budgetmeansbudget wrote:sussexpob wrote:The whole football establishment are pining for Leicester to win it, so the fact the ref didnt give it has nothing to do with anything.
not that many teams fans should complain. After all, Man United got years of it.
Not sure pining is the word, but you are prone to exaggeration at times.
To "pine" after something is to crave or yearn for something strongly. I think your second comment about being sick of the big teams winning, which is something the majority of non-Tottenham fans now echo, leave the comment about my exaggeration levels redundant.
Examples like yesterday to me essentially showed that Leicester will win, simply because there is a will and a narrative thats positive. Referee's will ignore a defender saving on the line, commentators will ignore referee's making those mistakes week in week out because they dont want to dwell on it, neither do the general public because it ruins the fairy tale ending that everyone craves for..... Its all cyclic. Leicester got themselves in the position to win, and ever since the mechanics of the football establishment have been working in every way to make sure it happens.
Without refs they would already have slipped down to 7th by now.
This is always the case. Without a similar process, Steven Gerrard would have been sent of 56 times in his career and played the majority of it for Preston, but he was captain fantastic and a white Englishman, so all of his leg snapping tackles were "honest hard work grit and determination"..... not physical assault as many of them often were (just ask Boateng, who nearly had his leg ripped from his knee socket).... maybe even Alan Shearer, would kicked more than one person in the face when on the floor (didnt he nearly blind Ugo Eghigo?) while escaping punishment.
If you are Uruguay though, good luck getting off with any of that
