Pub chat - which games defined the beginning, and the end, of our glorious era?

[CosbehFox]

You could name a lot of beginnings; possibly as far back as Bramall Lane on a mid-august evening, 1-1 and the away end singing 'we've got our Leicester back' 

 

Middlesbrough away though, 2-1 season opener was when the accelerator went on 

[CosbehFox]

On 04/02/2025 at 18:53, MattFox said:

Villa proved we never had the mentality to be a top side under Rodgers. 

It’s interesting the cup run in 2021 is a complete anomaly really, every other big game under him we bottled

 

Litterally every single one 

 

As bad as it sounds I’m pretty certain we don’t beat United in the run in front of a full stadium or win at a full Wembley either

 

I don't think we actually played that bad v Villa. But it really need scar us and turn us into bottlers 

[gerblod]

On 03/02/2025 at 21:55, Foxin_Mad said:

I think the path would have been the same. There's no evidence King Power do differently with Vichai, they've always been clueless, got lucky a few times. Vichai appointed Sue and Rudkin, Sue has been with King Power decades. Running a business in a corrupt regime is different to running a business with proper business folk. 

Vichai was still learning. I've witnessed many bad appointments by people who could do a good interview. He had heart and involvement. Top is very different. The Rodgers saga is where things started to go awry.

[Stadt]

4 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

You could name a lot of beginnings; possibly as far back as Bramall Lane on a mid-august evening, 1-1 and the away end singing 'we've got our Leicester back' 

 

Middlesbrough away though, 2-1 season opener was when the accelerator went on 

Most of us were fuming Vardy and Drinkwater in the side. They both scored and the rest is history.

[Paninistickers]

The end was Middlesbrough away 2003, 3-3. Frank.

 

The beggining was Bolton at home, 5-3 Lloyd dyer..could've easily been 10-3. 

 

The middle was coasting to victory away at Newcastle 3-0 without breaking sweat. Hamza, Perez, Madders

[Hammo]

Beginning - completing The Great Escape at Sunderland.

 

Middle - the final whistle of Chelsea vs Spurs (still gives me a spasm of joy thinking about it)

 

End - the board not sacking Rodgers in 2022 (eg after Brighton and Spurs away) when it was obvious to all but those with blind faith in his past deeds that he had lost the plot and his sole motivation had become the preservation of Brand Brendan (hence all the excuses that blamed everyone and everything else for the decline bar himself, and the downright sabotage of his team selections - eg Ward, Amartey etc). When Top and co finally saw the error of their ways it was way too late. The damage was done. The rot had set in. And it ain’t going away any time soon.

Edited 6 February by Hammo

[Torten]

12 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

The end was Middlesbrough away 2003, 3-3. Frank.

 

The beggining was Bolton at home, 5-3 Lloyd dyer..could've easily been 10-3. 

 

The middle was coasting to victory away at Newcastle 3-0 without breaking sweat. Hamza, Perez, Madders

How is the beginning 2013, end in 2003, and middle in 2019/20? 

[Stadt]

You can make the case for loads of different games and seasons but I think it boils down to Pearson. 
 

He’s the single most important figure in our post foundation history imo (possibly one for the unpopular opinion thread?). Everything changed when he walked through the door in 2008.

 

Thank the heavens he came back.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 minutes ago, Stadt said:

You can make the case for loads of different games and seasons but I think it boils down to Pearson. 
 

He’s the single most important figure in our post foundation history imo (possibly one for the unpopular opinion thread?). Everything changed when he walked through the door in 2008.

 

Thank the heavens he came back.

I think for people of a similar age to us Pearson will remain as the most influential LCFC figure for a long time. Without him a whole generation of of lads probably wouldn't have bothered with LCFC, me included. He gave us something to get behind for the first time, if you were in that bracket to have been too young to have really appreciated the MoN era. 

[Stadt]

11 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

I think for people of a similar age to us Pearson will remain as the most influential LCFC figure for a long time. Without him a whole generation of of lads probably wouldn't have bothered with LCFC, me included. He gave us something to get behind for the first time, if you were in that bracket to have been too young to have really appreciated the MoN era. 

What happier after MO’N and what happened after Pearson is where the distinction between the two happens.

 

Pearson was so effective he managed upwards and laterally so well. He built the foundations for a title winning and cup winning side for about £25m.

 

His faith in Walsh, Shakespeare, Balsom, Rennie, McKenzie meant every pound he spent was worth 10x as much.

 

He had his flaws but nobody changed the club for the better as much as he did. Giant of a man.

[MattFox]

One of Pearsons underrated strengths was his ability to keep the KP hierarchy at arms length from the footballing operation 

[mancunianfox]

Maybe to try and turn a painful memory into a positive one, I'd suggest the Troy Deeney game was the beginning of our glorious era. If we'd have gone up that season we wouldn't have ended up with several key pieces of the puzzle (Mahrez, things really clicking for Vardy) and it really lit a fire under the team in the following season. 

 

The 4-2 home loss to Spurs to miss out on CL qualification again was the last chance to keep it going. That money might have helped a lot and without it the bill had come due. We did win the Charity Shield a few months later and had the Europa run so I'd consider it to be the 1-0 loss in Rome.

[SemperEadem]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

You can make the case for loads of different games and seasons but I think it boils down to Pearson. 
 

He’s the single most important figure in our post foundation history imo (possibly one for the unpopular opinion thread?). Everything changed when he walked through the door in 2008.

 

Thank the heavens he came back.

The true ‘boss’.

[CosbehFox]

Don’t guys I’m getting teary eyed at a true man amongst men. A real leader. 

[Cameron Davidson]

Beginning: The run at the end of the great escape. 

 

End: Pretty much the whole of the relegation year. Still not sure how that happened when you look at 10 of the team

 

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, mancunianfox said:

That money might have helped a lot and without it the bill had come due.

It's probably for the best we didn't; have the extra CL revenue, we'd probably spend it on even more expensive dross we couldn't shift.

[Bilo]

The start of the golden era was undoubtedly Middlesbrough away. I remember a famous thread on here predicting us to be relegated that season as we simply would not recover from the trauma of Watford and had signed poorly with only Bakayogo coming in before the start of the season.

 

Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth as the then struggling Drinkwater and Vardy started with predictions of us getting battered by one of the promotion favourites. 

 

That day started an upward trajectory that, for me, didn't completely finish until 2022.