Greatest Single Moment?

[Vlad the Fox]

11 minutes ago, whetstonefox said:

Imagine if you could travel back in time to May 2008 and show this thread! 

In 2030 we’re going to win the champions league. 
 

I dare anyone to laugh. 

[Vlad the Fox]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

League thinking about it was even sweeter without any bullshit var moments and pauses.

It wasn’t until I got home and rewatched the match that I realised there had been a pause for var to check our goal. I was completely lost in probably the longest goal celebration ever, must have been 2 or 3 minutes of screaming and shouting our heads off. In fact I’d like to bet that the majority of fans there that day were unaware of any var check on Tielemans goal  

[tom27111]

OK, figured out a way to show you the emotion of the cup win.

 

I'm the one shouting "REF....REF" 

 

 

[Foxdiamond]

25 minutes ago, whetstonefox said:

Imagine if you could travel back in time to May 2008 and show this thread! 

If anyone suggested that by 2021 we would win the Premier and FA cup they would have been dismissed as simple minded. I wonder what the odds were on the day we were relegated to League One

[tom27111]

Just now, Foxdiamond said:

If anyone suggested that by 2021 we would win the Premier and FA cup they would have been dismissed as simple minded. I wonder what the odds were on the day we were relegated to League One

10000/1? I'd have given you 12000/1 if you'd asked for Community Shield too 😉 

[FoxesDeb]

For me it was the cup, if we're talking about a moment. That was the one I had dreamed of for so many years, winning the league wasn't even on my radar until the year we actually did it, and I spent the last few months in some kind of semi permanent anxiety. I didn't enjoy any of the games for months towards the end, I'd pace up and down for hours on the days we played, I wish I could have enjoyed it more. This is true for so many of us I know. 

 

The cup win though was just pure ecstasy when we did it, an actual dream come true. 

[tom27111]

Just now, FoxesDeb said:

For me it was the cup, if we're talking about a moment. That was the one I had dreamed of for so many years, winning the league wasn't even on my radar until the year we actually did it, and I spent the last few months in some kind of semi permanent anxiety. I didn't enjoy any of the games for months towards the end, I'd pace up and down for hours on the days we played, I wish I could have enjoyed it more. This is true for so many of us I know. 

 

The cup win though was just pure ecstasy when we did it, an actual dream come true. 

I'm pretty much the same.

 

The league was so stressful!

 

It took forever to sink in, hell, I think we could still fvck it up 

 

But the cup was just pure emotion on the day. Win or lose. 

 

I cried like a baby and I'm not ashamed to say it.

 

The league win took longer. I was in shock for 6 months.

[JR99]

1 hour ago, String fellow said:

What about the 'single moment' when Chelsea prevented Spurs from possibly catching us up? For me, that moment was far bigger than the ones you've mentioned.

100%, but I'd like to focus on us and not others, the title win felt more like an accumulation of incredible moments, less a single moment or event. Although Andrea Bocelli serenading us and Claudio professing his love might be one of the best non footballing moments 

[RumbleFox]

9 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Come on man, it's how you felt in those moments.

 

Like I say, no right or wrong answer, both euphoric.

 

We all know what the greatest achievement was.

 

The question was prompted by people saying the Cup final was the greatest moment their life.

 

It was lockdown, if you had a ticket, it probably can't be beaten.

 

 

I was only having a laugh me duck. Although the PL win personally was way way in advance of the FA Cup. 

[RumbleFox]

9 hours ago, phoneticerror said:

Alright Adolf 😂

Haha. I was being a bit obtuse on purpose. I’ll let them stay. They should just be shunned. 

[Wolfox]

It’s important to understand the question…. If it’s what’s the greatest achievement, then you may as well close the thread…

 

What felt better is the question being asked and that’s entirely subjective…

 

Loved the great escape…

 

The Prem win…. I was a bag of nerves as soon as it dawned on me that the impossible might become improbable and then finally  entirely possible…. Every match day I’d wake up with butterflies in my stomach…. When we ‘did it’ I felt quite overwhelmed…

 

The FA Cup was always a possibility for a team like Leicester…. My son and I snagged a ticket…. The concourse was bouncing as we were in the process of being released from a strict lockdown and we beat Chelsea…. A dream come true!   It felt great and, yes, potentially better than the impossible dream!

