FA Cup winners - was that the final piece in the jigsaw?

[Spudulike]

I thought it was. Perhaps it is. 

 

After the final it felt to me that it was done, the City no longer owe me anything, the slate has been wiped clean. Complete. 

 

But is it? Is a Euro cup of any sort the final piece in the jigsaw? Do we now crave it that much since all major domestic trophies are on our honours board? 

[Matt_Lcfc]

I felt like Leicester didn’t owe me anything after the title win to be honest. It was just beyond our wildest dreams but I never also never anticipated us to spend seasons battling it out with the top teams and then like you say, to win the FA cup. 
 

It has just got better really, however, if we ended up winning the Europa League I genuinely think I might just stop watching football 
 

 

Edited 28 September 2021 by Matt_Lcfc

[FoxinNotts]

I'm on board for following my club through thick and thin, like all of us, I'd imagine. 

 

In five years time, we'll have a beautifully developed new stadium, and infrastructure. I hope we sustain some level of success, in terms of adding silverware. I hope that's European. If we remain in the premier league, and win another domestic trophy, this would still be an absolutely amazing outcome.

 

In short, no. There are many pieces of the jigsaw to be added.

[Voll Blau]

I've seen everything I realistically thought we could achieve in my lifetime. Anything from now on is a bonus, but I'd hate to see us waste this era and not win more trophies. A European one has to he the priority for me.

[sishades]

As a mid fifties chap, I got used to us being a smallish club bouncing between the top two divisions. Winning a play off final was as far as I could go regards winning trophies. Winning League 1, the championship and then the Premier was a dream of staggering proportions. My mother is also a city fan and on meeting her after the E|PL win I commented to her that our lives were complete and we can die with smiles on our faces. Never in in my wildest drug induced fantasies did I think we would win another 2 trophies including the FA Cup. This was the real final piece if we never win another thing I can look up at the 4 flags, posters and scarves on my wall at work that say "Winners" and feel that my life is now truly complete. 

[Steve Earle]

All I ever dreamed of as a child. As a youth, as an adult too.

 

I hope not in answer to the OP, but I'm ok if it is.

 

It's a fab t-shirt too!

[whoareyaaa]

Can't ask for much more but a European trophy wouldn't go a miss.

[ftfagos]

The best bit for me regarding the title win was that we did it in style. A team playing as a team, not just a collection of star players although we did have a few worthy of the description world class.

We won it by ten points, pulling away, not bottling the run in, taking the one nil wins as though it was our destiny.

Then there was Bocelli.

FA cup win was rather low key compared to the title but what a goal & we beat the eventual CL winners.

This should be enough but a CL win somehow with Vardy scoring the winner in the final would be a dream ending.

Ranieri said we were allowed to dream after all.

[Hollyfox]

No 

I want it all again

At least 10 times and have dates around the stadium of trophy success. 

 

A bit like Arsenal but more up to date😄

[Crazy Kop Corner]

The club have given me immense joy over 45 years. 

 

I'm even quite fond of the downs now, traipsing through the allotment at Cambridge after a 5 - 1 defeat, 7 - 1 on a Wednesday night at Sheff Weds, 6 nil down at Middlesbrough at half time, getting relegated at Stoke etc all don't seem half as bad and make the highs of the last 5 years even better. 

 

We've become a club to be proud of and the loyalty through the years has more than been redeemed 

 

I said if we won the FA Cup I'd retire but I'd love a European Trophy now - I don't seem to be able to give up! 

Edited 28 September 2021 by Crazy Kop Corner

[Lad1966]

In my life time I’ve seen the club win the league club x2, premier league, the fa cup and the charity shield. I would love us to reach and win any European competition - why not dream, because as far as LCFC is concerned all my dreams have come true🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[bovril]

I think the FA Cup final exhausted me. I'm very laid-back about this season. Give me a couple of years of mid table though and I'll be desperate to experience some of the highs again, in the same way I was from 2017-19

[Duquesne Whistle]

The FA Cup was just the latest piece in an infinite jigsaw. There'll be more pieces to come, just that no one knows when.

 

In terms of my personal support, it still hurts as much when we lose, but I'm way more relaxed about the possibility of having a (comparatively) shite season than I have been for the last 4 years or so. On that basis, maybe they have 'completed' it for me.

Euro trophy would be lovely, but they're just so fecking hard to win. Rarely does an inexperienced English win one. Even Ferguson struggled on that front despite all his experience and endless funds to spend. I'd love us to buck that trend this season.

 

I know this though, as it was happening, it always seemed to me that the O'Neill years were going to be the apex for Leicester City. How wonderful to have been proved so, so wrong. We're lucky, we've been spoiled these last few years. 

 

[foxfan92]

After 4 decades of following the Foxes, I can say confidently that  there will never be a final piece of any jigsaw with this club.

 

Jubilation and anguish are ever abundant and just when you think the club can fall no lower, or rise no higher, it'll do just that. The only thing that doesn't surprise is that the club always manages to surprise us in one way or another.

 

What other club could have such a great escape from relegation one season, sack the manager who performed that miracle over the summer, only for the next to win the Premier League the following season?

