How do you define a club legend?

[Wymsey]

Just now, Izzy said:

I thought this thread title looked familiar

 

 

This really ought to be pinned at the top, as it seems like this question gets asked quite a few times on here.

[Sampson]

22 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

If Vardy had gone to Arsenal he would just have been another player and probably left them a few years ago 

I’m assuming Corky was talking about many on here saying they wanted him shipped out to West Brom for £5mil in 2014-15  rather than going to Arsenal. 

Edited 12 January by Sampson

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, Sampson said:

I’m assuming Corky was talking about him many on here saying they wanted him shipped out to West Brom for £5mil in 2014-15  rather than going to Arsenal. 

Shudder when I think about that

[Paddy Gresley]

In my 60 years of going to Filbert Street/King Power stadium.

Only ever 2 legends.

Gordon Banks.

Jamie Vardy.

[Izzy]

You'll never get a definitive answer or agreement on this, the same as trying to define which players are 'world class' or not.

 

Interesting debate none the less I suppose.

 

FWIW I think players need longevity at the club to be classed as Leicester legends. 

 

e.g. someone like Cambiasso is a legendry footballer but not a Leicester legend IMHO

 

Edited 12 January by Izzy

[Nalis]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

You'll never get a definitive answer or agreement on this, the same as trying to define which players are 'world class' or not.

 

Interesting debate none the less I suppose.

 

FWIW I think players need longevity at the club to be classed as Leicester legends. 

 

e.g. someone like Cambiasso is a legendry footballer but not a Leicester legend IMHO

 

Yeah Cambiasso is more of a cult hero than a club legend for me

Edited 12 January by Nalis

[Izzy]

Just now, Nalis said:

Yeah Cambiasso is more of a cult hero than a club legend for me

I'm sure we've also had a thread on here about what's the the difference between a legend and a cult hero! 

[Heathrow fox]

We won’t know until foxestalk 2075 how many of the names mentioned in recent history,stand the test of time.Not counting Vardy.

 

[Foxmeister]

What's the definition of a unique thread?

[HitchinFox]

5 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Think people confuse legends with what you’d call a cult hero. Of our title winning team id probably only consider Kasper, Wes, Mahrez and Vardy in that. Mahrez is a big exception to the rule purely because he we will never have a player of his talent again 

This.

 

Vardy is a legend. But there are also cult heroes - like Rooster Russell and The Big Finn Rantanen (to pick a couple of more obscure ones). 

 

You can't compare their achievements, but if you lived in a certain period of time, they got the crowd going. 

[MonarchFox]

4 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

I mean, Christ, for me Sinclair is a legend for scoring some truly wonderful own goals. 

Not his fault.  Head shaped like a 50p piece

[davieG]

If we can only have one statue it would need to be Vardy however something like a Walk of Fame like the Hollywood one we could satisfy the majority of fans legends with a special large one with all the league winning team on it. 

 

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,800^[1] five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks 

[Foxdiamond]

32 minutes ago, Paddy Gresley said:

In my 60 years of going to Filbert Street/King Power stadium.

Only ever 2 legends.

Gordon Banks.

Jamie Vardy.

Have respect that point of view

[Torquay Gunner]

38 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

This really ought to be pinned at the top, as it seems like this question gets asked quite a few times on here.

Every eight years or so. 😀

[tinpot_fox]

6 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

I mean, Christ, for me Sinclair is a legend for scoring some truly wonderful own goals. 

For and against…

 

 

6 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

But does it lower the bar and it’s not even prestigious is it? It’s a bit of fun. People have legends for different reasons. The first player you saw score. The first player you met. The player that came into the team at the same time you started watching. The player that used to get you off your feet and made you love Leicester city. The player you pretended to be with your mates. The player who was a big cvnt. It doesn’t make Vardy less of a legend in my eyes if some nobber from Syston wants to have Ian Ormondroyd in his hall of fame because he was 8 when he first saw him play and he scored the winner in the first match he attended. 

I have a memory of hearing Iwan Roberts scoring with a different body part every time I listened to the match commentary, so that’s what I associated with Leicester City. So to me Iwan is a legend just for that.

 

 

6 hours ago, Mr.Bingles said:

Dennis Wise? 

