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Unless I've missed something the only thing that will improve the atmosphere during the match, and it is debateable by some is the clappers. Everything else is either about making money or getting people in early to improve the entry rate into the stadium hopefully to alleviate what will likely be a call for a delayed KO due to the mobile ticketing.

Wasn't there a South/East stand ticket office built into the stadium for the first few years or more.

Leicester City would like to provide supporters with some important updates ahead of the Club’s Premier League opener with Tottenham Hotspur at King Power Stadium on Monday 19 August (8pm BST kick-off). - Leicester City host Tottenham Hotspur on Monday 19 August - The game at King Power Stadium will kick-off at 8pm BST - Supporters asked to ensure Mobile Tickets have been downloaded to their smartphones before arrival Once again for the 2024/25 season, fans are advised to arrive on Filbert Way as early as possible to avoid any potential queuing at turnstiles and to ensure everyone can get to their seats in time for kick-off. We’ve put together the below information for supporters to familiarise themselves with ahead of their visit on Monday evening. TRIBUTE TO CRAIG SHAKESPEARE We kindly ask all supporters to be in their seats in good time ahead of kick-off as the Leicester City family pays tribute to Craig Shakespeare with a minute’s applause ahead of kick-off. The former Leicester City manager sadly passed away earlier this month at the age of 60 and leaves behind an incredible legacy at the Football Club. Craig was integral to Leicester City’s rise from League One to Premier League champions, while he also led to the Club to the UEFA Champions League Quarter-Finals as manager in 2017. He was a much loved and respected member of the Leicester City family and Monday’s game will give all supporters and staff a chance to pay their respects. MOBILE TICKETING The use of mobile tickets is now commonplace for mass spectator events all over the world. At Leicester City, thousands of fans have benefitted from Mobile Ticketing (NFC) as their preferred method of entry into King Power Stadium, and the Club are encouraging as many members of the Blue Army to do so. To help support the transition to mobile ticketing, a host of information and guides are available if you are using it for the first time. Please ensure your ticket is downloaded to your phone before you arrive at King Power Stadium on Monday night. To read our FAQs on Mobile Tickets, click HERE and for further guidance on how to use Mobile Tickets, click HERE. PRE-MATCH ENTERTAINMENT As we kick off the new season, fans arriving early for our opening game are in for a treat with a host of pre-match entertainment and activations. From 5pm to 7:30pm, the North Brick Weave will come alive with music, courtesy of our resident DJ, setting the perfect atmosphere to get everyone in the matchday spirit. Fans can take part in interactive games on stage, with chances to win fantastic prizes, including £50 and £150 Foxes Fanstore vouchers, as well as fun giveaways like Filbert lollies and LCFC drinking bottles. For our younger supporters and the young at heart, there’s face painting and the opportunity to join the Colour Squad in painting the stadium blue. At approximately 6.15pm, our mascot Filbert Fox will be making an appearance to meet fans, adding to the excitement. Meanwhile, Panini enthusiasts can head over to our trading card swap station to complete their collections from the Premier League Adrenalyn XL™ 2025 Official Trading Card Game. Football-themed activities will be available for all ages and abilities, including a Pana football cage, TEQBALL tables, a football shootout, and table football. EXCITING NEW FOOD PRODUCTS This season, we’re delighted to introduce a variety of exciting new food vendors at the King Power Stadium, offering even more reasons to arrive early and make the most of your matchday experience. Positioned around the stadium, our new culinary partners bring a range of delicious options for fans to enjoy. From the North Stand to the South Stand, you can indulge in everything from classic currywurst and loaded poutine to gourmet pizzas and locally sourced farm produce. Whether you’re after something hearty, like a butter chicken naan bread or a Yorkshire pudding wrap, or just fancy a quick snack, there’s something to satisfy every taste. In addition to these offerings, we’ve also introduced new beverages, including locally brewed beers and a selection of wines to enhance your matchday. For those seeking non-alcoholic options, we now stock Dash Water and have introduced low-alcohol Guinness cans, so there’s truly something for everyone. With so much on offer, we encourage all fans