Most important goal in clubs history

[Aus Fox]

 

Tony James 1-0 - We are staying up!

 

[CosbehFox]

Important is an interesting word. To be of great significant or impact. 

 

For that I have two options. I got Tony James goal v Oxford in 1991. I think being two divisions away at the birth of the Premier League and not being able to jump on the bandwagon has quick as possible - galvanised the club into the modern era. 

 

Tommy Wright's goal at home to Forest effectively opens up a gap on 3rd for promotion. If we don't go up that season, it's doo doo's. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Kingy vs West Ham 2015 really was a turning point. Club could be in a very different place now if it wasn't for that.

[Silva Fox]

Has to be Big Wes's equaliser v Man United which meant that Spurs had to beat Chelsea to stop us winning the title

Edited 7 March 2023 by Silva Fox

[Bert]

21 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Not sure any of the goals in the great escape / title winning season really count. 

 

We won the league by 10 fvcking points, that's not a title race its a procession. And "great escape" is almost as big a myth, we were 14th in the end and safe before the final day. Its not like we scraped up with some last ditch winner. 

 

I'd probably have to pick one of the cup final or play off final winners or Tony James. For recency bias it's probably Youri, otherwise Claridge vs Palace sets us up for the years that follow which were ultimately the peak of most of our (the majority demographic of this forum, sorry davieG)  lives before the Thai ownership. 

But we were miles behind and bottom at Christmas. Historically, in the Prem if you’re bottom at Christmas you go down. 

[Gamble92]

30 minutes ago, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

Troy Deeney's against us in the play offs.

We go up that season and almost certainly none of the rest of it happens.

I never get tired of telling people how much that goal doesn't affect me because of what came next. The media absolutely hate that Watford didn't go up as well. The whole thing was absolutely meaningless for everyone involved 👀

[Gamble92]

10 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Kingy vs West Ham 2015 really was a turning point. Club could be in a very different place now if it wasn't for that.

I wish someone could find Carragher's rant asking why the Leicester fans are celebrating so much because they're still going down.

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

I don't think there's any single goal from 2015-16 that can be singled out. I reckon the key ones that season were the ones in all those early season comebacks. If we hadn't established the momentum it probably wouldn't have happened. But you can't really pick any one of them as more important than any other.

[TrentFox]

What’s a goal??? 🤔

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, Bert said:

But we were miles behind and bottom at Christmas. Historically, in the Prem if you’re bottom at Christmas you go down. 

 

Yeah absolutely. It's definitely really commendable the turnaround we had that season but I still don't think "Great Escape" is the right term. I feel like we need a different way of describing it. 

 

When West Brom stayed up in their famous great escape they were going down as of like the 80th minute on the final day weren't they? 

 

We were fairly strong all year, we'd performed decently in games and never felt too out of touch and most of us felt we were just a bit of luck away from being a competitive side. When everything finally clicked late in the season it just felt right and we were fairly comfortable in the last couple weeks. 

[Tommy Fresh]

Gradel against MK Dons, we still probably win the league but chance it becomes a lot tighter had we lost this. Including this result it was a run of like 5 draws in 6 games, also lets appreciate how good the first is by Fryatt. Howard against Leeds was a big one but we were all but up by then

Edited 7 March 2023 by Tommy Fresh

[Stuntman_Mike]

Chilwell/Fofana/Kante this Saturday leading to BR getting the sack, us staying up and Maddison signing a 5 year contract. 

[mod hero]

Felix next week when we lose 0-1 and Rodgers gets the bullet

[bovril]

42 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Not sure any of the goals in the great escape / title winning season really count. 

 

We won the league by 10 fvcking points, that's not a title race its a procession. And "great escape" is almost as big a myth, we were 14th in the end and safe before the final day. Its not like we scraped up with some last ditch winner. 