[hackenbacker]

I thought it was good  ... but greatest single .. i doubt it 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

My single greatest LCFC moment was Eden Hazard's goal against Spurs. 

[norwichfox]

after 60 odd years of disappointment in the FA Cup it always seemed to me the most important competition...until around halfway through the premier league winning season, never really entered my head since it started that we could win it...absolute magic then and it still is. Still feels fantastic that we have ticked off the FA Cup, any success in Europe would be nice, sadly, we have to wait unit we qualify to enter one.

[foxfanazer]

The nature of Youri's goal and then the ice cool celebration 

 

But the League win will never be matched, even if we won a European trophy

Edited 24 June 2022 by foxfanazer

[Buzzell]

That feeling of winning the league will never be topped. To think we will probably never feel that same feeling again in our lifetime.

[foxinsocks]

When hazard scored I ran out into the street

Edited 24 June 2022 by foxinsocks

[Vardinio'sCat]

Summer 2022 transfer window, clear winner.

[Jimbo]

Greatest SINGLE moment......

 

The league win will probably never be topped, not even if we do it again. In fact the only thing that could top it is if we win the champions League. But it wasn't a single moment, it was a whole bunch of single moments......

Hindsight is wonderful, of course, but

Dyer's goal against Villa

Mahrez's goal against Spurs

Huth's goal away at Spurs

Ulloa against West Ham

The Man City game

Vardy 11 consecutive games on the scoresheet

Not forgetting Hazard Vs Spurs

It was fantastic, but it was a 9 month long fairytale

 

Single moments are Claridge Vs Palace in '96

Howard Vs Leeds

Tielemans Vs Chelsea

 

To be 1 of the few thousand there at Wembley that day was immense. Forgetting football for a second, the whole day was amazing. To be out and socializing, properly, after a year or so pretty much locked away and vilified if you came within 2 metres of human contact added to the occasion.  

 

The noise made when the goal went in, the tension as the seconds ticked by, the cheer when Kasper made that save and the noise made again when Chilwells goal was chalked off.

 

As SINGLE moments go, that's at the very top. Surely though, every single Leicester fan's favourite all time memory will always be the league win

 

 

 

Edited 24 June 2022 by Jimbo

[smudger63]

If we had won the league and the FA Cup for the first time in the 1970s when I was a kid, and you asked me the greatest moment, I would undoubtedly have said the FA Cup. 

 The league was a level playing field back then. Even Derby twice and Notts Forest won it, and so it didn't seem impossible that we could win it ourselves then under Bloomfield when we had an excellent side, but the FA Cup was the ultimate dream growing up for me. It was the glamour and the prestige that went with it back then. Winning that, in what was the only live domestic TV game of the season, in front of millions around the world, and when the whole country stopped to watch it, was what I wished for before a ball was kicked at the start of every season.

  If you look at attendances in FA Cup games back then, you will notice how the games attendances used to be better than the league games. The FA Cup meant that much.

As a Leicester fan, I was also painfully aware of losing in four finals, and it felt like we had a score to settle, to make things right. So when we finally won it in 2021, it felt like we had made things right, finally settled the score, and I was alive to see it, when so many friends and family who had also dreamt of that day wasn't, including my Dad and brother, and it was them I thought of as soon as the final whistle was blown. 

Was it still going to be my greatest moment though in the football world i live in today?

No it wasn't, because the game has moved on to a point, where its not a level playing field anymore, where alot of clubs will sign one player for more than we paid for our entire 2016 team.

From what I thought was possible in the 1970s to a time i thought was impossible in the modern game, we had done the impossible.

So that was my greatest moment. The Hazard goal that confirmed us as Champions, and the the week long party that followed it in and around Leicester, topped off with the truly greatest moment, Trophy lift day against Everton.

That day was truly special. So winning the FA Cup was magnificent and meant so much, the fulfilment of a life long dream, but winning the league in the modern era, my greatest moment.

