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Leicester 5-2 Sunderland- 15 years ago today

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Right, let's make this a thread to remember this match, possibly our best performance in the Premier League. There's plenty of opportunity to complain about the current state, the comparisons of then and now in virtually every other discussion, let's keep this one about the game.

 

Incredible day really, paraded the Worthington Cup before the match, the excitement of Collymore making his home debut. It didn't disappoint, Sunderland were no mugs that year and finished 3 points ahead of us.

 

Collymore's second I think is underrated after his first, to generate the power and direction from 18 yards was a sublime header, Lennon had a stormer that day, classy through ball for Heskey's finish.

 

 

Short highlights

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IpUzmCM51Q

 

Longer version

 

Give us your memories

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I have no memories of the day as I was only a young-un but in every spell when a football club goes through a 'golden' period you can sometimes pinpoint the absolute peak. The FA Cup being a blatant obvious example for Wigan.

 

This was quite clearly ours. The first choice XI, the up front partnership of our dreams, and the potential that that team would have had. A complete performance, a complete team. Heskey's departure, Collymore's broken leg and MON's move to Celtic spelt the end, but it's amazing to think this was the peak. Not the League Cup the week before but a Premier League performance we, quite probably, will never match.

 

I'm looking forward to reading the memories of the day. The highlights show the fan jubilation, squad togetherness and jubilation that bubbled down at Filbert Street back then. I bet a few of you were thinking things couldn't get much better. How I wish those of you that thought it were wrong.

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Martin O'Neill's enthusiasm! The team was built on that, it was so infectious the players & fans were carried along on it

 

For me, rather than happy memories it's a case of 'what if?', too many what ifs to mention

 

 

Just how high could we have climbed if we could have resisted Liverpool's bid & so on

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I very clearly remember sitting in the double decker upper tier for this one, what a game. Heskey was almost unplayable at that time - and Collymore had such an eye for goal it was unreal.

 

Interesting to see KP back there with a bit more hair in his mid twenties!

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This was the high water mark for me, definitely.

 

It wasn't just plucky old Leicester grinding out a result in the face of supposedly superior opposition, which quite a few of our big results around that time had been, it was a great team performance with plenty of real quality in it and brilliant to watch.

 

I didn't let it undermine my enjoyment, but even during that game I had a feeling that it wouldn't last, or couldn't last, at any rate.  O'Neill had already come far closer to leaving for pastures new than anyone ever seems to do now without actually going on two occasions,  Heskey had been linked with big money moves for ages, and even though he'd only just arrived I'm not sure how long anyone thought Collymore would stay without the door slamming and him jumping into a car with its engine running and driving off into the night, never to be seen again.

 

I'm not claiming that I had any sage predictions of what was to come, but to me it felt like the climactic end of something rather than the beginning of something amazing.  There's been a lot of finger pointing and blame over our subsequent demise, but sometimes good things just come to a natural end.

 

I got my first season ticket in the O'Neill era but fortunately I'd been a fan for ages.  I say fortunately, because some of the crap that had gone before meant the O'Neill years were all the sweeter, and has stopped me getting too upset about some of the mediocrity since as my benchmark is the time Pleat was here

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We're Proud Of You  - not a line we hear much of these days even during last years events but we were really proud to be Leicester fans.

 

 

Was sat about 4/5 rows behind the bench, you felt so much closer to the team especially when you see Heskey 'handing' all those fans after he scored.

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Wow...was in the kop and everyone was buzzing at the prospect of heskey n colly up front...then hesskey left for scouseland.

Bloody memories!!!... Sad face

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I was only 8, but still seem to remember it pretty well considering. Wish I was old enough to remember that side a little better though, and a huge shame that we peaked there. We could quite easily have gone onto even more with O'Neil, Lennon, Heskey, Guppy all staying, Eadie and Collymore staying injury free etc. Que sera.

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Great era,but standouts for me were games like fulham in the coca cola cup,2-0 down with minutes left,draw 3-3 aet and win on penalties,then we win the competition,arsenal 3-3,Derby 4-0 away on sky,there's to many to name,a great era etched on the memory of so many fans,it's days and nights like them that no one can never take away from us

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I would have been 7 and I remember I was reading the program when Collymore scored his first. Everyone just exploded around me, frightened me to death.

 

Few, but happy memories of the O'Neill era.

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Awesome game...another mention is the 3-3 with arsenal...who remembers being 3-0 up against direby county after 1/2 hour at pride park....great days....no 5 at the back or 1 up front in thoses games

There was arguabally a 5 at the back, but in reality it was more of a 3-5-2 with Guppy and Savage as wing backs, and not the 5-4-1 that we play with 3 centre backs and two full backs. A little similar to how Liverpool play now in some respects, if only we had even 2/3 of those players in their prime now.

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Awesome game...another mention is the 3-3 with arsenal...who remembers being 3-0 up against direby county after 1/2 hour at pride park....great days....no 5 at the back or 1 up front in thoses games

Think it was 4-0 inside 1/2 an hour at Derby

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