Jamie Vardy - Goodbye to our GOAT

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

8 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Love Vardy to bits, but for that reason I can’t bring myself to watch this

 

It was pretty good tbh, I don't think your opinion of him will change

[AKCJ]

17 hours ago, Corky said:

I was in the away end and immediately after it went in, our fans were chanting "Top of the League". It drove us on.

Will never forget walking back to the tube station flanked by hundreds of goading Arsenal man babies dressed in all the latest Arsenal merch. All immediately shut up when we reminded them we were top of the league.

 

Arsenal then went on to get 1 point from their next 3 games whereas we won 19 points from the next available 21 (conceding just twice) to the point we had enough points to win the league on 10th April.

[The Year Of The Fox]

17 hours ago, Corky said:

I was in the away end and immediately after it went in, our fans were chanting "Top of the League". It drove us on.

We were on the coach that nicked that Wenger cardboard cut out. Didn’t go down well with their fans on the way out of London 

[shawy2510]

Watched it today, i'm famous 🤣 1st game of winning season it shows my dad, my nephew as a 5yr old & me sporting a shocking tash haha.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

Just watched it and it’s a real tear jerker, but at the end I got a bit angry at how he left and Rudders etc.

[DoveValleyFox]

12 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

It's funny because I remember thinking how underwhelming our 125th Anniversary DVD was. Ex players almost mocking how little there was to talk about at times.

 

The 150th should be a bit better. 

Nah. Top would celebrate it by unveiling a statue of himself. 

[jock2612]

 I understand Jamie has a superb offer for a 1 year deal ( I don't know which club) if his current club are relegated -- good luck to him !!

[DoveValleyFox]

8 hours ago, Craig said:

His goal to put us 4-3 up vs Man Utd has to be up there too. Absolute chaos in the stands. 

That was when Vardy exploded onto a the scene with 4 assists and a quality finish. He pulled their defence all over the place and the world was watching, probably expecting a comfortable 2 or 3-0 win for man u. My lad and I went crazy at the 3rd and 4th goals. It really was pandemodium all around us.

[MattFox]

Weird how he doesn’t mention how Aiyawatt saved him like he’s claimed 

[Sly]

13 hours ago, DoveValleyFox said:

Imagine there being a TV series on the Leicester City story from 2007 through to 2026.

It would run for about 10 seasons with so many cliffhangers that it would feel like a fictional story, with tv Baftas and primetime Emmy nominations all over the place.

Like a reboot of DreamTeam! 

[kushiro]

 

[HP1]

A small gripe from watching the documentary. I know they had to lean in to the underdog story for the benefit of the casual/non football fans, but it does annoy me when they parrot the "little ol' leicester" narrative that appears to also be ubiquitous within the old guard of the footballing fraternity.

 

Rob Tanner was also guilty of this with his (paraphrased) "middle of the road, midlands clubs, who haven't won an FA cup or anything of note".

 

They could at least have dropped in the fact we have a few league cup wins and previously made multiple FA cup finals. A mention to some other historic players like Banks, Shilton and Lineker that failed to get us over the line with big trophies in previous renditions may have actually added to it (or maybe not who knows).

 

Perhaps the documentary was as it needed to be, it's just frustrating to constantly hear this diminishing rhetoric which often isnt articulated about similar sized clubs, as though we've been a league 1 team for most of our history.

Edited 15 May by HP1

[Gamble92]

10 hours ago, MattFox said:

Weird how he doesn’t mention how Aiyawatt saved him like he’s claimed 

The myth of the perfect owners who gave us a "miracle" is evaporating with every decline we have. 

 

I wonder how long before former players start saying more of what they really think about the club now their events are being cancelled because fans are so disillusioned with any Leicester.

 

When things are going great and they're showering you with gifts it's very easy to say they're the best thing ever.  

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, HP1 said:

A small gripe from watching the documentary. I know they had to lean in to the underdog story for the benefit of the casual/non football fans, but it does annoy me when they parrot the "little ol' leicester" narrative that appears to also be ubiquitous within the old guard of the footballing fraternity.

 

Rob Tanner was also guilty of this with his (paraphrased) "middle of the road, midlands clubs, who haven't won an FA cup or anything of note".

 

They could at least have dropped in the fact we have a few league cup wins and previously made multiple FA cup finals. A mention to some other historic players like Banks, Shilton and Lineker that failed to get us over the line with big trophies in previous renditions may have actually added to it (or maybe not who knows).

 

Perhaps the documentary was as it needed to be, it's just frustrating to constantly hear this diminishing rhetoric which often isnt articulated about similar sized clubs, as though we've been a league 1 team for most of our history.

Yeah that pissed me off. Tanner starting with us winning nothing apparently but actually we'd already won three League Cups, multiple second tier titles and the Community Shield, played (lost) in two other League Cup finals, four FA Cup finals, runners up to the top flight and, prior to next season, only played in the third tier once. People seem to pretend we were some small club that got lucky which is annoying. We were never a club like Wigan, much bigger, and played in more cup finals than clubs such as Leeds.

