Tonight's Football

[Worthy4England]

The Vardy extended ban will make it harder Leicester I think. They've got away games at Man Utd and Chelsea. With Vardy I could see them having a chance of 4 points from those games. Without him, it looks tough as so much of their counter is to do with his pace and movement. They have Everton and Swansea at home and I think HAVE to win both.

Spurs are on good for and you'd expect them to win their remaining games. Means Leicester need 3 wins or 2 wins and a draw. Spurs I suppose could get nervous and slip up somewhere, I mean it isn't unlike them.

I actually think for once it is a genuinely exciting end to the season at the top of the Premiership!

Think Leicester would need 2 wins, 2 draws (or three wins) if Spurs win all their games - looking at GD, which would improve for Spurs if they won all 4...unless you reckon Leicester beat United 15/16-0

[BWFC_Insane]

The Vardy extended ban will make it harder Leicester I think. They've got away games at Man Utd and Chelsea. With Vardy I could see them having a chance of 4 points from those games. Without him, it looks tough as so much of their counter is to do with his pace and movement. They have Everton and Swansea at home and I think HAVE to win both.

Spurs are on good for and you'd expect them to win their remaining games. Means Leicester need 3 wins or 2 wins and a draw. Spurs I suppose could get nervous and slip up somewhere, I mean it isn't unlike them.

I actually think for once it is a genuinely exciting end to the season at the top of the Premiership!

Think Leicester would need 2 wins, 2 draws (or three wins) if Spurs win all their games - looking at GD, which would improve for Spurs if they won all 4...unless you reckon Leicester beat United 15/16-0

Sorry, yes my mistake.

[Bruce Rioja]

Watched as Vardy got sent off on Sunday. Can't only have been me that thought oh oooooh. Game over. Hope not, like.

[BWFC_Insane]

Watched as Vardy got sent off on Sunday. Can't only have been me that thought oh oooooh. Game over. Hope not, like.

Well it would have been a 1 match ban. For the game at home to Swansea. But because he swore at the ref that ban will be extended most likely.

And that possibly is what will kill Leicester. Which seems a shame.

You can't swear at a referee. However, Vardy will rightly be punished, but what will happen to the referee for one of the worst performances I have seen since Riley and Knight did their collective best to screw us over? I'm willing to bet his dreadful performance will simply be ignored.

[LeverEnd]

I think he will be dropped. It was too high profile to be ignored. I also think spuds will catch them.

[thebish]

I think he will be dropped. It was too high profile to be ignored. I also think spuds will catch them.

certainly possible - and is a nice illustration of how different the top of the Prem is this season... if one very unlikely team doesn't manage to win it, there's another very unlikely team waiting in the wings...
if this isn't the season (given the collapse of chelsea/manU/citeh) that Arsenal win the premiership - then you have to ask if they will ever do it again under Wenger... if anything, they look like they'll be further off than ever!

[Bruce Rioja]

I think he will be dropped. It was too high profile to be ignored. I also think spuds will catch them.

It's no defence, of course, but I suppose at least that the referee was consistently poor. I don't think he 'did a job' on Leicester so I can't agree with BWFC-I's Knight/Riley analogy.

I agree though that I expect Spurs to catch Leicester now.

[BWFC_Insane]

I think he will be dropped. It was too high profile to be ignored. I also think spuds will catch them.

It's no defence, of course, but I suppose at least that the referee was consistently poor. I don't think he 'did a job' on Leicester so I can't agree with BWFC-I's Knight/Riley analogy.

I agree though that I expect Spurs to catch Leicester now.

No, he was just poor. I'm not suggesting it was the same as Knight, Riley, just as bad in a different way.

Inadvertently his display may well be what costs Leicester the title, to some extent. A different ref and they beat West Ham and have Vardy for the run in.

I'd not rule Leicester out totally though. Were Chelsea or Man Utd top, nobody would think anyone had a chance of chasing down 5 points at this stage. They may surprise us all and hold their nerve. They've surprised everyone so far....

[Prufrock]

Watched as Vardy got sent off on Sunday. Can't only have been me that thought oh oooooh. Game over. Hope not, like.

Well it would have been a 1 match ban. For the game at home to Swansea. But because he swore at the ref that ban will be extended most likely.

And that possibly is what will kill Leicester. Which seems a shame.