 

Legend has it he bankrupted the club

 

4 hours ago, murphy said:

I think it's important to keep the names of past legends alive, even if we never saw them play.  Perhaps the likes of Rowley, Hine, Chandler, Sep Smith etc pass into the category of folk hero instead, but I think that we should have a hall of fame so that future generations know what a Huth is.

 

 

 

Huth being to put the ball into row Z on either wing, whether from a clearance or a free kick.

 

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

If we can only have one statue it would need to be Vardy however something like a Walk of Fame like the Hollywood one we could satisfy the majority of fans legends with a special large one with all the league winning team on it. 

 

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,800^[1] five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks 

Vardy’s statue will be a row of wacky waving inflatable tube men that pop up waving in a wacky manner in front of the away supporters every time Leicester score.

 

murals of legendary players on the walls past the turnstiles with walk of fame style star and their brief history nearby could help keep the older legends alive.

[HighPeakFox]

This is simultaneously a very understandable yet entirely pointless thread 

[murphy]

25 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

This is simultaneously a very understandable yet entirely pointless thread 

Why so?

 

I think the point is that it's entertaining, like a good old-fashioned pub debate with no right or wrong answers, just opinions.

[HighPeakFox]

2 minutes ago, murphy said:

Why so?

 

I think the point is that it's entertaining, like a good old-fashioned pub debate with no right or wrong answers, just opinions.

Partially because it's been done to death, and partially because it will probably end up with the thread getting locked.

Edited 12 January by HighPeakFox

[Steve Earle]

46 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

This is simultaneously a very understandable yet entirely pointless thread 

Very true Peaky, but sometimes it’s good to go with the flow. I’ve read all the suggested definitions of ‘legend’ above and they all have some merit, but none, for me, nails it.

 

FWIW, I can’t nail it either, and think on balance it’s easier to say who isn’t a legend than who is. So, for me, Andy King isn’t, because of his top-level limitations set against his loyalty & selflessness over many years. Albrighton fails too, just not quite good enough as a player.

 

From my 60 years of watching, and being ‘tight’ with my definition of legend, it’s a big handful:

 

Banks

Weller

Worthington

Lineker

Walsh

Schmeichel

Mahrez

Vardy

Tielemans

 

Plenty come close: Shilton, Nish, Elliott (in my all-time XI), Lennon, Cambiasso, Morgan, Kante & Maddison…but surely legends are the (very) chosen few, not every player who’s stayed a while or won a trophy? 

[murphy]

I don't think that winning a trophy should necessarily be a part of the criteria.  I mean, what if you're a Crystal Palace fan?  Or Spurs?  They should be allowed to have legends too.

 

Plenty of differing opinions around legend criteria, but I think that cult hero is even harder to define.  I think that it is based around character, charisma, sometimes comedy value and occasionally infamy. 

 

I'm going to put forward Bob Hazell, Zeljko Kalac, Mickey Galloway, Iwan Roberts, Ali Mauchlen, David Speedie, Alan Young, Stevie Lynex, Jooolian and Rooster Russell. 

[FoxTimmy2]

6 hours ago, murphy said:

Kasper did things in the FA Cup final that Ward could never dream of.

 

In fact, to paraphrase Ali, if he ever did dream them, he should wake himself up and apologise.

Beautiful goal from Tielemans, but Kasper won us that game. What a legend.

[hackneyfox]

9 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

I find it funny in these chats that there’s a large percentage of people who appear to want as few legends as possible. Of course I don’t wanna give out a legend badge to Perez and Darren Eadie but there’s no harm in chucking in some names. For me Gerry Taggart is a club legend just because when I was 17 he looked like the biggest cvnt I’d ever seen. 

He also attempted to strangle the **** Wise.

[hackneyfox]

8 hours ago, AKCJ said:

Also Kante isn't a club legend.

He is for many, myself included, 2016 and Seville don’t happen without him.

[Dr Marco]

Banks, Shilton, Weller, Worthington, Lineker,Elliott, Izzet, Heskey, Schmeichel, Morgan, King, Albrighton, Vards

[Hinckleyfox]

21 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

He is for many, myself included, 2016 and Seville don’t happen without him.

Seville?