Five Unbreakable Leicester City Records?

[davieG]

After Jamie Vardy scored in his ninth consecutive Premier League game at the weekend, LCFC.com decided to take a look at five other ‘unbreakable’ Leicester City records. 

 

The only other player to have come close to Vardy’s astonishing run was City’s goalscoring great Arthur Chandler, who scored in eight straight games in 1924/25 (seven league and one cup) – a mark that few imagined could be beaten. 

 

But with Vardy now writing his name into the Leicester City history books, we’ve picked out five other Club records that look like standing the test of time. 

 

Most goals in a game 

Two legendary Leicester City strikers share the distinction of scoring a remarkable six goals in a game for the Club – Johnny Duncan and Arthur Chandler. Duncan’s six came on Christmas Day in 1924 during a 7-0 thrashing of Port Vale in the second tier. Chandler’s six arrived in a 10-0 top-flight victory over Portsmouth in 1928. Famously, five swans flew overhead after Chandler’s fifth goal and after a sixth flew past moments later the crowd called for another goal, to which the great striker obliged. 

 

Most consecutive appearances 

Between January 1975 and March 1981, Leicester City goalkeeper Mark Wallington played in a remarkable 331 consecutive games for the Club. An injury eventually ended the run in the 1980/81 campaign, but nonetheless, it’s a sequence that will take some beating. 

 

Most league goals in a season 

While Jamie Vardy’s 12 goals in 12 games so far this campaign are mightily impressive, he still has some way to go to match the great Arthur Rowley. During City’s promotion campaign of 1956/57 he scored a phenomenal 44 goals in 42 games – a record that has stood unchallenged for 58 years. 

 

Most consecutive wins 

Chalking up back-to-back victories is tough enough, but during the 1962/63 season, Matt Gillies masterminded a brilliant run of 10 consecutive wins for Leicester City. That sequence included seven league wins and another three in the cup. The Foxes finished an impressive fourth in the top-flight that term. 

 

Biggest win 

It’s rare that a team reaches double figures in a game, particularly in the modern era, so it’s difficult to imagine City’s 10-0 top-flight win over Portsmouth in 1928 being topped any time soon. The great Arthur Chandler scored six in that win and although other City teams have come close, none have gone beyond 10 goals. In 1952 Derek Hines scored five times in a 9-2 win over Lincoln while in the 1964/65 season City won 8-1 away to Coventry in the League Cup.

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[TheUltimateWinner]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25821759

 

[AKCJ]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25821759

 

 

 

But that doesn't break the record spoken about in this thread?

[4everfox]

But that doesn't break the record spoken about in this thread?

It does as far as league wins are concerned.

[AKCJ]

It does as far as league wins are concerned.

 

 

But that isn't the record spoken about in this thread.

[Langley]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25891839

 

Nine league wins.

[MC Prussian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25821759

 

Still would need to win eleven (yes, 11!) straight games to break the record for consecutive wins (both league AND cup).

[TheUltimateWinner]

Still would need to win eleven (yes, 11!) straight games to break the record for consecutive wins (both league AND cup).

 

Crazy record, only posted the recent one as I don't see us beating 9 straight league wins for a while!

[ceredigion]

Mark Wallington was a brilliant goalkeeper for us. One of our all-time top players I think.

 

He played in an era when England had a surplus of great goalies though (Shilton, Clemence, Corrigan, Parkes, Rimmer) otherwise he would have been the England No 1 for 10 years and played in World Cups and Euros.