February 6th, 2016 at 11:10 AM ^
This is OT af
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February 6th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
I did not know that Leicester City existed. Thank you for this.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
The first time I heard of Crystal Palace, I didn't realize that was a thing.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:34 AM ^
February 6th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^
....or the call name for NORAD in "WarGames".
February 6th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
But that's a huge upset, right? Especially in terms of roster market value.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:17 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^
Think of it this way, Leicester being in first place in the EPL is like if Purdue out of nowhere became a really good football team and led the Big Ten.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:00 PM ^
More like if GVSU did, really.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:12 AM ^
February 6th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
pep guardiola got his work cut out for him
February 6th, 2016 at 12:21 PM ^
Man City already has some of the best players in the Premier League (Aguero, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling etc.) and he'll have $200 million to spend on new players.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^
Cool man.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 12:13 PM ^
You can do it, Otto! You can do it, Otto!
Help each other out! That'll be our motto!
You can do it, Otto!
Make this spare, I'll give you free gelato!
Come back to my place, where I will get you blotto!
Domo arigato, Mister Roboto!
You can do it, Otto!
February 6th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
February 6th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^
COYS!
February 6th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
Though as a Spurs fan I do keep waiting for the eventual slip up.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:08 PM ^
Agree on Dembele, he has added a lot of steel and organization to the side that was missing when it was the Mason-Bentaleb pairing last year.
As for the second point, I know! I want to have faith but it's hard not to.steel myself waiting for the other shoe to drop.
February 6th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
Pochetttino seems to have them in a good place, in that it doesn't just feel like luck at this point.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
Even though I am a Spurs fan, Leicester City's story this year has been awesome and a welcome break from the dominance of the Big Five.
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February 6th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
COYS! I don't follow them now as closely as I used to, which is a shame because they're finally breaking through it seems. Good stuff from Spurs!
February 6th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 2:38 PM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^
It's not just any soccer score. It's portending one of the greatest upset champions of all time -- in any major professional sport.
Leicester City is a nobody. They have some middling success from eons ago; but recently they are a total afterthought. They only got promoted to the Premier League last season, and were at the "bottom of the table" (one of the worst teams) threatening to get relegated right back to the lower division (Championship) until they got hot at the end of the season. And their hot streak hasn't cooled off at all.
Manchester City is one of the big-budget, big-name teams of the last decade. Their rich Saudi owner has spent lavishly on every player he could get. They have won 2 of the last 5 EPL titles, are stocked with World Cup players, have one of the biggest budgets for salaries in sports. They were one of the co-favorites this season.
And, with 15 games to go in the 38-game season, LC goes into MC's home, with first place on the line...and scores in the 4th minute...and goes on to crush MC 3-1. In their own stadium! Color the Etihad dark blue. Game wasn't that close.
LC is now 6 points clear of MC, and if Spurs hold on right now as I type this, LC will be 5 clear of Tottenham. This is totally insane. No one could have reasonably predicted LC would win the EPL this year. No one. This just isn't the Rams winning the Super Bowl behind Kurt Warner after a 3-13 year. It's like some Arena team suddenly wound up in the NFL and then two years later won the SB. Or, like, Marshall or Central Michigan suddenly got put in the Big Ten or SEC and a couple years later whacked Alabama 21-7, in Tuscaloosa, to keep the #1 ranking.
This just doesn't happen, ever. Even if you don't like soccer, if you love the story of the upstart winning the campionship, this is the ultimate version of that. How could you not be interested?
February 6th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
I'm not saying this isn't interesting or not board-worthy but if it doesn't have anything to do with UM athletics or local sports in general, an OT post let's the correct niche of people who care read the info.
+1 for the insight though, superstringer. See, if the OP had provided some sort of background on why this is such a big deal, like you did, I would've been more inclined to care. At first glance, it just seems like a soccer score and everyone is supposed to already know why it should matter.
Without it, I assume the post has some relation to Michigan and this does not. Not trying to be a board nazi but it's good for everyone.
February 6th, 2016 at 12:13 PM ^
The big similarity there is Jamie Vardy. The guy was playing non-league football (5th tier of English football or below) until his mid-20's (in a sport where top guys often break into an elite side in their teens) and didn't appear in a top-division game until last season. He's now the leading scorer in the EPL at 29. It's an insane, once in a lifetime type of story going on there right now.
February 6th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 2:09 PM ^
I mean, it's neat and all but it's not threatening the fabric of the universe.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:46 PM ^
Uhhh...I think it is in Manchester, Liverpool and London.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^
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February 6th, 2016 at 12:28 PM ^
Then mark it OT and provide some sort of context in the actual post besides "FYI". I think the OP kind of mic-dropped the thread, insinuating the score means something more on a bigger level but it just comes off as lazy.
That's like going to a Man U soccer blog (if that exist) and saying Rutgers beats Alabama. Sure it might be big news but it's not always as intuitive as the OP is suggesting.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
I agree with the point and appreciate you pointing out the issues with the original post in a way that was constructive. I just wanted to provide some meaning behind why the topic itself is worth discussing, but left off how the original post needed some work.
February 6th, 2016 at 12:50 PM ^
February 6th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^
In terms of this blog, check out the open threads on the US national team games and Brian's World Cup posts, there are a lot of soccer followers on a blog that a lot of people spend a lot of time on and just talking football can get kinda boring.
Finally as to the 3rd or 4th best league thing, fair enough, but based off of what I've seen the list would include: England, a significant plurality of America soccer fans, and most of Asia for a start.
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