to come down early, explore the new vendors, and enjoy the atmosphere building up to kick-off. DOWNLOAD THE LCFC APP! This summer we were pleased to launch of our brand-new, free official app on Android following its launch on iOS, transforming the way our fans can engage with their team. Make sure you download the app for all the latest matchday information from your Club, including being among the first to get team news, along with a host of exciting matchday features. Download - Android Download - iOS CLAP BANNERS & HONESTY FLAGS As you make your way into the stadium, be sure to collect a special Leicester vs Tottenham Hotspur clapper to cheer on the team, and don’t forget to wave one of our 2,000 brand new honesty flags in the bowl to get behind the team! SOUTH EAST TICKET OFFICE In response to valuable feedback from our supporters, we’re excited to announce the opening of a new South-East Ticket Office. We understand the importance of providing a smooth matchday experience, and this additional ticket office has been introduced to assist with queries and ease congestion at the main ticket office. While the South-East Ticket Office is a helpful resource for fans, please note that the majority of our staff are based in the main ticket office, which is recommended for more complex enquiries and ticketing needs. To further support your matchday experience, extra ticketing staff will also be stationed at turnstiles to assist with any issues related to entering the ground. Additionally, our friendly Here to Help staff will be on hand throughout the day, easily identifiable in their bright pink t-shirts. They’re available to assist with any queries you may have, ensuring that your visit to the King Power Stadium is as enjoyable and hassle-free as possible. We’re here to listen, and we’re committed to continuously improving your matchday experience. ROADWORKS There are several roadworks in place across Leicester so supporters are urged to factor additional travel times to their journeys, as well as being aware that there are overnight closures planned for the M69 from 8pm on Monday. All the latest detailed information on works in the city and across Leicestershire can be found on the Leicester traffic and travel map. Find out more HERE. NEW KITS ON SALE Pop by the Foxes Fanstore ahead of the game and get kitted out in the Club’s new home and away shirts, courtesy of adidas. The Foxes Fanstore will be open from 10am on Monday and will close at kick-off, before re-opening again for 45 minutes after the final whistle. In addition to the new season’s kits, the Fanstore offers an extensive selection of merchandise, including a new range of trainingwear and leisurewear. If you can't wait to explore the full LCFC range and want to plan your visit in advance, look no further than the official online store at LCFC.com/shop to browse through our collections. SUPPORTER CONDUCT Leicester City is dedicated to fostering a safe and inclusive environment for all individuals associated with our Football Club and is once again joining with football’s leading stakeholders to address rising incidents of discrimination in the game. As the start of the 2024/25 season approaches, the Football Club wishes to reinforce the importance of behavioural expectations and remind individuals of the introduction of stronger consequences for any form of anti-social behaviour. Supporters are advised that not only will anti-social behaviour such as offensive chanting lead to sanctions from the Club, but it may also amount to a criminal offence and lead to further, more serious consequences for individuals involved. REPORTING PROCEDURES If you experience, see or hear unacceptable behaviour on a matchday, report it. Please text 6066 starting your message with FOXES. The Football Club takes discrimination in all its forms seriously and your support in helping us to eradicate it from King Power Stadium is vital in our mission to continue making football something that can be enjoyed by everyone. Please also refer to the Supporter Charter. For more information, including about our social media banning policy, click HERE. TICKET RESALE PLATFORM The Ticket Resale Platform is intended to help our loyal Season Ticket Holders on the occasions where other commitments mean they are unable to attend a fixture at King Power Stadium. For those occasions, they will be able to make their seat available via our Ticket Resale Platform, and if purchased, they will receive 1/19th of the cost of their Season Ticket back. Please also note that children under the age of two are not permitted into the stadium. For full information, click HERE. Leicester City’s Terms & Conditions are available HERE. All times BST.

Mine doesn’t even load pages properly to see the scores so I can’t see it loading this site.

