Your earliest LCFC memory

[Fez of Mahrez]

Mine is being a child of the Pleat era, aeroplanes circling the sky above Filbert Street with signs attached saying 'Pleat Out'. Lots of utterly dreadful players, losing at home to Bristol City in the FA Cup with Junior Bent and Jacki Dziekanowski being made to look like Pele and Maradona by our creaking backline. People who have moaned about Adams or Levein obviously never saw the end of the Pleat era. I was 5 years old and I remember thinking what a waste of my Dad's money it was, going to see those tossers. Losing at home to Derby and either losing or drawing against Port Vale and feeling sick, sitting on the white wall at the front of the old Main Stand. I vaguely remember the old inside of the Main Stand, just had a flashback. And now we have a first-team regular who is four years younger than me. I miss Filbert Street.

[Ricey]

I can remember watching the Blackburn play off final at home, that is probably my earliest memory.

[foxilescom]

I can remember back in 1970 giving my dad a detailed expanation as to why we had finished 3rd in the 2nd division, and not got promoted to to division 1, Huddersfield and Blackpool beating us up.

Must have made an impression though, as 12 months later, I got to go to Filbert Street to see the John Sjoberg testimonial match against Derby County which we won 1-0, and I saw us being presented with the division 2 championship trophy.

So started my city life, I was quite lucky as before my mum and dad moved to Syston, they lived at West Bridgford near to Forests ground. To think I might have missed the Orient day out to watch Larry May at Orient, instead having to win 2 European Cups with forest, I had a lucky escape there

[Shum]

My earliest memory was the Tony James goal that kept City in the old second division. I remember seeing it on TV and everyone running onto the pitch.

[Fez of Mahrez]

My earliest memory was the Tony James goal that kept City in the old second division. I remember seeing it on TV and everyone running onto the pitch.

100495[/snapback]

All I remember from that game was standing at the front of the old Main Stand enclosure afterwards being told by my Dad that there was no way he was letting me on the pitch.

[Frenzied]

I have a very vague memory of sitting in the Double Decker with my Dad and not being able to see much - I was about four at the time. I remember there used to be massive cues to get into Filbert Street also. The tickets then were made of really thin paper with a Kirby & West milk bottle on them.

We moved to the East Stand the following season and sat at the front behind the Walkers Crisps hordings. One Christmas the players came onto the pitch before the game and handed out presents to some of the kids, Mark Wallington gave me one - I've still got the banner and lcfc towel from it.

[Fox in a Box]

Me owed man buying me and me bro a ticket for Leicester v Liverpool 1982

2-0 andy peake best goal of all time. And against the best team in Europe at the time.

Alan young scored the other i think. cheers dad the one and onlt game you took me too.

[Fez of Mahrez]

I have a very vague memory of sitting in the Double Decker with my Dad and not being able to see much - I was about four at the time. I remember there used to be massive cues to get into Filbert Street also. The tickets then were made of really thin paper with a Kirby & West milk bottle on them.

We moved to the East Stand the following season and sat at the front behind the Walkers Crisps hordings. One Christmas the players came onto the pitch before the game and handed out presents to some of the kids, Mark Wallington gave me one - I've still got the banner and lcfc towel from it.

100500[/snapback]

haha, I normally hate people who pull others up on their spelling or grammar or whatever but I have this vision of a whole bunch of snooker players waiting patiently at the turnstiles to get in SK1 in the mid-80s!!

I remember those tickets. Weird to find them now and see things like "£2.50" when you have to shell out over ten times that now.

[davieG]

Ok then an earliest memory here goes.

My fist trip to Filbo was in early 1962/3 season (no comments on age please) with my brother and a few mates, we went on our bikes and paid 1d (old money) to store them in some ones side entry in Burnmoor St. As juniors it cost about 1/6d (old money, I think that’s about 2.5p new money) to get in. It didn’t matter where you went in as you could walk all the way around the pitch from stand to stand, but we stood in the popular side (east stand) as that was where all the singing came from, well it seem like it to us.

I can’t for the life of me remember whom we were playing, but I do know they had red & white striped shirts so I suspect it was Sheff Utd. One of their players scored with an overhead kick from just inside the penalty area, made me think football was like a circus act. I don’t even remember if we won.

I do know that later that season we played Man Utd on two consecutive days at Easter, drawing 2-2 away and winning 4-3 at home with Denis Lay and Ken Keyworth both getting hat-tricks – unfortunately with a crowd of in excess of 37000 I couldn’t get in (my brother did) and stood out being given a running commentary from people inside. In those days they use to open the gates at half-time so you could get out and IN, but even that was no good as there were so many in there you couldn’t move and I was only 15, ahhh

That’s it then

[Frenzied]

I have a very vague memory of sitting in the Double Decker with my Dad and not being able to see much - I was about four at the time. I remember there used to be massive cues to get into Filbert Street also. The tickets then were made of really thin paper with a Kirby & West milk bottle on them.

