Eight years!

[Guy]

From 'unlucky zeros' to 'nationwide unlikely heroes' - all in just eight short years! This will never happen again in the history of English football one would sense! Stoke away in May 2008 to Chelsea away in May 2016 - the difference in the two and contrasting emotions could simply not be greater!!! That's all!    ...and N.Pearson!!

[shailen]

I still haven't taken in what we have done this season, but when I do realise we are have won the PL and how ridiculous this whole thing is I don't know how I will react. I said two years ago when we got promoted, I felt this is a special bunch of lads. Never expected this mind, but has anyone actually realised what we have done. We have won the PL like it's football manager, and we are going to be playing Champions league with a good chance of getting into the knockout stages being first seeds. And people are reacting like nothing big as happened. COME ON, WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MAN!!! DILLY DING DILLY DONG

[BoyJones]

Will never forget trudging back to the car with most Stoke fans taking the Michael.

Always had the belief we would get back, but the magnitude of what the team has achieved this season is beyond belief. Champions of England, Wembley trip, champions league, Barcelona to play, world wide coverage, money rolling in to secure our long term future.

One of the best bits for me is seeing all the City celebrating together. Brilliant.

[Guy]

I remember witnessing 'that' Stoke away game eight years ago on Sky at home and simply couldn't believe the ball wouldn't go in for us that day, coupled with the scores that were all going against us re our relegation rivals of that season, Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton. In the end we went down with a -3 goal difference! Soooo unlucky and on a par with Peterborough going down to League One with 58 points or something ridiculous like that the other year!

 

The karma has come round full circle in the most positive way imaginable now of course since that ill fated one season fiasco of having three managers and one caretaker manager under Mandaric - and now look at us! Admittedly Mandaric righted his wrongs the following season by appointing the unlikeliest of Messiahs in N.Pearson (who probably got a muted welcome just like Ranieri did last summer at the start!) but then blotted it again re appointing Sousa - before handing over to the magnificent Thais thankfully :-) 

[bovril]

I remember the Stoke match like it was yesterday. Listened to it on five live in a dusty internet cafe in Palermo. Absolutely excruciating. Such an empty feeling afterwards. We were on such a downwards trajectory, I remember walking back to my apartment and thinking "that's it, we'll just be kicking around the lower leagues for the next few years", a big club with no direction like Burnley of the 80s and 90s or today's Coventry.

The transformation is remarkable. There are no words really. How do you even start to sum up a story like Leicester's?

[st albans fox]

still cant accept it. no tears yet as I continue believe deep down that its all an elaborate hoax. rather hoped Saturday would bring it to life but it really didn't.

 

stringers podcast almost brought it to reality but fell short in the end.

[Guy]

I remember the Stoke match like it was yesterday. Listened to it on five live in a dusty internet cafe in Palermo. Absolutely excruciating. Such an empty feeling afterwards. We were on such a downwards trajectory, I remember walking back to my apartment and thinking "that's it, we'll just be kicking around the lower leagues for the next few years", a big club with no direction like Burnley of the 80s and 90s or today's Coventry.

The transformation is remarkable. There are no words really. How do you even start to sum up a story like Leicester's?

I thought once the first month of the 2008-09 season was over with that all looked well and I  was elated when that 'Super Stevie Howard' goal went in against Leeds at the end of our League one campaign and it meant we were back at the first attempt and as Champions of that div. 

 

Since then, it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride and it wasn't all plain sailing of course under Sousa and Sven. However I don't think you can begin to summarise the past year other than in one word - fairytale! - and one that you couldn't really make up! There's surely got to be a film made of this, as everybody keeps talking up in social/media circles. Just sooo happy it's our club   

[fazzyfox]

I remember after the Sheff Weds defeat (match before Stoke) I was hanging around near the junction of Burnmoor Street and the Infirmary shell shocked when a young (15-17ish) lad came up to me and said "Keep the faith" and then walked away. May have been an Angel, may have been a fan but he said it with such sincerity it didn't ever leave me. He probably meant we might beat Stoke rather than predicting the long term turnaround but I'll never forget him.

[purpleronnie]

I'm still pretty sure we haven't actually won the title.

[bovril]

I'm still pretty sure we haven't actually won the title.

 

Wait, wasn't there an earthquake in Lincolnshire in 2008? Maybe my commemorative Filbert Street brick fragment fell of my shelves and hit my head, and the ensuing 8 years have been a Wizard Of Oz-style dream. And I'm going to wake up, back in the Fens, surrounded by friends and family telling me to chill out and have a sandwich...

[Guy]

I remember after the Sheff Weds defeat (match before Stoke) I was hanging around near the junction of Burnmoor Street and the Infirmary shell shocked when a young (15-17ish) lad came up to me and said "Keep the faith" and then walked away. May have been an Angel, may have been a fan but he said it with such sincerity it didn't ever leave me. He probably meant we might beat Stoke rather than predicting the long term turnaround but I'll never forget him.

He (or it....!) could've been a calling from up above indeed!!

