I have been waiting for this day to say.

[Strokes]

Thought we were dead and buried after hull at home, never in a million years did I expect a run of results like that, and if anyone says they did, I'd suggest they are telling porkies.

Yes people had faith we'd stay up, but even the most positive fan was tested, especially how late we left it.

No I never expected results like that, I didn't expect all the others in the scrap to start winning, I was hoping a really low points total would be enough and we would scrape it. I must have looked at the table a thousand times since that Hull game and probably come away with a thousand different emotions, ranging from despair to elation.

[Bettsj2]

As has been said, some wouldnt say we were down because it wasnt mathematically certain but that isnt the same as believing we'd stay up.

Some did and fair play to them but that wasnt based on anything other than complete blind loyalty (there's nothing wrong with that by the way) especially after the Hull game.

Everyone that was resigned to relegation after that Hull game were more than entitled to feel that way and the attempts to make those people feel bad is really souring the achievement of staying up.

There were literally only a handful of people that resorted to abuse of NP. Most who wanted him out based it on what was happening at the time, again perfectly justified (especially given the changes they were being called for are the changes made that have actually worked).

Whatever your position was, we're all happy that we've survived and are now looking forward to new signings and another Premier League campaign next year.

There is nothing to bicker about anymore. This last few games the fans have been more united and made more noise than I can ever remember.

Lets keep that feeling.

[MANFACE]

I voted UKIP...opps, sorrry, YES !

[Haydos]

There were literally only a handful of people that resorted to abuse of NP. Most who wanted him out based it on what was happening at the time, again perfectly justified (especially given the changes they were being called for are the changes made that have actually worked).

 

 

No there wasn't, a lot of people that claimed to still have belief or put up an argument for Pearson being good for the club in the long term were shot down, laughed at, insulted, called happy clappers (constantly).

It's bullshit, these people deserve to be gloated at, they acted like cvnts. Fvck off, I believed that he had shown we can play football, the team have always played for him, he's constantly taken us forward and I still think he can do so. If you're going to be a dour **** then fair enough but eat shit if you're just going to insult anyone that still has faith.

[Bayfox]

After we couldn't beat 10 man hull at home. I thought that was it.

Still been to every game since and backed the boys 100% as you could see they were trying. But just wondered if we lacked that extra quality needed.

At times when you look at our season we matched the big boys for large parts of games and always been in games.

However games such as west brom, palace, burnley, hull etc when we should have a chance of winning we seemed to, almost be dragged down to that level and end up in a battle. Not playing football.

But somehow we turned it round as a team and a club. The players clearly play for nige and the noticeable in fighting that occured at west ham and united away has been replaced by positivity in the stands as well.

[The Doctor]

Tell me I am mad now?

 

Evidently not, but anyone who seriously thought we would stay up after the Hull game was barking and hanging on out of blind loyalty rather than rational thought - every strand of logic led to us being down. What has happened in the intervening two months is a miracle, but people who expect miracles to happen as a matter of fact, like the sun rising in the morning, are barking.

[Monsell1976]

As has been said, some wouldnt say we were down because it wasnt mathematically certain but that isnt the same as believing we'd stay up.

Some did and fair play to them but that wasnt based on anything other than complete blind loyalty (there's nothing wrong with that by the way) especially after the Hull game.

Everyone that was resigned to relegation after that Hull game were more than entitled to feel that way and the attempts to make those people feel bad is really souring the achievement of staying up.

There were literally only a handful of people that resorted to abuse of NP. Most who wanted him out based it on what was happening at the time, again perfectly justified (especially given the changes they were being called for are the changes made that have actually worked).

Whatever your position was, we're all happy that we've survived and are now looking forward to new signings and another Premier League campaign next year.

There is nothing to bicker about anymore. This last few games the fans have been more united and made more noise than I can ever remember.

Lets keep that feeling.

Cracking post, there was a small minority who kept the faith, as the polls suggested at the time, and credit to them, but nobody can be called for losing the faith, as things were shocking for so long.

It took title winning form to stay up, where it came from I don't know, but all the staff at the club took a long time to learn, but at least they did in the end.

