All time English LCFC 11 vs LCFC International 11s

[Aus Fox]

Scottish XI v England XI who wins? Who has been left out?

Anderson

 

McLintock 

Sjoberg

Elliott

Davidson

 

Gibson

McAllister 

Mauchlen

Tommy Wright

 

Young 

Dickov

 

England 

 

 Banks

 

 Nish

Walsh

Whitworth

Chilwell
 

Drinkwater

Maddison

Birchenall

 

Vardy

Lineker

Worthington

 

Harsh on some amazing English forwards : Heskey, Joachim, Chandler and Rowley

[peach0000]

15 hours ago, Blue-fox said:

He didn’t grow up  here did he? Thought we signed him like Andy king?

A quick look on wikipedia doesn't mention anything

[murphy]

Englland 4-4-2                               International 4-3-3                    Home nations  4-3-3

 

Shilton                                              Schmeichel                              Andrews

Mills                                                  Ricardo                                    Mauchlen

Chilwell                                             Kaamark                                  B.Smith

Elliott                                                 Huth                                        Hill 

Walsh                                                Fofana                                    O'Neill  

Parker                                               Kante                                      Lennon

Izzet                                                  TIelemans                              McAllister

Lynex                                                Cambiasso                             Savage

Lineker                                              Ihaeancho                              Gibson

Vardy                                                 Schlupp                                  Young

Heskey                                              Mahrez                                   Wilson

 

I love a thread like this.   I've gone for a home nations XI as well.   It's difficult to get all of our best players into these teams because, for instance, often you find you can name three good Scottish left wingers and you can't pick them all but then not a particularly special home nations cb,

 

I've gone for Elliott and Izzett in the English team.  I mean Izzett is a proper cockney sparrow, born in Mile End and grew up in Vallance Road, home of the Krays and Elliott once ate some sohrtbread and had a Scottish granny, but a proper sassanach.

 

[Sampson]

1 minute ago, murphy said:

 for instance, often you find you can name three good Scottish left wingers and you can't pick them all but then not a particularly special home nations cb,

 

Johnny Evans?

 

Certainly should be ahead of Bobby Smith or Colin Hill.

[murphy]

7 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Johnny Evans?

 

Certainly should be ahead of Bobby Smith or Colin Hill.

You're quite right.  Criminal oversight!

 

 

 

 

Edited 10 July 2022 by murphy

[Foxdiamond]

4 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Scottish XI v England XI who wins? Who has been left out?

Anderson

 

McLintock 

Sjoberg

Elliott

Davidson

 

Gibson

McAllister 

Mauchlen

Tommy Wright

 

Young 

Dickov

 

England 

 

 Banks

 

 Nish

Walsh

Whitworth

Chilwell
 

Drinkwater

Maddison

Birchenall

 

Vardy

Lineker

Worthington

 

Harsh on some amazing English forwards : Heskey, Joachim, Chandler and Rowley

Jackie Sinclair for Scotland. Goalscorer winger

[cropstonfox]

3 hours ago, murphy said:

Englland 4-4-2                               International 4-3-3                    Home nations  4-3-3

 

Shilton                                              Schmeichel                              Andrews

Mills                                                  Ricardo                                    Mauchlen

Chilwell                                             Kaamark                                  B.Smith

Elliott                                                 Huth                                        Hill 

Walsh                                                Fofana                                    O'Neill  

Parker                                               Kante                                      Lennon

Izzet                                                  TIelemans                              McAllister

Lynex                                                Cambiasso                             Savage

Lineker                                              Ihaeancho                              Gibson

Vardy                                                 Schlupp                                  Young

Heskey                                              Mahrez                                   Wilson

 

I love a thread like this.   I've gone for a home nations XI as well.   It's difficult to get all of our best players into these teams because, for instance, often you find you can name three good Scottish left wingers and you can't pick them all but then not a particularly special home nations cb,

 

I've gone for Elliott and Izzett in the English team.  I mean Izzett is a proper cockney sparrow, born in Mile End and grew up in Vallance Road, home of the Krays and Elliott once ate some sohrtbread and had a Scottish granny, but a proper sassanach.

 

Weller? 

[enmac]

10 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Scottish XI v England XI who wins? Who has been left out?