Can you even get that in most stadiums I can't even get the latest scores.

I'm pessimistic even when we're supposedly good as we're often let down even then.

https://www.lcfc.com/news/4083623/date-confirmed-for-tranmere-rovers-tie?fbclid=IwY2xjawEsKFlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ8kVMZfFPYSSa4HTDKoNYkgYqHss03pJ4Sl9Vkxu48t6WiZHTOQSxmunA_aem_tBZ3RF3s9B--DLIrpNuhmQ&lang=en Date Confirmed For Tranmere Rovers Tie LCFC MEN Published 42 mins ago 1 MinuteReading time A date has been confirmed for Leicester City’s Carabao Cup Second Round tie against Sky Bet League 2 side Tranmere Rovers. - Leicester City to host Tranmere Rovers in Carabao Cup on a Tuesday evening - Second Round fixture at King Power Stadium to kick-off at 7:45pm - Tickets on sale online to Season Ticket Holders from 5pm today (Friday) The fixture at King Power Stadium will take place on Tuesday 27 August and kick off at 7:45pm. Tickets go on sale online to Season Tickets Holders from 5pm today (Friday) and will be available on General Sale from 5pm on Thursday 22 August. Season Ticket Holder seats are held until Wednesday 21 August at 5pm. Season Ticket Holders who have Season Cards can select a physical ticket up until Wednesday 21 August (5pm). Mobile Season Ticket Holders will have Mobile Ticket option only. All other supporters will only receive the Mobile Ticket option. Supporters with a Disability that are Season Ticket Holders must assign one ticket to their main supporter number and the other Personal Assistant ticket to the Personal Assistant Season Ticket supporter number. Ticket Prices Age Season Ticket Holders General Sale Adult £12 £15 Senior (65+) £10 £13 Under-22s £10 £13 Under-18s £6 £9 Under-16s £4 £6 First Floor (All Ages)* £25 £30 *Tea/Coffee/Programme/Teamsheet NOT included Sale Date Information Season Ticket Holders (Online) Friday 16 August (5pm) Season Ticket Holders (By Phone) Monday 19 August (9am) Season Ticket Seats Released Wednesday 21 August (5pm) Fox Members Thursday 22 August General Sale Thursday 22 August (5pm) Available 8am online and 9am by phone. All tickets are subject to availability. All tickets are sold on a non-refundable and non-transferable basis. Tickets are strictly sold one ticket per supporter number. Car Park Information Priced at £5 per space. All car parks will be available. Spaces will not be reserved. Registration numbers will be required on purchase. Hospitality Banks Lounge hospitality packages are available to buy online at £99 + VAT. *All times BST.

He's as much to blame then as anyone else.

Whatever happened to finding a Kante, Mahrez, Vardy even Fuchs.

There's LCFC fans on the "New Shirt" thread that have never heard of them.

There's the lower and less fancied leagues in Europe where our recent success started, but we got too big for our boots and stopped looking in those places another consequence of our blinkered management of LCFC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6yj26vz8yo Thailand's parliament has picked Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire tycoon and former leader Thaksin, as prime minister. At 37, she will be the country's youngest PM and the second woman in the post, after her aunt Yingluck. Her selection comes just two days after former PM Srettha Thavisin was dismissed by a constitutional court. Both are from the Pheu Thai Party, which came second at the 2023 election but formed a ruling coalition.

