Cult heroes of the noughties.

[Jonezy]

I liked Paddy McCarthy, no nonsense and a bit mental.

I was rather annoyed when he went.

I liked McCarthy and his 100% efforts in a time, when that was really the only thing you could appreciate. I even got his name on the back of that horrible 'pin-striped' shirt, we had.

But this is about cult heroes in the 00's, and surely the most cultish player in that decade has to be Steve Howard - Just the last minute goal against Leeds, that more or less sealed our promotion back to the Championship after our season long loan to League One must bring him right up there. Also the love/hate relationship you build up with him throughout a season together with his tank-like playstyle will make him a hero to remember.

[Basingstoke Fox]

Danny Cadamarteri

I like him , just for the superb last minute goal against Fulham at home and getting to sing his name constantly in the last 10 minutes of the 4-3 replay. That game remains the best atmosphere in any City game I've been to. Our fans were absolutely fantastic.

[Alexikokopops]

Much appreciated. At least there has been the odd decent game down the years. I just stick to away games. Though during the 07-08 seasson I went to 10 games, first one we drew 2-2 with Palace having led 2-1 in the 87th minute. The other 9 games we lost.

I think it's time to bust this one out

[Criggers]

The memories of the Nalis goal had clouded how good those Dickov goals were. The first one was a brilliant take on the chest and finish.

For you sir,

I must admit, I had forgotten about the first one. Absolutely ace.

Oh and for the fanzone fan

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Judging by the replies I would say we have been sadly lacking in cult heroes these last few years. Too many players coming and going not here long enough to build up any rapport with the fans.

[lcfc_jme]

Without hesitation, I would certainly put Elvis Hammond and big Mark de Vries in there. I absolutely adored both of them and having my picture taken with de Vries away at Forest was a fine moment.

Sappleton has to sneak in as well for sheer presence. Anybody who was at Quorn with me in my cowboy-hat days would understand.

Just off the top of my head without really thinking about it.

[Ross-Kemp]

Sappleton at quorn, toilet roll, your pink cowboy hat, the pitch invasion, what a day

[Salieri]

are the 90s the new noughties

If they were then Kevin 'Rooster' Russell would be my shout.

[lcfc_jme]

Sappleton at quorn, toilet roll, your pink cowboy hat, the pitch invasion, what a day

Absolutely.

Top people, quality bant, pitch invasions and cheap beer. Great day all round, need more of those.

[Ross-Kemp]

Did you go 2nd time around ? Joe mattock sat in the beer tent with them leicester city girls, hero !

[Webbo]

Did you go 2nd time around ? Joe mattock sat in the beer tent with them leicester city girls, hero !

Did he hit any of them?

[Earlydoorsjones]

This is worrying. You can call a cat a fish, but it won't make it swim.

I don't like being overly critical of the fans, and value the "my opinion as much as anyone else's" philosophy to an extent, but this is fooking nonsense.

I thought this thread would be brilliant because finding out the collective conscience of the people around you on a Saturday is interesting. We all view the same game, but have different reactions to it - a cult hero is created when a player strikes a chord with the majority for some reason.

This topic has been made utterly pointless because: a) people that can't get the bastard decade right; and b) lets not fall into the trap of calling anyone who has pulled on a City shirt a fooking legend. If only "average impact" to the club makes a cult hero in this decade...

Have some respect to Weller, Worthington, Julian, T Wright, Thompson, Dickov, Elliott, Ferdinand, Izzett, and Walsh (even Kevin Russell) - all of them a cult hero of their day.

The past 10 years...good God, I know there ain't been many but lets not invent them.

After getting on my soap box, I deserve to be shot at, so I will throw Chris Powell and Jack Hobbs into the mix. I would say Fryatt if he put on a bit of weight in muscle and twated a Forest player for kicking a ball at him. His goals in league 3 were vital, just want to see some minerals in him.

[Alexikokopops]

This is worrying. You can call a cat a fish, but it won't make it swim.

I don't like being overly critical of the fans, and value the "my opinion as much as anyone else's" philosophy to an extent, but this is fooking nonsense.

I thought this thread would be brilliant because finding out the collective conscience of the people around you on a Saturday is interesting. We all view the same game, but have different reactions to it - a cult hero is created when a player strikes a chord with the majority for some reason.

This topic has been made utterly pointless because: a) people that can't get the bastard decade right; and b) lets not fall into the trap of calling anyone who has pulled on a City shirt a fooking legend. If only "average impact" to the club makes a cult hero in this decade...

Have some respect to Weller, Worthington, Julian, T Wright, Thompson, Dickov, Elliott, Ferdinand, Izzett, and Walsh (even Kevin Russell) - all of them a cult hero of their day.

