NFR... Leicester City, and the Tragedy of Man's Mutability

[Steeeeeeeeeed]

Boethius:

It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".

[ianthailand]

Boethius:

It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".

Bloody hell is this FoF?

[Woolly Mammoth]

Boethius:

It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".

Who invented the Wheel  ?

[toshes mate]

Just think of the huge number of random guesses mother made before it became possible for an 'observer' to even contemplate something like mankind may appear sometime somewhere.  And even now we breed stupidity and allow it to trample all over sensibility as mother whispers in the wind - you'd better get use to randomness because it is all I have got ... and, besides, the results can be quite exciting but just not for everybody all of the time and often for far too long do results seem poor.  Even mother doesn't know all the answers. 

[Fulham1959]

Boethius:

It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".

It's A Tale of Two Cities (maybe Manchester and Leicester)

[Rupert]

Boethius:

It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".

Bloody hell is this FoF?

Absolutely. Now that the football is out of the way, this board can really flourish.

[Carborundum]

"but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths"

Nice idea, but unlikely to catch on.

[Rupert]

Kipling expressed similar sentiments in his poem "If",

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same:"

It does require a degree of fatalism, but after 55 years of following the Whites my stoicism is pretty well developed. We have had, and will have good seasons, we definitely have bad seasons, and will do again, but we will still be there.

[Surlyc]

About time some Boethius was quoted on this forum!

Seriously though, as bad as Leicester fans may feel today, I would trade several relegations for a league title and an FA Cup win. As long as Leicester City is still financially viable (and they should be, once they sell some players), they can reflect on a quite incredible run.

[Andy S]

Yes I hope Leicester's recovery is relatively quick. However their relegation will be forgotten by the end of next season