Edited 24 June 2022 by smudger63

[DoveValleyFox]

I get far more excited if I am at a game. Unfortunately I could not get a ticket for many of the biggest games in our recent history such as the 2021 FA cup final or Chelsea v spurs. I definitely went into a celebration like no other when we won the league, such was the achievement. The FA Cup final was a very close second but had I attended that game it would almost certainly have been better. 

 

The craziest I have ever celebrated at a game was when Walsh put us 2-1 up against Derby in 1994. After attending two consecutive final defeats the emotion for that game was like a champagne cork exploding. Strangely that was even better than the League Cup final wins although the win against Middlesbrough came very close.

[Foxdiamond]

9 hours ago, smudger63 said:

If we had won the league and the FA Cup for the first time in the 1970s when I was a kid, and you asked me the greatest moment, I would undoubtedly have said the FA Cup. 

 The league was a level playing field back then. Even Derby twice and Notts Forest won it, and so it didn't seem impossible that we could win it ourselves then under Bloomfield when we had an excellent side, but the FA Cup was the ultimate dream growing up for me. It was the glamour and the prestige that went with it back then. Winning that, in what was the only live domestic TV game of the season, in front of millions around the world, and when the whole country stopped to watch it, was what I wished for before a ball was kicked at the start of every season.

  If you look at attendances in FA Cup games back then, you will notice how the games attendances used to be better than the league games. The FA Cup meant that much.

As a Leicester fan, I was also painfully aware of losing in four finals, and it felt like we had a score to settle, to make things right. So when we finally won it in 2021, it felt like we had made things right, finally settled the score, and I was alive to see it, when so many friends and family who had also dreamt of that day wasn't, including my Dad and brother, and it was them I thought of as soon as the final whistle was blown. 

Was it still going to be my greatest moment though in the football world i live in today?

No it wasn't, because the game has moved on to a point, where its not a level playing field anymore, where alot of clubs will sign one player for more than we paid for our entire 2016 team.

From what I thought was possible in the 1970s to a time i thought was impossible in the modern game, we had done the impossible.

So that was my greatest moment. The Hazard goal that confirmed us as Champions, and the the week long party that followed it in and around Leicester, topped off with the truly greatest moment, Trophy lift day against Everton.

That day was truly special. So winning the FA Cup was magnificent and meant so much, the fulfilment of a life long dream, but winning the league in the modern era, my greatest moment.

Enjoyed your post. I just revel in that both were realised in my lifetime. 

[Blue-fox]

Walsh V Derby/ Claridge V Palace. 
 

Stevie Thompson equalising V Swindon in the play off final from being 3-0 down (Even though we lost 4-3!)

 

King V West Ham and Vardy V West Brom great escape. 
 

Ulloa V Norwich and West Ham Title winning season. 
 

Albrighton V Seville. 

 

Can’t pick between those 😂

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

On 15/05/2022 at 21:28, tom27111 said:

Come on man, it's how you felt in those moments.

 

Like I say, no right or wrong answer, both euphoric.

 

We all know what the greatest achievement was.

 

The question was prompted by people saying the Cup final was the greatest moment their life.

 

It was lockdown, if you had a ticket, it probably can't be beaten.

 

 

Absolutely right, there was no single match in the title winning season that betters the FA cup final day for me.

 

I was, as many others were, cooped up for nearly 2 years at home! For us 6,000 there drinking singing ect pre match and then the game itself it was incomparable. Best sporting day i have ever attended

[Nick]

Premier League win all day long but being honest (and I was there for the FA Cup final), the second greatest moment is harder to separate between the FA Cup win and the sheer joy of witnessing us rolling out to the Champions League music at home against Sevilla for me, personally.

 

2-1 down on aggregate, Kaspers saves (and boot tapping time wasting), Big Wes's right knee, Kevin's goal, Vardy's full blown dramatic and imaginary victimary butt to the head and Nasri's subsequent sending off... That  2-0 win, that day, for me, taking us through to the quarters probably tops the FA Cup win, weirdly – not in terms of achievement perhaps but 'greatest ever moments' is all about atmosphere and personal experience.