You can't swear at a referee. However, Vardy will rightly be punished, but what will happen to the referee for one of the worst performances I have seen since Riley and Knight did their collective best to screw us over? I'm willing to bet his dreadful performance will simply be ignored.

You don't need to be a professional lip reader to know that you definitely can! Think it's more for the aggressive jabbing which shit referee our not I guess is fair enough.

Surprised how quickly folk have written then off again though. Spurs look incredible at the moment but winning every game under that kind of pressure is still a big ask.

Oddly, of all their games I think Swansea is the one they'll miss Vardy the least. Home to a team they're expected to beat, managed by an Italian, who will sit back. Ulloa ability in the air could be useful, he's scored some big goals this year too. Let's also not forget that Swansea are balls, and Leicester still have Kante Drinkwater and that Mahrez fella. Think they have to win on Sun, but also think they will.

[thebish]

Watched as Vardy got sent off on Sunday. Can't only have been me that thought oh oooooh. Game over. Hope not, like.

Well it would have been a 1 match ban. For the game at home to Swansea. But because he swore at the ref that ban will be extended most likely.

And that possibly is what will kill Leicester. Which seems a shame.

You can't swear at a referee. However, Vardy will rightly be punished, but what will happen to the referee for one of the worst performances I have seen since Riley and Knight did their collective best to screw us over? I'm willing to bet his dreadful performance will simply be ignored.

You don't need to be a professional lip reader to know that you definitely can! Think it's more for the aggressive jabbing which shit referee our not I guess is fair enough.

Surprised how quickly folk have written then off again though. Spurs look incredible at the moment but winning every game under that kind of pressure is still a big ask.

Oddly, of all their games I think Swansea is the one they'll miss Vardy the least. Home to a team they're expected to beat, managed by an Italian, who will sit back. Ulloa ability in the air could be useful, he's scored some big goals this year too. Let's also not forget that Swansea are balls, and Leicester still have Kante Drinkwater and that Mahrez fella. Think they have to win on Sun, but also think they will.

I haven't written Leicester off - it's just that I also haven't written spurs off... spurs are very capable (as they have in the past) of poor results - but seem to have hit a rich seam of form... Leicester have confounded the naysayers who said they would stumble after christmas... and then after Easter... either of them could win it.. Leicester DO seem to have some nerve, though, and I'd rather be in Leicester's shoes than Spurs's...

[BWFC_Insane]

It is the Vardy thing. If he wasn't banned then Leicester are huge favourites. But he's so critical to how they play it could be a problem.

I hope it isn't.

[Burnden Paddock]

I think he will be dropped. It was too high profile to be ignored. I also think spuds will catch them.

He's reffing the Arsenal game at the moment. He doesn't appear to be very popular. I seem to recall there being a lot of dissenters when he was given the cup final last season.

[bobo the clown]

Steve Gerrard has an interview in today's papers where he takes it upon himself to explain to us how Leicester will be feeling right now.

So .... how would you know Stevie ??

[Burnden Paddock]

Steve Gerrard has an interview in today's papers where he takes it upon himself to explain to us how Leicester will be feeling right now.

So .... how would you know Stevie ??

Well, he did set them on the way to losing them the title with that slip against Chelsea. Snigger. #wegoagain

[bobo the clown]

Yep. But he was never 5 points ahead with 5 to go.

Ever.

Not once.

Ever

[Burnden Paddock]

Yep. But he was never 5 points ahead with 5 to go.

Ever.

Not once.

Ever

True. But they were 3 points clear with 3 games to play (albeit Citeh had a game in hand) before they played Chelsea at home, with a chance to put them out of the running. Not that it isn't still brilliantly funny!

[Bruce Rioja]

Leicester one up v Swansea (Mahrez). Thinking about the Vardy absence situation, didn't they recently come through a Vardy vs Barn door spell pretty much unscathed?

[thebish]

Leicester one up v Swansea (Mahrez). Thinking about the Vardy absence situation, didn't they recently come through a Vardy vs Barn door spell pretty much unscathed?

aye - they did - he had a dry spell and they kept winning...

[Burnden Paddock]

Leicester one up v Swansea (Mahrez). Thinking about the Vardy absence situation, didn't they recently come through a Vardy vs Barn door spell pretty much unscathed?

aye - they did - he had a dry spell and they kept winning...

6 games without a goal, but he did have 3 assists in that time, all in 1-0 victories. This must be what it feels like to be DSB!

[Prufrock]

Well they seem to be all right!