We moved to the East Stand the following season and sat at the front behind the Walkers Crisps hordings. One Christmas the players came onto the pitch before the game and handed out presents to some of the kids, Mark Wallington gave me one - I've still got the banner and lcfc towel from it.

100500[/snapback]

haha, I normally hate people who pull others up on their spelling or grammar or whatever but I have this vision of a whole bunch of snooker players waiting patiently at the turnstiles to get in SK1 in the mid-80s!!

I remember those tickets. Weird to find them now and see things like "£2.50" when you have to shell out over ten times that now.

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ooops queues.

[Guest]

I met Jock Wallace, and some of the players when I was 6. I can remember how proud I was telling Jock that when I grew up, I would play for City. Instead of belittling me like my mother, or being pragmatic like most people and telling me that it was impossible, he patted me on the head and said "och, the wee girlie". I thought that meant I was guaranteed a starting place. How wrong was I.

[Simon]

A 0-0 bore draw against Oxford at the Manor ground. Think I was about 9 or 10. Went to watch with the lads from my local footie team and a few of the parents, of course though we had to sit with Oxford fans (lived in Oxfordshire at the time). My mum kept screaming 'COME ON LEICESTER'. Imagine how many dirty looks we got...

[Frenzied]

A 0-0 bore draw against Oxford at the Manor ground. Think I was about 9 or 10. Went to watch with the lads from my local footie team and a few of the parents, of course though we had to sit with Oxford fans (lived in Oxfordshire at the time). My mum kept screaming 'COME ON LEICESTER'. Imagine how many dirty looks we got...

100559[/snapback]

Is that the game we got relegated from the old div 1? If it is, we had to win and Charlton had to lose I think.

Wasn't a great game but I think we hit the post.

[Simon]

A 0-0 bore draw against Oxford at the Manor ground. Think I was about 9 or 10. Went to watch with the lads from my local footie team and a few of the parents, of course though we had to sit with Oxford fans (lived in Oxfordshire at the time). My mum kept screaming 'COME ON LEICESTER'. Imagine how many dirty looks we got...

100559[/snapback]

Is that the game we got relegated from the old div 1? If it is, we had to win and Charlton had to lose I think.

Wasn't a great game but I think we hit the post.

100564[/snapback]

I'm not sure, I remember we had one cleared off the line or something (which I confess looked like it had gone over the line). I was more into playing then keeping track of things in those days (confess I was a glory supporting Liverpool fan then), now its the other way around. I remember we had either Kevin Poole or Gavin Ward in goal... but thats about it...

[Frenzied]

A 0-0 bore draw against Oxford at the Manor ground. Think I was about 9 or 10. Went to watch with the lads from my local footie team and a few of the parents, of course though we had to sit with Oxford fans (lived in Oxfordshire at the time). My mum kept screaming 'COME ON LEICESTER'. Imagine how many dirty looks we got...

100559[/snapback]

Is that the game we got relegated from the old div 1? If it is, we had to win and Charlton had to lose I think.

Wasn't a great game but I think we hit the post.

100564[/snapback]

I'm not sure, I remember we had one cleared off the line or something (which I confess looked like it had gone over the line). I was more into playing then keeping track of things in those days (confess I was a glory supporting Liverpool fan then), now its the other way around. I remember we had either Kevin Poole or Gavin Ward in goal... but thats about it...

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Think it must have before that . I guess we must have had Ian Andrews in goal at the time. It looks like bore draws for us at the Manor Ground were a common thing.

Think Brian Hamilton was the manager at the time.

[Simon]

A 0-0 bore draw against Oxford at the Manor ground. Think I was about 9 or 10. Went to watch with the lads from my local footie team and a few of the parents, of course though we had to sit with Oxford fans (lived in Oxfordshire at the time). My mum kept screaming 'COME ON LEICESTER'. Imagine how many dirty looks we got...

100559[/snapback]

Is that the game we got relegated from the old div 1? If it is, we had to win and Charlton had to lose I think.

Wasn't a great game but I think we hit the post.

100564[/snapback]

I'm not sure, I remember we had one cleared off the line or something (which I confess looked like it had gone over the line). I was more into playing then keeping track of things in those days (confess I was a glory supporting Liverpool fan then), now its the other way around. I remember we had either Kevin Poole or Gavin Ward in goal... but thats about it...

100567[/snapback]

Think it must have before that . I guess we must have had Ian Andrews in goal at the time. It looks like bore draws for us at the Manor Ground were a common thing.

Think Brian Hamilton was the manager at the time.

100568[/snapback]

Then the game I saw must have been after, I think Brian Little was in charge at the time if I remember rightly...

[Hazza]

94' play off final was my first game and memory, i was 6 at the time and, looking back, i don't think i could've picked a better one

[Durnerz]

Travelling up Walnut street and seeing the floodlights for the first time, I was about 7/8 years old, was a reserve game with Barnsley in 1995, the first time you climb the stairs of the Carling stand upper and see the pitch glowing and the whole view of Leicester as a city. The game finished 1-1 I think we got a late goal back after a Barnsley penalty beat Gavin Ward.

