worth_the_wait

On the way to the match on Monday night, I asked my good lady "if the bookies offered you odds of 5000-1 to stay up, would you put £10 on it?" You can guess the reply ........................

Thinking about it ... that's something we don't seem to get much of. When did we last get a proper "leak" from someone at the Club? I suppose they're all robotic jobsworths. Years ago, I used to have a m8 that worked down the City, and he used to come out with interesting stuff. That was all long before unsocial media, mind, so there was no one to pass the juicy details on to!

Driving home on Monday night, I did laugh when Pipes wondered if he'd gone home!

Fatty Robbo's testimonial. At the end of the 1979-80 season. It was a Friday night soon after we'd won the 2nd Division Championship. Thousands of us went up there - can't remember exactly how many. Drew 0-0 a great result bearing in mind what happened in the years after that. Approx 11,500 at the game I think.

As some have already said, a bit of context is needed. Harvey Barnes was a Leicester lad and was a very popular player who had been at the club all his life. He never agitated to leave (unlike some) or deliberately run down his contract ... but was sold to raise money because of other people's incompetence. Like Matt Piper being sold to Sunderland after we were relegated and in need of £. He was totally respectful after he scored. None of this cupping hands behind ears, clenched fists, or silly dancing in front of the corner flag. I think that's what the applause was more about, and also a message to the other useless City players ... that's the type of player we respect.

Seeing the delays that happen for every match where people are using mobile tickets ... the delays for next season are going to be something else. Bear in mind the club are now forcing near on 10,000 to use a method they don't want to use, and are the ones who are probably less tech savvie than others.

I reckon we're gonna score a goal tonight. Concede more, mind.

I think the first match I ever went to down Filbert St was a reserve match - early 70's. No idea who it was against, but it was a high scoring game, and i just remember sitting in the old Main Stand along with a few 100 other folk. The thing I do remember, as it was right at the end of the season ... was the state of the pitch. Not much grass on it,j mostly mud. The only grass was near the 4 corners of the pitch!

As a couple of other have said, they nearly always just declare the number of tickets sold. As do, every other club. The only time in recent years they didn't do that, was that snowed game home to Middlesbrough 2012-13 . The attendance was so low, it would've been laughable to even try and quote 25,000 or however many tickets were sold. They did actually officially quote 8,585

The crowds in the station are no problem. So long as you have a ticket, it's just scan it at the barrier and through you go. Btw there isn't a 7pm train. There is one to Brum at 6.50pm or 7.20pm. The first one would probably be too much of a dash. The 2nd one, easily catchable. It's about a 25 minute stroll ground to stn.

I'm sure we did. We took 5100 to the "rematch" and I'm sure it was the same sell-out numbers for the original match. Truly toxic atmosphere that first night ... real venom between the rival fans.

We had a decent spell in the first half of 2019-20 ... until we struggled to a draw at home to bottom club Norwich, and then Man City and Liverpool absolutely took us apart. That showed we weren't as good as we thought we were, lost confidence, and after that we were never the same again.

Good to see tickets selling well for the Ashes Series, later in the year. (end Oct/early Nov) Headingley (3rd Test) - already sold out. Everton FC (2nd Test) - Only about 1200 normal tickets left, plus some expensive/corporate seats. Wembley (1st Test) - note sure how many sold yet. I don't think they expect anywhere near a capacity, but I think they'll be happy with anything about 60,000. Got my ticket for the 2nd Test. Can't wait!

With all the slagging off of RVN or Steve Cooper, it's worth remembering the so-called manager who started off the rot. The fraud who brought the over-paid under-talented likes of Daka and Soumare to this club. The idiot who thought it would be a good idea for the FA Cup holders to drop Schmeichel for a 4th round FA Cup tie away to our local rivals. The bore who in his 4 and a half years inculcated this club with "lighweight possession at all cost, sidewards and backward mentality"

Approx 550 tickets remaining in the 3 blocks shown above.

We were incredibly lucky to get anything out of the West Ham or Brighton home games. They were both all over us, and a pair of 0-3 scorelines wouldn't have flattered them.

