23056 days

Ansteyfox

Ansteyfox

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It is 23056 days (63 years) since I watched my first Leicester City game , I have seen us win-

The Premier League
The FA Cup
The League Cup (3 times)
The Championship (4 times)
Division One
FA Charity Shield
FA Community Shield
Championship Play Off Finals (2 times)

I have also seen us play in

The Champions League
The Europa League
The Europe League Conference
The UEFA Cup
European Cup Winners Cup

I have seen us play at Wembley on 12 occasions


Not bad for a small provincial team!!!
 
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Its a good list. Waiting for some smug young pup to point out most of the big achievements occurred in the last 15 years and nearly all since 1992!
 
Ansteyfox said:
It is 23056 days (63 years) since I watched my first Leicester City game , I have seen us win-

The Premier League
The FA Cup
The League Cup (3 times)
The Championship (4 times)
Division One
FA Charity Shield
FA Community Shield
Championship Play Off Finals (2 times)

I have also seen us play in

The Champions League
The Europa League
The Europe League Conference
The UEFA Cup

I have seen us play at Wembley on 12 occasions


Not bad for a small provincial team!!!
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Strictly speaking you've only seen us win The Championship twice... and you missed out two League Two titles (and on the same note we have never won the Championship Play Off Final).

And if you are including playing Tottenham in the Premier League in that Wembley total I think you should revise that down, can hardly be a noteworthy achievement if it was a scheduled league fixture surely?

And seeing the Division One title in the list is a stain.

Oh, and most of the big achievements occurred in the last 15 years and nearly all since 1992! :)

Apart from all of that, and in all seriousness, it's pretty good going for most teams. Knowing what you meant for all of them, I guess I would have to knock off one 2nd tier win and I guess a couple of Wembley appearances in my own list. I guess you were right on the cusp of seeing them in The European Cup Winners Cup too?
 
buz_not_buzz said:
Strictly speaking you've only seen us win The Championship twice... and you missed out two League Two titles (and on the same note we have never won the Championship Play Off Final).

And if you are including playing Tottenham in the Premier League in that Wembley total I think you should revise that down, can hardly be a noteworthy achievement if it was a scheduled league fixture surely?

And seeing the Division One title in the list is a stain.

Oh, and most of the big achievements occurred in the last 15 years and nearly all since 1992! :)

Apart from all of that, and in all seriousness, it's pretty good going for most teams. Knowing what you meant for all of them, I guess I would have to knock off one 2nd tier win and I guess a couple of Wembley appearances in my own list. I guess you were right on the cusp of seeing them in The European Cup Winners Cup too?
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Forgot the ECWC , thanks
 
Nomadic Fox said:
Waiting for some smug young pup to point out most of the big achievements occurred in the last 15 years and nearly all since 1992
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at 47 I don't feel young, but i do feel blessed that - given the club is 140 yrs old - my time has been so eventful and coincided with so much success.
 
I can add the European Cup Winners Cup home legs against Glenavon and Atletico Madrid in 1962.
Don’t forget the Zenith Data Systems Cup Northern Final 1991/92,
Leicester 4 Barnsley 3 (a.e.t)
Leicester 4 Port Vale 0
Leicester 2 Everton 1
Semi -Final, Notts County 1 Leicester 2 (a.e.t) Fitzpatrick and Tommy Wright in the rainstorm,8000 soaking wet Leicester fans “undampened”!
Northern Area Final, Leicester 1 Nottm Forest 1
Nottm Forest 2 Leicester 0
Forest beat Southampton 3-2 in the ZDS Final at Wembley.
 
Imagine if that 63 years had spanned 1885 to 1948. You would have seen;

No Wembley appearances
No Cup Finals.
Not a sniff of European competition.
Two changes of kit (well mebbe three)
No fookin’ clappers.
No floodlit games.
The demise of the old Fosse (ceasing trading after WW1 because they were skint)
Record win and defeat against two different Notts teams.
Record high attendance (47,298) in the FA Cup against the Spuds. Record low (13) against Stockport County.
Re-election, and one election up from the Midland League.
A trio of both promotions (07/08, 24/25 (Div 2 Champs), 36/37) and relegations (08/09, 34/35 and 38/39)
Two World Wars curtailing the football programme.
Arthur Chandler smoking a fag before, during and after a match.
The Elephant Man bagging a rare brace.
Six Swans.
 
Division 1 runners up in 1928/29 behind Sheffield Wednesday. One more point would have done it with our superior goal average. So very close.
A great season with the formidable strike force of Ernie Hine,Arthur Chandler,Arthur Lochhead and Charlie Chaplain. Indeed it was after the 10-0 demolition of Portsmouth that Chaplain could be spotted on film eating Chandler’s right boot. In the homecoming celebrations that followed silent film star Harold Lloyd somehow ended up precariously hanging off the hour hand of the Clock Tower. The Keystone Kops arrived trailing out the back of their Black Maria in a belated and unsuccessful attempt to restore law and order. The expected celebratory concert had to be abandoned when lifelong Leicester City fans Laurel & Hardy failed to get the big piano up the Town Hall steps. All of this much to the dismay of the “onlooking” local vaudeville enthusiast Ben Turpin who received “a pie in the face” that rendered him permanently “cross eyed” for the rest of his career!
 