Anderson

 

McLintock 

Sjoberg

Elliott

Davidson

 

Gibson

McAllister 

Mauchlen

Tommy Wright

 

Young 

Dickov

 

England 

 

 Banks

 

 Nish

Walsh

Whitworth

Chilwell
 

Drinkwater

Maddison

Birchenall

 

Vardy

Lineker

Worthington

 

Harsh on some amazing English forwards : Heskey, Joachim, Chandler and Rowley

Sammels for Birchenall

[Sampson]

This thread has made me realise how poor our Republic of Irish contingent has been. Considering how prior to the EU and PL starting in 92, it was extremely rare for a non-British and Irish player to play in English football and so Division 1 was littered with Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish and R. of Irish players. And how some clubs like Liverpool and Arsenal had a great tradition of R. of Irish players, the fact Leicester have never really had a genuinely good R. of Irish player is actually incredibly surprising to me.

 

We’ve had plenty of Irishmen play for us, 3rd most common nationality after England and Scotland, as it will be with most English clubs. But the best of the bunch are players who were decent but hardly amazing regulars in the second tier for a couple of seasons like Paddy McCarthy, David Kelly and David Connolly.

 

Looking down the list, I don’t think we’ve ever had a single player from the Republic of Ireland who was a decent regular player for us in the top flight, which must be crazy unusual for a club of our size.

Edited 10 July 2022 by Sampson

[filbertway]

Based on since I started watching and trying to keep the line up balanced. No doubt I've missed some big names but these line ups come to mind anyway

 

 

Flowers

 

Justin

Maguire

Walsh 

Chilwell

 

Barnes

Maddison

KDH

Guppy

 

Vardy

Collymoore

 

Schmeichel 

 

Ricardo

Fofana

Elliott

Fuchs

 

 

Izzet

Kante

Cambiasso

 

Mahrez

Iheanacho

Mancini

 

[Foxdiamond]

31 minutes ago, Sampson said:

This thread has made me realise how poor our Republic of Irish contingent has been. Considering how prior to the EU and PL starting in 92, it was extremely rare for a non-British and Irish player to play in English football and so Division 1 was littered with Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish and R. of Irish players. And how some clubs like Liverpool and Arsenal had a great tradition of R. of Irish players, the fact Leicester have never really had a genuinely good R. of Irish player is actually incredibly surprising to me.

 

We’ve had plenty of Irishmen play for us, 3rd most common nationality after England and Scotland, as it will be with most English clubs. But the best of the bunch are players who were decent but hardly amazing regulars in the second tier for a couple of seasons like Paddy McCarthy, David Kelly and David Connolly.

 

Looking down the list, I don’t think we’ve ever had a single player from the Republic of Ireland who was a decent regular player for us in the top flight, which must be crazy unusual for a club of our size.

We did have Irish international keeper Tommy Godwin in early 50s. Though your points are correct 

[He aint bald]

11 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Scottish XI v England XI who wins? Who has been left out?

Anderson

 

McLintock 

Sjoberg

Elliott

Davidson

 

Gibson

McAllister 

Mauchlen

Tommy Wright

 

Young 

Dickov

 

Honourable Scottish mentions to

Eddie Kelly, even though he pogbared us  by going out on a free in July and making us pay 50 grand to re sign him 6 months later.

Ian Wilson, 318 games, mostly reliable

Kevin macDonald was better though.

Had to look a couple up to be honest but also chose a wildcard, not too shabby

Tony Carroll,  a small and quick winger,  his crosses were his trademark, and they were key in helping City to promotion in 1937. He chipped in with goals too, scoring 15 in the 1936-37 season.

Off-the-field, Carroll was officially declared 'lost at sea' in 1944 as a result of enemy action but was rescued and made a welcome return to Filbert Street after the event. 

[He aint bald]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

This thread has made me realise how poor our Republic of Irish contingent has been. Considering how prior to the EU and PL starting in 92, it was extremely rare for a non-British and Irish player to play in English football and so Division 1 was littered with Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish and R. of Irish players. And how some clubs like Liverpool and Arsenal had a great tradition of R. of Irish players, the fact Leicester have never really had a genuinely good R. of Irish player is actually incredibly surprising to me.