 

My Leicester jigsaw will never be complete, I'm holding out hope that we win a European Cup of some sort in the not too distant future, but as someone who's seen us rise only to fall in the past, I'm also prepared for a specular fall from grace too. 

 

Whatever happens, this club does not and has never owed me a thing. Yes it frustrates, and often seems to do little else, but when things go right you get such a high. This club is my drug, it offers me the highs and lows that comes with such a substance,  and I'll continue to be addicted to it until I end up six feet under, however, while the club may owe me nothing, that won't stop me selfishly wanting more. 

 

So no, I don't think for me the FA Cup win is the last piece of the jigsaw. It's an amazing memory, one of many, which this club has given me and will continue to do so, but there are many more pieces still to assemble, many more fabulous (and disastrous) memories to go, and I look forward to adding them to my jigsaw as time goes by.

[HighPeakFox]

It's never complete, but the problem is that the high leaves withdrawal if not replicated, and this is why some fans lose it a bit. So much as I don't like it, I do understand it.

[Strokes]

I’d love a run to the Europa League final and would happily forfeit the league this season for it. 
I struggle to get excited for league games these days anyway, Thursday night football is so much more exciting.

[Soar Fox]

After we won the league the 16/17 season felt strange for me, almost like I didn’t care about the results. I obviously wanted us to win every game we went into but I didn’t feel upset or angry if we didn’t. 
 

In a strange way I didn’t enjoy the 15/16 season from around February onwards as I was  nervous when at the games to enjoy them. I would love a European trophy especially if it was to happen whilst Vardy, Schmeichel & Albrighton we’re still at the club. 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

After we won the league the 16/17 season felt strange for me, almost like I didn’t care about the results. I obviously wanted us to win every game we went into but I didn’t feel upset or angry if we didn’t. 
 

In a strange way I didn’t enjoy the 15/16 season from around February onwards as I was  nervous when at the games to enjoy them. I would love a European trophy especially if it was to happen whilst Vardy, Schmeichel & Albrighton we’re still at the club. 

I actually found the 16/17 season very hard to take. One of the more depressing seasons for me. 

[tetly]

I never thought in my lifetime I would witness lcfc win every domestic trophy. I did and I am totally satisfied.

Winning feels good and I want us to remain competitive & competing for trophy’s.

Go get a European trophy would really be the icing on the cake for me.

[Grebfromgrebland]

It feels like we've peaked league position wise but I'd be happy to keep in bothering the top end of the table consistently if not every year.

 

Think we're due the league cup now....and maybe a euro semi final

[Lambert09]

4 hours ago, Spudulike said:

I thought it was. Perhaps it is. 

 

After the final it felt to me that it was done, the City no longer owe me anything, the slate has been wiped clean. Complete. 

 

But is it? Is a Euro cup of any sort the final piece in the jigsaw? Do we now crave it that much since all major domestic trophies are on our honours board? 

I dont think Im able to see us as true contenders for european trophies just yet. It took us long enough just to get the national cup. I wont rule out this club of achieving anything but it is magical to know that we have done it all domestically. Something very few clubs will ever manage

[drofmor55]

1 hour ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

After we won the league the 16/17 season felt strange for me, almost like I didn’t care about the results. I obviously wanted us to win every game we went into but I didn’t feel upset or angry if we didn’t. 
 

In a strange way I didn’t enjoy the 15/16 season from around February onwards as I was  nervous when at the games to enjoy them. I would love a European trophy especially if it was to happen whilst Vardy, Schmeichel & Albrighton we’re still at the club. 

Agree, it was agony to watch those games.

and would love us to reach a European final ..the likes of West Ham,Aberdeen,Villa,Forest & Fulham  have done so , why couldnt we 

[when_you're_smiling]

1 hour ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

After we won the league the 16/17 season felt strange for me, almost like I didn’t care about the results. I obviously wanted us to win every game we went into but I didn’t feel upset or angry if we didn’t. 
 

In a strange way I didn’t enjoy the 15/16 season from around February onwards as I was  nervous when at the games to enjoy them. I would love a European trophy especially if it was to happen whilst Vardy, Schmeichel & Albrighton we’re still at the club. 

Oh yeah those 90 minutes every week were horrendous. Everything around it though was absolutely amazing and is not something fans of any other club in any other sport has experienced. I feel amazingly lucky to have experienced it.

 

I also didn’t think we’d come close to matching it though, when in fact we’ve come amazingly close. Sure there’ll be plenty more to come, even if that’s because there’s more lows to come as well, but I’m not sure it’s mentally possible to switch off and not follow it.

[Spudulike]

20 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

I dont think Im able to see us as true contenders for european trophies just yet. It took us long enough just to get the national cup. I wont rule out this club of achieving anything but it is magical to know that we have done it all domestically. Something very few clubs will ever manage

Can't be many that have won them all this century? 

[Vestan Pance]

Not for me no. I've always believed that history shows we have underachieved. The size of our City and being a one Club County would suggest we should have had more success. 

There's no reason why we shouldn't keep dreaming of winning more and bigger prizes.