The Race to the Title

[worcestersauce]

Leicester winning the league is an amazing story but you know there is a better story, after having the title in the bag and the City and in fact the whole country celebrating Leicester are pipped at the post by a team of plucky youngsters who were given absolutely no chance of winning the title at the start of the season.
Now that really is a film worth making.

 

[jimmy-jojo]

I don't think any of us should be looking past tomorrow. I think there's only a small chance we will win. If that happens we can then start to tell ourselves how good Everton are!

Exactly this. We took our eyes off the ball aganst WBA, looking too far ahead, and paid the price.

 

[nailsy]

I hope Aaron Lennon plays out of his skin against the Foxes. Here's hoping for a last minute Lennon winner. Stranger things have happened.

Id like to see him put out there to man mark Vardy.

 

[Good Doctor M]

I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's not about whether we should have beaten WBA regardless. By playing after Leicester for FOUR WEEKS on the trot we were never given the opportunity to put real pressure on Leicester in the run-in. We are the one's who have always had to win to maintain the status quo.

Yeah, that's the case really. Fixture wise, points on the board effects your opponents. We haven't even had the opporunity to close the gap and have Leicester play under the pressure of having us chasing them down - it's always been the case of us being under pressure to not loose ground or indeed make it up.

It does matter. It's intangible but there's a reason that all games in the last round of World Cup qualifiers are played at the same time - and it's a simple case of maintaining the integrity of the competition.

I don't expect it in the league week in week out - but really, 4 MNF games on the bounce was a fucking pisstake. I'd like to see at least the last five games of the seasons played together.

I think it would be a great thing to televise - imagine being able to choose a "multi-cast" of the important games. It'd be awesome.

 

[yusrisafri]

Hey anything can happen mate. Not likely though is it.
Problem being Leicester will score and Everton while good going forward cant defend for shit.
I'd obviously love it to be a draw but cant see anything but a Leicester win.

Yeah me too TBH. But even if everton win, chelsea will still bend over and let leicester win, so its still bleak for us anyway

 

[spursfan77]

RT @johncrossmirror: Danny Drinkwater could miss rest of season after midfielder's furious red card bust-up

 

[panoma]

if we win tomorrow i really think the West Brom game would have costed us the league. I can already feel the heartbreak when Leicester end the season on 80 points while we win our last 3 to end at 78

 

[spursfan77]

I maintain that with our group of players we should have beaten WBA regardless of how well they played and whether or not we played before or after Leicester

The psychology of playing second can't be ignored

 

[Good Doctor M]

If Leicester have to take it to the last game of the seaon, even needing a draw at Stamford Bridge, really, I wouldn't be so sure about them coping with pressure like that - not many teams could. QPR nearly ruined Man City's party - and that was a spectacular team.

Need to beat Chelsea tomorrow. Big ask, but I'd like us to at least make them work for it to the end - it's the least they deserve - jammy bastards.

 

[Hazardousman]

Bitter!

*Runs away laughing

 

[nigespurs]

I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's not about whether we should have beaten WBA regardless. By playing after Leicester for FOUR WEEKS on the trot we were never given the opportunity to put real pressure on Leicester in the run-in. We are the one's who have always had to win to maintain the status quo.

Agreed, Sky wanted Leicester to win and made it practically impossible for us to have any chance of catching them. I believe that if we had played against WBA last Sunday we'd have won and put Leic under pressure if they were playing on the Monday

 

[deluded-yid]

I would agree with a few opinions in this thread.
Yes the blatant support of players and managers for Leicester has been disreputable, as well as team performances and selections against them dubious especially over the last few weeks.
But I also agree that we've let ourselves down with results namely games against:
The goons h and a
Foxes a and h
Stoke h
Swansea a
Lpool h
Everton h
Newcastle h
I would forgive the early foxes and stoke games as the team were still getting accustomed to the new system, and also so many injuries to our am positions early in the season didn't help.
If Huth and Fellaini escape punishment from today's game, then I will join most of our supporters in the call of a conspiracy theory against us.

 

[djw1973]

I don't think any of us should be looking past tomorrow. I think there's only a small chance we will win. If that happens we can then start to tell ourselves how good Everton are!

Out of 17 home games this season Chelsea have only won 5. In the last 6 home games they have won 1, drawing four; 12 goals for and 11 against. If ever there was a time to beat Chelsea it is tomorrow night! COYS!!!!!!

 

[thinktank]

Bitter!

*Runs away laughing

 

[goughie1966]

Stan mentioning swnasea's performances again on TS. Really gained a lot of respect for him not letting go of this.

Never respect from me. He gave Ulrika Johnson a really good beating in the past. The man is a first class piece of trash.

 

[goughie1966]

To be fair lads... if there's a chance the league can be won tomorrow night, it'd be weird if there wasn't a match of the day. Honestly, the media love in of Leicester grates me too, but I understand why it exists.

Stop being fucking bitter idiots. It doesn't suit the club to have so many moaning fans. And it's embarrassing for the rest of us to read and then be associated with.

We don't have so many moaning fans. You can count them on one hand.

 

[jimmy-jojo]

Agreed, Sky wanted Leicester to win and made it practically impossible for us to have any chance of catching them. I believe that if we had played against WBA last Sunday we'd have won and put Leic under pressure if they were playing on the Monday

I would venture a guess that such a manipulation of the fixtures has never happened before. Unheard of.

 

[NickHSpurs]

Even Merson commented on the fixture arrangements affecting the run-in by never really being able to close the gap and put pressure on Leicester, still this isn't a time for being bitter regarding situations out of our control, if they win it they'll have deserved it over a whole season.

 

[slartibartfast]

Never respect from me. He gave Ulrika Johnson a really good beating in the past. The man is a first class piece of trash.

So did Sven.
Smashed her back door right in apparently

 

[eddiev14]

Whatever way they win it there will be 'what ifs' for our players to ponder and kick themselves for - and I guarantee the players will be doing that as much as we are.

But that's a good thing.

They will have learnt so much from this season and I think the heartache will ignite a fire inside them individually and collectively.

I know Hansen was derided for that 'never win anything with kids' line but the sentiment of what he was trying to say was correct (just not that season!). Young players generally need to make mistakes and go through heartache to learn how to win at all costs.

And that's the difference between us and Leicester this season. I heard someone say the other day that Leicester had seven 1-0 wins and four 1-1 draws, whereas we had seven 1-1 draws and four 1-0 wins. Something like that anyway.

It goes to show the experience in their team that they can so expertly protect a lead.

I saw Danny Rose trying to overplay from the back on Monday for the 10th time when you could see that Sessegnon had sussed him out. At that point clearing his lines and getting reorganised was absolutely the smart thing to do - not the most attractive option, but the smart one. Two minutes later he gets pressured again, ball robbed off him and they score from the resulting corner.

Fletcher said after the match that to win the league sometimes you just need to play ugly for 20 minutes against a physical team to protect the 3 points.

Hopefully our boys will have learnt that and seen it in Leicester, too.

I think with the right additions in the summer to bolster the options in the squad this team has serious potential, and they'll be like a wounded animal after missing out this year.