchov-Kuntz.

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Well, I’ve seen the highlights now. How the fuck neither of those penalty shouls was given I have no idea. Simpson could easily have moved his arm away for the first, Huth could have done likewise for the second. It’s all very well to talk about the arm moving toward the ball, but leaving your arm there is still a handball, unless you really can’t get it out of the way. That didn’t apply in either of those cases from what I could see.

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I know there’s a lot of goodwill for Leicester at present but it did seem a bit much to allow them to play rush-keeper.

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Disgraceful, from the BBC:

Originally posted by: British Broadcasting Cunts

“Southampton came closest when Sadio Mane rounded Kasper Schmeichel, but his goalbound shot was _ superbly blocked _ by Danny Simpson.”

. . .

"Ronald Koeman felt his side were on the receiving end of two bad decisions.

_The Dutchman alleged _ Simpson’s first-half block was a handball"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35906375

Fucking jog on you wankers. :lou_angry:

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MOTD2 said clear penalty against Simpson but not Huth. Discussion then moved to whether every handball should be a penalty, harsh or otherwise.

We would need to employ MLT on the coaching staff if that ever happens.

Simpson clearly moved his arm to deflect the ball away from goal and Huth left his arm in the likely route of any cross - the defence for that professionalism has been removed from the rules.

Two pens, could have been us one up against ten men - so referees will again decide where we finish.

Quite remarkable that in three consecutive games we have been denied blatant red card penalties yet Mane gets sent off for nothing and Victor gets sent off everytime he dives in.

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And another thing…putting aside the rather annoying refereeing, they will be worthy champions - it will be an incredible story and sport is great like that sometimes.

It will also mean that Spurs and Liverpool have missed a unique opportunity which might haunt them for decades…

But without wanting to ruin the Leicester party before it has started - lose a couple of players, others unsettled by bling and fame, get destroyed in the Champions’ League which will also cause fixture congestion, and it might make for a dodgy old season next year.

Then again they will have the greatest ever season to celebrate for years to come so a relegation battle might be acceptable.

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I’m starting to think that slowly passing the ball around while the opposition get organised, and then gently lobbing a cross towards their tallest defender, is a low percentage attacking move.

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The problem is if you ping the ball on the deck towards pelle’s feet, no one has a clue where the ball will end up, least of all Pelle.

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To be fair to Pelle, his ball through to Mane was superb and he looked more of a threat than Austin when he came on.

I normally HATE being in the Pub when we lose a game, but actually I enjoyed that game yesterday.

For the first time in a while it felt we were playing a different level of football - not in terms of passion etc but a proper “intelligent” game of cat & mouse football that is often the hall mark of top of the table clashes.

Sure we didn’t have the guile to actually break them down, but in these games you get one chance and have to take it - Mane had other options and chose the wrong one in reality, but would never blame him for Ben Stokes’s last over or anything else.

Sure the numpties will moan but for me we came of age yesterday, we took on the Champions Elect and we hardly gave them a touch, and simply lost to a misjudgment not even a mistake - where Clasie ended up on Morgan not Pelle or VVD/Jose.

When it comes to the Fairy Tale and Leicester, I have a different reaction to many. I actually believe that COULD have been us, certainly under MP and even possibly last season. Great starts and just a slight weakness in the squad to cover for when Pelle had his bad Decembers. A lack of belief that we could actually do that and no additions in the January windows.

Leicester have got there by avoiding injuries to key players, let’s face it, they have used the fewest players of any EPL team. It COULD have been us and next season it does mean it could be ANYONE.

Game changer that is for sure.

And then the cricket.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It wasn’t Stokes’ fault that Mane didn’t chip Schmeichel…

Someone else can start the next match thread.

Fair warning - we will lose again on Saturday as I am taking the offspring. Last game we got to was the opening game of the season - say no more

In response to DP… for me it just emphasizes why we did so well… continuity - keeping the same bunch of players together is what it is al about - not changing every season… we lost 7-8 key players these last two seaosns hand have done extremely well to do as well as we have considering - but the ‘what if’ is to me a clear lost opportunity.

Players wanted to leave, fair enough, but I think we should always be asking why? and how to make them not want to. The old ‘cash’ excuse is not enough for me… its surely also about the aspiration

Also re pens… Bets way to judge the media reaction is to consider what how tehy moight have portrayed this had this gone begging for Leicester and we had won 1-0. Given the leicester love in- I am sure many would have been outraged at the incompetence of the refs in this case… Context is sadly everything

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no, it’s pretty much the cash thing. Unless its the aspiration of lots of footballers to play in China or America?

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Will be inteesting to see howmany stay at Leicester… but I can see them staying as they have Champs league football… had we managed to push on and get that, holding on for one more season,becomes more of an option.

Any ref brave enough to give a marginal decision against Leicester will find himself in v.hot water IMO. I dare say they will get backlash next season tho. They won’t be able to buy a penalty next year. Prob get relegated.

Interesting

Graham Poll in the Fail so I guess not many of you will have seen this.

Basically all EPL Referees are crap and nothing is being done about it. Lack of Leadership etc.

7 out of 49 Red Cards have been overturned this season 14% are wrong.

Then down in the comments section nice to see someone from Slovenia having a rant about oour lack of Penatlies on Sunday!