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davieG

The Day It All Began

By davieG, in Leicester City Forum

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Steven

Steven

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1st November 1884



Leicester Fosse V Syston Fosse

Venue - A private field off the Fosse Road

Kit - Black jerseys with a blue diagonal sash / long white trousers

Team:



E Smith

F Burdett

(3/4 back)

E Johnson W Johnson F Gardener

(!/2 backs)

H Johnson B Lewitt - A West F Bromwich - A Ashby S Dingley

(right wing)------------------ (centres) ------------------( left wing)

Result - Leicester Fosse 5 - 0 Syston Fosse

Goals - West (2); Dingley; H Johnson (2)

Info from of Fossils & Foxes.



Sweeper system. :huh:

eaststandtom

eaststandtom

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Do we have any Leicester Fosse 1884 offspring posting on this board by any chance? :ph34r:

Whose (great-)great-grandfather used to play for them, come on out!!!

b. lewitt

ben lewitt i believe

must fish out the family tree

DANGEROUS TIGER

DANGEROUS TIGER

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Happy Birthday Leicester City.

You have given me many years of pleasure, and I can well remember as a 14 year old, my dad taking me to White Hart Lane, for my first ever game. Spurs had been unbeaten for over a year at home, and we totally outplayed them to win two nil. I was ecstatic, and can remember a voice shouting after the game, "Leicester for Wembley". How right he was, with the same two teams meeting in the F.A. Cup Final,

Sadly we lost, with right back Len Chalmers, technically breaking his leg. He played on through the pain barrier, but we were really down to ten men ( no subsitutes in those days ). The score was nil- nil at that point, and we were just beginning to play our best football. Why did we drop Ken Leek, our leading goal scorer?

So for me, this was the beginning of a great love affair. Leicester City were superb in those days, and with four games to go one season in the early sixties, we were top of the league, before losing all those games!

In my mind I can still see the lads, solid and skillful, and a joy to watch.

The regular eleven in 1960/61 was; Gordon Banks, Len Chalmers, Ritchie Norman, Frank Mclintock, Ian KIng, Coilin Appleton (Capt. ), Howard Riley, Jimmy Walsh, Ken Leek, Ken Keyworth, and Albert Cheesborough / Gordon Wills.

After this side broke up, in came the likes of John Sjoberg, Graham Cross. Dave Gibson. and Mike Stringfellow,

Memories are made of this. Just old names to most of you, but to me, never forgotten heroes.

Yes, Happy Birthday Leicester City.

Katy

Katy

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Happy Birthday to the club that has been in my blood for the past 30 odd years and will be until I breathe my last.

Thracian

Thracian

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It's some achievement 125 years. Like Dangerous Tiger I was brought up on our wonderful teams of the 60s when City could put the shivers up any opposition and then the matchless "attitude" of the Martin O'Neill era when we unleashed the irrepressible threat of a cavalry charge when attacking corners and set-pieces with the likes of Heskey, Walsh, Marshall and Elliott.

That really was some sight and much in contrast to the magical wizardry and inch-perfect passes of the ever-immaculate Davie Gibson - a guy who could master a shitheap of a pitch yet hardly get a splash on his shorts and who could give remarkable half-time demonstrations of his ball skills with not one misplaced touch to be seen.

There were some marvellous moments from home players and visitors alike, George Best in full flight, Denis Law's imperious overhead shots, Stanley Matthews' mesmerising ability to beat a whole team of opponents, the breathtaking brilliance of Banks and Shilton, Collymore's incomparable hat-trick against Sunderland, the Bergkamp hat-trick and City's defiant comeback, the League Cup wins, the sight of Glover, Weller, Derek Hogg, and "Puffer" Riley in full-flight, the ceaseless good humour of master-centre-forward Derek Dougan, the inventiveness of the goalscorers art as demonstrated by Frank Worthington and that last-gasp play-offs goal by Stevie Claridge.

Heroes all and days to remember for ever.

Happy Birthday Leicester City. And lots more of em if people look after you as their own. :thumbup::scarf::scarf:

ACF

ACF

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Happy Birthday Fosse!

You have been my life since I was 5, and because of where I am in the world, I've only been to 2 games. Nonetheless this club is my passion. I support my boys on from the other side of the world, and watch every highlight, every moment I can.

Dr The Singh

Dr The Singh

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How far away would that have been from Livingstone Road, right next to Fosse Road, where my grandparents lived for many years and to the Shaftesbury Road junior school (which fronted Fosse Road) which their offspring attended? The school was founded in 1886 and would have been in the process of being built at the time of that first game.

In fact the whole area must have been a massive building site around that time because I feel sure the Livingstone Road houses bear a date-stone for 1886.

I went there!!! :cool:

davieG

davieG

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Happy 125th DavieG and Thrac.

Cheeky twat, but then you know that :P

suffolk fox

suffolk fox

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Today's equivalent:

Weale



Tunchev

Oakley - King - Wellens

N'Guessan - Gallagher - Fryatt - Howard - Waghorn - Dyer

I can't see a problem with that line-up!

Would rather have Brown than Tunchev on present form!!!

Zingari

Zingari

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I want a time machine!!

back to a time before FT :o

i often wonder how supporters managed in those days without access to endless opinions of last weeks game, or if the new lad on the left will be given a break :)

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Kitchandro

Kitchandro

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So we play West Bromwich Albion on Saturday - 130 years ago to the very day we played our first ever match with West and Bromwich up front.

 

Somebody tweet that to Gary, got to be worth using as an intro to our game on Match of the Day.

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