2021 What a year!

[urban.spaceman]

We beat Liverpool twice.

We beat Chelsea twice.

We beat Manchester City at Wembley.

We beat Manchester United 3 times - the first win at Old Trafford in 23 years.

We won at Wembley 3 times in one year.

We sold nobody in the summer for the first time.

We qualified for Europe through the league for the 3rd time ever.

We hold the fasted hat-trick in Europa League history.

We spent the first year at our new training ground.

We finally announced plans to expand the stadium.

 

Yes, we had unprecedented injuries.

Yes, we had some shocking performances.

Yes, we failed to qualify for the Champions League on the last day of the season. Again.

Yes, we had a humiliating exit from the Europa League.

Yes, we still have some of our own fans who let us down (everyone does).

 

But in 2021 we won the FA Cup for the first ever time.

We finally completed the domestic set.

And what a ****ing day that was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We won the Community Shield.

 

 

 

Oh, and Leicester City women were Champions too.

 

 

On reflection, 2021 wasn't too shabby, was it?

 

Here's to an even better 2022.

 

 

Happy New Year.

[Finnegan]

@Ric Flair now THAT is how you rep farm pal. 

[lifted*fox]

 

[StanSP]

Guess it was alright in the end.

[The Year Of The Fox]

What a day that Final was

 

Better than winning the league I think 🙈

[BoyJones]

1 minute ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

What a day that Final was

 

Better than winning the league I think 🙈

More emotional for me. Tears in  my eyes now watching the celebrations. 

[deejdeej]

Oh man FA Cup final day was special wasn't it! Feels like a lifetime ago.

[coolhandfox]

First time, I've been tearful at a football match.

 

Very special moment.

 

 

[SheppyFox]

Thanks for this topic, made me feel a lot better about the injury situation 😊

[adejo92]

13 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

First time, I've been tearful at a football match.

 

Very special moment.

 

 

You clearly never sat near me after a balti pie

[Wolfox]

40 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

What a day that Final was

 

Better than winning the league I think 🙈

This quote shouldn’t make any sense, but, yeah I agree…. It was certainly not that bigger achievement  to be clear…

 

I was too wracked with anxiety to fully enjoy the league win….  Although I loved it In the end!

 

As a one off, being at Wembley with my son and having the most perfect day in every way (feeling normal and around people again forming part of the general euphoria)…. It was one of the most memorable days in my life 

[Freeman's Wharfer]

FA Cup final at Wembley is my favourite day supporting Leicester, I think.
 

The league title gave me more memories, was more unbelievable and is our greatest achievement but for a one-off day the cup final - with the added context of the pandemic - was brilliant.

[Corky]

@urban.spaceman Disappointed with the lack of pictures in this thread, mate.

[CrazyKopCorner]

My resting heart rate during the final was 109 and I took up smoking again for the day. 

 

For supporters of my generation with Fathers and Grandfathers that had been to the 49, 61, 63 and 69 FA Cup Finals as well as seeing us get knocked out at places like Harlow, Exeter, Bristol Rovers, QPR, Newport etc etc it was the dream ! 

 

The highlight of 2021 by a country mile 

[urban.spaceman]

26 minutes ago, Corky said:

@urban.spaceman Disappointed with the lack of pictures in this thread, mate.

I was gonna put them in the next post but I didn’t want to be accused of rep farming 

[The Year Of The Fox]

 

1 hour ago, coolhandfox said:

First time, I've been tearful at a football match.

 

Very special moment.

 

 

Was a very tearful day 

 

Dad (Ken) derisively called Kenaldo by our Sunday league team he used to manage passed away before we won the League so never got chance to see any of it.

 

Was a steaming bawling wreck during Abide With Me, and after the FT whistle when my mate took this pic

[shailen]

And yet some want Brendan out. Happy new year all 😂

[HybridFox]

That Tielemans goal will live with me forever. What a day 

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

What a day that Final was

 

Better than winning the league I think 🙈

Really hard to compare them, as the league was just such an astonishing achievement and when it happened it was such a unique feeling, like the payoff to months of anxiety of something that really should be impossible.

 

But the final was completely different, just one game against a team we'd already beaten this year; it's been 20 years since we were in a final and been at Wembley for Boro, Spurs and Tranmere, so I sort of remembered what it was like. Though this time I wasn't at the stadium and unlike the league win, I was in the same country as my dad and was able to watch it with him.

