Atletico Mardrid Away

[iBleedLeicesterColours]

Just found Ian Marshall on Facebook

[Izzet is God]

Ref at home vs Athletico was awful....couldn't believe he sent off Parker!

As for the Chelsea game...I remember watching that on tele and thinking to myself is that ref for real? He's just given a pen for the bloke falling into Prior????

And they say diving is a modern day thing!!!

[Tielemans63]

I put the home leg against Madrid as my entry into the 'worst memory' thread. The frustration, disappointment and pride I felt that night means I won't be able to forget it even if I wanted to!

[Dan]

Was there no investigation into that? That's as bad as Forest, just bias and nothing else.

[iancognito]

Was on the coach too. Absolutely ****ing dreadful journey, kept in a compound on the outskirts of Madrid manned by gun weilding policeman for over an hour, shipped straight into and out of the ground from/to the coaches. BUT when Ian Marshall scored in the Vincente Caulderon it was worth every penny.

Also do you rember the stop off in France at the services on the way back? The only time except for the ferry that we could get a bevvy. The look of trepidation on the sales assistants face as I bought 24 bottles of heineken for 4 of us was a picture.

Those services in France were fvcking hilarious. We caught them on the night shift with only two or three on duty and then hundreds of City fans turned up on these coaches looking like a cross between extras from the Football Factory and Night of the Living Dead. The "Jambon" sandwich I had was the worst food ever.

I remember at the game all the people on the coaches were in a different section to the fans who went by plane and the ones in the 'plane section' were singing "The Wheels On The Bus" and then our 'coach section' just sang back "Work in the morning, You're going work in the morning".

Brilliant times and if you're too young and missed out, I really feel for you, the O'Neill years were everything you could dream of as a fan.

[Brown Fox]

Anyone know how many we took to Madrid that night? Those celebrations look like absolute chaos.

Also just went onto Ian Marshalls Wikipedia page and found this gem of a line under his personal life:

'Marshall and his family currently live in London and he plays football part time. He still sports the casual/tramp chic look he pioneered and was famed for in the 90's, despite the fact that his receding hairline makes his mullet difficult to maintain.'

[iancognito]

Anyone know how many we took to Madrid that night? Those celebrations look like absolute chaos.

From When Saturday Comes says we had 3500 but I'd have put the figure well over 5000

Up against a team on which £34 million had been spent, Leicester set out to attack. Marshall had already gone close when he stabbed home from a corner in the 11th minute, sending the famished away support of 3,500 wild. Perceived as an unfit, scruffy journeyman, Marshall was underestimated for much of his career; a far superior finisher to his strike partner that night, the 19-year-old Emile Heskey, he was exactly the type of player for whom such moments are made. The fact that he had scored such an important goal made it, in the words of The Fox “not only an ecstatic moment, but also a bloody hilarious one”.

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"Famished away support"

[Karljohn]

Was on the coach too. Absolutely ****ing dreadful journey, kept in a compound on the outskirts of Madrid manned by gun weilding policeman for over an hour, shipped straight into and out of the ground from/to the coaches. BUT when Ian Marshall scored in the Vincente Caulderon it was worth every penny.

Also do you rember the stop off in France at the services on the way back? The only time except for the ferry that we could get a bevvy. The look of trepidation on the sales assistants face as I bought 24 bottles of heineken for 4 of us was a picture.

Pretty much summed up the whole trip for me that

[tomtom]

Was there no investigation into that? That's as bad as Forest, just bias and nothing else.

The referee from the home tie never officiated another European match after that as he was taken off the books

Very suspicious when you consider what happened to forest as well in the distant past