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This Era of Supporting Our Club

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kingfox

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From having to watch players like Ryan McGivern get torn to shreds by Ivan Fvcking Sproule, to now watching players like Youri Tielemans turn into prime Iniesta.

 

What a journey we’ve been on since the 08/09 season.

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30 minutes ago, StanSP said:

A golden era, for sure.

 

A Premier League win.

Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Finishing 5th in the league.

Playing in the Europa League.

On set for a strong finish in the league this season.

Reaching the FA Cup semi-final for the first time in a lot of our lifetimes. 

 

World class players - instead of just one or two in the squad, we have pure quality all around the squad. One of the best British managers in charge. One of the best owners in the land. 

 

I am so proud of where the club is at right now, and for anyone - players & staff - at the club right now. We're making progress season by season, establishing ourselves as a team to be taken seriously as time goes by and our stature grows and grows.

 

We've come a long way in such a short time and I can't wait for the journey to continue, even more so if fans can attend a final (should we get there) and for beyond this season anyway :wub:.

 

And it's only going to get better. 

 

Who would have ever predicted something like this would happen to our little football club?

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Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

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What a time to be a Leicester fan, it’s beyond anything I could of imagined when I was down filbo as a kid, I thought those were good times, Lineker, A Smith Lynex etc staying in the top flight for a few seasons for a yo-yo club like us they were happy times.

Through the doldrums of Bryan Hamilton, Pleat to name a few then came along Martin who took us to a level that I thought was the pinnacle for me as a City fan, Emile, Muzzy, Elliott and Walsh, proper heroes, but that time had to come to an end as it always would for my club.

We reached a new low disappearing into division 2 through a catalogue of mismanagement, where were we to go from there....

Through the help of Mandaric we got ourselves some great owners, a good solid manager in Nige and the fairytale began back there.

Promotion out of Div2 a couple of play off defeats but we were on the way up!

Finally the yo-yo club got back into the top flight, could we stay there, somehow we performed the great escape, a true miracle had took place, it couldn’t get any better to be a Leicester fan, couldn’t possibly could it....

Then came Claudio, an interesting choice, some unknown players Kante, Mahrez and a non league find in Jamie Vardy, still trying to find his place in the top division, then we arrived in fantasy land we won the Premier league, little Leicester, wow just wow.

Through our owners and our scouting team, our manager and coaches, the fantastic squad we have, the team spirit, we as a club are in dream land, an established Premier league club, dare I say a top premier league club who have just outplayed Man Utd in a FA cup QF on the beeb.

We are as a club outstanding, an amazing time for us all, something as a kid 40 years ago I could never ever of imagined.

A special thank you to the best owners in the world.

 

❤️🦊

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Finding my love for Leicester in the early 90's as a fresh faced 9/10 year old I thought reaching the playoff final was as good as it was gonna get. Then we got to another, and I thought that was the norm. Then we got to another, and won. Reaching the premier league was as good as it was gonna get.

I was right, we were relegated back down to where we belonged.

Then another playoff final, the most dramatic of wins (still the best single moment I've ever experienced in a football match) and another season in the premier league was something to look forward to.

But we stayed there, and won some league cups! Surely that was as good as it was going to get!?

It was, for a long long time. Relegation followed by an immediate bounce back up was swiftly followed by the darkest of times.we went back down, we were skint and we needed Gary Lineker to bail us out, we became the reason rules and punishments were brought in around finances :doh:

Things got worse, and worse again. We found ourselves in league 1......... our record of being 1 of 9 teams to never play outside of the top 2 divisions was gone, that day in Stoke was a low, a very, very low, low.

Yet somehow that season in league 1 was exactly what we needed. Big Nige came in and, although we've hit some bumps along the way, we've never looked back. Nige went, Sousa came in, Sven came in, Nige came back and we've improved year on year since. Of course a certain Thai company came in and bought us up while this was going on.

Honestly, in the last 10 or 11 years, we have been one of the best teams to follow and support. It's an incredible journey and I just hope that it continues for a long, long time

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27 minutes ago, StanSP said:

A golden era, for sure.

 

A Premier League win.

Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Finishing 5th in the league.

Playing in the Europa League.

On set for a strong finish in the league this season.

Reaching the FA Cup semi-final for the first time in a lot of our lifetimes. 

 

World class players - instead of just one or two in the squad, we have pure quality all around the squad. One of the best British managers in charge. One of the best owners in the land. 