 

Seriously ****ing tense for the first hour, especially after Evans went off. But that goal. ****ing wow. I broke my jandals celebrating and nearly fell into the TV. My dad was going APESHIT. And then I spent the next half an hour pacing around the room. Couldn't ****ing sit down. Even doing circuits of the hall with the telly in the corner of my eye. When Chilwell scored I just swore and sat down. Then it was disallowed and I was jumping around like we'd ****ing scored again. Final whistle goes and I'm screaming and crying into my 1997 League Cup winners flag stood right in front of the TV. My dad is LITERALLY running around the ****ing house. Tears, hugs, the special whiskey. What a day.

 

Like I said, impossible to choose between them. Great days though, we should have more of them.

[KingsX]

2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

We beat Liverpool twice.

We beat Chelsea twice.

We beat Manchester City at Wembley.

We beat Manchester United 3 times - the first win at Old Trafford in 23 years.

We won at Wembley 3 times in one year.

in 2021 we won the FA Cup for the first ever time.

We finally completed the domestic set.

 

RODGERS OUT

[winteriscoming]

So we overachieved. 

[BoyJones]

1 hour ago, Wolfox said:

This quote shouldn’t make any sense, but, yeah I agree…. It was certainly not that bigger achievement  to be clear…

 

I was too wracked with anxiety to fully enjoy the league win….  Although I loved it In the end!

 

As a one off, being at Wembley with my son and having the most perfect day in every way (feeling normal and around people again forming part of the general euphoria)…. It was one of the most memorable days in my life 

From my point of view, I’ve never had any expectations of City winning the top division, so never gave it any thought until 15/16. Obviously that was a simply amazing season, particularly since I got to nearly every game. 
 

However, since 1962/3 and every year thereafter, I’ve prayed and hoped we would win the Cup, almost an obsession, top of my bucket list. Every time we got knocked out, it took ages to get over. A lot of fans my age probably felt the same.

The first few minutes after the final whistle, I thought of all the cup games my old man had taken me, up and down the motorways in the 60/70’s and wished he could have been with me. He worked at the City 66-86. 
 

Anyway, had a taste, want us to win it again now!!

 

[Foxdiamond]

28 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Really hard to compare them, as the league was just such an astonishing achievement and when it happened it was such a unique feeling, like the payoff to months of anxiety of something that really should be impossible.

 

But the final was completely different, just one game against a team we'd already beaten this year; it's been 20 years since we were in a final and been at Wembley for Boro, Spurs and Tranmere, so I sort of remembered what it was like. Though this time I wasn't at the stadium and unlike the league win, I was in the same country as my dad and was able to watch it with him.

 

Seriously ****ing tense for the first hour, especially after Evans went off. But that goal. ****ing wow. I broke my jandals celebrating and nearly fell into the TV. My dad was going APESHIT. And then I spent the next half an hour pacing around the room. Couldn't ****ing sit down. Even doing circuits of the hall with the telly in the corner of my eye. When Chilwell scored I just swore and sat down. Then it was disallowed and I was jumping around like we'd ****ing scored again. Final whistle goes and I'm screaming and crying into my 1997 League Cup winners flag stood right in front of the TV. My dad is LITERALLY running around the ****ing house. Tears, hugs, the special whiskey. What a day.

 

Like I said, impossible to choose between them. Great days though, we should have more of them.

Love this thread. I thought winning the league was just an unbelievable wonderful achievement. The FA cup has always been the elephant in the room if you have any knowledge of our club. I assumed the league would dispel it but it remained still. Winning it was the pinnacle . The winning goal being a picture and not a rebound off someone's bum etc made it even better . My wife was worried for my heart during that last 30 mins or so. 

[TrentFox]

3 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

We beat Liverpool twice.

We beat Chelsea twice.

We beat Manchester City at Wembley.

We beat Manchester United 3 times - the first win at Old Trafford in 23 years.

We won at Wembley 3 times in one year.

We sold nobody in the summer for the first time.

We qualified for Europe through the league for the 3rd time ever.

We hold the fasted hat-trick in Europa League history.

We spent the first year at our new training ground.

We finally announced plans to expand the stadium.

 

Yes, we had unprecedented injuries.

Yes, we had some shocking performances.

Yes, we failed to qualify for the Champions League on the last day of the season. Again.

Yes, we had a humiliating exit from the Europa League.

Yes, we still have some of our own fans who let us down (everyone does).

 

But in 2021 we won the FA Cup for the first ever time.

We finally completed the domestic set.

And what a ****ing day that was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We won the Community Shield.

 

 

 

Oh, and Leicester City women were Champions too.

 

 

On reflection, 2021 wasn't too shabby, was it?

 

Here's to an even better 2022.

 

 

Happy New Year.

Yeah, but Perez was a bit pants, wasn’t he? 🤷

[Foxdiamond]

12 minutes ago, TrentFox said:

Yeah, but Perez was a bit pants, wasn’t he? 🤷

Ah, but it got in the way of the clearance before the goal. A vital contribution!