StephenH
David Ginola
Good old fashioned luck!
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Who or what was the turning point for Leicester City ?
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Good old fashioned luck!
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
Steps back in amazement.
Rock Strongo
dodgy Dave Goosegog
Pulis? I was comparing Leicester to 90's Norway.
StephenH
David Ginola
The Denmark team in the 92' Euros also.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
StephenH
David Ginola
You're comparing 90s Norway to the 92 Denmark side that won the Euros??
Both were leading a charmed life.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
I thought Denmark were a great team and certainly not park-the-bus like Norway. They had luck at the right moments but they were a good side where everything came together at the right time for them.
Also, their football was no comparison to the brick served up by Egil Olsen's Norway..
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
Weren't Denmark only in the tournament because another nation were chucked out?
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Yeah, Yugoslavia after the start of their civil war. It was sad that Yugoslavia would never be the same again in real life and sporting life...
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
I'm referring to the Yugoslavian wars and ethnic strife that led to the breakup of the country (to form Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia etc). The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has not been the same since (in terms of its boundaries, social cohesion etc).
The war mainly started in 1991, when Yugoslavia were top of their Euro 1992 qualifying group and flying. They were expelled from international sporting competitions (or at leats the football ones IIRC). Denmark were second in that group and were given Yugoslavia's qualifying place.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
While war is bad (mmkay) the breakup of Yugoslavia into actual nation states (more or less) wasn't a bad thing. Yugoslavia not being the same, or rather not being there any more, is definitely not a bad thing. Tito's version of "social cohesion" is not something to longed for.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
I'll try not to derail this thread, but out of interest why do you say those things, particularly the bolded bit?
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
My preference for democratic nation states over semi-dictatorial socialist republics with severe limits on political and individual freedom.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Last one on this thread: so are you saying that Tito's Yugoslavia really did have severe limits on political and individual freedom?
All that i've read thus far is that it was nowhere near the Soviet Union in that regard (apparently he stuck two fingers to the Kremlin most times) but that he wasn't fully Western-leaning either.
The impression i've always had was that Tito's Yugoslavia trod a rare line between 'East' and 'West', between 'Capitalist' and 'Socialist'.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Yes, or at least that's been my impression for sure. Though I'm not an expert.
Somewhere between the west and Stalinist/Soviet east is not a good middle ground to be in. The ethnic strife you talk about did not ignite over night, it was always there.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
I'll take this to a new thread...
Craig_J
Mido
Never thought about it like that!
Just like when John Terry was racist, Capello stepped down and Redknapp flirted with the England job from that point on! Scandals in football seem to always go against us even when it's not at our club.