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English Premier League 2016/2017 Season

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The fixtures came out today:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/premier-league/fixtures

Premier League champions Leicester City will begin their title defence at promoted Hull City on 13 August.

The big game of the opening weekend sees Arsenal host Liverpool. :klopp

Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola will not have long to wait to meet, with their new clubs, Manchester United and Manchester City respectively, due to clash at Old Trafford on 10 September.

And West Ham's first league match at their new Olympic Stadium home will be against Bournemouth on 20 August.
 
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Swansea are a pretty fascinating rise and fall story. Fascinating is overselling it mind but still. Brilliant rise into the Premier League playing football "the right way", winning the League Cup, having a good Europa League run and making some fantastic signings. But post Laudrup it's been gradually downhill and this season along with the new ownership has just gone into steamroll mode. Had them to go down at the start of this season so it's not surprising. Near impossible to survive in a competitive league like this one when you sell all your best players and replace them with cheap unproven replacements that just aren't that good. Selling Williams was the nail in the coffin. Look at their defence since he's gone. I think they convinced themselves that they could be a selling club when they moved players like Vorm, Davies and Bony on for big profits and survived without them along with what Southampton have been able to do but all of that is reliant on replacing them and having continued astute success in the transfer window which they have had the total opposite of this season. Looking at their last 2 seasons they've just had terrible windows in terms of incomings and have ended up with what's just not a very good team atm with the only player that they could sell on for a nice fee being Gylfi.
 
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The shit cunts.
 
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Genuinely annoyed at that, fucking joke decision. For what he did, getting what he did out of bang average footballers, last season deserves a statue outside the club. I hope they get relegated and that no one signs the shit cunts who try abandoning ship. Those players should be ashamed, as should those in the board room. Fucking embarrassments. I don't think I've said fuck enough. Fuck off Leicester.
 
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Genuinely annoyed at that, fucking joke decision. For what he did, getting what he did out of bang average footballers, last season deserves a statue outside the club. I hope they get relegated and that no one signs the shit counts who try abandoning ship. Those players should be ashamed, as should those in three board room. Fucking embarrassments. I don't think I've said fuck enough. Fuck off Leicester.
Embarrassing ownership here.

He deserved to see it through, and get a go with his CL run. Which they could very possibly see into the quarterfinals.

It's a terrible message for the next caretaker. Good luck meeting expectations.
 
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Leicester were relegation candidates before their title winning season, lets not pretend that they're anything greatly above that. They're a midtable side at best, what happened last season was a miracle and Ranieri deserved a lot more respect than what he's been given. The fact that some people try justifying the sacking shows what football has become. No loyalty whatsoever when football clubs are run like businesses.
 
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Leicester fans are justifying his sacking because deep down many feel it's the right call, I've seen this team week in week out this season, you haven't, you really don't know what our club was becoming.

Did I want him to be the man that takes us down? No way, he will forever be remembered as the guy that won Leicester the league then took them down the season after. We'd be back in the Championship, in a complete mess as the laughing stock of English Football. It might still come to that but the way we are heading a gamble like this feels like the right call.

Ranieri is partly to blame, some players are partly to blame, while our head of recruitment Jon Rudkin is also to blame, many fans want him out too.

Blaming the owners is pure stupidity, they've done absolute wonders for our club especially on the financial side of things, clearing our major debt etc...we have a lot to thank them for hence why our fans will not turn on them.
 
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You're talking about a football club, in a football thread, to people who have been watching football for twenty years plus. Stop acting like Leicester City's situation is so hard for us mere mortals to comprehend. You're acting as though you're the Ethiopian child that's walked 15 miles to the watering hole, just to find out that a rhino has taken a massive shit in it. You won the league LAST SEASON, who gives a shit if you're playing crap football? You have had to endure 6 months of terrible football, after winning the league LAST SEASON. I'd understand your frustrations if you were an Arsenal fan, like its been pointed out a few times why above. Leicester City won the Premier League title LAST SEASON and you're complaining about some shit football a few months later? Jesus Christ. There were lower odds on Elvis being found alive, aliens being discovered and Johnny Vegas becoming the next James Bond. Last season (no capitals) was a miracle for Leicester and you're having a sulk about your club going back to what it was doing the season prior? If Leicester finished 15th last season, you'd not be giving a fuck about being 17th now. When a manager wins your club a basically impossible league title then words such as loyalty and respect need to be adhered to a lot more than they have been. Sacking him because he 'lost the dressing room'? Ever though they're a bunch of ungrateful pricks who'd not be sniffing a league medal unless Wes Brown threw a few of his spare ones at them? They're all average footballers that Ranieri got the absolute best out of and they've stabbed him in the back because he chooses to try a few new tactics? You respect your manager and the decisions he makes, rightly or wrongly. Footballers are taking charge of the clubs, being far more influential than they ever should be. It's embarrassing that this has even happened and it'll forever be absolute bullshit.

I swear if/when Leicester go down I've having a fucking wank on a fox.

EDIT: Just seen your Pearson comment. If he can emulate what he did a couple of seasons ago and keep us in the league. I can genuinely imagine you celebrating every season, finishing 13th never winning a fucking thing again but being FINANCIALLY SOUND, like Del Boy and Rodney when they won their millions.
 
