false dawns of optismism

[Hugo Sanchez]

Absolutely hilarious!

I remember going top of the premier league and people were still moaning!!! Some things never change. The good old humble Leicester fan.

You think thats bad ! When Villa won the European cup some fans where moaning on about playing football the wrong way ! Not our way of playing football they would say !

[Steven]

Remember the game previous that took us top of the table, a 0-0 bore draw away against Sunderland with a strikeforce of Ade Akinbiyi and Trevor Benjamin.. lethal.

... and then having a two week break.

[Asha]

Whats optismism?

[Hugo Sanchez]

Whats optismism?

i thought i spelt it wrong.

[Zingari]

Got one for the older bunch .... Signing Allan Clarke for a British transfer fee ... Did you get all excited by this ?

glory days

we we did get to the FA cup final that year ( with sniffer getting the winner at hillborough ), so maybe we had reason to be optimistic ...........even though we got relegated too

[LeeCovFox]

Definitely the 5-2 win against Sunderland for me. I remember being in the Kop, thinking "this is it, Martin has sorted it, we could become big here". And when Taylor first joined, knowing that we had money to spend and a young manager with a good reputation, the kind who have made their name here before. Then it all went wrong, when I saw who he was bringing in. Despite Micky Adam's best efforts, the club has never recoverd. That man should have turned us into challengers. He had money, the promise of a new stadium and a happy fanbase when he arrived. Oh, and European football. Right at the end of the era when it was possible for a club of our size to impose itself upon the big clubs of the time.

[reynard]

Has to be the day we were told were going to sign Cruyff but then he thought about the UK climate and we lost out.

[Master Fox]

Definitely the 5-2 win against Sunderland for me. I remember being in the Kop, thinking "this is it, Martin has sorted it, we could become big here". And when Taylor first joined, knowing that we had money to spend and a young manager with a good reputation, the kind who have made their name here before. Then it all went wrong, when I saw who he was bringing in. Despite Micky Adam's best efforts, the club has never recoverd. That man should have turned us into challengers. He had money, the promise of a new stadium and a happy fanbase when he arrived. Oh, and European football. Right at the end of the era when it was possible for a club of our size to impose itself upon the big clubs of the time.

It's probably one of the biggest 'What If's' Or 'What could have been's' in the history of the game. We were so close you could nearly touch it, onyl to have it fall from our grip.

And tonight we watch our failing team play out some boring rubbish against a very poor Crystal Palace side instead.