The past 10 years...good God, I know there ain't been many but lets not invent them.

After getting on my soap box, I deserve to be shot at, so I will throw Chris Powell and Jack Hobbs into the mix. I would say Fryatt if he put on a bit of weight in muscle and twated a Forest player for kicking a ball at him. His goals in league 3 were vital, just want to see some minerals in him.

Yeah, but what about this guy?

[The Doctor]

This is worrying. You can call a cat a fish, but it won't make it swim.

I don't like being overly critical of the fans, and value the "my opinion as much as anyone else's" philosophy to an extent, but this is fooking nonsense.

I thought this thread would be brilliant because finding out the collective conscience of the people around you on a Saturday is interesting. We all view the same game, but have different reactions to it - a cult hero is created when a player strikes a chord with the majority for some reason.

This topic has been made utterly pointless because: a) people that can't get the bastard decade right; and b) lets not fall into the trap of calling anyone who has pulled on a City shirt a fooking legend. If only "average impact" to the club makes a cult hero in this decade...

Have some respect to Weller, Worthington, Julian, T Wright, Thompson, Dickov, Elliott, Ferdinand, Izzett, and Walsh (even Kevin Russell) - all of them a cult hero of their day.

The past 10 years...good God, I know there ain't been many but lets not invent them.

After getting on my soap box, I deserve to be shot at, so I will throw Chris Powell and Jack Hobbs into the mix. I would say Fryatt if he put on a bit of weight in muscle and twated a Forest player for kicking a ball at him. His goals in league 3 were vital, just want to see some minerals in him.

what about frank sinclair? legendary for his ability to score an own goal from anywhere on the pitch, and trevor benjiman & Ade akinbyi, both were so poor it was funny.

[Houdini Logic]

Sappleton at quorn, toilet roll, your pink cowboy hat, the pitch invasion, what a day

Wasn't that the day Capello was scouting in the crowd?

[samlcfc1]

Martin Reeves

[lcfc_jme]

Did you go 2nd time around ? Joe mattock sat in the beer tent with them leicester city girls, hero !

Not sure if I was there that day or not, I know I did one game in the side stand (N'Gotty and Casino Jimmy played, that's all I remember!) and the other time was the cowboy hat, Radio Leicester interview, pitch invasion game. We really should do Quorn away annually, to be fair.

Did he hit any of them?

lol

[Earlydoorsjones]

Yeah, but what about this guy?

I used to love it when City were on TV in the 90's. Whenever he got fouled and the camera man caught him, he was effing and jeffing like it was going out of fashion. A true 90's icon - but he did get some stick for being crap in front of goal at times.

[Webbo]

This is worrying. You can call a cat a fish, but it won't make it swim.

I don't like being overly critical of the fans, and value the "my opinion as much as anyone else's" philosophy to an extent, but this is fooking nonsense.

I thought this thread would be brilliant because finding out the collective conscience of the people around you on a Saturday is interesting. We all view the same game, but have different reactions to it - a cult hero is created when a player strikes a chord with the majority for some reason.

This topic has been made utterly pointless because: a) people that can't get the bastard decade right; and b) lets not fall into the trap of calling anyone who has pulled on a City shirt a fooking legend. If only "average impact" to the club makes a cult hero in this decade...

Have some respect to Weller, Worthington, Julian, T Wright, Thompson, Dickov, Elliott, Ferdinand, Izzett, and Walsh (even Kevin Russell) - all of them a cult hero of their day.

The past 10 years...good God, I know there ain't been many but lets not invent them.

After getting on my soap box, I deserve to be shot at, so I will throw Chris Powell and Jack Hobbs into the mix. I would say Fryatt if he put on a bit of weight in muscle and twated a Forest player for kicking a ball at him. His goals in league 3 were vital, just want to see some minerals in him.

I think you're getting confused between heroes and 'cult' heroes. As I said at the start of the thread this isn't about the best players just players who were popular for reasons other than skill or game winning ability.

[stripeyfox]

This is worrying. You can call a cat a fish, but it won't make it swim.

I don't like being overly critical of the fans, and value the "my opinion as much as anyone else's" philosophy to an extent, but this is fooking nonsense.

I thought this thread would be brilliant because finding out the collective conscience of the people around you on a Saturday is interesting. We all view the same game, but have different reactions to it - a cult hero is created when a player strikes a chord with the majority for some reason.

This topic has been made utterly pointless because: a) people that can't get the bastard decade right; and b) lets not fall into the trap of calling anyone who has pulled on a City shirt a fooking legend. If only "average impact" to the club makes a cult hero in this decade...