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Bye, bye M&S

They'll be many that know little or nothing about LCFC prior to KP or the PL

The run is was horrendous https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/browse/?season=1962 # DATE POS RESULT OPPOSITION COMPETITION 1 18.08.1962 15 L 1 - 2 Fulham (A) Division One (old) 2 22.08.1962 13 D 3 - 3 Sheffield Wednesday (H) Division One (old) 3 25.08.1962 10 W 2 - 1 Nottingham Forest (H) Division One (old) 4 29.08.1962 6 W 3 - 0 Sheffield Wednesday (A) Division One (old) 5 01.09.1962 4 W 4 - 1 Bolton Wanderers (H) Division One (old) 6 04.09.1962 5 D 1 - 1 Burnley (A) Division One (old) 7 08.09.1962 6 L 2 - 3 Everton (A) Division One (old) 8 15.09.1962 6 W 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion (H) Division One (old) 9 19.09.1962 5 D 3 - 3 Burnley (H) Division One (old) 10 22.09.1962 6 D 1 - 1 Arsenal (A) Division One (old) 11 26.09.1962 - D 4 - 4 Charlton Athletic (H) League Cup 2 12 29.09.1962 5 W 3 - 0 Birmingham City (H) Division One (old) 13 02.10.1962 - L 1 - 2 Charlton Athletic (A) League Cup 2 rep 14 06.10.1962 5 W 1 - 0 Ipswich Town (A) Division One (old) 15 13.10.1962 5 W 3 - 0 Liverpool (H) Division One (old) 16 20.10.1962 5 L 0 - 2 Blackburn Rovers (A) Division One (old) 17 27.10.1962 4 W 3 - 1 Sheffield United (H) Division One (old) 18 03.11.1962 4 L 0 - 4 Tottenham Hotspur (A) Division One (old) 19 10.11.1962 4 W 2 - 0 West Ham United (H) Division One (old) 20 17.11.1962 4 D 1 - 1 Manchester City (A) Division One (old) 21 24.11.1962 4 D 0 - 0 Blackpool (H) Division One (old) 22 01.12.1962 4 W 3 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) Division One (old) 23 08.12.1962 4 D 3 - 3 Aston Villa (H) Division One (old) 24 15.12.1962 4 L 2 - 3 Fulham (H) Division One (old) 25 26.12.1962 3 W 5 - 1 Leyton Orient (H) Division One (old) 26 08.01.1963 - W 3 - 1 Grimsby Town (A) FA Cup 3 27 30.01.1963 - W 3 - 1 Ipswich Town (H) FA Cup 4 28 09.02.1963 3 W 2 - 0 Arsenal (H) Division One (old) 29 12.02.1963 3 W 3 - 1 Everton (H) Division One (old) 30 19.02.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Nottingham Forest (A) Division One (old) 31 23.02.1963 2 W 3 - 0 Ipswich Town (H) Division One (old) 32 02.03.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Liverpool (A) Division One (old) 33 09.03.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers (H) Division One (old) 34 16.03.1963 - W 1 - 0 Leyton Orient (A) FA Cup 5 35 23.03.1963 2 D 2 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur (H) Division One (old) 36 26.03.1963 2 D 0 - 0 Sheffield United (A) Division One (old) 37 30.03.1963 - W 2 - 0 Norwich City (A) FA Cup 6 38 03.04.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Leyton Orient (A) Division One (old) 39 06.04.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Manchester City (H) Division One (old) 40 08.04.1963 1 D 1 - 1 Blackpool (A) Division One (old) 41 13.04.1963 2 L 0 - 2 West Ham United (A) Division One (old) 42 15.04.1963 2 D 2 - 2 Manchester United (A) Division One (old) 43 16.04.1963 1 W 4 - 3 Manchester United (H) Division One (old) 44 20.04.1963 2 D 1 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) Division One (old) 45 27.04.1963 - W 1 - 0 Liverpool (N) FA Cup sf 46 04.05.1963 3 L 1 - 2 West Bromwich Albion (A) Division One (old) 47 11.05.1963 3 L 0 - 2 Bolton Wanderers (A) Division One (old) 48 15.05.1963 4 L 1 - 3 Aston Villa (A) Division One (old) 49 18.05.1963 4 L 2 - 3 Birmingham City (A) Division One (old) 50 25.05.1963 - L 1 - 3 Manchester United (N) FA Cup f

