Who was your first-ever favourite player?

[Father Ted]

Matt Elliott

[lavrentis]

Probably Izzet. Used to idolise him.

[Sniffer-Clarke]

Allan Clarke-Class

Nobodys mentioned Birch yet

[Ultra]

Lenny Glover.

[skinnydipper]

Frank Worthington - Genius

[Kurrif]

Lenny Glover.

Thank goodness someone remembers the great Lenny Glover , cant believe it took three pages to get there. You are all so young on here!!!!

Lenny, Lenny Glover, Lenny Glover on the Wi-ing

Lenny, Lenny Glover, Lenny Glover is the King!

[Phube]

Player - Peter Shilton for England (I was a keeper at primary school!)

City Player - Probably Izzet

[Kent Fox]

He was one of my early favourites too!

My first trips to Leicester were in the golden era of Weller, Worthingon, Glover, Rofe, Cross, Shilton, Sammels etc. I am sure players are fitter and better trained now, but it was a great era for leicester City.

Graham Cross played for Leicester City in the winter and Leicestershire Cricket Club in the summer, which could never happen now!

Simon

Ditto.

Weller or Wortho for me.

Weller was class in his day. Wortho was, well, just Wortho - flamboyant on and off the pitch.

Oh, the memories...

[mikey54]

Bobby 'Well 'Ard' Kellard. Not known by a lot of people I shouldn't think. A real tough little midfielder from the 1970s - signed from Bristol City - then went to Palace as part exchange for Birchenall. Remember him well alongside Willy Carlin (ex Derby) - I think they were both brought in at the same time to 'do a job' and get us back in to the top division. He took no prisoners - played a Neil Lennon type role - gave 110% to the team

[Suffolk_fox]

Mark Wallington (obviously) - penalty saver extraordinaire. Closely followed by Jim Melrose who, to my 6-year-old eyes, was the most ginger person I'd ever seen.

I used to love Mark Wallington too - went for years without missing a game or wearing gloves! I remember when he came off against Shrewsbury, me and the other kid stood on my milk crate were crying!

And Jim Melrose! They used to call me Jimmy on the bus due to my equally ginger hair...

[Ric Flair]

Mine was Tommy Wright the first. Southend away? Bang, 2-1 in the sun, lovely. Dribbling down the wing next to the white wall in front of the old Main Stand? He never believed in the existence of the humble comb. He probably wasn't even that good but I was only 6 and he ran quicker than everyone else. What a player. It always baffled me as a child that he never went on to bigger and better things. He ran quick! Why weren't Man United interested?

Agreed, also Rooster Russell and Gary Mills were big idols in 1991/92.

[jerakin]

Keith Weller. Used to sit on the white wall in awe. Run on the pitch in my wellies and mob the bloke.

[adam]

David Kelly. Quality player

[Chairman of the Bored]

He's here, he's there, he's even combed his hair, Rodney Fern, Rodney Fern.

[AmericanScott]

I didn't have a favorite player growing up as television coverage+lack of internet back home meant hearing about City was limited. I always checked how we were doing in the table when Sky sports news was on for an hour on Fox Soccer Channel.

So in that case, David Connolly

[NewquayFox]

Got to be Weller for me, 2.0 down to Liverpool and he scores a Hat Trick, the last one he knocked in with his hand and he ran straight up to us in the Kop slapping his fist.

Met him once with The Birch years after he retired and had a good chat with him, nice bloke and sadly missed and one of the most entertaining players City have ever had along with Worthington, what a team Mr Bloomfield gave us eh? Memories. ;0)

[Head Honcho]

Wortho

[NorthernFox]

Wortho

As above, sublime quality. Would be worth £20 mill today...

[Tilley]

Muzzy.

[King Cal]

Julian Joachim, my first City game was at Filbert Street against Middlesborough, we won 2-0 he scored both goals. But Walshy has to be my favourite of all time

[CosbehFox]

Nice to see some Steve Thompson love in here, I always felt that with an extra yard of pace he could have been a top quality player....loved the way he used to spread the play with a cheeky cruyff turn in the centre circle before pinging an inch perfect pass out to the winger.

He's everything Andy King wants to be and attempts to be. Him, Joachim and Rooster were my idols in the early years. A bit too young for Tommy Wright.

[Nationwider]

Probably Lineker or Lynex in 84/85 when I started going. They buggered off pretty quickly though.

I think Gary Mac was the first player I thought, yes, I want to play like him.

[filbertboy]

Agreed, also Rooster Russell and Gary Mills were big idols in 1991/92.

The mention of Rooster Russell took me back to the Wembly play-off versus Blackburn.......as we know it was a boiling day and where we sat we were right in the full sun. A bloke two seats to our left had put a skin coloured swimming cap on top of his head to look like the Rooster.....he sweated that much he couldnt get it off and it was soon full of puddles of sweat !! He looked fried and was completly cooked by the end of the game and went home three stone lighter......the only laugh we had all day.

[iancognito]

Nice to see some Steve Thompson love in here, I always felt that with an extra yard of pace he could have been a top quality player....loved the way he used to spread the play with a cheeky cruyff turn in the centre circle before pinging an inch perfect pass out to the winger.

See the Iwan Roberts debut game (2-2 home draw with Wolves) for details. Thompson collected it, edge of the centre circle in his own half, must've seen Millsy on the right out of the corner of his eye and used the spin on the ball to whip a pin point pass out to him in one fluid move. Mills, who could open a can of beans with his right foot, took two touches and then landed it on Iwan's head to set up a great fightback.

I always forget just how good some of the players were during Little's first two seasons. The first season we caught everyone out, played it tight with a back five, and then pulled a stunner of the bag by signing Speedie the following year and unleashing this Julian Jo-ay-chim/Yok-eem/Joke-him on the division.

[Ash]

Lennon! Pure class!