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Both itemised B.Day games involving Rodgers was his management tenure at it's worst - with that Liverpool game in 2019 being the start of the rot really IMO! The less said about last year's Newcastle game though, the better!

Can't believe it's 26 years ago!!

It was late August 1997 - a week before Princess Diana sadly died in the car crash....

Defo. - and the small print on the car park signs are a lot less visible in the early evening dark at this time of year of course, if one isn't parking up there until that time of day....

Yes, Ambrose scored both late ones against us on consecutive Boxing Days for the away team in different leagues - for Ipswich in the then Championship in 2002 to grab their late winner - then for Newcastle's injury time equaliser to deny us three valuable points in 'the Prem. survival quest in 03! Unreal!

I wonder if he'll carry on in management until he's Warnock's or Hodgson's age?! - mid 70s?! - or indeed turn his hand to opening up his own watering hole befor long instead?!!

I only dip into this forum every now and then so - little did I know!

So with his having been sacked last w/end then the Bristol City hierachy presumably disapproved of Pearson "callling them out" for their general lack of team investment and not replacing their best players they sold in the summer then? Not sure if this topic is in another thread (probably!) but if not them I'm surprised it hasn't got more of a mention on Foxes Talk.

Let's be honest - after last season then not a soul saw this unbelievable start coming! I just hope we can carry it on against Leeds on Friday!

Although Smith didn't quite get us over the line sadly then he stil had an almost impossible job on his hands by the time he was appointed (which was way too late and after the two horror shows v Villa and Bournemouth when the inept Sadler and Stowell were left in charge). So I'd counter-argue what youi said in part by saying that Smith's game plan and defensive team selection away at Newcastle in the penultimate game nearly came off and was pretty brave, tactically speaking - and was the polar opposite of how we were inexplicably so pathetic defensively in the away game before it at Fulham, a game that everybody thought was the most winnable from all the remaining fixtures under Smith I think! Yes we rode our luck throughout in that game at Newcastle, the Toon were not at their best and we nearly did 'nick it' at the end had Castagne put away his injury time chance past Pope. Despite the draw against Everton then I also thought we looked pretty fluent in that 'six pointer' at home before that - and had Maddison not fluffed his pen.then we'd have stayed up of course, as others have said in this post too. We got lucky at Newcastle but then were unlucky in so far the final fixtures suiting escapologists Everton - but I guess we should have wrapped things up by then in various missed golden opportunity ways. In a way it felt like our relegation was 'meant to be' sadly.....

Must be somewhat unique in so far as Vardy scoring his first league goal for us at Ewood Park back in 2012 and then today there scoring his latest one, 11 years apart - wow! One can't question the GOAT's loyalty....! If we do go straight back up maybe he will go out on that high and then leave - or perhaps stay for cameo appearances in the Prem. next season....?