Yeah but had to play 5 games away between the FA Cup Semi and the Final, take a look at those dates. Also look at the dates of the game before the Semi # DATE POS RESULT OPPOSITION COMPETITION 1 18.08.1962 15 L 1 - 2 Fulham (A) Division One (old) 2 22.08.1962 13 D 3 - 3 Sheffield Wednesday (H) Division One (old) 3 25.08.1962 10 W 2 - 1 Nottingham Forest (H) Division One (old) 4 29.08.1962 6 W 3 - 0 Sheffield Wednesday (A) Division One (old) 5 01.09.1962 4 W 4 - 1 Bolton Wanderers (H) Division One (old) 6 04.09.1962 5 D 1 - 1 Burnley (A) Division One (old) 7 08.09.1962 6 L 2 - 3 Everton (A) Division One (old) 8 15.09.1962 6 W 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion (H) Division One (old) 9 19.09.1962 5 D 3 - 3 Burnley (H) Division One (old) 10 22.09.1962 6 D 1 - 1 Arsenal (A) Division One (old) 11 26.09.1962 - D 4 - 4 Charlton Athletic (H) League Cup 2 12 29.09.1962 5 W 3 - 0 Birmingham City (H) Division One (old) 13 02.10.1962 - L 1 - 2 Charlton Athletic (A) League Cup 2 rep 14 06.10.1962 5 W 1 - 0 Ipswich Town (A) Division One (old) 15 13.10.1962 5 W 3 - 0 Liverpool (H) Division One (old) 16 20.10.1962 5 L 0 - 2 Blackburn Rovers (A) Division One (old) 17 27.10.1962 4 W 3 - 1 Sheffield United (H) Division One (old) 18 03.11.1962 4 L 0 - 4 Tottenham Hotspur (A) Division One (old) 19 10.11.1962 4 W 2 - 0 West Ham United (H) Division One (old) 20 17.11.1962 4 D 1 - 1 Manchester City (A) Division One (old) 21 24.11.1962 4 D 0 - 0 Blackpool (H) Division One (old) 22 01.12.1962 4 W 3 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) Division One (old) 23 08.12.1962 4 D 3 - 3 Aston Villa (H) Division One (old) 24 15.12.1962 4 L 2 - 3 Fulham (H) Division One (old) 25 26.12.1962 3 W 5 - 1 Leyton Orient (H) Division One (old) 26 08.01.1963 - W 3 - 1 Grimsby Town (A) FA Cup 3 27 30.01.1963 - W 3 - 1 Ipswich Town (H) FA Cup 4 28 09.02.1963 3 W 2 - 0 Arsenal (H) Division One (old) 29 12.02.1963 3 W 3 - 1 Everton (H) Division One (old) 30 19.02.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Nottingham Forest (A) Division One (old) 31 23.02.1963 2 W 3 - 0 Ipswich Town (H) Division One (old) 32 02.03.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Liverpool (A) Division One (old) 33 09.03.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers (H) Division One (old) 34 16.03.1963 - W 1 - 0 Leyton Orient (A) FA Cup 5 35 23.03.1963 2 D 2 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur (H) Division One (old) 36 26.03.1963 2 D 0 - 0 Sheffield United (A) Division One (old) 37 30.03.1963 - W 2 - 0 Norwich City (A) FA Cup 6 38 03.04.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Leyton Orient (A) Division One (old) 39 06.04.1963 2 W 2 - 0 Manchester City (H) Division One (old) 40 08.04.1963 1 D 1 - 1 Blackpool (A) Division One (old) 41 13.04.1963 2 L 0 - 2 West Ham United (A) Division One (old) 42 15.04.1963 2 D 2 - 2 Manchester United (A) Division One (old) 43 16.04.1963 1 W 4 - 3 Manchester United (H) Division One (old) 44 20.04.1963 2 D 1 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) Division One (old) 45 27.04.1963 - W 1 - 0 Liverpool (N) FA Cup sf 46 04.05.1963 3 L 1 - 2 West Bromwich Albion (A) Division One (old) 47 11.05.1963 3 L 0 - 2 Bolton Wanderers (A) Division One (old) 48 15.05.1963 4 L 1 - 3 Aston Villa (A) Division One (old) 49 18.05.1963 4 L 2 - 3 Birmingham City (A) Division One (old) 50 25.05.1963 - L 1 - 3 Manchester United (N) FA Cup final

