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Filbert Street - The Legendary Home of Leicester City Football Club

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If anything, the stands at the Britannia are actually further away from the pitch than they are at the Way.

?? :S:S Think you need a new pair of glasses. Unless they have moved the stands back ten yards.

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The 'stand up if you love Leicester' against Man Utd when we were relegated will live with me forever.

So close to tears!

Everytime I hear Republica 'Ready to go' and 'Let me entertain you' it brings a smile to my face.

Good times

I miss Filbo :cry:

Brilliant moment that was.

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Saw a piece on SSN saying that Stoke have narrowed the pitch for league games. Have a look next time they're on TV.

That's a shame, still can't be as far away as what ours is though.

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The Week In History: Filbert Street Record - OS - http://www.lcfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~2472894,00.html?

This week marks the 57th anniversary of a landmark day at Filbert Street. On 2 October, 1954, 42,486 fans packed into the old ground to watch the First Division fixture between Leicester and Arsenal. This set an all-time crowd record for a league match at Filbert Street.

The previous season, Leicester had been promoted to the top flight as Second Division Champions. Norman Bullock was the manager. The runners-up were Everton, who have not lost their top flight status since.

The stars of Leicester's side were players such as ex-England internationals Johnny Morris and Jack Froggatt. There was also Arthur Rowley who had already scored 135 league goals in his first four seasons at Leicester, on his way to setting the all time goalscoring record in the history of the British game.

Other notable team members included the future manager Matt Gillies, Welsh international right winger Mal Griffiths, his left-wing counterpart Derek Hogg and prolific goalscorer Derek Hines. Indeed Rowley and Hines scored an astonishing 382 goals between them while playing for Leicester, establishing them as the second and fourth-highest goalscorers respectively in the Club's entire history. It's remarkable to think that they played in the same side throughout most of the 1950s.

Leicester had started their first season back in the top division a little hesitantly. They had lost half of their first ten games before the Arsenal fixture, only winning two in the process. They entered the Arsenal match in 17th position (out of 22) on the back of a 6-4 defeat at West Brom.

The Leicester fans, though, were optimistic and early-season crowds at Filbert Street were good, despite the results. Crowds for the first few games were averaging over 33,500 and there had already been two crowds of nearly 40,000. This was in the days when the only seated areas in the ground were the upper tiers of the Main Stand and the Double Decker, so huge crowds were able to cram onto the terraces.

On the day of the Arsenal game, with the crowd spilling over onto the 'track' around the ground, there were two fatalities before the game started. The view of many of the supporters standing on the terraces would have been restricted to say the least, by the crush of the crowd and by the steel pillars holding up the roof.

These days it is hard to imagine the feeling of being swept off your feet by the crush around you, or of being pushed up and down the terraces by the movement of the crowd. The sight of small boys being passed over the heads of the crowd so they could sit on the wall at the front of the terracing is not a football cliché. It actually happened.The atmosphere at the ground on that record breaking day was further enhanced by a cloud of red and white balloons which greeted the arrival of Arsenal onto the pitch.

The Arsenal side included the great Tommy Lawton, who had briefly played for Leicester as a war-time guest 15 years earlier. The Gunners soon found themselves two goals down, scored almost inevitably by Rowley and Hines, but they hit back through Lawton and were on level terms at the interval with a goal from Logie. In the second half, Leicester took the lead from a Rowley penalty, before Lawton equalized to make it 3-3. Leicester's goalkeeper then saved a penalty and the match ended all square.

On Friday, Mick Bates' outstanding model of Filbert Street will be set up in the Fanstore at the King Power Stadium. It is highly appropriate that it is being set up in the week that marks the 57th anniversary of the old ground's biggest ever league crowd.

Website for Model

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