Reply With QuoteYep, it's incredible. I don't follow it that closely but it's quite amazing given the money and talent on other big clubs (Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal etc.), that they could pull this off.
Leicester City wins the Premiership!
For the non-football fans out there, Leicester City plays in the Premiership in England and pulled off what is best described as a big old miracle in the sporting world. Twelve months ago the barely avoided being relegated.
Kind of like Arizona winning the President's trophy in an NHL with no salary cap or draft and the president's trophy meant something... (assuming that 3yrs ago the Yotes were in the AHL and 7yrs back they were in the ECHL and their top goal scorer was playing men's league 5 yrs ago).
Bookies had them down at 5000:1 to win the league at the start of the season (they gave odds of 2000:1 to Elvis being found alive, just so you know).
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~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
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Yep, it's incredible. I don't follow it that closely but it's quite amazing given the money and talent on other big clubs (Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal etc.), that they could pull this off.
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Its been a magical season for them. I'm so happy for the fans. Just imagine... Jamie Vardy has been simply incredible. Its great to see a smaller club win it all. I couldn't help but cheer for them this last half of the season. Congrats to the Foxes on a dream run to the title.
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This is my first season following the EPL, so the enormity of this is somewhat lost on me because I don't have the context.
A whole lot of crazy shlt this season, with defending-champ Chelsea going straight into the toilet and the whole Dr. Eva mess and all the manager-shuffling that went on. I had to ask my buddies: "Is this kind of thing the norm or what? 'Cuz it all seems kinda batshlt."
I'm bummed that at least one of Newcastle or Sunderland is going to be relegated. There are some other sides that I consider to be less interesting than either of them.
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I'm a Sunderland fan.... soo, yeah. Sunderland is horribly managed at the upper level (think JFJr time in Leafland) and that needs to be fixed. Still don't want them relegated though.Originally Posted by Instant Karma
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~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
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At least if Sunderland is relegated, you have a chance to win the bottom league next year.Liverpool dont have a chance at winning anything...
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What an amazing story. I went to school there in 2011-2012 and nobody talked about the then lower league team.
12 team H2H Most Cats Wins; Keep 6/winner keeps 7; G A PPP +/- SHP SOG HIT BLK PIM // W SV GAA SV% SHO
3 C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 6D, 2G, 5 bench
C - McDavid, Crosby, Tavares
LW - DeBrincat
RW - Meier, Miller
D -
G - Jarry
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Relegation doesn't put you in the bottom league... the Championship league still has many tiers below it!At least if Sunderland is relegated, you have a chance to win the bottom league next year.
Premiership - top tier
Championship - 2nd tier
Division 1 - 3rd tier (Leicester was here in 2008 -2009)
Division 2 - 4th tier
... and so on for another 10 or so tiers.
Incidentally, Sunderland's FA Cup win came when they were a 2nd tier team in 1973.
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~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
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Yes, I know. I consider anything below Prem to be "the bottom league"... Sorry. Sunderland would be favs to win the Championship league.
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How long until this story is made into a movie in Hollywood??
Zorro says "vote for Dobber"
Angus is my best friend at dobberhockey..
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the best write up i've seen for non-soccer fans
and the goal that sealed the deal:
https://streamable.com/e7e0
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I'm a soccer fan, and watch matches from time to time, and began wondering just what the hell kind of drugs these guys were on when they went on their run. Leicester City isn't supposed to beat the likes of Manchester United or Chelsea, and yet that is just what they did. Pretty amazing.
Bottleneckers (12/16 in 2022)
16 team, points only. G: 2-W, 4-SO.
Top 9F, 4D & 1G . Keep 15, Max 23
F: J. Robertson, J. Hughes, Tavares, Lafreniere, Cozens, Newhook, Teravainen, Domi, R. Strome, Laine, Rossi, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti
D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy
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Once upon a time there was a Thai gangbang... The rest is history
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Stories that begin with a Thai gangbang usually have high entertainment value. This story is no exception.
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"Leicester’s starting line-up cost a grand total of £22.5 million to put together. Last summer, Manchester City brought in Raheem Sterling for a reported £49 million. That’s right: ONE of Manchester City’s players cost more than TWICE AS MUCH money as Leicester’s ENTIRE first team put together."
-from that article that Praba posted.
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