 

I am so proud of where the club is at right now, and for anyone - players & staff - at the club right now. We're making progress season by season, establishing ourselves as a team to be taken seriously as time goes by and our stature grows and grows.

 

We've come a long way in such a short time and I can't wait for the journey to continue, even more so if fans can attend a final (should we get there) and for beyond this season anyway :wub:.

 

Great post. 
 

When you think about the above and the moaners that consistently come out of the wood work whenever we have an indifferent period or at their worst a poor half of football, you have to laugh. 
 

We have so much going for us and I’m so lucky to have witnessed what I’ve witnessed over the years. Our owners and Brendan are managing this club so well on and off the pitch that continued success is a real possibility. 

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The amount of potentially world class players we have is staggering when you think about it;

 

Fofana

Soyuncu

Ricardo

Castagne

Justin

Maddison

Barnes

Iheanacho

 

Then there are the worldies that we already have;

 

Schmeichel

Evans

Ndidi

Tielemans

Vardy

 

We're probably the best team Rodgers has ever managed. And for me, the best Leicester team of all time.

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We're a provincial football club. We'll never be a giant.

 

Yet we are two games (very tough games) away from potentially winning every domestic trophy in the space of just over 20 years. We've also had a decade spell out of the top flight and a venture into the third tier.

 

The rollercoaster ride we've been on for 30 years is astonishing.

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44 minutes ago, StanSP said:

A golden era, for sure.

 

A Premier League win.

Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Finishing 5th in the league.

Playing in the Europa League.

On set for a strong finish in the league this season.

Reaching the FA Cup semi-final for the first time in a lot of our lifetimes. 

 

World class players - instead of just one or two in the squad, we have pure quality all around the squad. One of the best British managers in charge. One of the best owners in the land. 

 

I am so proud of where the club is at right now, and for anyone - players & staff - at the club right now. We're making progress season by season, establishing ourselves as a team to be taken seriously as time goes by and our stature grows and grows.

 

We've come a long way in such a short time and I can't wait for the journey to continue, even more so if fans can attend a final (should we get there) and for beyond this season anyway :wub:.

 

Would definitely add the season we won the championship and even the great escape. So many amazing memories. 

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It depends on how old you are and how old you were when you became a supporter.

 

Like everyone else my favourite season is 2015/16 when we finished in our highest ever position, i.e Champions. But my second favourite season is 90/91 when we had an absolutely crap team, endured some horrific defeats and finished in what was then our lowest ever position. Without experiencing the lows you can't appreciate the highs.

 

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9 minutes ago, Corky said:

We're a provincial football club. We'll never be a giant.

 

Yet we are two games (very tough games) away from potentially winning every domestic trophy in the space of just over 20 years. We've also had a decade spell out of the top flight and a venture into the third tier.

 

The rollercoaster ride we've been on for 30 years is astonishing.

Boring fact is that wolves are the only team to have some every English professional trophy.

 

All four divisions plus league and fa cups

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The most satisfying thing for me is every time we’ve sold a player we’ve replaced them with someone just as good or better with the exception of Mahrez (for me Ndidi is doing the job of Kante just as much effectiveness) I think back to the MON days when we sold Heskey, it was the start of the decline and all other era’s we’ve never replaced big players leaving 

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1 minute ago, Paninistickers said:

Boring fact is that wolves are the only team to have some every English professional trophy.

 

All four divisions plus league and fa cups

That's a record I'm glad to let them keep. 

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2 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Boring fact is that wolves are the only team to have some every English professional trophy.

 

All four divisions plus league and fa cups

I meant the league, FA and League Cups as the domestic trophies

 

I can quite happily cope with not winning the fourth division ;) 

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May 2008, and I was crying like a baby watching Stoke celebrate promotion to the Premier league, whilst we looked forward to our first season in the third division, dismal times.

If someone had told me then, that in 13 years time we'd have celebrated all that we've achieved in recent times, I'd have told them they needed their head looking at.

What a glorious time to live as a Leicester City fan.

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23 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

The amount of potentially world class players we have is staggering when you think about it;

 

Fofana

Soyuncu

Ricardo

Castagne

Justin

Maddison

Barnes

Iheanacho

 

Then there are the worldies that we already have;

 

Schmeichel

Evans

Ndidi

Tielemans

Vardy

 

We're probably the best team Rodgers has ever managed. And for me, the best Leicester team of all time.

Thats a big statement regarding best team Rogers ever managed, but when you look at it yes that Liverpool team had Suarez, Gerrard, Sturridge and Sterling but if it had a defence as good as ours, that team would of won the league with 10+ points.

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