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Are you for fucking real?

Who gives a shit if you're playing crap football? Us Leicester fans do, that's who. Yet again, it's like we should sit and accept shit performances just because we won the league, what a moronic thing to say. We go from winning the league to becoming statistically the worst side in the top four English divisions, how do you expect me to feel? Elated? We go from seeing the best football we've seen in our history, the best season we've seen in our history to absolute shite, if your club was in that situation you wouldn't be happy about it either. Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal, Leicester, who fucking cares, whoever you are, if you go from winning the league to being absolute shit it's going to hurt, but it's ok we're only Leicester City so it doesn't matter.

He got sacked because we have been in free fall, like any other manager when they are in free fall usually get sacked, but yet again Leicester can't do that because it's Claudio Ranieri, he won you the league last season...absolute bullshit. We respect the man dearly, but sometimes enough is enough and you have to cut ties and for us it got to that point. You can blame the owners and players all you want and as I said in a previous post, believe me if we had the chance to sack players, they'd be three out of the door in an instant. You act like Ranieri is some god who is incapable of making mistakes, this is a guy who has made mistakes everywhere he's been, while he usually leaves his roles within two season's. Trying a few new tactics? And yet again this is where opposition fans have no clue. Sticking with 4-4-2 when it clearly wasn't working, we should of changed it after we got battered by Man Utd & Liverpool away from home but he persisted with it. We pick up our first away win of the season in a Cup match against Everton, why not stick with that winning formula? Instead he changes it again against Chelsea, matching them up 3-4-3 something we haven't played under Ranieri and we get battered, plus in that game he puts Fuchs Centre-Back, then takes off Huth and puts Ndidi Centre-Back, that was the first time that many thought he'd lost the plot. Changes it again the game after against Southampton, we get battered again, then he comes out with "I'll go back to basics and play 4-4-2", yet for the majority of the time we've played that formation this season we've been battered, then he does decide to go with that and we lose to Burnley, Swansea & Millwall. We should respect and accept that though :lol

Why shouldn't I be happy with remaining in the league then having a couple of mid-table finishes. Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City fans expect to win trophies, us Leicester fans don't. We can't see ourselves emulating another Premier League win so right now I'd accept 13th. Solid mid-table finishes, the odd cup run, maybe a cup win along the way would do Leicester City fine right now, that's what we were under Martin O'Neill and I'd happily take that again.
 
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Let me just ring in work and let them know I'll need the next three days off to read the previous two posts.

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That's also a face I had for most of yesterday, and night (sweet chlamydia ravaged Rochdale ladies).




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Thought United played superbly, happened to also coincide with Chelsea not turning up whatsoever. Kante had a good game but besides him they were all shite. :trips Cahill being a gentleman and Herrera scoring was delicious :trips4 there'll be some good merchandise opportunities for Chelsea when Halloween comes round as Hazard was a GHOST against the supreme being and all round black mamba Best Right Back In The League Fuck Off Walker & LOL Bellerin, The King Antonio Valencia. :tripsblessed Herrera :tripsblessed that boy deserves a medal. Several commendations from God. Man of the match by an absolute mile, which is huge considering the good/great performances all round. +1 on the praise for Ashley Young too, superb squad player. :trips10 Costa was an absolute disgrace, pathetic performance all round and his attitude and play acting is shambolic. Can't wait till he fucks off to play in a league where 90% of the players sound like they should be on a menu. RACISM. :trips3 First goal was definitely a handball, glorious, but so proud of THE BOY RASHFORD. Love seeing a local player and fan of the club doing well, same with MR FUCK YOU SEB Jesse Lingard. :creepytrips Did alright again, proving to be a solid hand and whilst he starts more than I'd like, he's a great player to have in the squad. :trips2 Fellaini has done really well whenever he's come in ever since the Everton shithouse performance. Tactical Overlord Jose World Champion Mourinho proving once again he's a lovely man and a luxurious manager. :trips7 :trips8 :tripstroll

I'll end this now. Just watched the Buffy episode with the lesbian nerd kiss :Tripslick
 
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Fellaini was class. Should have been MOTM. Not shocked to find that Mourinho likes him. Will be interesting to see who drops out for Pogba, I’d suspect it will be Herrera initially.

Great opening weekend. We looked well prepared and were comfortable without ever really having to get out of first gear. With Pogba, Miki, Rashford in reserve it feels like there’s so much more to come. I hope Mourinho sticks with Blind and Bailly, they’re complimenting each other brilliantly right now.

Contrast our preperation with Arsenal. Holy fuck. There is no excuse for sending out a team like that for the opening game. Wenger knows full well the negative feeling among the fans – To not have Xhaka, Koscielny, Ozil, Giroud etc. back and ready, or to not have made signings that can cover for them is pretty disgraceful – He’s bringing this heat on himself.
 
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Not going to get carried away because we beat 10 man Hull, but i'm very pleased with the excellent win. Needed to get this after winning at Chelsea as we still have a tendency to mess up our home games after going and beating a top team away the week before.

Lallana; Great performance yet again, Mane just keeps growing and has made such a good start for us. Going forward we can be immense and i really hope we can still improve defensively and keep this consistency as we are a real dangerous team. We are so exciting to watch atm.

Happy :)
 
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