 

We’ve had plenty of Irishmen play for us, 3rd most common nationality after England and Scotland, as it will be with most English clubs. But the best of the bunch are players who were decent but hardly amazing regulars in the second tier for a couple of seasons like Paddy McCarthy, David Kelly and David Connolly.

 

Looking down the list, I don’t think we’ve ever had a single player from the Republic of Ireland who was a decent regular player for us in the top flight, which must be crazy unusual for a club of our size.

Knowing that even Martin O’Neill was more interested in Gaelic football than association football in his youth. I thought that it might be down to a lack of interest.

Found out it was way more complicated than that, it was one or the other.

‘I’m a staunch Gaelic man’: Martin O’Neill recalls the highs and lows of his GAA life

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/i-m-a-staunch-gaelic-man-martin-o-neill-recalls-the-highs-and-lows-of-his-gaa-life-1.4539258

 

Rule 27 of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), also known as "the Ban", was a rule in force from 1905 to 1971 that banned members of the GAA from playing or watching other sports such as rugby, football or hockey.

[tom27111]

On 09/07/2022 at 13:55, honeybradger said:

Tielemans over cambiasso surely

You reckon? 

 

Esteban was head and shoulders above anyone in that side and although a fleeting stay at the end of his career, he absolutely oozed class.

 

One of the worlds finest, never mind just turning out for us.

 

But if you're basing it on performances in a Leicester shirt alone, you have a strong case 

 

 

[He aint bald]

56 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

But if you're basing it on performances in a Leicester shirt alone, you have a strong case 

 

These best of fantasy retro team threads need guidelines.

 

I dont want Martin Keown and Dennis Wise in an over 30, ex London club, FA cup winning, Leicester City all time great 5 a side team.

 

Or some unborn git choosing Kane over Lineker in 30 years cus of England stats.

 

For me,

Selection based on their best form during a period of time here

 

Assuming peak fitness potential (No Worthington and Co fagging it at half time)

 

Histoical players getting training time to get used to the beach ball, wearing slippers, pulling silk shirts without ripping them, playing on a cricket crease, non contact tackling and also a year in Leicester Poly studying FA rules ect ect

 

Edited 10 July 2022 by He aint bald

[Sampson]

1 hour ago, He aint bald said:

Honourable Scottish mentions to

Eddie Kelly, even though he pogbared us  by going out on a free in July and making us pay 50 grand to re sign him 6 months later.

Ian Wilson, 318 games, mostly reliable

Kevin macDonald was better though.

Had to look a couple up to be honest but also chose a wildcard, not too shabby

Tony Carroll,  a small and quick winger,  his crosses were his trademark, and they were key in helping City to promotion in 1937. He chipped in with goals too, scoring 15 in the 1936-37 season.

Off-the-field, Carroll was officially declared 'lost at sea' in 1944 as a result of enemy action but was rescued and made a welcome return to Filbert Street after the event. 

But very good Republic of Irish players were extremely common in the First Division pre-1992 and plenty of English clubs had great Irish players in their history, so I don’t think it’s a cultural thing, it just seems to be us as a club specifically who lack good Republic of Irish players in our history.

 

Look at our Northern Ireland players even - Johnny Evans, Derek Dougan, Neil Lennon, Gerry Taggart, John O’Neill, Paul Ramsey… All miles better Leicester players than any RoI Leicester player, can’t be many English teams who have so much a better record of N. Irish players that RoI players.

 

Just noticed it in these teams and thought it was quite an interesting quirk

Edited 10 July 2022 by Sampson

[TonyN11]

On 08/07/2022 at 17:34, Will1981 said:

Foxes African XI:

 

Mandy

 

Pantsil - Amartey - Bamba - Schlupp

 

Ndidi - Mendy

 

Mahrez - Iheanacho - Daka - Lookman

 

Subs: Wague, Gradel, Musa, Diabate, Sylla, Ghezzal, Slimani, Yakubu, Akinbiyi & Hammond.

Hope we don't have to use the bench 

[He aint bald]

 

 

 

34 minutes ago, Sampson said:

But very good Republic of Irish players were extremely common in the First Division pre-1992 and plenty of English clubs had great Irish players in their history, so I don’t think it’s a cultural thing, it just seems to be us as a club specifically who lack good Irish players in our history.

