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Anyone who is tempted to mock this competition should remember that between 1982 when we reached the FA Cup semi final and 1997 when we won the League Cup, our only cup run of any significance was in 1990/91 when we got to the Northern Area semi final of the Zenith Data Systems Cup. And we took it very seriously too, the club and the supporters. In those days you didn't rest players for ZDS Cup matches. The 1st team had to play and they were expected to play their arses off too and leave everything on the pitch. If you doubt my word, you should check the footage of us away at Notts County in the Northern Area Quarter Final. We took 10,000 fans to the game on a terrible night of wind and rain. And we pulled off a rare giant killing too because Notts County were a 1st Division side then and we were 2nd Division.

In my opinion people should be careful what they wish for. Let's hope that the government of Thailand never does anything that the UK or US governments take strong exception to. Also governments simply expropriating private property isn't something to celebrate.

If you've got a player you want to get rid of because he's too old/over the hill, or too injury prone, or is a trouble-maker in the dressing room, or has a problem with drink and drugs, or is too fat and unfit and won't train, or has connections with unsavoury criminal elements, or is demanding absurd wages, or is involved in scandals in his private life, or is just plain shite as a footballer, then Everton can be relied upon to buy him from you and pay way over the odds into the bargain.

I was on the pitch too. How bizarre was it that at the end of our worst ever season (until Holloway that is), when we finished in our lowest ever position and had been knocked out of the League Cup, the ZDS Cup and the FA Cup at the first hurdle, we would end up celebrating like that. There should have been an open-top bus tour and a reception at Victoria Park or Town Hall Square the next day. But would anybody have turned up for it?

I think keeping us up on the last day against Oxford was probably his finest hour as a manager. It would definitely have been a mistake to keep him on afterwards and not appoint Brian Little but when he took over he had 1 job to do and he managed to it so those of us who were supporters at the time will always remember him fondly. There's a nice moment in the footage of the Oxford game, just after the final whistle when you can see him blowing out his cheeks in sheer relief, although nobody at that precise time knew what had happened at the Bristol Rovers WBA game.

Nalis with a last minute stunner against Leeds in 2003 to make it 4-0 to us. I'd placed a £20 bet on us winning 3-0 and was looking forward to collecting a few hundred quid as the match went into injury time. Then Nalis hit a 35 yard volley into the top corner and the whole ground erupted in joy. Apart from me. I've never forgiven him, or the Leeds goalie for not saving it.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

It would do the Premier League a world of good not to have Everton in it for a season or two.

The League Cup for me so that Vardy, Schmeichel and Albrighton can complete a clean sweep of domestic honours with the club.

Overtakes Ernie Hine to become the 3rd highest scorer in the club's history (158) and still has an hour left to become only the 2nd Leicester player to score a hat trick against Liverpool.

The ''Entertainers''.

Should we make a move for Maguire?

In terms of PL goals scored for a single club, he's even higher in charts. The record is: Aguero (Man City) 184 Rooney (Man Utd) 183 Henry (Arsenal) 175 Kane (Tottenham) 167 Shearer (Newcastle) 148 Lampard (Chelsea) 147 Fowler (Liverpool) 128 Vardy (Leicester) 127 You have to hand it to Shearer though. He's scored 100+ PL goals for 2 different clubs and scored goals in the old 1st Division too.

Only 133 behind Alan Shearer now.

I had a meal with Dennis when he was captain around 1979. I was only a child but I still remember him. A typical chirpy cockney.

Also don't forget Alan Young, Steve Lynex and Richard Smith.

At least they're still in with a chance of winning the Brian Clough Trophy and salvaging their season.

Is it still there?

I suspect every regional newspaper is compromised by now. The Mercury will be no different. Every one of them will tell you that climate change is 3 times worse where you are than everywhere else, they will not report crime honestly if they report it at all, they will accept without question whatever totalitarian restriction on your freedom is coming next in the name of disease control. I live in an area where the weather is fine and there's no Covid but the local rag is full of doom and gloom. But if I lived in a disease-ridden, crime plagued ghetto with the sea level rising all around me, the local paper would probably tell me I've never had it so good.

We were all minus 1 year old at some point. Today's 4 year olds in Leicester were minus 1 year old when we won the Premier League.

I was at the last game of the season in 1982/83 against Burnley in the 2nd Division. It ended 0-0 and the result confirmed both our promotion and their relegation at the same time.

Jonah got chucked off the ship into the mouth of the whale for less than that.

Don't get people started on memorable games you wish you could forget. This thread will go on for ever if that happens.

I can't recall the circumstances of 95 under McGhee, 02 under Basset or 04 under Adams. Was the Man U game in 02 the last match of the season or did we have a miserable 3 or 4 games still to play before the season ended knowing that we were down anyway?

During my 46 years as supporter we've been relegated 7 times. The 1977/78, 1980/81, 1986/87, 1994/95, 2001/02, 2003/02 and 2007/08 seasons all ended with the club being relegated but on how many of those occasions did the relegation occur at the game we played, rather than as a result of another game when we weren't playing? And if we were playing, were you there? Off the top of my head, I think that in 1981 we were relegated on the last day of the season. We beat Norwich 3-2 at Carrow Road but went down because we needed teams above us to drop points and they didn't. In 1987 I think we were relegated at home at a 1-1 draw with Coventry in the penultimate game of the season. Not winning meant that relegation was confirmed with 1 game to go. I was at that game and I recall thinking we'd just go up next season but it took us 7 years to get back. Of Foxes and Fossils records the attendance that day as 14,903. The other time I remember us being relegated when we played was at Stoke in 2008. I wasn't at that game and I'm glad I wasn't. A win would have kept us up but we only drew and I think it was Sheff Wed who won their game and sent us down. Were you at that one? Because teams these days don't all play at the same time, there's now a 50/50 chance that you won't be at the game when you go up or down or win the league, as happened to us in 2016, because it's the result of a game elsewhere that seals your fate. So have you ever been at the game that sent us down?