Revisiting Leicester's Ice Kings https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10245716/revisiting-leicesters-ice-kings Video In 1963 Leicester City sat top of Division One with just five games left. However, the Ice Kings as they were nicknamed, fell short as Everton clinched the title.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/oct/06/forgotten-story-leicester-city-ice-kings The brutal winter of 1962-63 gave Leicester City a chance of greatness, before it all slipped away Rob Bagchi Thu 6 Oct 2011 15.00 BST The winter of 1962-63 was the coldest on record in England and Wales in the 20th century. Blizzards began across the north shortly before Christmas and by mid-January temperatures had plummeted to -16C, covering the sea with a solid ice sheet a mile wide at Herne Bay in Kent. Snow lay across much of the country for three months and so many hundreds of football fixtures were postponed that the pools companies, having been forced to void the coupons for three weeks in succession and desperate to preserve their takings, inaugurated the Pools Panel to keep their income flowing. With clubs dependent on gate receipts as their only stable source of revenue, increasingly desperate measures were employed to thaw out pitches and allow them to restore bank balances diminished by their salary obligations. Blackpool engaged the army to melt the ice on Bloomfield Road with flame-throwers, Chelsea, a rather unlikely venue even then for Boys from the Blackstuff, tried motorway tar burners, others bought sand in 90-ton loads and Halifax Town threw in the towel and opened The Shay as an ice rink. At Filbert Street, however, the groundsman Bill Taylor had more success. In the summer of 1962 Taylor had relaid the pitch and his decision to treat the topsoil with a blend of fertiliser and weedkiller paid dividends when the chemical reaction generated enough heat to battle the intense frost. Once the snow had been cleared with the help of Foxes fans recruited through the pages of the Leicester Mercury, Taylor covered the grass with straw and sat up all night to feed coke into a dozen burning braziers scattered across the field. All his diligent work could not defeat a 10-day spell of constant snow in late January yet by the month's end he had Filbert Street ready to host its first home game since Boxing Day, a fourth-round FA Cup tie against Ipswich Town. While some clubs would go as long as 10 weeks without playing, Leicester City were back to work in five. The story of football in the 1960s is dominated by the victors: Bill Shankly and Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alf Ramsey and Harry Catterick, Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, Don Revie and Harry Potts, Bill Nicholson's Double winners and the boys of '66. Leicester City, genuine contenders for the majority of a more competitively egalitarian decade, are seldom mentioned yet, like Tottenham Hotspur, they made three FA Cup final appearances during the '60s. While Spurs won all three, Leicester's ribbons never decorated the trophy. Underdogs in 1961 and 1969, they went into the 1963 final as firm favourites against a Manchester United side with luminaries as radiant as Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Pat Crerand. That they did so was the product of their form over the gruelling winter months. As others shivered in inactivity, Leicester City advanced in league and Cup with such style and vigour that the only debate among newspapers was whether to proclaim them "the Ice Kings" or "the Ice Age Champs". Matt Gillies, the former Bolton captain who had moved into a coaching role four years after joining Leicester in 1952, had been appointed to replace David Halliday as manager in 1958. By 1961, the season they had tried to derail Spurs' push for the Double by defeating them in the league at White Hart Lane before their second attempt to stop them was ruined in the FA Cup final when the full-back Len Chalmers was injured and was forced to hobble about on the wing, Gillies had begun to receive praise for his tactical innovation. The Scot and his resourceful coach Bert Johnson had been impressed by the great Austria and Hungary teams of the 1950s and introduced their version of the "whirl" and the "switch", playing sequences of short probing passes to unlock defences and establishing the concept of positional flexibility, specifically for wing-halves, inside-forwards and wingers. Two signings in the summer of 1962 helped to refine this blueprint. Mike Stringfellow, a brave, tall energetic left-winger bought from Mansfield, was described by his team-mate, Frank McLintock, as "selfless