 

I'd probably have to pick one of the cup final or play off final winners or Tony James. For recency bias it's probably Youri, otherwise Claridge vs Palace sets us up for the years that follow which were ultimately the peak of most of our (the majority demographic of this forum, sorry davieG)  lives before the Thai ownership. 

Disagree about the Great Escape. If we hadn't beaten either West Ham or West Brom late on we may not have gone on the run that kept us up. Yes we were better than the position suggested but if we'd got 2 points from those games I think we would be feeling resigned to relegation. So I would argue King's and Vardy's goals are two of the most important in the club's history. Vardy's for me feels like the moment when the Leicester City miracle story really begins. 

 

I would go for Tielemans though. We'd never won the FA Cup and others have said, the league title wasn't won with a single goal, we won it comfortably in the end. I think people underrate the Cup win both in terms of how we played in those games and also what it meant to the club historically. 

[Les-TA-Jon]

47 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Not sure any of the goals in the great escape / title winning season really count. 

 

We won the league by 10 fvcking points, that's not a title race its a procession. And "great escape" is almost as big a myth, we were 14th in the end and safe before the final day. Its not like we scraped up with some last ditch winner. 

 

I'd probably have to pick one of the cup final or play off final winners or Tony James. For recency bias it's probably Youri, otherwise Claridge vs Palace sets us up for the years that follow which were ultimately the peak of most of our (the majority demographic of this forum, sorry davieG)  lives before the Thai ownership. 

Weird take. We were dead and buried and rock bottom with 9 games left. Won virtually all of them to stay up.

 

It absolutely was an escape, and one of the greatest.

 

That + winning the league the following year is possibly one of the largest prolonged turnarounds in form English football has ever seen

[bovril]

40 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Kingy vs West Ham 2015 really was a turning point. Club could be in a very different place now if it wasn't for that.

The more I think about it, the more I think this may be the correct answer. 

[Finnegan]

7 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Won virtually all of them to stay up.

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@bovril

 

But that's sort of my point. Like I said in response to Bert above, it's not that I mean to play down how impressive the end to that season was I just feel like we need a different phrase for it. 

 

The term was coined for those dramatic, last day of the season, spawny-as-fvck, how-did-they-survive near misses and that's just not really how I look back at 14/15 at all. 

 

I've had this conversation a few times with people over the years and typically they never agree! It's just me being picky over semantics ultimately. 

 

Edited 7 March 2023 by Finnegan

[smudger63]

1 hour ago, kingkisnorbo said:

Sincerely hoping nobody says Hazard vs Tottenham. Sick of hearing about how he apparently won it for us. 

Indeed! Ray Parlour the other week was going on about how Spurs blew the league at Chelsea! Given that Arsenal went on to finish above Spurs themselves, you would have expected better from him really.

[bovril]

Just now, Finnegan said:

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@bovril

 

But that's sort of my point. Like I said in response to Bert above, it's not that I mean to play down how impressive the end to that season was I just feel like we need a different phrase for it. 

 

The term was coined for those dramatic, last day of the season, spawny-as-fvck, how-did-they-survive near misses and that's just not really how I look back at 14/15 at all. 

I tend to agree with you but in response to the original question, I don't think we end up going on that run without King's or Vardy's goal. Even 4 points out of 6 from those games may not have kick started it.

 

Perhaps 'the great turnaround' is better. 

[foxfanazer]

Vardy v West Brom was huge! 

 

Ulloa v Norwich 

 

Dyer v Villa

 

 

[Yes N'Didi]

Vardy WBA - The run that we go on after that doesn't happen IMHO if we don't win that game.

[bovril]

Claridge away at Charlton followed by Roberts away at Palace in Spring 96 - two quite underrated goals in terms of their importance.

[Jobyfox]

59 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

 

Tony James 1-0 - We are staying up!

 

That would have been mine

 

Also my one and only pitch invasion 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Ulloa penalty v West Ham.

 

Galvanised the club through a potentially sticky point of the season. A draw felt like a win and we never looked back.

[Daggers]

Vardy.