Viva Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 14 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said: Got to be King, even though he joined our academy at a late age, he's most certainly one of our own. Refreshing amount of loyalty in modern day football. I'd be surprised if he has had many better offers throughout his career than what he has here.
Koke Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said: I'm still amazed how we convinced Liverpool to give us £11m for Heskey. Love the guy though It's a shame that KSI and the FIFA & Chill generation has turned Heskey into a punchline joke. Heskey was bloody good for us.
Fox92 Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 4 minutes ago, Koke said: It's a shame that KSI and the FIFA & Chill generation has turned Heskey into a punchline joke. Heskey was bloody good for us. Nearly most strikers who played with Heskey pick him as their favourite partner. I've heard Rooney say it, and Owen. He was on goals on sunday the other week with Kirkland and Kirkland was saying the same thing. About being a respected player too. Heskey's goalscoring record isn't the greatest but his ability to bring players into play, hold up the ball and create chances was unbelievable.
Koke Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 13 minutes ago, Fox92 said: Nearly most strikers who played with Heskey pick him as their favourite partner. I've heard Rooney say it, and Owen. He was on goals on sunday the other week with Kirkland and Kirkland was saying the same thing. About being a respected player too. Heskey's goalscoring record isn't the greatest but his ability to bring players into play, hold up the ball and create chances was unbelievable. People either forget or aren't old enough to remember his Leicester and Liverpool days. He scored some fantastic goals for us. One of my favourites is the one against Tottenham at Filbert Street where he just turned the defender and sent an absolute bullet into the top corner.
Fox92 Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 Totally. The one against Arsenal and I think one where he scored the winner against Cov.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said: I'm still amazed how we convinced Liverpool to give us £11m for Heskey. Love the guy though 516 Premier League appearances, absolute dogshit wasn't he.
davieG Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 8 minutes ago, Koke said: People either forget or aren't old enough to remember his Leicester and Liverpool days. He scored some fantastic goals for us. One of my favourites is the one against Tottenham at Filbert Street where he just turned the defender and sent an absolute bullet into the top corner. Which is a good enough excuse to show his 2 goals and an assist in one of our regular 4 goal batterings of Derby County.
MPH Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: I'm still amazed how we convinced Liverpool to give us £11m for Heskey. Love the guy though Thats a bit harsh!. He was amazing for us and didnt he go on and score something like 22 goals in his first season for them?
bovril Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 What I remember about Heskey's Leicester career was a player that was sometimes unplayable but often frustrating. He used to get a lot of stick from the crowd even at Leicester. So in defence of urban spaceman, 11 million was a lot of money in 2000 for a pretty raw player. As people have pointed out, he's nowhere near as bad as the lad generation make out, but let's not forget that at times he struggled to utilise the incredible gifts he had.
urban.spaceman Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 2 hours ago, los dedos said: Why? He was a bloody good player for us.Don't be fooled by the rep the Fifa generation gave him. 2 hours ago, baker11 said: The guy was absolutly boss for us and Liverpool. It's the banter lad generation that micky take him. 1 hour ago, Ashley said: This has to be a joke? Heskey was brilliant. 49 minutes ago, Koke said: It's a shame that KSI and the FIFA & Chill generation has turned Heskey into a punchline joke. Heskey was bloody good for us. 20 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said: 516 Premier League appearances, absolute dogshit wasn't he. 14 minutes ago, MPH said: Thats a bit harsh!. He was amazing for us and didnt he go on and score something like 22 goals in his first season for them? Crikey! I wasn't having a go at Bruno. I did say I love the bloke. He was excellent for us of course and is rightly a club legend. I was at Filbo for the Sunderland 5-2 and that was surely one of his best performances for us. Didn't mean to imply any malice I just remember bein surprised (15 years ago) that we'd got that much for him. Besides, it has pretty much been conclusively proven that he can indeed hit a cows arse with a banjo...
urban.spaceman Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 I will add, about 18 years ago we bumped into Heskey in Currys and as I was very young I was completely star struck by him, and didn't dare go over to get his autograph. Instead my gran went over to get it for me - I will never forget the sight of my Hobbit sized grandma asking a 7ft tall Emile Heskey for his autograph, especially when she had no idea who she was talking to. He came over to me and signed whatever I was carrying at the time. Lovely guy.
