foxfanazer Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 How does last season's success impact your view and memories of the MON era? For years we had to sit through dross during the Taylor, Levein, Holloway, Sven days. Then Pearson came along and transformed this club back as a premier league outfit. The MON era were seem by many (especially my age) as the 'Glory years'. We had a fantastic squad with an amazing siege mentality. Does last seasons success obliterate those memories for you and are we currently in the real glory days? Or was it a one off fluke opposed to O'neill's sustained success? Will we have the same affinity to players like Mahrez and Vardy in 15 years time like we do with Izzet and Walsh etc?
evil jack Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Peter Taylor obliterated those memories for me.
Mark 'expert' Lawrenson Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 7 minutes ago, evil jack said: Peter Taylor obliterated those memories for me. He singlehandedly wrecked our team, replacing good players with his mediocre favourites, but back to MON I loved that era, but last season success surpassed that.
MPH Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I think the thing i will always appreciate about the MON era is that he built the team from nothing and then brought about its success Bout how can last season ever be beaten by anything?
Babylon Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 So hard to say, being about 18 when the O'Neill years started, going home and away and living and breathing football for years was incredible. My only issue with last season was that I never really had that chance to celebrate with the team when it happened. Eg. Winning play offs or winning cup finals and being there at that very moment. We won the league with me sat at home in my pants
MPH Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Just now, Babylon said: So hard to say, being about 18 when the O'Neill years started, going home and away and living and breathing football for years was incredible. My only issue with last season was that I never really had that chance to celebrate with the team when it happened. Eg. Winning play offs or winning cup finals and being there at that very moment. We won the league with me sat at home in my pants You'll always remember what pants you were wearing that day!
bovril Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Not sure he built it from nothing. The foundations were good. We had a sensible chairman in Martin George and had had a couple of managers before (Little, McGhee) who had built a decent squad that would have almost certainly got promoted. What O'Neill did was transform the team from a yo-yo outfit to a stable PL club. A lot of it was about spirit and O'Neill's superb man-management, but people forget the quality of the players he brought in. Our recruitment then was as good as some of the gems Walsh found in the last 5 years. They were great years and I think people underestimate just how good that team was. A bit more luck and a larger squad and we could have finished top 6 and made an FA Cup final.
Blue ROI Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Watched the 1996-97 recently and thought it still held up well after the false start that was 1994-95. Not the most gifted of players but they gave as good as they got.Similar in a way to his ROI team now. Have to factor in the smaller attendances given Filbert Street. Would have been something to win the league on the old ground! The 2 eras of MON and Pearson/Raneiri have both got fond memories to draw back on. I'm not going to deal with Ranieri on its own because Pearson did a lion's share of the work.If Ranieri weathers the storm and stays for another 2 years or so we'll be better qualified to talk about his era IMO. Of course 2016 towers above them all but the late 90s is still fairly special. We'll be criticised for our doubts on Claudio at the moment but considering what we went through in the lost decade of the 00s clowns like Glendenning should look at times like that when having a go at us.We know how it can all start to go badly wrong. Following the club for over 20 years I've experienced the blurst of times in the 00s stagnation and the wycombe 01 defeat/end of an era but at the in Leicester success in League Cups and the Premiership the best of times.I didnt live through the 60s disappointments but thinking of those that might have missed the 90s onwards I'm grateful to have lived through the last few glories.
foxfanazer Posted 9 February 2017 Author Posted 9 February 2017 3 minutes ago, Babylon said: So hard to say, being about 18 when the O'Neill years started, going home and away and living and breathing football for years was incredible. My only issue with last season was that I never really had that chance to celebrate with the team when it happened. Eg. Winning play offs or winning cup finals and being there at that very moment. We won the league with me sat at home in my pants That's what I mean. In terms of success last season surpasses everything but football back then was brilliant. Even though I'm only 27 I'm already a bit disenchanted with modern football Still last year was one of the best of my life
Babylon Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 8 minutes ago, MPH said: You'll always remember what pants you were wearing that day! I've not taken them off yet.
Vince Vega Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 10 minutes ago, Babylon said: So hard to say, being about 18 when the O'Neill years started, going home and away and living and breathing football for years was incredible. My only issue with last season was that I never really had that chance to celebrate with the team when it happened. Eg. Winning play offs or winning cup finals and being there at that very moment. We won the league with me sat at home in my pants I was just eating my lunch! Gone right off it now!
Babylon Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 2 minutes ago, Vince Vega said: I was just eating my lunch! Gone right off it now!
Vince Vega Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 4 minutes ago, Babylon said: Just lost my lunch!
Kitchandro Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 We can have more than one memorable time as a club. The O'Neill years were very successful and there are a plethora of great moments. The achievements themselves don't look as impressive in comparison but that doesn't mean they aren't fond memories of a good time. My first memories of Leicester are from that era so Martin & those players will always be a big deal to me. But we'll be defined forever more by last season, that is the glory year. People still talk about the 70s era even though we weren't statistically as good as in the late 90s.
