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This weather takes me back to Jan 92, Notts County away midweek ZDS Cup, 8,000 fans in the open end, well and truly soaked by the end of the game, but we went home happy, spot yourself in the crowd ? 🦊
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I’d never seen this until today. Two excellent matches. Clough mentions his 300k bid for Keith Weller that would have broken the British transfer record at the time and would have been unbearably awful.

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#ThrowbackThursday! Here’s an interesting shot of Filbert Street in 1971, looking down onto the back yards of the terrace houses that backed onto Leicester City's home ground. Do you think the people who lived in these houses got free season tickets? Did you live there or know anyone who did?
 
 
Haha if we were still there they wouldn't even be allowed to buy tickets on a match day.
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A bit of background. That photo was on the front of the first programme of the 1949/50 season:

 

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I think it was the first time there was a photo on the programme cover (correct me if I'm wrong). 

 

You can see  the different shades of material on the Main Stand roof - we'd used the proceeds from the FA Cup run the previous season to fix the huge section of that stand that had been gutted in a fire in 1942.

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Why were we wearing ‘white knickers’ as stated under colours?  Were we sponsored by Victoria’s Secret back then?

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Legendary English goalkeeper Gordon Banks dives to catch a dog during a game against Manchester United on the 13 November 1965. Photograph taken by Chris Morphet during Gordon Banks' time as Leicester City goalkeeper, at Filbert Street football stadium in Leicester, England.
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📸 Pics you 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 not have seen before...
📅 26 March, 1997
Paul Gascoigne, wearing a Leicester City shirt, celebrates a goal during a testimonial match for Steve Walsh against Aston Villa at Filbert Street.
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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 was 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.
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FILBERT STREET FOOTBALL STADIUM
Filbert Street was the home of Leicester City football club from 1891 until 2002, although officially titled the "City Business Stadium" in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively by its address.
The ground originally consisted of simple earth banks and a small main stand on the west side, until 1921, when a new and much larger main stand was built. In 1927, a new stand was built at the south end (known as the Spion Kop), and became known as the "Double Decker". The roof which had previously covered the Kop was rebuilt at the north, or Filbert Street end of the ground. It was in this form that Filbert Street saw its record attendance of 47,298 for the Fifth Round FA Cup tie, against Tottenham Hotspur, on 18 February 1928. This game also saw spectators watch the match from the roof of the Filbert Street end. The first phase of ground development concluded with the covering of the East or Popular side in 1939.
The middle section of the Main Stand suffered bomb damage in 1940, and was later further damaged by a serious fire. By 1949, it had been rebuilt, with much of the labour being supplied by German POWs from a nearby camp. The ground's maximum capacity was now around 42,000. Floodlights were installed and first used for a match against German club Borussia Dortmund in October 1957.
Leicester City purchased the freehold of the ground in 1962, for the sum of £30,500. In 1971, the first moves towards an all-seater stadium were taken as the North and East sides were converted to seating. Four years later, 20 basic executive boxes were added to the North Stand. A pioneering polythene cover was introduced to protect the pitch in 1971. The Air Dome covered an area of 90,000 square feet, weighed 24 cwt and took 15 men two hours to lay out and inflate using four electric fans. The Air Dome was removed in 1982.
At the beginning of the 1990s, after considering moving to a new stadium, and a total redevelopment of Filbert Street which would have seen the pitch rotated by 90 degrees, onto the car park behind the Main Stand, City opted to build a new Main Stand, demolishing the existing structure in the summer of 1992. Completed in December 1993, the Carling Stand held 9,500 seated spectators and expanded corporate facilities, costing £6million. In 1994, the final terraced area, the Kop, was converted to seating giving Filbert Street an all-seated capacity of 21,500, and bringing it into compliance with the Taylor Report which required all Premier League and Division One teams to have all-seater capacity.
Following the success of the club under Martin O'Neill during the later part of the 1990s, an expanded stadium was required for higher attendances and to provide better facilities. Expansion of Filbert Street would have been very difficult, as the North and East Stands backed onto housing which would have been expensive to place under a compulsory purchase order. Although expansion was considered, the club decided in 1998 to relocate. After a failed attempt to build a 40,000 all-seater stadium at Bede Island South the club purchased Freeman's Wharf, a former power station site 200 yards south of Filbert Street. The new 32,500 seater stadium was opened in the summer of 2002.
Filbert Street was sold to a development company for £3.75 million in March 2002. The last game to be played at Filbert Street was the last game of the 2001–02 season, bringing to an end 111 years of football there in the autumn of 2002.
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Great old footage just uploaded to youtube.  15 year old Derek Forster made his Sunderland debut in the opening game of the 64/65 season, becoming the youngest ever top flight player. The visitors were Leicester City. The cameras kind of capture our goals - you have to use your imagination a bit but it's still really valuable footgage:

 

 

 

 

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Great old footage just uploaded to youtube.  15 year old Derek Forster made his Sunderland debut in the opening game of the 64/65 season, becoming the youngest ever top flight player. The visitors were Leicester City. The cameras kind of capture our goals - you have to use your imagination a bit but it's still really valuable footgage:

 

 

 

 

This is how the goals were described in the Merc:

 

 

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A tops turvy game apparently. Sunderland went one up before Leicester went into a 2-1 half time lead. Sunderland then came back to lead 3-2 before we levelled at 3-3. Richie Norman got a booking against his local rivals.

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