You want to see the following season! Decent-ish followings to Derby and Cov ... the rest pretty much rubbish, especially the 2nd half of the season. Derby Co (0) 1 Leicester C (1) 2 (E) 26,500 (away: 3500) Millwall (1) 2 Leicester C (0) 0 12,000 (away: 800) Wolves (0) 1 Leicester C (1) 1 27,500 (away: 1600) Rotherham U (0) 0 Leicester C (1) 2 6,500 (away: 1600) Q.P.R. (0) 3 Leicester C (2) 2 15,500 (away: 1800) Gillingham (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 2 (E) 6,000 (away: 800) Coventry C (0) 1 Leicester C (0) 1 18,000 (away: 3200) Cardiff C (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 14,000 (away: 1000) Crewe A (0) 2 Leicester C (1) 2 (E) 7,000 (away: 1100) Wigan A (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 11,000 (away: 1600) Leeds U (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 2 27,500 (away: 1700) Nottm For (0) 1 Leicester C (0) 1 (E) 21,500T (away: 2000) Sheff Utd (0) 2 Leicester C (0) 0 22,000 (away: 1500) Preston NE (0) 1 Leicester C (1) 1 12,500 (away: 900) Ipswich T (2) 2 Leicester C (0) 1 27,500 (away: 1000) Stoke C (2) 3 Leicester C (1) 2 (E) 14,000 (away: 900) Reading (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 14,500 (away: 900) Burnley (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 (E) 11,000 (away: 400) Watford (2) 2 Leicester C (0) 2 (E) 11,000 (away: 550) West Ham U (1) 2 Leicester C (2) 2 (E) 22,000T (away: 550) Brighton HA (0) 1 Leicester C (1) 1 6,500 (away: 750) Sunderland (1) 2 Leicester C (1) 1 35,000 (away: 800) Plymouth A (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 (1pm) 19,000 (away: ?)

Yep. Compare this to 2003-04 (Premier League, relegation season under Micky Adams). Some of the grounds were smaller than today, and might not have given 3000 tickets ... but just compare the numbers: Chelsea (2) 2 Leicester C (1) 1 41,000 (away: 1500) Aston Villa (3) 3 Leicester C (0) 1 32,500 (away: 3000) Liverpool (1) 2 Leicester C (0) 1 44,000 (away: 1900) Fulham (1) 2 Leicester C (0) 0 14,500 (away: 2000) Wolves (0) 4 Leicester C (3) 3 28,500 (away: 1400) Man City (0) 0 Leicester C (1) 3 47,000 (away: 1800) Portsmouth (0) 0 Leicester C (1) 2 20,000 (away: 1100) Everton (1) 3 Leicester C (1) 2 37,000 (away: 1300) Bolton W (1) 2 Leicester C (1) 2 28,500 (away: 1700) Southampton (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 0 (E) 31,000 (away: 1200) Middlesbro (1) 3 Leicester C (0) 3 27,000 (away: 900) Newcastle U (2) 3 Leicester C (0) 1 52,000 (away: 1400) Tottenham H (3) 4 Leicester C (1) 4 35,000T (away: 1100) Birmingham C (0) 0 Leicester C (0) 1 29,500 (away: 1900) Leeds U (2) 3 Leicester C (0) 2 (E) 34,000T (away: 1200) Man Utd (0) 1 Leicester C (0) 0 (E) 67,500 (away: 2400) Blackburn R (1) 1 Leicester C (0) 0 22,500 (away: 1900) Charlton A (0) 2 Leicester C (1) 2 26,000 (away: 1600) Arsenal (0) 2 Leicester C (1) 1 38,500T (away: 1700) T = Televised

Not forgetting the streaker!

ok, point taken. Foreign matches excluded!

That was one of the lowest away turnouts in modern times. It was quoted as 314 away fans. I've never seen a lower quoted number for a competitive away match. (the LCFC programme used to quote away attendances from about 2002, until some time ago.)

Yeah, Derby were one of the few clubs to have newspaper-type programmes in those days (as opposed to glossy magazine ones)

Whilst most City fans hated Forest foremost, or Cov if you lived in SW Leicestershire, Derby away was the best atmosphere ... certainly in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Until all-seater stadia came in, Derby was easily the best of the local grounds. Covered terracing, tight ground hemmed in by terrace housing, a really good intense/aggressive feel to the place. In contrast, both Forest and Cov had crappy open terrace ends. You could take 5,000-10,000 and still barely make any noise. And around the grounds, they had a far more open feel to it. Not saying there would be any less trouble around the towns, mind, but just that the old Baseball Ground had a great atmosphere when we went there.

I don't remember it being that cold. But the wind was terrible and badly affected the game. Blackpool had cleared, but hadn't yet rebuilt their South Stand. So there was nothing to block the Southerly/South-Westerly wind. The game was horrendously affected by the strong wind. And for good measure, they scored a last minute winner. Ah great days .....

The two coldest winters since 1963, I think, were probably1978-79 and 1981-82. The football fixture list was decimated both seasons. Stoke away (0-0) in Dec 1978 was a contender for the coldest, darkest, grey-skied day ever. Not to mention the most amazing defensive performance, literally hanging on to a 0-0 for the entire 90 minutes. Watford home (1-1) in Dec 1981 was one of the coldest day City have played on. The temperature got to a maximum of about -8 C during the day. They removed the balloon covering the pitch at 2pm, and by 3pm the pitch had frozen rock hard. in 60 minutes! When I got home at 7pm, the thermometer in my back garden in Leicester read -17 C I believe a record cold temperature near Shrewsbury was set that night, something like -24 C (which if I think was broken again a month later).