First league game was Blackburn at home in 1996/7 season for my birthday, i'd just rushed over from weston park as I was competing for my school in Cross Country. It was so foggy we didnt think the game would go ahead, add to that a back row seat in the middle of the upper tier in the Kop and you'd think i'd had the worst possible introduction to supporting Leicester at Filbert street, luckily we saw both goals as they were at our end. Chris Sutton opened the scoring for Blackburn and Ian Marshall somehow headed in an equalizer, not bad at all.

[The_Foxes_Legend]

How do you start a topic?? by way my memory is meeting Emile Heskey at a football camp

[SilverFox]

At the top of the thread just above the first post there is an 'add new topic' button, click it and away you go!

[The_Foxes_Legend]

Thanks I just joined am still getting used to this website and how do you rise in ranks?

[Nationwider]

Mine is being a child of the Pleat era, aeroplanes circling the sky above Filbert Street with signs attached saying 'Pleat Out'. Lots of utterly dreadful players, losing at home to Bristol City in the FA Cup with Junior Bent and Jacki Dziekanowski being made to look like Pele and Maradona by our creaking backline. People who have moaned about Adams or Levein obviously never saw the end of the Pleat era. I was 5 years old and I remember thinking what a waste of my Dad's money it was, going to see those tossers. Losing at home to Derby and either losing or drawing against Port Vale and feeling sick, sitting on the white wall at the front of the old Main Stand. I vaguely remember the old inside of the Main Stand, just had a flashback. And now we have a first-team regular who is four years younger than me. I miss Filbert Street.

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Ah, Fez, them were the good old days! I remember being at Filbo the match before Pleat got the bullet. Just over 8,000 were there for a home league match on a Saturday. We lost 3-1 and the atmosphere was poisonous....the winter of discontent. I remember sitting next to a couple of blokes in the Main Stand who spent the whole of the first half baiting Pleat. Then they jumped over the wall into the standing area, made their way onto the pitch and initiated a mini pitch invasion for the benefit of the Perv (alleg.)

I miss Filbo too. The atmosphere there could be electric, and opposition fans and players HATED playing us there. Sh1t football, but happy days....

[Fez of Mahrez]

Mine is being a child of the Pleat era, aeroplanes circling the sky above Filbert Street with signs attached saying 'Pleat Out'. Lots of utterly dreadful players, losing at home to Bristol City in the FA Cup with Junior Bent and Jacki Dziekanowski being made to look like Pele and Maradona by our creaking backline. People who have moaned about Adams or Levein obviously never saw the end of the Pleat era. I was 5 years old and I remember thinking what a waste of my Dad's money it was, going to see those tossers. Losing at home to Derby and either losing or drawing against Port Vale and feeling sick, sitting on the white wall at the front of the old Main Stand. I vaguely remember the old inside of the Main Stand, just had a flashback. And now we have a first-team regular who is four years younger than me. I miss Filbert Street.

100442[/snapback]

Ah, Fez, them were the good old days! I remember being at Filbo the match before Pleat got the bullet. Just over 8,000 were there for a home league match on a Saturday. We lost 3-1 and the atmosphere was poisonous....the winter of discontent. I remember sitting next to a couple of blokes in the Main Stand who spent the whole of the first half baiting Pleat. Then they jumped over the wall into the standing area, made their way onto the pitch and initiated a mini pitch invasion for the benefit of the Perv (alleg.)

I miss Filbo too. The atmosphere there could be electric, and opposition fans and players HATED playing us there. Sh1t football, but happy days....

100850[/snapback]

It was certainly amusing to see players like Christian Vieri and Ruud Gullit pitch up at Filbo, stare in disbelief at the East Stand as they ran out and promptly stay as close to the centre circle as they could for most of the game. I remember Vieri hitting a shot so far off target when we played Atletico Madrid that it went straight over the North Stand and into the street! Bet he doesn't get that problem these days at the San Siro!

Sometimes it hits me that we'll never go back to dear old Filbo. A massive part of my childhood, lost forever!

[Fez of Mahrez]

Travelling up Walnut street and seeing the floodlights for the first time, I was about 7/8 years old, was a reserve game with Barnsley in 1995, the first time you climb the stairs of the Carling stand upper and see the pitch glowing and the whole view of Leicester as a city. The game finished 1-1 I think we got a late goal back after a Barnsley penalty beat Gavin Ward.

First league game was Blackburn at home in 1996/7 season for my birthday, i'd just rushed over from weston park as I was competing for my school in Cross Country. It was so foggy we didnt think the game would go ahead, add to that a back row seat in the middle of the upper tier in the Kop and you'd think i'd had the worst possible introduction to supporting Leicester at Filbert street, luckily we saw both goals as they were at our end. Chris Sutton opened the scoring for Blackburn and Ian Marshall somehow headed in an equalizer, not bad at all.

100751[/snapback]

I was in the double decker for that and you could barely see the other goal!

[Knighton Matt]

Thanks I just joined am still getting used to this website and how do you rise in ranks?

100777[/snapback]

your rank becomes better/more senior the more posts you make. welcome to the forum mate!