Gordon Lee RIP

[fox in the sox]

Another former manager has passed away. Gordon Lee stepped up from his assistant manager role when David Pleat left City and he kept the club up on the final day of the 1990/91 season.

[davieG]

RIP

[Philkeavo]

RIP

[Spiritwalker]

He did well to save us that season, took over at a time when the atmosphere was toxic.

RIP

[Jobyfox]

He gave me my only (to date) pitch invasion moment. 

 

RIP Gordon 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

RIP

[st albans fox]

I had completely forgotten that he’d managed us and the context 

 

Decent manager who probably never got the respect he deserved in the game ..

[coolhandfox]

One of my first memories of supporting City was sitting in the garden listening to the Oxford game on the radio and going mad when TJ scored to seal the great escape. 

 

RIP Gordon

 

 

 

https://www.lcfc.com/news/1650352/remembering-leicester-citys-other-great-escape/featured

 

Edited 8 March 2022 by coolhandfox

[NasPb]

RIP 🙏

[magoo]

rip

[sylofox]

2 hours ago, Spiritwalker said:

He did well to save us that season, took over at a time when the atmosphere was toxic.

RIP

Toxic for a good reason though.

 

RIP Gordon.

[TrentFox]

Yet more desperately sad news. 😞

[Weller Wing]

Very sad news.

I think his 1st game was Plymouth at home,who we managed to beat, but I remember it being a bit desperate. 

Held it together and got us safe in dramatic style.

My memory isn't great but I think that run in also was the famous monks at Ipswich, which was a mad day 😆

 

RIP 💙💙💙

[1972 Fox]

1 hour ago, Weller Wing said:

Held it together and got us safe in dramatic style.

My memory isn't great but I think that run in also was the famous monks at Ipswich, which was a mad day 😆

 

RIP 💙💙💙

Hari Krishna's I think.

[Guest worth_the_wait]

10 minutes ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Hari Krishna's I think.

Definitely.   And it was a mad day indeed!  

[1972 Fox]

7 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

Definitely.   And it was a mad day indeed!  

 

[Corky]

Without his work we probably wouldn't have had the O'Neill era.

 

RIP.

[CrazyKopCorner]

He seemed a very decent man.

 

RIP Gordon 

[worksopfox]

7 hours ago, Jobyfox said:

He gave me my only (to date) pitch invasion moment. 

 

RIP Gordon 

Ha Ha memories!! I enjoyed that pitch invasion.

Then I was fortunate to talk to him later that night.

RIP 

[Spudulike]

2 hours ago, Corky said:

Without his work we probably wouldn't have had the O'Neill era.

 

RIP.

We had the Little era next after Gordon who was, as reported, just a tad upset that he didn't get contracted to take on the role. Martin George had other ideas which resulted in the series of Wembley play-off finals. 

[Paninistickers]

Sad news. 

 

I always found it a bit incongruous that a former manager of Newcastle and Everton ended up as assistant manager of a run-of-the-mill second division club 6 or 7 years later. Today's equivalent would be, say, Alan Pardew as assistant manager at West Brom.

 

Did his job in saving us and offered us 6 months of a kinder, less complex, less superior management style than the grotesque ego of his boss and predecessor Pleat

 

 

 

 

[dayday]

I think he did alright job under the circumstances, a quiet levelled headed guy was just what we needed at the time.

 

 

[dayday]

4 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

 

I do recall the tannoy guy at Bristol Rovers had said that Leicester had only drew with Oxford, meaning WBA had stayed up, the Albion fans was going nuts only to realise in the end it was bullshit, No surprised he got sacked

 

As for that Oxford game, horrible game than seemed to last an eternity, not a good day for the nerves 

[ceredigion]

I think keeping us up on the last day against Oxford was probably his finest hour as a manager. It would definitely have been a mistake to keep him on afterwards and not appoint Brian Little but when he took over he had 1 job to do and he managed to it so those of us who were supporters at the time will always remember him fondly. There's a nice moment in the footage of the Oxford game, just after the final whistle when you can see him blowing out his cheeks in sheer relief, although nobody at that precise time knew what had happened at the Bristol Rovers WBA game.

[ceredigion]

11 hours ago, Jobyfox said:

He gave me my only (to date) pitch invasion moment. 

 

RIP Gordon 

I was on the pitch too. How bizarre was it that at the end of our worst ever season (until Holloway that is), when we finished in our lowest ever position and had been knocked out of the League Cup, the ZDS Cup and the FA Cup at the first hurdle, we would end up celebrating like that. There should have been an open-top bus tour and a reception at Victoria Park or Town Hall Square the next day. But would anybody have turned up for it?