Quote Originally Posted by Sclox View Post
Fun to think about while having your corn flakes but lets face it...smaller secrets are leaked every day in football. Theres no way the amount of people needed to make this work would have kept their mouths shut.

What tells me that it wasn't a conspiracy was how they did so well in the champions league the following season, the same team. They just had a very good team at the right time and we need to accept this. Kante won the title with Chelsea when he left and was a key man there too, Mahrez is still quality, Vardy is a great little counter attacking player to this day, wes Morgan and Danny Simpson were much under rated, Albrighton always had potential.

Nah, not buying the conspiracy idea. The chemistry and quality were right, lucky with injuries, no pressure, momentum, goodwill from the nation - little percentages here and there add up and as someone said, the planets aligned. Dont forget Di Matteo won the CL unexpectedly, Greece and Denmark won the Euros, FFS look at Wales last time in the Euros, margins between winning and losing are fine at this level so these kind of surprises can and do happen.
This is spot on for me. I also think there's a tendency to underrate that Leicester team. They had great goalscorers in that team, a very good goalie and an organized defence. It wasn't always great football, but they managed to get enough 1-0 and 2-1 victories to seal the title at the end of the day, and there's nothing odious about that at all. Aye, it's strange to see that Danny Simpson and Robert Hugh actually won the title, but they were part of a team that was on a roll.

If everytime an underdog wins something or exceeds expectations it has to be labelled a conspiracy, I think we're losing what's left that's good about the game. It's beautiful to me that Leicester, Leicester, were able to outskill Man United and Chelsea over the course of the season. That's why football is great.