ceredigion Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 It's been an extraordinary seven weeks, which have seen our club pull off a quite remarkable act of escapology. I've been wondering how other City supporters would rate this feat when it's compared with previous highlights in the club's history. We've been a Football League club continuously since 1894 and whilst we don't have numerous league titles, FA Cups and European trophies to look back on, like everyone else we do have some landmarks during our time which we can contemplate with a little pride. So how does this survival success compare with, for example:- 1- Our first promotion to the top flight in 1907/08. 2- Finishing 3rd in the 1st Division in 1927/28 and then runners-up in 1928/29. 3 - Winning our first trophy ( the League Cup) in 1964. 4 - Reaching 3 FA Cup Finals in eight years between 1961 and 1969. 5 - The original Great Escape in 1991. 6 - Reaching the 2nd Division Play Off Final in three successive years 1992/94. 7- Promotion with the last kick of the season in 1997 8 - Winning the League Cup in 1997. 9 - Winning the League Cup in 2000. 10 - Winning the Championship in 2014 with over 100 points. Those, I think, are the major achievements of Leicester City. Should this season's ''great escape'' be ranked amongst them?
AKCJ Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 It was pretty special when we finished 2nd and 3rd in 27/28 tbf
jammie82uk Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 Reaching 3 FA Cup Finals in eight years between 1961 and 1969 and losing all 3 was pretty special
weller54 Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 Financially speaking it's certainly No 1... And if we beat QPR on Saturday, that's 7 wins from last 9 games?.. A feat that will be unequalled by a bottom 6 premier league club for many many years to come I would think?
Fox92 Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 It will take something very special to beat Gillies leading us to two FA Cup finals and two League Cup finals in the space of four years.
Captain... Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 In terms of achievements it ranks below most of them except escaping relegation in 1991, I don't think anything that was made possible by only winning 4 in 29 should be held in that high a regard. The fact we have now survived fairly comfortably means that there isn't any last day heroics or one defining moment, like Tony James' header. As great as we all feel now and as important as this may prove to be, I rank it 11th as in the end we achieved what we all expected us to do at the start of the season, it is just the fact that we were shit for a long time that made it remarkable. It will also by tainted by the way some 'fans' turned on the manager and players and other fans. What we achieved, survival with one game to go, isn't remarkable, the way we did it was.
bluesbrothers Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 Booo, Captain, boooo. Yes, it's not a really big acheivement in the sense that we've done something remarkable placewise. Most of us backed us to stay up at the start of the season and, though most said that they'd bite somebody's hand off for 17th, felt we could challenge for mid-table. As it is, we may well finish 13th, which is more or less what our target as fans was.But my god, to have messed up so monumentally, and then to turn it around in the way we did? When almost every rival football fan in the land thought we were goners, and a sizable chunk of our own support as well? To sit rock bottom for nearly half a year and then to suddenly produce the best form of any team in the country, in the supposed world's best league, which would have won us the title had we produced it throughout the campaign? To do it via so many tense, tight margins, which may have seen us relegated had they not fallen our way - case in point, West Ham, Burnley and West Brom, which could have easily produced five less points than they did had King and Vardy not netted, or that penalty had gone in? To simultaneously play, for the most part, the football of our lives, and to make top-half teams like Swansea and Southampton look ordinary in the process? To have gone from being seven points adrift with 10 to play, to being mathematically safe and 4-points clear with one game to spare? To have produced a "great escape" the likes of which eclipse, stats-wise at least, those famous efforts of West Brom and Sunderland?That is truly special. Relish it.
Benguin Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 I remember our first promotion to the top flight over a hundred years ago like it was yesterday. I had been working as a shoe shine boy to save some pennies for a ticket.
shailen Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 It's not our biggest achievement because it's the minimum expectations of the club at the start of the season. But the way we've done it is probably more extraordinary than any other achievement. To win 6/8.of the last games is phenomenal considering the circumstances. So individually not the greatest but the manner of it potentially is the greatest.
Gerard Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 It was pretty special when we finished 2nd and 3rd in 27/28 tbf I remember it like it was yesterday. I used to bike to most away matches on my Penny Farthing.
Gerard Posted 17 May 2015 Posted 17 May 2015 I remember our first promotion to the top flight over a hundred years ago like it was yesterday. I had been working as a shoe shine boy to save some pennies for a ticket. Beat me to it.
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