 

The rule 21 thing must have decreased the pool of ROI players up to 1971. Having only read 2 articles on it today though, I have no set opinion on the subject.

 

Although, I wonder if Lineker would have chosen cricket or football as a young kid, if playing the both was an issue, which it wasnt......

Maybe it should have been, Gary Lineker, multiple Ashes winner, likes to play in celebrity football matches too, fancies himself as a striker

[Craig]

12 hours ago, peach0000 said:

A quick look on wikipedia doesn't mention anything

Grew up and went to school in Milton Keynes I think

[tom27111]

49 minutes ago, Sampson said:

But very good Republic of Irish players were extremely common in the First Division pre-1992 and plenty of English clubs had great Irish players in their history, so I don’t think it’s a cultural thing, it just seems to be us as a club specifically who lack good Republic of Irish players in our history.

 

Look at our Northern Ireland players even - Johnny Evans, Derek Dougan, Neil Lennon, Gerry Taggart, John O’Neill, Paul Ramsey… All miles better Leicester players than any RoI Leicester player, can’t be many English teams who have so much a better record of N. Irish players that RoI players.

 

Just noticed it in these teams and thought it was quite an interesting quirk

Just on this point...I've never heard anything about it at all, but a Celtic fan I knew about 10 years ago told me that they hated us, way before Rodgers, because English clubs refused to signs Catholics and apparently we were amongst the last clubs, if not the last club to stop that.

 

I don't believe it, but has anyone else heard anything like this?

[He aint bald]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Just on this point...I've never heard anything about it at all, but a Celtic fan I knew about 10 years ago told me that they hated us, way before Rodgers, because English clubs refused to signs Catholics and apparently we were amongst the last clubs, if not the last club to stop that.

 

I don't believe it, but has anyone else heard anything like this?

Tommy shanks born  in New Ross, Co Wexford played 57 times for LCFC between 1906 and 1909. No idea if he was a good catholic boy or the cursed protestant off spring of a British soldier but 3 or 4 Southern Irish born players are listed in that period.

Did your Celtic mate have a dislike for protestant (I believe) Jock Wallace, his Scottish Leicester buys and his managerial spells at Rangers?

From memory, LCFC have had more relations with Rangers than Celtic though

 

Edited 10 July 2022 by He aint bald

[peach0000]

7 hours ago, Craig said:

Grew up and went to school in Milton Keynes I think

Yes but it looks like we were his first club. If that excludes schlupp then Chilwell is out too also from Milton Keynes and had a short time at Rushden and Diamonds 

[Voll Blau]

On 08/07/2022 at 21:47, Blue-fox said:

Academy 11:

 

Shilton

 

Richard Stearman

Matt Heath

Graham Cross

Ben Chilwell

 

Harvey Barnes

Stuart Campbell

Stefan Oakes

levi Porter

Heskey

Lineker

 

Stuart Campbell's a Corby Scot. Played for Scotland under-21s.

[Stadt]

On 08/07/2022 at 21:47, Blue-fox said:

Academy 11:

 

Shilton

 

Richard Stearman

Matt Heath

Graham Cross

Ben Chilwell

 

Harvey Barnes

Stuart Campbell

Stefan Oakes

levi Porter

Heskey

Lineker

 

Steve Whitworth over Stearman

[Aus Fox]

18 hours ago, Sampson said:

This thread has made me realise how poor our Republic of Irish contingent has been. Considering how prior to the EU and PL starting in 92, it was extremely rare for a non-British and Irish player to play in English football and so Division 1 was littered with Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish and R. of Irish players. And how some clubs like Liverpool and Arsenal had a great tradition of R. of Irish players, the fact Leicester have never really had a genuinely good R. of Irish player is actually incredibly surprising to me.

 

We’ve had plenty of Irishmen play for us, 3rd most common nationality after England and Scotland, as it will be with most English clubs. But the best of the bunch are players who were decent but hardly amazing regulars in the second tier for a couple of seasons like Paddy McCarthy, David Kelly and David Connolly.

 

Looking down the list, I don’t think we’ve ever had a single player from the Republic of Ireland who was a decent regular player for us in the top flight, which must be crazy unusual for a club of our size.

We did have Packie Bonner before he joined Celtic, played for our youth team, but never got offered a pro contract with us.