[aussie-fox]

i thought we were gone but i didn't give up. my opinion on Pearson changed all the time. I never wanted him gone but i was continually worried for him and more or less found it really disappointing that Nigel might not be our manager in the future. I really wanted him to be the man that brought premiership success to Leicester as he is the only manager since MON that i've had that real love for. Im so glad we stayed up as a fan of City and also really happy for Nigel

[Bettsj2]

No there wasn't, a lot of people that claimed to still have belief or put up an argument for Pearson being good for the club in the long term were shot down, laughed at, insulted, called happy clappers (constantly).

It's bullshit, these people deserve to be gloated at, they acted like cvnts. Fvck off, I believed that he had shown we can play football, the team have always played for him, he's constantly taken us forward and I still think he can do so. If you're going to be a dour **** then fair enough but eat shit if you're just going to insult anyone that still has faith.

So throwing insults back is the way to take the high ground?

If that's what you want fair enough. All it does though is open the opportunity for when things go wrong for the cycle to start again.

I find it a shame that it didnt even take an hour after the game had finished for this to come about.

[Haydos]

So throwing insults back is the way to take the high ground?

If that's what you want fair enough. All it does though is open the opportunity for when things go wrong for the cycle to start again.

I find it a shame that it didnt even take an hour after the game had finished for this to come about.

 

I'm not really condoning it, I just understand why people are reacting that way. I'm happily celebrating our survival, the most I've done is a couple of posts like this explaining why people must be pissed off.

 

I hope everyone learns a bit from this season, now to kick back and have a good summer.

[Bettsj2]

I hope everyone learns a bit from this season, now to kick back and have a good summer.

Couldnt agree more with that.

[fuchsntf]

In football as a city fan, I never expect anything, but I do hope and occasionally believe, faith rides the slipstream.

I blindy supported N.Pearson, because I believed the clubs future was not just a pitch issue.

I hoped and maybe expected the management to stay by the club, and not just pull the plug.

The players, with injuries therefore struggling for form to our BB players at the beginning of the season, I hoped we'd see a December turn.Oh yes we only lost by the odd goal, but some performances were dire, then some games lost, were by stupid individual mistakes.

By Feb it was my cut off.At the beginning there was a slither of hope by the end I thought the Players were not bringing the basic necessities. Wasilewski, Cambiasso, were the only die hards, King and James were holding their own just, but way behind form.Schlupp was the bright light, because of his do or die, kick of improvements he was making.

Small cup run made no difference in how we could begin to hold and distribute the ball.We were often not worse than the opposition, we had in all games, except Swamsea, good parts of the games, but still poor service going forward.

It was then I decided/believed we would go down, not the lack of trying, just lack of basic skills.

I always hoped, we could change it around, I seen Pearson backing his players, but not the chosen players capable of finding a consistent style of form.They were gone.!!!

Even upto the major run there were signs of hey this aint bad, I ground my teeth really hoping, even believing, but not trusting we could hit such a super purple patch.

Then Wham we exploded as a team, our movement, our basic skills surged and contradicted, what had previously been,we not only looked, we actually shown maybe from 11 games out, we are a skillfull fast n pacy side, that could hold it for 90 minutes.This last seven games, including a great 45 minutes against Chelsea, proved we really do have the character, more importantly the skill to play and earn our right at this level.

Huth, coming in,Marcin staying firm, Morgan finding form, then King, James eventually understanding Cambiasso, gave room and service to our men of pace, allowing Ulloa to look and be dangerous.

Albrighton, Vardy, Schlupp, Mahrez looked PL players, at last.

[foxer]

Always thought we'd do it. Certainly didn't think we'd need this many points though. Awesome stuff

[Rincewind]

As no team had survived relegation after being with our points tally at Easter I thought it unlikely  we'd stay up. Results and games had not been going our way despite playing reasonably well. I never thought we would be in that position to start with. There were at least teams I would put down as more likely to go down Burnley and QPR two off them and others in the bottom half now.

One thing I now wonder about is if we are in a similar position  ie. bottom three at Xmas next season will fans be over optismistic?

[nealsimbo]

Thought we had gone but always stuck by pearson, not sure if that was because I could not see anyone out there that I wanted in.the only game I felt disappointment in the team wad against Hull when I thought we should have gone for it thats when I thought we had no chance of staying up.