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 For me MON = Pearson, two men who built a club that was united together from top to bottom and made an unfancied team of players better than the sum of their parts. Two managers who have also enjoyed their greatest successes at LCFC. We're lucky to have had two managers like this in 20 years and let's hope another comes along soon!!
m4DD0gg Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Whilst the MON era wasnt as successful i have fonder memories due to being a season ticket holder in the kop when we use to have a fan base that actually sang and didnt sit in the kop wearing blankets and sipping early grey out of tartan checked flasks.
davieG Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 The Gillies and MON eras will be forever in my mind as great with exciting winning football, last year is just that 1 year, I guess you could say it was THE standout YEAR in LCFCs existence but until it's lasted more than one year that is all it will be.
davieG Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 2 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said: Whilst the MON era wasnt as successful i have fonder memories due to being a season ticket holder in the kop when we use to have a fan base that actually sang and didnt sit in the kop wearing blankets and sipping early grey out of tartan checked flasks. They've always existed, not in the KOP maybe but always been around. The ones in the KOP now are from the Double Decker as the club messed up when people moved over.
STUHILL Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 The enormity of last season STILL hasn't sunk in for me. It was a total glorious blur whilst it was happening, and although I have got more to grips with what we achieved, I still don't think I will truly appreciate it until the dust finally settles. It still feels like we are in a whirlwind with Champions League and a relegation battle! When we look back at last season in 4-5 years, and beyond that, I think although only a 12 month period - It massively outshines all that was achieved by MON. Not to play down the importance and how great that period was for our club, and also what Pearson did, but last season was just beyond anything we have ever done and will ever do, and as more time passes, I only think that legend will grow and grow.
BoyJones Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 The MON era was exciting, mainly because of the Wembley trips and two cup wins. In the league, we were very inconsistent and you never knew which team would turn up, plenty of great games but plenty of dross. I think in the four years we got top ten finishes we actually lost in total more league games than we won. Also MON did leave us with an aging team and never really planned ahead. I thought he lived for the present which was ok with me, but his successor was always going to have a difficult time. A good manager would have succeeded, but we had to choose the worst manager since WW2, (Frank McLintock second worse) who was totally clueless. So whilst MON era had obvious highlights, nothing will ever compare with last year. Being champions of England is the pinnacle for any English team.
smr Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I remember when Brian Little left the club, I was only 7 or 8 and I felt like it was the end of Leicester City, I was absolutely gutted he chose to go to Villa, dark days, when MON came in there was something special about him, a beacon of hope and light, even during the first few months when some fans were going in with 'MON Out' signs, there was something about him that was magic, and the success he went on to bring to the club was wonderful, easily my favourite era as a Leicester City fan for many years... the Wembley trips, the players we had then, all those games at Filbert St. MON himself, his intellectualism and passion for the game, and for the club... he was different, and at times looked more like an accountant than a manager - It was special, but winning the Premier League tops it, even if it was condensed into just one season as opposed to the course of a few seasons with MON. The mesmeric performances of the players individually last season to the coach loads of Italian fans coming over to celebrate etc. - it was extra special if you were there from years back too ... because we went through dozens of managers, admininstration, from players like david oldfield, ian ormondroyd, lee phillpott, gary coatsworth, to the sublime performances of Kante, Vardy, Mahrez .... to not much more than a decade or two later winning the Premier League - I never thought it could happen in my lifetime, which made the experience that much more amazing.
Leicesterpool Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 the difference is MON built a team over a matter of season, as each season went by the foxes were getting stronger and stronger and maybe even with a bit more time and money, Leicester could have been playing champions league football back then. Of course soon as MON left the decline happened, hired a terrible replacement as manager along with selling our best players and replacing them with garbage. It's strange thing happened with MON at Villa, the club go on a slow decline and go for a list of terrible choices of management along with selling the best players and not replacing them properly. On another note, I somehow don't feel Leicester would have ever won the league with Martin, if he'd stayed and had the money to compete he probably would have brought us champions league football but that's the furthest. What Claudio did last season was simply a miracle and in some ways its something you can't put your finger on how it happened?
foxfanazer Posted 9 February 2017 Author Posted 9 February 2017 20 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said: the difference is MON built a team over a matter of season, as each season went by the foxes were getting stronger and stronger and maybe even with a bit more time and money, Leicester could have been playing champions league football back then. Of course soon as MON left the decline happened, hired a terrible replacement as manager along with selling our best players and replacing them with garbage. It's strange thing happened with MON at Villa, the club go on a slow decline and go for a list of terrible choices of management along with selling the best players and not replacing them properly. On another note, I somehow don't feel Leicester would have ever won the league with Martin, if he'd stayed and had the money to compete he probably would have brought us champions league football but that's the furthest. What Claudio did last season was simply a miracle and in some ways its something you can't put your finger on how it happened? The premier league in my opinion was a lot stronger back then in terms of winning. Not taking away what happened last season but it was weaker
Merchant_Banker Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I remember the end of the MON era, he always insisted our target was 40 points. We had been top 10 for 4 years why weren't we looking up and challenging for European places? Then he left and we found out how important that focus was. I was excited when Peter Taylor was appointed. He had been England under 21 manager, surely he would bring in exciting young talent from across Europe. We got Junior Lewis! Proves how little I know about football. For me last year exceeds everything from the MON era. MON got the team fighting above their weight. The results were better than expected, but last season was a miracle.
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