What Leicester did by winning the league was absolutely brilliant for football. However they do have the look of Sunderland when we began our decline and subsequent fall.
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Leicester City
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What Leicester did by winning the league was absolutely brilliant for football. However they do have the look of Sunderland when we began our decline and subsequent fall.
Mackem DJ
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Has to be one of the very best football clichès
A cliche in that the usual suspects winning each season?
Kid Galahad
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Was true though, gives everyone hope.
Mackem DJ
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Certainly does when the worst squad going flukes winning the PL. the luck they had that season was on another level given they are a tinpot club.
Nukehasslefan
Winger
Was it luck?
brir
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Might have been more to do with all of the major rivals going through transition that season
Still doesn't detract though.
woodlebert
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Drugs
You need that anyway
brir
Striker
The asthma conspiracy theory?
Is their ticket office and club shop actually open unlike ours. If so, it's definitely what we should be aiming for
Cheddar Bob
Full Back
Was great at the time, but I feel that the impact of it happening was that the bigger clubs started throwing even more money at it to make sure something like that doesn't happen again... Since then transfer fees have gone ridiculous and I wonder how we would ever compete should we get promoted when fees have become so inflated.
BucketBiff
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Agree to a point. Rodgers massively high opinion of himself and the subsequent whoring himself out to Man U hasn’t helped matters. They’ve a couple of seasons left at this level on their current path as there are teams in more of a mess off the pitch than them. I genuinely hope they sort it. Winning the prem gave every neutral fan hope.
one footed wonder
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Definitely seem to have lost their way a bit.
Gotta be tough for clubs constantly having to replace their better players
Gotta be tough for clubs constantly having to replace their better players
BucketBiff
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They are starting from a higher point than us as they have some sellable assets. Our best players we all on loan.
The Leicester fans know, you stand still in the premier league, you actually go backwards. If they don't address their deficiencies in the remainder of the window I think they'll be down - which would see them return to their more natural standing. But what a magnificent blip for their fans to have expexperienced!
BucketBiff
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Blackburn springs to mind
Mackem DJ
Striker
The Great MES
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Exactly. If that had been us I'd have died a happy man. I wouldn't care less where we ended up.
phunboy
Winger
Of course it was luck. Even the best teams need luck to win the title. For Leicester it was the perfect storm of a couple of the big teams being in the middle of a squad transition and Ranieri stumbling on a system that worked really well for them and their scouting system picked up a couple of gems in Kante and Mahrez. They also managed to ride the wave of enthusiasm from the majority of football fans that wanted to see someone stick it to the big guys.
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