[GorlestonFox]

8 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Yeah that pissed me off. Tanner starting with us winning nothing apparently but actually we'd already won three League Cups, multiple second tier titles and the Community Shield, played (lost) in two other League Cup finals, four FA Cup finals, runners up to the top flight and, prior to next season, only played in the third tier once. People seem to pretend we were some small club that got lucky which is annoying. We were never a club like Wigan, much bigger, and played in more cup finals than clubs such as Leeds.

To outsiders that's nothing.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Tanner seems an amiable bloke but he *really* hams up the disparity sometimes, you'd think we were some club with gates of a couple of hundred the way he goes on

[AjcW]

4 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Tanner seems an amiable bloke but he *really* hams up the disparity sometimes, you'd think we were some club with gates of a couple of hundred the way he goes on

I think that's where it becomes clear he's from the West Midlands and ended up in a Leicester reporting job at a certain point in our history. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 minutes ago, AjcW said:

I think that's where it becomes clear he's from the West Midlands and ended up in a Leicester reporting job at a certain point in our history. 

 

Hmmm, I don't think that's an excuse for the way he prattles on really! I understand he wants to emphasise the whole fairytale, triumph against the odds aspect of the title win but he borderline disparages the club 

[Fox92]

21 minutes ago, GorlestonFox said:

To outsiders that's nothing.

Maybe to an audience that have no clue about English football, but I think people with interest and knowledge know it's more than nothing. I'm not saying we're historic like Everton or Aston Villa but we were always more than how Tanner described us, he's basically describing us like Wigan who won nothing then progressed and won something major. There are clubs that people would probably see as similar level to us yet we've won much more, Southampton as an example or Norwich. 

 

It's similar to how people pretend Man City won nothing and had no history prior to them getting bought out.

[Osavo]

5 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Tanner seems an amiable bloke but he *really* hams up the disparity sometimes, you'd think we were some club with gates of a couple of hundred the way he goes on

This rhetoric was exaggerated so much by our recent success. Media outlets portraying us as some provincial no-hopers who rose from nowhere just because it made for a better story. Even those at the top of the football club believe that tripe now.

 

We are not a small club. We had periods of considerable success in the 20s, 60s and 90s before the recent silverware. Until 2008, we'd never been outside the top two divisions (which was and is a list populated by the biggest clubs in England). The way the media (and a good portion of our fanbase) harp on, you'd think we'd spent the majority of our history in the Vanarama.

[RoboFox]

25 minutes ago, AjcW said:

I think that's where it becomes clear he's from the West Midlands and ended up in a Leicester reporting job at a certain point in our history. 

In fairness, whilst this is obviously true, I do think he's also become a massive fan over the years. I've watched a couple of vodcasts with him recently and his walls are caked in City memorabilia and he struggles to hide how much of a fan he's become at times IMO. He's admitted he still watches every game without fail and now he's not as involved with the club anymore he's letting slip how exasperated he is - just like the rest of us. 

[AjcW]

Just now, RoboFox said:

In fairness, whilst this is obviously true, I do think he's also become a massive fan over the years. I've watched a couple of vodcasts with him recently and his walls are caked in City memorabilia and he struggles to hide how much of a fan he's become at times IMO. He's admitted he still watches every game without fail and now he's not as involved with the club anymore he's letting slip how exasperated he is - just like the rest of us. 

Not doubting that, but my point was how much can we expect someone who wasn't a fan, who got a job reporting on us, to care about the past. Now some might say he should and that's probably right, but for the most part he's reporting on the here and now with little need to have knowledge of the past. 

 

In the same sense most pundits these days do **** all research, lost track of the amount of sky sports + commentators we had this season talking about our threat on the counter  

[SkidsFox]

7 hours ago, Osavo said:

This rhetoric was exaggerated so much by our recent success. Media outlets portraying us as some provincial no-hopers who rose from nowhere just because it made for a better story. Even those at the top of the football club believe that tripe now.

 

We are not a small club. We had periods of considerable success in the 20s, 60s and 90s before the recent silverware. Until 2008, we'd never been outside the top two divisions (which was and is a list populated by the biggest clubs in England). The way the media (and a good portion of our fanbase) harp on, you'd think we'd spent the majority of our history in the Vanarama.

I think a lot of this attitude stems from the Filbert Street days. Although some of us loved the atmosphere there, it suffered from only having 2 big sides - and the television coverage made it look worse by filming from the main stand and looking over at the East Stand. At one point we could only get 21,000 tops (if I recall correctly) so outsiders assumed our fanbase was small.

[Corky]

7 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Maybe to an audience that have no clue about English football, but I think people with interest and knowledge know it's more than nothing. I'm not saying we're historic like Everton or Aston Villa but we were always more than how Tanner described us, he's basically describing us like Wigan who won nothing then progressed and won something major. There are clubs that people would probably see as similar level to us yet we've won much more, Southampton as an example or Norwich. 

 

It's similar to how people pretend Man City won nothing and had no history prior to them getting bought out.

We were the biggest club not to win the FA Cup before we eventually did. We had close to 50 years in the top flight before winning the title (and been close on a couple of occasions).

 

Not a sparkling history but a club that had been capable of getting involved in top flight respectability and reaching Finals.

[Ian Nacho]

Disappointed I didn't get to see James Pearson getting a rimjob.