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Presumably OFFICAL 2015/16 Premier League - Leicester CHAMPS. Best Sports Story Ever

Looks like one of the games with several close chances for Arsenal but no conversion and opponents will get late goal.
 
I mean, this guy

 
Kane buries the 3rd so, so calmly to fully kill off Norwich. Spurs have kind of coasted through this match, especially the 2nd half. Never really had to put the gas down.
 
And Spurs are now 3rd - with the best GD in the league and fewest goals conceded in the league. I do not recognize this world.
 
Suck it Pool and Arsenal fans

(Pay no attention to that Ipswich 2-1 Reading result)
 
I remain skeptical that LC can maintain the pace, although they have certainly spent the better part of 6 months proving me and everyone else wrong, and I don't see United all of sudden mounting a challenge. So my view is that this will end up a three team race and while City or Arsenal should win it, the team most in the ascendancy is Spurs. Sounds odd but I'm starting to think that Spurs are going to win the league.
 
I know they don't play the exact positions and all ... but Dele Alli has now scored more PL goals in his career than Jack Wilshere*





*to be fair, he might have already played more PL matches than Wilshere**


**j/k
 
FWIW - lost in the entire enormously feel good story of Leicester (and it's the greatest story in world football right now, and probably of the entire Premier League era) is the fact that Jamie Vardy is a racist shitbag. When Leicester weren't front page news, it was easy to kind of bury the stories and video of him abusing people, and now that they are good that's "in the past". But he's a racist shitbag - he really is.

Jonathan Liew wrote this about him earlier in the year for The Telegraph, and it still rings true:

So I’ve been getting a bit of “heat” overnight – mostly from Leicester fans, but not entirely – for pointing out that Jamie Vardy is a racist. Vardy, in case you’re not aware, was caught on camera abusing a man of east Asian origin in a casino in August. The responses seem to fall into four main categories. Let’s deal with them one at a time.

1) Who cares?
Actually, I can sort of understand this one. If my car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and the mechanic who comes to fix it happens to be an EDL member, I’m probably not going to send him packing. If you’re an avid Leicester fan who depends on your football club for your happiness, and Vardy’s goals make you happy, then you’re more likely to decide that his racism isn’t as important. Every single person makes moral compromises every day of the week.
So you make a little adjustment in your head: tell yourself that what Vardy did wasn’t actually that bad, that he’s being unfairly vilified, that there’s a campaign against him. That’s a compromise you’ve made, and you’re entitled to it. But it’s not my compromise. I care that Vardy’s a racist. And as long as I care about it, I’m going to talk about it.

2) Calling someone a “Jap” isn’t racist. It’s just like calling someone a “Brit”.

Ah yes, the classic “hierarchy of racism”. You wouldn’t use the P-word or the N-word or the Y-word, but somehow the J-word – which tellingly nobody feels the need to asterisk out – is on the right side of the line. It’s the classic response of the racism apologist: yes, there is bad stuff out there, but this doesn’t qualify.
To which the only possible response is: watch the video. Watch the filthy, inebriated hatred in him: the seething disdain for someone he clearly regards as an inferior. Now replace the Asian-looking bloke with a white guy, and imagine Vardy saying “Yo, Brit. Yeah you, Brit. Walk on."
Can’t really picture it, can you?

3) It was just a drunken mistake. We all make mistakes. It was one comment, one time. Let it go.

Yes, we all make mistakes. But my drunken mistakes tend to involve falling asleep on the night bus rather than racially abusing a stranger. Maybe I need to get out more.
You really do have to feel for Vardy here. The only time he’s ever said something racist - in his entire life! – and it gets caught on camera. Talk about unlucky.

4) He’s apologised, been fined, been sent on a diversity awareness course, and genuinely seems a changed person. Give him a break.

Yes, all these things are true. And this seems to be the default position of most Vardy apologists – some of them in the media. Why carry on persecuting Vardy for something that happened in the past that he can’t change? Can’t we just accept his apology and move on? Well, you might be able to. But then, I’d doubt whether you’ve ever been the victim of genuine racism.

My view is this: racists should be pariahs. They should be punished with the full fist of the law and beaten down by the crushing yoke of public opinion. They should be out of a job. They should be out of friends. They should have to get on their knees and beg us all for forgiveness.

Vardy should be out of work right now. But seeing as he's not, he can use his platform. He should be speaking out against racism at every opportunity. He should be working tirelessly with charities, doing talks in schools, educating young players on diversity and tolerance. And he should still be apologising. Every time there's a camera on him or a microphone in front of his face, he should start by expressing his remorse for what he did and telling us how he's putting things right.

It's a pipe dream, of course. I completely understand if you don’t share this view. But there’s a victim here, and it’s not me and it’s not you. And it’s certainly not the England footballer with an 11-game scoring streak and the admiration of millions.
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vadimivich said:
I know they don't play the exact positions and all ... but Dele Alli has now scored more PL goals in his career than Jack Wilshere*





*to be fair, he might have already played more PL matches than Wilshere**


**j/k
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Don't mock our new version of Abou Diaby.
 
BTB said:
I remain skeptical that LC can maintain the pace, although they have certainly spent the better part of 6 months proving me and everyone else wrong, and I don't see United all of sudden mounting a challenge. So my view is that this will end up a three team race and while City or Arsenal should win it, the team most in the ascendancy is Spurs. Sounds odd but I'm starting to think that Spurs are going to win the league.
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I was too, especially due to their defensive record but they've only conceded 1 in their last 6 matches. Not sure where that came from but it's convincing.

Re: the second bolded; absolutely no comment.
 
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