[yorksfox]

Nothing wrong in thinking we were down after the Hull game, nor for questioning the manager's tactics and team selections at the time. The PL is a steep learning curve and it took players AND management a while to get it right. Turning points? Vardy's winner at West Brom ( certainly up there with Claridge's and Tony James), the new, improved Kasper that returned after injury; Albrighton starting games; Huth and the muscular back 3; generally just the unbelievable team spirit (typified by Jamie Vardy) and amazing support from fans.

[Bettsj2]

As no team had survived relegation after being with our points tally at Easter I thought it unlikely we'd stay up. Results and games had not been going our way despite playing reasonably well. I never thought we would be in that position to start with. There were at least teams I would put down as more likely to go down Burnley and QPR two off them and others in the bottom half now.

One thing I now wonder about is if we are in a similar position ie. bottom three at Xmas next season will fans be over optismistic?

That will depend on our fixture list. Our run in certainly favoured us not just because of playing teams in and around us, but having a couple of games against teams with little or nothing to play for (West Ham, Swansea) was favourable too.

The run we've had is phenomenal and in my wildest dreams I cant see it being repeated.

But I do think with the right signings and a similar approach, we certainly can avoid the need for such form to give us a chance.

[Blanesta]

I still can't believe we've done it.                    

 

The best escape ever! 

[Gerard]

At no point this season did I think we were dead and buried.

 

I ridiculed anyone who said I was deluded thinking we had a chance of staying up.

 

We had winnable games in the last ten of the season, we needed to win them and thankfully we did.

 

However I did get it wrong on Pearson, I never once thought he was a bad manager but thought he'd run his race at Leicester City and was finished here.

 

Sorry Nigel. 

[Fox42]

Deep down I always thought we could scrape it, i.e. 17th, but to sail away ahead of everyone else with a game to spare sitting at 14th? Would never have believed anyone back at Easter.

[CovFox]

Did people seriously still have hope after Hull?  I'll admit it, I thought we were gone.  There was a little bit of hope in that we'd played better than results had suggested etc and we had a friendly looking run-in, but when non-Leicester supporting friends asked me the question, I answered that we were down and I was starting to think about trips to Derby and Forest again next year!

 

Agree with what someone said earlier - the Vardy goal at WBA reignited the hope. The league table looked a lot better after that and it appeared achievable again.  Massive goal that deserves to be put up there with the greatest in recent times.

 

I am also, and always have been, one of the 'Pearsonites' but even I was beginning to get frustrated with him, particularly some selections and tactics.  Never got as far as calling for him to go (tbf I'd probably stick with him if we had gone down) but he was starting to do my head in! 

 

Final thought.....all hail Robert Huth.

[NotTheMarketLeader]

I thought that we were gone, NP was gone and that he was losing his sanity! I don't care that I was wrong. Pretty much everyone apart from die hard optimists and unshakable NP fans thought that we were gone. Magnificent achievement.

Agreed.

There's a lot people in here patting themselves on the back.

Why?

If you thought we'd stay up on the 3rd April you had to be deluded or insane. That's nothing to brag about.

It's been a great turnaround and one that has not been seen before. It doesn't make you any sort of Sage when getting lucky as a fanciful wishing on a star long shot actually comes in!

Deep down I always thought we could scrape it, i.e. 17th, but to sail away ahead of everyone else with a game to spare sitting at 14th? Would never have believed anyone back at Easter.

Before West Ham you thought we'd scrape up?

[NotTheMarketLeader]

Nothing wrong in thinking we were down after the Hull game, nor for questioning the manager's tactics and team selections at the time. The PL is a steep learning curve and it took players AND management a while to get it right. Turning points? Vardy's winner at West Brom ( certainly up there with Claridge's and Tony James), the new, improved Kasper that returned after injury; Albrighton starting games; Huth and the muscular back 3; generally just the unbelievable team spirit (typified by Jamie Vardy) and amazing support from fans.

Agreed

[desertfox2]

On the bottom 3 predictions, I had qpr burnley and sunderland, one comment was suggesting I'd just come from a party with Vardy. was wrong about Sunderland but right about us. Probably heart over head at the time. Although I did put a couple of quid on a bottom 3 of qpr, Burnley and Newcastle when it was 33/1. Going to be an interesting Sunday.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Love it when you are wrong lol

You've just made me feel very happy,buddy.