The City Went Absolutely Mental

[kushiro]

@purpleronnie mentioned above that he still has a scrapbook from that season. Well guess what - so do I. 

 

Here's a selection:

 

First, the goals from the Cambridge 5-0:

 

Tommy Wright puts us one up:

 

 

Simon Grayson makes a wonderful break through the middle...

 

 

...and Steve Thompson makes it two:

 

 

 

Rooster makes it 3-0 after half-time:

 

 

 

Sixty seconds later Tommy Wright gets his second. 4-0:

 

 

 

Ian Ormondroyd makes it five:

 

 

 

Rooster after the match:

 

 

 

Here's some pages from the Final:

 

 

 

 

 

Tommy Wright after missing a late chance to equalize:

 

 

 

 

And this was the bus tour the next day, ending in Viccy Park:

 

[Vacamion]

 

Great reads.  

 

I missed that entire season.  I was abroad, pre-internet, in a place where phoning home meant a long queue at a post office and spending money I didn't have.

 

My only link to it all was letters from home with clippings from the Mercury and the scores on the BBC World Service (the Sports Report music still brings out the goosebumps  )

 

When I had left the UK in the late Summer of 1991, City were (as they had been for most of the time since I started watching) not much kop.

 

After I moved back a year later, we were BACK as contenders and everyone was football mad.

 

Your posts capture that superbly.  

[Weller Wing]

Can I just add

After watching the Port Vale highlights,  It reminded me of how much I really,really wanted Leicester to sign Martin Foyle😄😄

 

I think he would have helped us to wrap up automatic promotion 

[stripeyfox]

can we just take a moment to appreciate @kushiro and the wonderful content and stories that they create. Absolutely superb

 

[OnlyOneCity]

Great memories of the Blackburn away match. Everybody in the away end, standing on a carpet of Sporting Green/ blue?, just drawing Rooster towards goal, knowing he would score. On the way home, listening to Danny Baker on 606, when that programme was about fans of many different teams, chatting to Danny as though sitting in the pub with him. No Alan Green, Robbie Savage etc. telling you that you were talking a load of rubbish, and that they knew best!

[Roosters boots]

Brilliant post, a lot of great memories there for me. I try and explain to my lad who’s only known us be successful, how good it was back then and he just laughs 😂 brilliant times. Went all them games, away ones mainly in the back of a van or lorry. Wouldn’t change it for anything. 

[Roosters boots]

1 hour ago, OnlyOneCity said:

Great memories of the Blackburn away match. Everybody in the away end, standing on a carpet of Sporting Green/ blue?, just drawing Rooster towards goal, knowing he would score. On the way home, listening to Danny Baker on 606, when that programme was about fans of many different teams, chatting to Danny as though sitting in the pub with him. No Alan Green, Robbie Savage etc. telling you that you were talking a load of rubbish, and that they knew best!

Ticker tape was mental back then 

[l444ry]

Remember the chant going round Filbert Street during the Cambridge Utd game "We play football, we play football."  An obvious reference to John Beck's taking long ball football to a new level.

[PAPA LAZAROU]

Wow just wow Thank you so much Kushiro. your footage and images have brought back such wonderful memories of those  times in our club's history. In particular, the old filbert street memories which for us old ones we hold deep in our hearts. That barmy spring night at home against Cambridge was as magical as it gets. To go to Wembley again since 1969 was for most of us our first trip there.

 

Although the day ended with a loss with a dodgy penalty to Blackburn ( yeah look where they are now ) we still felt the club was on the up from the doldrums and that momentum was being created within the club. we had a wonderful time in London and on the way down there with all the cars and buses full to the brim and having got there it was amazing to see so many Leicester fans all over the place at all the pubs and "Who are we Blue Army" chanted everywhere.

 

Ditto the next year same horse different Jockey, and another loss. Oh but what a game. When Thompson put in that equalizer against  Swindon I thought I would never hear a noise like it again in my city following life ( I was wrong Leo's equalizer against Norwich at the KP topped that ) but yet again a dodgy peno saw us lose. But our path to Wembly had now taken on a yearly pilgrimage.

 

For me, the next visit to Wembley ( the old original one )in 1994 was by far the greatest. A hot spring blue skyed day saw us against the much fancied and much money spent on Derby County. We got down there early for breakfast and bumped into Kevin Keegan who was there to comment on the match. We asked him what he thought and he said" Well I'm not just saying this to you because you are Leicester fans but I have a feeling your team spirit will do it today" God Blessed Kev you were right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a much-expected goal from Derby following a possible fouling of their keeper to their defender ducking his head for the equalizer. Then oh my, that last few minute's winner from the man himself Steve  Walsh was sublime. We yes us Leicester City had actually won at Wembley for the first time in our history after our 7th attempt! What a party we had on the bus on the way home and when we drew level with the Derby buses up the M1. Yes I know we went on to win there in the league cup final with a trophy to show at the end of it, but for me to win at Wembley even if it were a playoff final will never be beaten.

 

I would love to hear all your own recollections of those days as we all see things differently on the day. 

 

 

Edited 17 August 2023 by PAPA LAZAROU