enough to run all day in the service of the team and selfish enough to bombard the goal at almost every opportunity". He was paired with Davie Gibson, the impish inside-left bought from Hibernian after Gillies was persuaded by Johnson to change his original preference from Motherwell's Pat Quinn. Gibson quickly became City's creator-in-chief, his impeccable control and ability to fizz balls out to Stringfellow as well as swap roles with him, and play sharp, angled passes into the box for the converted centre-forward Ken Keyworth, arrested the slump Leicester had experienced the previous season. On the other side of the field McLintock, then a dynamic right-half before his late transformation at Arsenal into a commanding centre-back, would often use the space vacated when the inside-right Graham Cross retreated (with the opposition's left-half in pursuit) to bomb forward into his colleague's position. Cross, who also played cricket for Leicestershire, eventually prospered as a centre-half but used those defensive instincts while ostensibly a forward to augment the old back three with an extra body. The beauty of the team was its individuals' ability to play different roles during a game and they used it to catch opponents who were wedded to rigid formations by surprise. Having a world-class goalkeeper in Gordon Banks doubtlessly helped too. When the blizzards hit the Midlands and south in the week before New Year's Day, City had just consolidated their grip on fourth place with a 5-1 Boxing Day victory over Leyton Orient who were enjoying, or rather enduring, their solitary top-flight season. With January's league fixtures wiped out and only the FA Cup victories at Grimsby and at home over Ipswich surviving, Gillies's training sessions took place indoors at Granby Halls before the manager took the squad to marginally more temperate Brighton. Even there, though, it was freezing. Living through that winter, says McLintock, "was a rotten experience. No matter how much coal we threw on the fire, or how many gallons of steaming hot soup we shovelled down, we went weeks without ever being warm". On 9 February 1963, thanks to Bill Taylor's exertions, City were at last ready to resume their title challenge after a 45-day hiatus. The lay-off was long enough but when contrasted with Arsenal, who went 63 days between home league fixtures, Everton 70 days and Manchester United 77, it is clear how much Leicester owed to the ground staff. But even after the groundsman's all-night vigils, Banks adopted a strange routine to conquer the conditions. When the braziers had been removed, he said, "the pitch had partly frozen over again, especially the end that lay in the shadow of the club's towering double-decker stand. On my right foot I would have my normal boot with hammer-in leather studs, while on my left I'd wear a boot with moulded rubber studs that offered better footing on hard surfaces. Under my arm I would carry the other two odd boots. Once I knew which end we were to defend in the first half I would change one boot to make a pair." Keyworth scored twice in a 2-0 victory over Arsenal to resume a run that eventually ended in seven successive league victories. Taking into account the state of the pitch, Leicester adopted a more pragmatic style, pinging long passes from the half-backs out to Stringfellow on the left wing and Howard Riley on the right. Everton, Nottingham Forest and Ipswich were dispatched in February to move City up to second place, though the pack behind them all had games in hand. On 2 March they visited Anfield and won 2-0 with a performance that invited superlatives. The Observer's Ben Wright, in an unimprovable description of the home side's vivacity under Shankly, wrote: "Liverpool started as they usually do – in an almost hysterical hurry." Leicester, he continued, "took complete command" in "a victory for team work". The Guardian's Eric Todd identified the qualities City possessed: "Flexibility, adaptability, terrifying understanding and common sense are Leicester's greatest assets. Intelligent application of all four have done the rest." Gibson capped a fine display by scoring the second goal, driving Todd to write: "They were craftsmen and cracksmen not burglars and if Gibson was the No1 Raffles, there was not much he could teach his colleagues." The winning run was finally ended with a 2-2 draw at Blackpool but they recovered to pick up a further six points from the next four games before their unbeaten run in 1963 concluded in defeat at Upton Park. A draw at Old Trafford on Easter Monday was followed by a thrilling 4-3 victory over the same opponents the following night, Keyworth