[Guest CityFan 06]

Not only was our PL title win arguably the greatest ever in English football history, but the story that goes with it makes it even more special, perhaps the 'greatest journey' to go alongside the actual achievement. In eight years, we've really seen the high and lows of the club. Relegation, two titles, two promotions and playoffs. 

[stripeyfox]

Wait, wasn't there an earthquake in Lincolnshire in 2008? Maybe my commemorative Filbert Street brick fragment fell of my shelves and hit my head, and the ensuing 8 years have been a Wizard Of Oz-style dream. And I'm going to wake up, back in the Fens, surrounded by friends and family telling me to chill out and have a sandwich...

..and that Ian Holloway is still our manager and we are in the Conference...

(That earthquake was in February 2008 - I remember it well, it was the night my son was born and my already shot to pieces nerves were shattered when the windows started shaking. I lived near a railway line and it sounded like a train was coming off the tracks and through my house!!)_

[Guy]

..and that Ian Holloway is still our manager and we are in the Conference...

(That earthquake was in February 2008 - I remember it well, it was the night my son was born and my already shot to pieces nerves were shattered when the windows started shaking. I lived near a railway line and it sounded like a train was coming off the tracks and through my house!!)_

I was stopping up at my folks in Northamptonshire that particular week in February 2008 and the earth tremors were very much felt there too! I thought either someone had driven a car into the house or I had just dreamt it! 

[thesilverfox]

Not only was our PL title win arguably the greatest ever in English football history, but the story that goes with it makes it even more special, perhaps the 'greatest journey' to go alongside the actual achievement. In eight years, we've really seen the high and lows of the club. Relegation, two titles, two promotions and playoffs. 

THREE titles.. 

[Guest CityFan 06]

THREE titles.. 

 

My apologies, of course!

[LanguedocFox]

I remember after the Sheff Weds defeat (match before Stoke) I was hanging around near the junction of Burnmoor Street and the Infirmary shell shocked when a young (15-17ish) lad came up to me and said "Keep the faith" and then walked away. May have been an Angel, may have been a fan but he said it with such sincerity it didn't ever leave me. He probably meant we might beat Stoke rather than predicting the long term turnaround but I'll never forget him.

 

I was at the Wednesday game. I can only get over for a few matches each season, and went to that one to lend my voice, urging us to victory. I was convinced we would win, but from halfway through the first half it was clear we weren't going to do so. The journey back to London, and then back here, was awful. Lots of people were telling me we'd be fine, all we needed was to beat Stoke and we'd be safe, but somehow I didn't believe them. And I was right.

 

Lowest I'd ever felt, and the journey back has been a pleasure almost every step of the way.

[AmyLGK]

So much has happened in the last 8 years that I can no longer fit into my Leicester shirt..maybe it's time to buy a new one....or put the fork down...

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

56 bloody years ( I know I keep harping on about  it ), but this day has been pent up inside me. The genie is out of his bottle!      

[Great Boos Up]

At the stoke game I had an internal desperate meek emotion of hope, and this year turned into an external aggressive explosion of violent glee that a great wrong had been righted.

I did throw my season ticket in the bin that year the plastic that I am, but it was at the time a f'kin disgrace.

Right here, right now, I feel like I'm looking down on the football world and no matter what happens no one can hurt me ever again.

[stretch1965]

I'll never forget the stoke away when we got relegated. It felt like the girlfriend you wanted to dump but couldn't because you could never love another

[Guy]

Having to beat Stoke away on the final day of 2007-08 to avoid the unprecedented drop (a team who were Prem. bound no less.......), was a very tall order but we so nearly pulled it off after grave setbacks just before then, such the home draw with relegated Colchester and the costly home loss to relegation rivals Sheff Wed. I still wonder what would have happened had we stayed up that season? Somehow I think fate has it that we probably wouldn't have achieved what we now have, had we stayed up but we shall never know of course! It lead to Pearson coming our way and the rest is history I guess!!

[shailen]

Pearson has to take a lot of credit for the way he transformed the club. We were nowhere before he came, he stripped out all the bad egos and players at the club and nearly took us to double promotions with a team that was full of desire and spirit like the one we have now. Then big money Leicester under Sven, which again required rebuilding with Pearson in his second spell, and going through that play off semi final defeat and the great escape, has given the players momentum and the committness to work even harder and this year they are playing with confidence. However Pearson and his backroom staff laid the foundations for our club getting to where it is today, but Ranieri just has that persona where you'd want to work hard for him like a good friend, and tactically he is switched on. Has he are one wrong move this season? 

[ScouseFox]

three years today since deeney day.

six years since kermogant.

we've come a long way.

[bovril]

three years today since deeney day.

six years since kermogant.

we've come a long way.

 

I was about to post the same thing. The things that facebook reminds you about, ey?

 

I look back at that 09/10 team with much fondness. The 2012/13 team not so much, we were crap for much of the 2013 run in and the Watford game just seemed like the icing on the cake of collapse. Still, all worked out for the best....