MPH Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 12 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Crikey! I wasn't having a go at Bruno. I did say I love the bloke. He was excellent for us of course and is rightly a club legend. I was at Filbo for the Sunderland 5-2 and that was surely one of his best performances for us. Didn't mean to imply any malice I just remember bein surprised (15 years ago) that we'd got that much for him. Besides, it has pretty much been conclusively proven that he can indeed hit a cows arse with a banjo... He's one of our own, he's one of our own...
Tuna Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 Lets not forget Emile also helped us when we were in admin. Gave 100k IIRC. True blue legend.
MPH Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 Its definitely Heskey for me. But i also have a bit of a soft spot for Joachim and in some ways he stood out more for me because Heskey had a much better team around him.... I'll never forget that goal.. it was a cup game.. played in Nottingham where he had TWO defenders about 5 ft ahead of him near to the edge of the box.. he just knocked it through the middle of them and somehow found this burst of pace to get there and score. In the time it took him to cover 12ft they had covered about 5 ft. And then another goal he scored where he was running to the edge of the box and hit the ball with what seened like his little toe and some how curled it past and bent it over the defenders and into the roof of the net. Those are two goals i havnt seen any other Leicester player score anything similar... Edit: found the videos.. Started the run for both of them in his own half aswell!! ( i love how in this first one in the goal celebration Grayson kicked Ormandroyed in the balls! )
desertfox2 Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 King by a country mile. Just wish he was better than he is though... Good squad player but just not a starter for us unfortunately. Not in a 2 man midfield anyway.
Izzy Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 6 minutes ago, MPH said: Its definitely Heskey for me. But i also have a bit of a soft spot for Joachim and in some ways he stood out more for me because Heskey had a much better team around him.... I'll never forget that goal.. it was a cup game.. played in Nottingham where he had TWO defenders about 5 ft ahead of him near to the edge of the box.. he just knocked it through the middle of them and somehow found this burst of pace to get there and score. In the time it took him to cover 12ft they had covered about 5 ft. And then another goal he scored where he was running to the edge of the box and hit the ball with what seened like his little toe and some how curled it past and bent it over the defenders and into the roof of the net. Those are two goals i havnt seen any other Leicester player score anything similar... Edit: found the videos.. ( i love how in this first one in the goal celebration Grayson kicked Ormandroyed in the balls! ) That goal at Barnsley was incredible. We were behind the goal in the away end going mental when that went in. Joachim really should have been a contender. One of the few City players who genuinely got me out of my seat (even though we stood in those days ) He had all the ability to go right to the top for me...
Leamington Fox Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 As a kid, Andy Peake was my favourite player (remember those couple of 35-40 yard screamers he scored). I used to watch him from the East Stand. I would go with Lineker, though.
Tuna Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 2 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: That goal at Barnsley was incredible. We were behind the goal in the away end going mental when that went in. Joachim really should have been a contender. One of the few City players who genuinely got me out of my seat (even though we stood in those days ) He had all the ability to go right to the top for me... Imagine how much we would have got for JJ had he broken through in the modern era.
Leamington Fox Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: That goal at Barnsley was incredible. We were behind the goal in the away end going mental when that went in. Joachim really should have been a contender. One of the few City players who genuinely got me out of my seat (even though we stood in those days ) He had all the ability to go right to the top for me... God, he scored some great goals. Remember the one against Forest?
MPH Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: That goal at Barnsley was incredible. We were behind the goal in the away end going mental when that went in. Joachim really should have been a contender. One of the few City players who genuinely got me out of my seat (even though we stood in those days ) He had all the ability to go right to the top for me... I was at the game too. same end!
Leamington Fox Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 Joachim probably deserves his own thread. I'm sure there's been a few before I joined these hallowed pages.
MPH Posted 23 December 2016 Posted 23 December 2016 1 minute ago, Goober said: That end Ahh i want standing areas back now... thanks alot!
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