sharppegs Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Hello all! Now we're having the sort of season none of us had dared to dream about, I really felt the urge to write about how we got here. I'm going to write about some the most memorable goals I've experienced as a Leicester fan - not always the best, just the most memorable - and thought a good place to start would be when we were feeling the exact opposite of what we're feeling now. Here's a link to my first - Ade Akinbiyi's shirt ripping effort against Sunderland in 2001 https://goo.gl/w75L7R Interested to hear your thoughts on this, or whether you agree or disagree with me about it. Or indeed if there are any particular goals that stick in the memory for you, from either the good or the bad times. Hope you like it, and really hope to see Vardy score against my adopted homeland this Friday. That would be magnificent
kingcarr21 Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Looks like you have no body Just a floating head. A nice little read. What i would suggest is taking out the swear words. (****ing and crappy) Looks a bit random having 2 swearwords thrown into a decent write up. Doesnt really need them. Dont get me wrong im not bothered about swearing i just think it would be a better read without them. (although crappy is borderline swearing) Keep it up. Would be nice to read some more
Soar Fox Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Anytime between 2005 & 2008 until Nigel Pearson came in was a bad time. Year after year of absolute dross with a revolving door of crap managers and shite players either coming on free transfers or loans.
sharppegs Posted 13 November 2015 Author Posted 13 November 2015 Yeah, good point, think I got over excited haha. I'll probably change that
MooseBreath Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Seven figures not six figures mate, 1,000,000 has seven figures
Fox92 Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Between Adams leaving and Pearson coming in was a very bad time. Used to go to games literally knowing we'd lose. Sat through too many 0-1 home defeats against the likes of Preston, Brighton, Rotherham, Burnley etc...
SystonFox Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Between Adams leaving and Pearson coming in was a very bad time. Used to go to games literally knowing we'd lose. Sat through too many 0-1 home defeats against the likes of Preston, Brighton, Rotherham, Burnley etc... Whenever Burnley came to town you know it was a 0-1 away win with the goal always coming on 40 mins. Always. What a terrible period 05-08 was. Those three years felt like thirty
Fox92 Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Whenever Burnley came to town you know it was a 0-1 away win with the goal always coming on 40 mins. Always. What a terrible period 05-08 was. Those three years felt like thirty I know yeah. I swear Akinibiyi got the winner for two seasons running as well. I can remember going to a Tuesday night match against Hull, we lost 0-1 (no surprise) and Bridges (who was a great great player on his day) scored an absolute screamer.
shailen Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Funny thing was at the time I thought Holloway would be a great manager here and that we'd underachieve with Pearson. How wrong was I
Russell sprout Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 We've had some dark days,and am sure they'll be more in the future whether it be a year,10 years, 20 years time and so on,I think it's important to embrace our current success,I've in laws who are forest fans and even when we are doing well they say it'll never last,wish I could of told them that during there cough era,you never know this might be the start of something big and I try to not think of the past but enjoy what we have now.
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Getting done 1-0 at home by Rotherham on boxing day was the lowest point for me. Worst game of football I'll likely ever see, that Rotherham team were like a conference side and they still beat us. And it was frickin' freezing, was a long walk home that day.
Dan Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Leicester 0-3 Millwall still sticks with me. Promotion favourites, highest spenders in the league and still getting trounced at home by complete shite. The total opposite to what we were before and after then.
Stadt Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Leicester 0-3 Millwall still sticks with me. Promotion favourites, highest spenders in the league and still getting trounced at home by complete shite. The total opposite to what we were before and after then. hahaha fùck sven
Dan Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 This thread's got me looking properly into some of those horrific seasons. Barnsley away April 2007 is up there with my favourite ever.
Dan Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 You know what I am so glad we keep winning at Burnley. Them and Preston absolutely ruined my childhood.
Sampson Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Still think the worst performance I've ever seen from a Leicester side was the 6-1 defeat to bottom of the Championship and completely bankrupt Portsmouth under Paulo Sousa.
billyn88 Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 While still at school in Leicester before moving away I had a season ticket for c the 03/04, 04/05 and 05/06 seasons. The latter two served up some unbelievable dross. I remember losing 1-0 to a league one bound forest side and the players just didn't seem bothered in the slightest. I'd go as far to say that 05-07 was worse than the actual relegation to league one in a way, at least relegation meant you felt something. It then led to the start of a very positive 6 years. There has not been a dull season since then in my opinion despite some of the finishes under Sven and Pearson's initial return.
SystonFox Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 This thread's got me looking properly into some of those horrific seasons. Barnsley away April 2007 is up there with my favourite ever. Was that where fryatt knocked it up over the keepers head to force an og? Sent Leeds down to league 1 that day didn't we?
Vindaloo FOX Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 I remember a cold foggy day at Loftus road on New Year's day 2008 the season we went down to League 1. we played rubbish, our fans were rubbish and Holloway got some stick that day. The highlight of that game was Big Stevie Howard coming on and smashing the post and looking like he might do well for us other than that we were awful. QPR 3-1 LCFC . should add when we went back up I went to the same fixture and we beat them 2-1 that win took us top of the Championship that night , what a difference a season makes and what a difference NP made .
shailen Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Losing 2-0 to Luton Town on the opening day of the season has to be a low point
burleighfox Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 The time between going down from the Prem in 04 and then to League One in 08 was pretty horrible; at least when we disappeared in 2002 we came back up despite all the financial woes. Those four years in the Championship were hard to endure. After Adams left it became a revolving door of dross players and a graveyard for many whose best years were far behind them. I always think of how different things may have turned out if we'd have been a tad luckier in the Prem throughout 03/04 but having said that, would we be in the position we are now? My Dad bought season tickets for him, me and my two brothers for the first three seasons after we came back down and I always feel bad that his money was in essence thrown down the drain for three painful years; but delighted he chose against the Allen/Holloway campaign.
Gold Coast Fox Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Losing 2-0 to Luton Town on the opening day of the season has to be a low point My first ever away game... Not one to remember.
ithuriel Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Remember sitting through some torrid stuff after relegation from the Prem the last time until Pearson turned up. Levein, his assistant who I cant remember the name of, Allen, Megson, Holloway, a list of shame really.
Livid Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 It was those post Adams seasons that broke me and I gave up my ST. I'd hardly missed a home game since coming back from college in 91. There had been relatively good years with Brian Little, some magnificent years under MON, and we were just a revolving door of players and managers, no soul no passion, nothing. Whilst I didn't always agree or like NP, we owe him a massive debt for turning this club around.
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 15 November 2015 Posted 15 November 2015 Seeing Frank Burrows in his flat cap and losing 1-0 at home to Burnley in 2006... again... "Hello everybody the Burnley goal scorer is number 10 Andy Gray" Then seeing Barry Hayles score the luckiest goal ever against Palace in the last minute to win 1-0 with a weird deflection. Oh and always beating Cov 3-0 .....
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