Leicester City aren't just lucky with injuries - here's an article about their 2013-14 Championship side
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leicestermercury.co.ukPosted Apr 13, 2016, 12:02 AM UTC
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leicestermercury.co.ukThey've still be lucky in a way in that they've avoided fractures, ligament snaps and serious muscle tears that sometimes just cannot be prevented, and you certainly can't rush a player back from.
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Except Matty James who was sacrificed one year ago and still not fit.
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He died so the rest can live.
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"I ATE'NT DED"
- Matty James
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I think there is a connection. When Owen Hargreaves was at United, we would have slightly less injuries. When he left, we suddenly had an onslaught of injuries. Probably Owen Hargreaves was our sponge who would absorb everyone else's injuries.
Maybe Matty James is your sponge.
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"David Nugent had a hamstring problem earlier in the season but we turned it around for the next game."
Isnt that a little fishy? I recall Kante pulled a hammy this year and was back with a game or two.
Bitter Arsenal fan alert: maybe the reason players at Arsenal are constantly injured is because their medical staff can't magically make a pulled hamstring go away.
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No it's because you train on a terrible pitch. We also use cryotherapy to recover quicker e.g. soft tissue injuries. Not to mention Ranieri gives them lots of rest.
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Guess the drugs really do work. I've been lied to.
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I think we can all agree that leicester owes a lot to their medical staff.
Cough, Cough, wink, wink, say no more.
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In case you are insuniating.... Yes, they have slept with a woman.
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> Pearson stared back. There was a pause and then he answered. "You've asked the wrong question there, lad."
God, the man is just such a BELLEND, it's inescapable.
Credit to him for his performance getting them promoted and leading them to the great escape last season, but it's little surprise they decided to dispense with him given how fucking ornery and seemingly reactionary/short-tempered he is on any given occasion.
Are you an ostrich with your head in the sand, mate??
I can handle myself.
I do prefer someone who doesn't just rattle out the politically correct party line, though. Dude says what he thinks .... even if you don't agree with it, you've gotta respect that.
That's fine, and fair play, but in a lot of cases that's not really what he was doing.
In the quote I singled out, for instance, it's nothing to do with issues of political correctness; he's not even addressing an issue, he's just being a condescending twat, to someone who hasn't really done anything to provoke that treatment. This is a pattern for Nige, isn't it, and we saw it enough last year when everyone was paying attention because of Prem visibility.
Further, for me at least, people who go beyond the media-trained generic platitudes and answers can be great to listen to, and provide a new level of insight and engagement.
But that only goes so far, and Pearson's interpretation of that tips wildly over into the sort of "I'm not a bitch I'm just being honest, it's your fault if you can't handle it" arseholery and entitlement that some people delude themselves into believing is acceptable behaviour.
He's put a lot of effort into creating a quality sports science department and worker hard to make sure it does the job and someone calls it diminishes that by calling it "lucky". Sorry, but he's well within his rights to respond with that.