Thequickbrownfox

It's a bit of a slow crawl, isn't it?! I thought at the beginning of the season that 10 more goals was easily manageable, but I didn't realise how bad we would be then! A couple more goals for Vardy would at least give us a rare bright spot in a trying season. 10th March 1956 was the last time a Leicester player hit the 200 goal mark. Needless to say, it's a pretty rare achievement.

This was the first game of the 2012/13 season. We'd take this team now - Schmeichel, De Laet, Konchesky, Morgan, Moore, Drinkwater, Marshall, Dyer, James, Beckford, Vardy. Subs - Danns, King, Nugent.

It's a cracking album. 30 years old this year!

"Well, sects of disconnection and traditions of lost faith No culture's worth a stream of piss or a bullet in my face To hell with unity, separation'll kill us all Torn to shreds and disjointed before the final fall"

"I've looked failure in the face - it's not a pretty sight, but as my father used to say "Only a fool doesn't look where he's going."" (Marion and Geoff)

Playing Vardy now reminds me of England playing James Anderson in the 2023 Ashes. Both legends of the game, but both way past their prime. Also both were trying to reach a milestone - 700 wickets and 200 goals. Anderson got there the following year - let's hope Vardy can bag 3 more goals to reach the landmark, but even that's looking touch and go at the moment.

Reminds me of that "Fry and Laurie" sketch. "But you take your son to see "The Phantom of the Opera" every year on his birthday." "I do that because I hate him."

What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday? "Ay, matey."

Even though we avoided the points deduction, its phantom effects were almost worse. It landed us with Cooper which effectively burnt a dozen games for a start. It also made us a less attractive proposition, hence the summer signings were mediocre. Nevertheless there has been some sporadic excitement in the first half of the season and we do look a little bit better under Ruud. It'll be tough to survive, but there's always a chance and hopefully Vardy will soon become only our third player to hit 200 Leicester goals.

A great new start for the team. Far from perfect, but Ruud has instilled some belief into them in no time at all. Also Vardy reaches 100 goals at the King Power!

This is worse than we'd imagined. Bolt all the doors! Hammer large pieces of crooked wood against all the windows! (Blackadder Goes Forth)

Anyone seen "Heretic" yet? I was never a big Hugh Grant fan, but he's really excellent as the sinister intellectual Mr. Reed.

Vardy will become only the fourth player to score 100 goals at home when he scores his next goal at the King Power. HOME GOALS Arthur Chandler - 172 at Filbert Street with 14 hat tricks Arthur Rowley - 163 at Filbert Street with 13 hat tricks Ernie Hine - 104 at Filbert Street with 7 hat tricks

Well done! This is the full list of teams and goals; WATFORD 8 MIDDLESBROUGH 2 ARSENAL 6 MILLWALL 2 LIVERPOOL 6 NEWPORT 2 BOURNEMOUTH 5 SOUTHAMPTON 2 EVERTON 5 SUNDERLAND 2 BURNLEY 4 SWANSEA 2 MAN CITY 4 WEST BROM 2 MAN UNITED 4 WOLVES 2 SPURS 4 A MADRID 1 ASTON VILLA 3 BARNSLEY 1 CHELSEA 3 BRISTOL CITY 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 3 CHARLTON 1 NEWCASTLE 3 DERBY 1 NORWICH 3 IPSWICH 1 STOKE 3 NOTTS FOREST 1 BIRMINGHAM 2 QPR 1 BRIGHTON 2 SHEFF UNITED 1 FULHAM 2 SHEFF WEDNESDAY 1 HUDDERSFIELD 2 WEST HAM 1

Nearly there. Just the two now League One teams. The first was a dramatic late equaliser way back in 2012 and the other was against a team that were a Premier League side not so long ago after coming up through the play-offs.

Sorry - I meant that the teams in question are in those particular leagues this season.

Yes, just one at the King Power. He does indeed have three in total.

That's pretty impressive. Just missing five - this season one is in the Premier League, two in the Championship and two in League One.

Vardy's next home goal will be his 100th at the King Power! He's scored against 38 teams in total from Newport to Atletico Madrid. Surprisingly just the one hat trick - though it was against Man City.

Excellent thread. I would completely agree that the magic is lacking nowadays. I think saturation is a big part of it. When only one English team went into the Champions League, it was always disappointing when they were knocked out - now there isn't the same instant jeopardy. Also there's so much information available to us now, which is often good, but it removes a lot of the mystical element. Don't get me wrong - I really enjoy the high quality Leicester podcasts that we have now, but it's much like someone was saying about Hollywood - in the old days very little was known about it, so the stars had an allure and mystique and it seemed like a magical fairy tale land, whereas nowadays you can find out virtually everything about the making of a film. I think Leicester's return to the Championship was a bit of an eye opener for many. We thought we would at least be returning to the rough and tumble football of our old Championship days, but that didn't really seem to happen. Obviously everything evolves over time and change is inevitable, but when things don't seem to change for the better and watching football becomes a dull experience, then that's a disappointing development for everyone.

It could be either depending on which game you're thinking of!

Some of the scorers of our first league goal of the season over the last twenty years are quite surprising. There are some clues to each scorer below. 04/05 - Best known for a spectacular volley in the 2003/04 season. 05/06 - Top scorer for the Foxes in 2004/05. Played for Republic of Ireland at 2002 World Cup. 06/07 - Popular Australian centre back. Later played for Leeds. 07/08 - Best known for scoring a hat trick for Blackpool in the play off semi finals. 08/09 - The first of 32 goals in all competitions this season for this striker. 09/10 - Had a somewhat stop start career overall, also playing for Rangers and Derby amongst others. 10/11 - Long serving, unassuming Foxes legend. 11/12 - Defender who played just one season for Leicester. Effectively replaced by Ritchie De Laet. 12/13 - Legendary powerful Foxes defender. 13/14 - Versatile midfielder, who has recently retired. 14/15 - An up and down striker probably best remembered for a vital late equaliser in the title run in. 15/16 - Arguably our best ever player. 16/17 - PFA players' player of the year in the title winning season. 17/18 - Hardworking, though not hugely prolific striker. 18/19 - The goat. 19/20 - Long serving Nigerian midfielder. 20/21 - Almost scored a classic own goal in the relegation season. 21/22 - The goat again. 22/23 - One of our best performers over this poor season. Also scored against Wolves. 23/24 - Popular academy player who enjoyed a fine season.