borebage53 said:
Division 1 runners up in 1928/29 behind Sheffield Wednesday. One more point would have done it with our superior goal average. So very close.
A great season with the formidable strike force of Ernie Hine,Arthur Chandler,Arthur Lochhead and Charlie Chaplain. Indeed it was after the 10-0 demolition of Portsmouth that Chaplain could be spotted on film eating Chandler’s right boot. In the homecoming celebrations that followed silent film star Harold Lloyd somehow ended up precariously hanging off the hour hand of the Clock Tower. The Keystone Kops arrived trailing out the back of their Black Maria in a belated and unsuccessful attempt to restore law and order. The expected celebratory concert had to be abandoned when lifelong Leicester City fans Laurel & Hardy failed to get the big piano up the Town Hall steps. All of this much to the dismay of the “onlooking” local vaudeville enthusiast Ben Turpin who received “a pie in the face” that rendered him permanently “cross eyed” for the rest of his career!
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That all took place around the time of The Great Crash. The sound of all those bent tins hitting the shop floor of Brierley’s could be heard as far away as Lewis’s front door, causing the mouth-organist standing underneath the portico to miss a whole set of notes, and drop most of the ball point pens he was trying to flog.
 
Ansteyfox said:
It is 23056 days (63 years) since I watched my first Leicester City game , I have seen us win-

The Premier League
The FA Cup
The League Cup (3 times)
The Championship (4 times)
Division One
FA Charity Shield
FA Community Shield
Championship Play Off Finals (2 times)

I have also seen us play in

The Champions League
The Europa League
The Europe League Conference
The UEFA Cup
European Cup Winners Cup

I have seen us play at Wembley on 12 occasions


Not bad for a small provincial team!!!
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Great Post. I have just a couple of years on you but nothing to add to that roll of honour.

It is true that the glory years have been in the last 30 years but before that what was it that made us so attached to this great club of ours?

Three Finals in the 60s ln the FA Cup when it was arguably more prestigious than the League championship. Producing the England goalkeeper in the 66 World Cup. A number of other internationals like Davie Gibson, Derek Dougan, Ken Leek, when caps were hard to get. Great players like Keith Weller, Frank Worthington and Peter Shilton in the Bloomfield era who put us in the national consciousness. A string of players who went on to bigger and maybe better things - Lineker, McAllister, Newell, Smith, McLintock, etc.

The glory years have been great but we loved them before that.
 
It was around this time that cross eyed Ben Turpin was controversially appointed as head of PAR (Pathe Assisted Replays). Cinemagoers up and down the land were able to view all the offside and handball decisions from the comfort of their seats only a mere one week after the matches had actually been played!
 
OldFox said:
Great Post. I have just a couple of years on you but nothing to add to that roll of honour.

It is true that the glory years have been in the last 30 years but before that what was it that made us so attached to this great club of ours?

Three Finals in the 60s ln the FA Cup when it was arguably more prestigious than the League championship. Producing the England goalkeeper in the 66 World Cup. A number of other internationals like Davie Gibson, Derek Dougan, Ken Leek, when caps were hard to get. Great players like Keith Weller, Frank Worthington and Peter Shilton in the Bloomfield era who put us in the national consciousness. A string of players who went on to bigger and maybe better things - Lineker, McAllister, Newell, Smith, McLintock, etc.

The glory years have been great but we loved them before that.
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It was where I am from and is in my blood.
 
It's my Dad's funeral tomorrow - he was 90, and had supported LCFC since the mid 1940s.
As part of the tribute I will be reading, is the following:

"Living in this very town [Lutterworth], he passed on a keen following for Leicester City to me. For many years this seemed a somewhat dubious gift until, of course, that magical season of 2015-2016, when Claudio Ranieri’s unfancied team unexpectedly became the most famed football club in the world for a time. It is perfect that towards the end of his long life he saw his club become Premier League champions (on this very day 8 years ago), win the FA Cup for the first time (after four disappointing defeats in Wembley finals from 1949 to 1969) win the Community Shield and reach the Quarter Finals of the Champions League."
 
Ansteyfox said:
It is 23056 days (63 years) since I watched my first Leicester City game , I have seen us win-

The Premier League
The FA Cup
The League Cup (3 times)
The Championship (4 times)
Division One
FA Charity Shield
FA Community Shield
Championship Play Off Finals (2 times)

I have also seen us play in

The Champions League
The Europa League
The Europe League Conference
The UEFA Cup
European Cup Winners Cup

I have seen us play at Wembley on 12 occasions


Not bad for a small provincial team!!!
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In my 54 years (I can't be bothered to work out the number of days) since I watched my first Leicester City game , I have seen us win-

The Premier League
The FA Cup
The League Cup (2 times)
The Championship (4 times) (Plus 4 other promotions)
Division One
FA Charity Shield
FA Community Shield
Championship Play Off Finals (2 times)

I have also seen us play in

The Champions League
The Europa League
The Europe League Conference
The UEFA Cup


I have seen us play at Wembley in 4 play offs, 3 league cup finals, 2 Community Shields, 1 FA Cup Final. (once against spuds in league) (missed the FA Cup semi final and at least once against spuds in the league)


Not bad for a small provincial team!!!
 
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