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Only Leicester

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davieG

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http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/adrien-silva-transfer-bizarre-things-441641

Why do these bizarre things keep happening to Leicester City

Mercury columnist Gary Silke on the strange incidents that keep afflicting our club

 

There is a saying across the Atlantic, “Only in America” when something mad happens, like a deer driving a car down the road, or someone falling out of a plane and landing on a trampoline.

I have adapted this to “Only Leicester” over the years.

Towards the end of last season Riyad Mahrez stepped up to take a penalty at the Etihad for what might have given Leicester a highly creditable draw against Manchester City.

He slipped, and touched the ball with both feet on its way into the net, and it was ruled out. I had never, ever seen this happen before. I had now. Only Leicester.

Looking back, the club’s history is littered with Only Leicester moments.

Leicester City the club that managed to be in the Champions League knockout stages and the relegation zone at the same time.

Manager was sacked - then reinstated

The club that managed to leapfrog English football’s elite to land the most unlikely title in the history of football.

The club whose manager got an opposing player in a stranglehold, and was sacked. And then reinstated.

The club that were awarded a penalty that would have got them to a Wembley play-off

final, but lost the game eight seconds after it was saved.

The club that got promoted during an administration season.

Half of the team got arrested

The club whose players got sent home from a break in La Manga because of a fire extinguisher.

And next time they visited half of them got arrested.

The club that were on the receiving end of a penalty decision at Chelsea so bad that it made Prime Minister’s Question Time and got Danny Baker the sack from his phone-in show.

The club that signed David Speedie, a folk devil among City fans for his dive in the 1992 play-off final.

The club that had its 1982-83 promotion party put on hold for a week after a pitch invasion at Derby brought their game against Fulham to a premature end.

Star player turned out in woolly tights

The club whose star player, Keith Weller, turned out for an FA Cup game sporting white woolly tights.

The club who had to attend a Football League Inquiry at the Grand Hotel after losing 12-0 to Forest the day after a stag do.

And now we have another bizarre and unique incident to add to the list.

As the transfer deadline loomed, City played hardball with Chelsea over the signing of Danny Drinkwater. They eventually got their price, but at what cost?

And now the farce of Adrien Silva....

It appears that City took the signing of Adrien Silva a little too close to the wire and registration wasn’t completed until 14 seconds after the extended deadline. The men from FIFA, they say no.

So what looked like a grand bit of deadline day business, has now turned into a complete farce.

Either the deal will be dropped, or City will have to wait until January to play their £22m man, on full pay. And the midfield is suddenly looking a little threadbare.

Again, I have never heard of this happening before… Only Leicester.

 

Anymore you can think of?

Captain...

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It really isn't only Leicester, we are just a lot closer to Leicester so see all of these things.

 

The Silva fiasco has already happened between Sporting and Nice, and Celtic and Man City, players being arrested is fairly common place, woolly tights are now common place, sorry under armour, skins, gloves and snoods.

 

Cantona's kick, Suarez's biting, dodgy lasagne's and cursed pitches every club has it's stories, Palace sacking De Boer and their bonus scandal with Pulis, Mark Hughes incapable of shaking hands, Wenger incapable of doing up his coat, and so many more. It is true though we have had our fair share:

 

Let's not forget the Thai scandal, ostrichgate, Preki, Maddog Allen and 4 manager's in a season, and many more.

ultrafox

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Remember this?

 

Leicester City pioneered an innovation in the 1970s which perhaps surprisingly didn't catch on. They inflated a giant balloon over the Filbert Street pitch which kept the playing surface frost-free and protected it from the snow and rain. The polythene balloon - or tent as it wasLeicester%20Balloon.jpg sometimes called - was the largest of its kind in the world and was inflated to over 720,000 cubic feet by four propeller fans, weighed over a ton and could be erected by 15 men in two hours. The cost was £8000 but it paid for itself. Not only did it cut down on postponements (no system protected the terraces and approaches to the ground) but it also brought revenue from extra matches being played at the ground. In one week in January 1979 alone Filbert Street attracted over 70,000 fans to the Second, Third and Fourth replays of the FA Cup Third Round tie between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday while the rest of the country was snowbound.

 

http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/DidYouKnow23.htm

ultrafox

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Forest V Leicester in the Carling Cup 2nd Round when we let Forest Keeper Paul Smith  score a "free goal" after the original tie had been abandoned, due to a injury to Clive Clarke,with Forest Leading 1-0 .

 

....and we still beat them :scarf:

 

 

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Player having a heart attack at half time and the game being cancelled, with us then letting forest score form the kick off in the next game.

Kitchandro

Kitchandro

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1 hour ago, Captain... said:

It really isn't only Leicester, we are just a lot closer to Leicester so see all of these things.

 

The Silva fiasco has already happened between Sporting and Nice, and Celtic and Man City, players being arrested is fairly common place, woolly tights are now common place, sorry under armour, skins, gloves and snoods.

 

Cantona's kick, Suarez's biting, dodgy lasagne's and cursed pitches every club has it's stories, Palace sacking De Boer and their bonus scandal with Pulis, Mark Hughes incapable of shaking hands, Wenger incapable of doing up his coat, and so many more. It is true though we have had our fair share:

 

Let's not forget the Thai scandal, ostrichgate, Preki, Maddog Allen and 4 manager's in a season, and many more.

Yeh all these things have happened to other clubs, but not all those things happen to one club.

 

Season after season we manage to make the headlines for some new strange reason.

 

I think we're just an exciting/odd club to support in general, if you look at the footballing things alone.

 

I mean just look at our recent history:

 

Became famous for being on the end of the most dramatic finish to a football match ever.
Won the league.
Became famous for pulling off the most unlikely relegation escape ppssibly ever.
Manager got sacked because his son was in an orgy video that went viral.
Won the Premier League.
Nearly got relegated the next season and sacked the manager. Reached the Champions League quarter-final the same season.

 

Nobody in football can compete with the excitement and craziness on that list and that's only the last few years.

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