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Guest Bilo

130th Anniversary Awards

By Guest Bilo, in Leicester City Forum

Greatest ever.....  

107 members have voted

  1. 1. Player

    • Gordon Banks
      15
    • Peter Shilton
      4
    • Gary Lineker
      31
    • Arthur Rowley
      7
    • Keith Weller
      8
    • Arthur Chandler
      4
    • Steve Walsh
      12
    • Muzzy Izzet
      23
    • FrankWorthington
      2
    • Davie Gibson
      1

  2. 2. Manager

    • Matt Gillies
      11
    • Jimmy Bloomfield
      3
    • Brian Little
      0
    • Martin O'Neill
      84
    • Nigel Pearson
      8
    • Jock Wallace
      1

  3. 3. Game

    • Swindon 4-3 City (1993)
      3
    • Derby 0-4 City (1998)
      9
    • City 5-2 Sunderland (2000)
      10
    • City 2-1 Derby (1994)
      8
    • Luton 0-4 City (1974)
      2
    • City 5-2 Shrewsbury (1982)
      1
    • City 5-3 Manchester United (2014)
      60
    • City 10 Portsmouth 0 (1928)
      5
    • City 2 Palace 1 (1996)
      9

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Guest Bilo

Guest Bilo

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Interesting to see FT's views ahead of the 130th anniversary on Saturday.

Bert

Bert

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Izzet

O'Neill

Man Utd 5-3.

Some may turn their eyebrows up at my choice of Izzet but out of the choices I had only ever seen Walsh and Muzzy play for Leicester and that's how I think people should vote - only if you've ever seen them play for us.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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Gillies as manager - to have us challenging for the league was an unbelievable feat, add that to a major trophy and 3 other cup finals. Our league positions under his spell are phenomenal considering the size of us.

Player a tough one but I go with Lineker, a homegrown talent that ended up playing for Barcelona and has a golden boot on mantlepiece, pretty esteemed company to be with there with Ronaldo, Suker, Muller, Eusebio etc

Would love to say the Man U game was best but have to go for Sunderland, that day was special, you were genuinely watching a side who were going to be a top 6 premier side, such a shame it fell apart.

Asha

Asha

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How is the Forest game missed off here? 3-2 Knockaert.

 

:| You're saying that a Championship game where we got into the play-offs but then lost is the greatest game in the club's 130 year history?

DennisNedry

DennisNedry

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You can't really have these things up to vote because the results will always be skewed towards modern times.

 

Chandler with no votes, yet scored 170 more goals for the club than Lineker.

kingcarr21

kingcarr21

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That Palace game made me fall in love with Leicester City. I wasnt a massive lover of football until that moment. I was 10 years old and my first time at Wembley. I liked football but wasnt a huge fan but that moment with Claridge and seeing the stadium erupt and all the fans next to me going mental was incredible. I will never forget that moment. :thumbup:

Fox92

Fox92

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There should be a clarification of how people vote.

 

Are we going on opinion, or the going with players we've seen play? There's no doubt Lineker and Banks are greats, look at what they achieved in their careers, but I never saw them play hence I may vote for Izzet. Same with managers, really, only O'Neill and Pearson are worth my personal vote.

Soar Fox

Soar Fox

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:| You're saying that a Championship game where we got into the play-offs but then lost is the greatest game in the club's 130 year history?

Then you can also say why have the Swindon game on there aswell?

The Doctor

The Doctor

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Izzet - only one I saw play, but I don't think there's any arguing that Weller, Rowley and Chandler are three of the best we've ever had.

O'Neill - did brilliant, if Tater Peeler hadn't wasted those building blocks imagine where we could be now.

5-3 Man Utd - It'll be a long time before we see something quite like that again, but the Sunderland game was a brief hope.

Kitchandro

Kitchandro

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None of our managers stand out that much since we've never really won anything. League Cup wins aren't exactly the stuff of football legend.

 

Gillies is probably the best considering we nearly won the double one year and finished higher on a couple of occasions than we ever did with O'Neill. Then again, all sorts of clubs were challenging for the title in those days, it's not like today where the real big clubs are virtually impossible to compete with. 

 

We were remarkably consistent under O'Neill but even then the highest we finished was 8th. It's not that astonishing.

 

I'm not sure why Jock Wallace is on the list but Micky Adams isn't - is there really much between the jobs they did? I think people mistake Wallace's charisma for actual success.

Bert

Bert

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:| You're saying that a Championship game where we got into the play-offs but then lost is the greatest game in the club's 130 year history?

Yeah... It was one of the greatest games in the clubs history. The fact we went on to lose in the playoffs has no bearing on this game.
RoboFox

RoboFox

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Izzet

O'Neill

Man Utd 5-3.

Some may turn their eyebrows up at my choice of Izzet but out of the choices I had only ever seen Walsh and Muzzy play for Leicester and that's how I think people should vote - only if you've ever seen them play for us.

 

In which case, I'm not sure good ol' Arthur Chandler's going to do too well, can't be many 80+ year olds on FT...  :ph34r:

Corky

Corky

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Surely someone on here went to the Portsmouth 10-0 match? ;)

 

From what I've seen, Izzet, O'Neill and the Sunderland 5-2.

Kitchandro

Kitchandro

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I've gone for Banks as a player for his stature in the game - he won the world cup whilst playing for us and was arguably the best goalkeeper of all time. He was with us during one of our best eras too. I think if he wasn't a goalkeeper it wouldn't even be a contest. He's one of the greatest footballing legends of all time and spent the majority of his career with us.

Bert

Bert

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In which case, I'm not sure good ol' Arthur Chandler's going to do too well, can't be many 80+ year olds on FT... :ph34r:

That's just my take on it though. Can't see how people can vote for someone they've never seen play live for the club.

IMO you're just taking someone elses word for it otherwise.

BoyJones

BoyJones

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As a teenager, you couldn't beat an FA Cup replay night at Filbo in the 60's.

 

The Man City replay in 1968 in front of 40,000 still sticks in my mind as the greatest game of football I have ever been to. The emotional state the ground was in at the end of the game was unbelievable, more so than say Palace in 96. For those that don't know, we won 4-3, after being 2-0 down early on. (We had lost 6-0 a couple of months earlier at Maine Rd in the league - a match I went to!) Man City were probably the best team in England around then and for 20-30 minutes we just swept them away. 

 

All seater stadiums can never replicate or generate anywhere near the emotions / atmosphere of a swaying crowd in full voice, IMO.

Asha

Asha

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Yeah... It was one of the greatest games in the clubs history. The fact we went on to lose in the playoffs has no bearing on this game.

 

Really? One of the GREAT games? It was a nice little win to make the play-offs, and to beat Forest at the City Ground for the first time in a while, but good grief if that seriously goes down as one of the GREATEST EVER Leicester games we've had a pretty miserable history.

Silverdaz

Silverdaz

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Really? One of the GREAT games? It was a nice little win to make the play-offs, and to beat Forest at the City Ground for the first time in a while, but good grief if that seriously goes down as one of the GREATEST EVER Leicester games we've had a pretty miserable history.

For atmospher and sheer drama it has to be right up there, the fact that both teams needed to win and with what was going on at Bolton made for a very dramatic game

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