matching Law's hat-trick for Manchester United, putting them top of the table with five games to play. Regular football had given them an edge in the division but as the ice finally relented, the other leading teams began to catch up. Leicester's players professed themselves happy to have the points in the bag instead of games in hand but injuries to Banks, Keyworth, Gibson and the centre-half Ian King disrupted a settled side and demolished their momentum. Only one point was taken from the remaining five games, giving up nine points, the exact margin the eventual champions Everton, who won four and drew one of theirs, held over City at the end of the season. "Under normal circumstances to finish fourth in the league and have a Cup final to look forward to would be considered a successful season," said Banks. "But to us it felt like relegation." When they had defeated Liverpool at Hillsborough in the FA Cup semi-final Leicester had been second in the table, three points behind Everton who had played a game more. By the end of the following month, the Leicester Mercury began to talk of victory in the final, not as a crowning glory as it had at the end of April, but as a source of solace. The semi-final was a remarkable match, so one-sided in Liverpool's favour that Leicester's win was more a case of a mugging than the work of gentlemanly thieves. "Playing them when they were at the top of their game," said McLintock vividly, "was like plastering your face in marmalade then kicking over a wasps' nest." Shankly's team battered City and after Stringfellow's counterattacking 18th-minute goal the wave of Liverpool attacks became relentless. Banks was called on to make more than 30 saves, one of them from Ian St John in injury time, according to McLintock, "the equal of anything he ever did, the Pelé save included". Leicester's victory, he continued, "was the biggest travesty of justice I witnessed during 21 years as a professional". Something similarly unfair happened after the game. A photograph taken of Banks, King and the left-back, Richie Norman, grinning in amused bewilderment at the act of larceny they had just committed was cropped to leave only the Leicester No1 in the shot and the figure of the Liverpool forward, Ian St John, 10 yards away, trudging off the field in abject misery. When the photograph appeared in a Sunday newspaper, it looked like Banks was taunting St John and it brought reams of hate mail from Liverpool supporters to the England keeper's door. The next time he played at Anfield he was pelted with orange peel, boiled sweets and other, less savoury, missiles. While Leicester's fourth place was their best in the league since 1928-29 (when they had been runners-up to a team then still called The Wednesday), the season had been dire for Manchester – City were relegated and United finished 19th with only three more points than their neighbours. United were considered a side of brilliant individuals, but one which Matt Busby and Jimmy Murphy were struggling to mould into a team, the exact opposite of Leicester's reputation. The pre-match verdicts were almost unanimous: if Leicester played at their peak, they would win. Sadly, they were unremittingly awful. Their only moment of hope came on 80 minutes when Keyworth answered goals from Law and David Herd but Herd's second in United's 3-1 victory ended City's brief revival five minutes later. Leicester, wrote Alan Hoby in the Sunday Express, were pulled apart by "a deadly duet danced by those two tartan magicians, Crerand and Law". Crerand's anticipation repeatedly robbed Gibson of the ball and with their playmaker comprehensively snuffed out, wrote Hoby, Leicester resembled "a shabby reflection of good intentions". The sound of studs is McLintock's memory of his second FA Cup final defeat in three years. "After a win there is the rat-a-tat-tat of jubilant players skipping their way up the concrete tunnel. When you lose there is a slow clack-clack. It sounds like the death march and haunts you for years afterwards." That evening at the club's post-match banquet at the Dorchester, the Leicester City captain, Colin Appleton, said to his team-mates: "We learned an important lesson today, lads. But for the life of me I don't know what it is." Perhaps the abiding lesson is that Ice Kings, just like ice itself, eventually melt away.

@kushiro History lesson needed here.

They did win the league for us

May be an Enzo request that couldn't be terminated.

PSR wise we're skint they were free transfers showing a trues reflection of where we are stuck.

More likely they've been reading this forum and some of the recent polls/questionnaires.