Have some respect to Weller, Worthington, Julian, T Wright, Thompson, Dickov, Elliott, Ferdinand, Izzett, and Walsh (even Kevin Russell) - all of them a cult hero of their day.

The past 10 years...good God, I know there ain't been many but lets not invent them.

After getting on my soap box, I deserve to be shot at, so I will throw Chris Powell and Jack Hobbs into the mix. I would say Fryatt if he put on a bit of weight in muscle and twated a Forest player for kicking a ball at him. His goals in league 3 were vital, just want to see some minerals in him.

I agree with you. Suppose it depends on everyones definition of a "cult hero" and the ones you mention fit with my definition. One of the problems with football at the moment is the high player turnover which means it is harder to gain "cult hero" status. Players are at a club for a year before moving on to the next pay day.

There aren't many I can think of in the last few years. In the 80's and 90's we had loads - including Steve Agnew who I seem to remember single handedly fighting the whole Millwall team on his own.

As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I thought "bloody hell, have there been any?"

[Earlydoorsjones]

I think you're getting confused between heroes and 'cult' heroes. As I said at the start of the thread this isn't about the best players just players who were popular for reasons other than skill or game winning ability.

I really liked the thread - 'hero' or 'cult hero'...they both work for me.

It was the suspect names and the number of times that City fans got the decade wrong that made me add a post.

However, the past few games have made me realise that I am more cynical when we were playing shit.

In another Universe (i.e. one where we can all agree that the Noughties came right after the Nineties) I would say, lets have a thread started for cult heros in every decade.

[Kitchandro]

A few for me:

Muzzy Izzet (My boyhood hero)

Gerry Taggart (Gerry, Gerry!)

Paul Dickov (epitomises the hard work of a cult hero)

Iain Hume (In a very shit era he was one of the few who showed any quality or even tried. Some cracking goals and had no right to win the amount of headers he did. That penalty miss aside, one of my favourite players)

Steve Howard (Hated him when we went down, but made up for it with THAT goal against Leeds - THE moment at Freeman's Wharf, one of the best moments in the noughties. Always shows passion and commitment, a legend)

Bruno Berner (I think he should be known as Seargent Berner. A real hard man and even gets his fair share of goals)

Robbie Neilson (for comedy value)

Lloyd Dyer (you can tell he cares when he celebrates)

Paul Gallagher (for his free kick against Forest, what a moment, and for being a bit of a maverick, we should ALWAYS have a player like that, one who enjoys the flamboyant and exciting side of football, one who can produce a bit of magic, the kind of player you always wanted to be as a kid)

Andy King (getting vital and memorable goals (Preston away, Coventry away, Forest home, Plymouth home, Southampton home...) but also for coming through the academy and now becoming captain.)

[Benjaldinho]

Personally my top 5 (in no order) from the part 10 years are:

Fryatt - hate me if u want i love the lad

De Vries - Simply because my best friend is a spurs fan and ill never forget the winner in the FA cup

King - what can i say, loves the game, loves the club and he's not exactly bad is he

Ian Walker - how many other city players hels an england spot despite never playing and being shi ite

Paul Gallagher - for that forrest win last year

Hate me if ya want guys..

[General Smuts]

Surely he's only a hero to Smuts

And the whole of Macclesfield! Monster.

Sappleton has to sneak in as well for sheer presence. Anybody who was at Quorn with me in my cowboy-hat days would understand.

Sappleton at quorn, toilet roll, your pink cowboy hat, the pitch invasion, what a day

Absolutely.

Top people, quality bant, pitch invasions and cheap beer. Great day all round, need more of those.

Sappleton is the ultimate cult hero, steals off of Chrissy Powell for this day alone. I'd really love the mp3 of that radio interview me and Jamie did where we were looking forward to Brighton away and the gay clubs. Best away day for an age that game. Nearly getting thrown out for stealing the stewards hat, Pink cowboy hats, Sappleton banter, 3 bottles of strongbow for 3 quid and never having less than 3 bottles in my hand for the whole game. Heroic day.

As for cult heroes, there really hasn't been any for a decade. Growing up with the teams of the 90s being chocked full of them - Philpott, Ormondroyd, Marshall, Oldfield, Willis (who looked like my dad), Gee, Carr, Coatsworth, Gibson, Whitlow, Muggleton, Arphexad, Blake, Lewis - more or less everyone who pulled on a city shirt, it's been hard to be a city fan in the noughties.

The only real cult figures have been Nalis, Chrissy Powell and Sapplezilla and maybe Steve Howard and Elvis Hammond is pushing it. Other than that i really can't see anyone.

In the 10's i can see Kingy and maybe Jack Hobbs and Waggy reaching icon/legend status but they won't be cult figures. Vassell has the makings but then so did Hellings and Kaebi. So we'll see.