1. Went to a midweek cup match at Filbert Street against Man City with ny mum and dad. We stood together behind the goal in the Kop. By the end of the match, I was over by the west stand, my dad by the east stand and my mum only stayed where she was cos a guy grabbed hold of her and clung on to a barrier. Huge crowd - it was like a mad mosh pit. 2. Diving behind a caravan inside the Ayresome Road ground while the Middlesboro lot stood at the top of the steps hurling rocks,coal, pennies and whatever missiles they could find. Sounded like the maddest drum solo I have ever heard as they thudded against the caravan. 3. Travelling down to Leyton Orient only to find that the match had been postponed an hour earlier cos of snow blizzards. 4. Being pushed off a barrier at Highfield Road when watching the chavs lose 8-1 to the mighty Foxes. The chav fans singing 'we want 10' to see if their new scoreboard could cope. 5. Watching Muzzy leap like a salmon down at Watford to nick a play off place on the last day of the season. 6. Standing in the Holt End with ny dad and uncle, and watching Bobby Roberts drill one in from outside the box, and then listening to my uncle (a villa fan) for 5 hours saying they should have won. 7. In the North Bank at Highbury to see City beat arsenal 2-0, with my mate telling me what a prat I was by celebrating the second goal. 4000 skin heads turned to face us. Mind you the police escort to the tube station 2 minutes from the end was impressive. 10 coppers for me and my mate and they cleared the platform and wouldnt let anyone else on the train. Happy days eh
Some good memories there. What year was that Coventry match? I'm too young to remember anything like that. Best ones for me are: 1. First game against Leeds on the top tier of the Double Decker. A place in the Quarter-Finals of the Worthington Cup was up for grabs. Duberry got sent off I think and it was 0-0, Muzzy scored the winning penalty at our end. 2. A few months later and me and my Dad went to the final. Waved my Leicester flag out the window down the motorway, then the pole broke shortly after kick off lol. Remember the Tranmere goal well but didn't see either of ours hit the back of the net because of the large bloke jumping up in front of me! 3. Howard's winner against Leeds, most epic celebration ever. 4. Forest last season. 5. Man City this season. 6. Going to the away games at Crewe and Preston in fancy dress. At Crewe we were celebrating promotion, at Preston we secured a play-off place.
Southend away when we won League 1 was good. At full time the atmosphere was great the whole crowd signing and the knowing we had got back up to the championship. There is alot of ups and downs supporting Leicester but the lows make the highs that much better, while all the glorys man u fans take the highs for granted and think 1 defeat is the end of the world
My first memory was my dad taking me to my first match against Rotheram at home in '82. I nagged him for weeks before he took me. A few others would be. Arsenal friendly at home, in family enclosure at Filbert Street and Moron gunners throwing bottles out of our main stand down onto us. Think this may have been Wright's first Arsenal game? Liverpool at home 3-3 draw, this is why Liverpool are my second team! Rush, Dalglish, Souness. Cambridge home in the play offs 5-1 win. Chelsea home, think it was same day as Hillsborough, Chelsea fans fighting in the double decker. Newcastle away lost 5-4, we were 4-2 up with about 15-20 mins to go, I turned to my mate and said we would lose, we are not good enough to be this far in front, everyone around laughed at me!! Derby play off final, made a point of leaving wembley and travelling back up the M40 as Derby fans were advised to use this route, plenty off sheep baiting! Plymouth away on a miserable Tuesday night, lost 3-1 with Martin Bodge in goal, that was a long coach trip back.
A few memories A smoke bomb clearing in pen 2 to reveal Sunderland fans battling with Leicester fans Sirens going off everywhere at Hereford as our cup tie descended into scenes reminiscent of a football "firm" film Spurs fans trying to box our car onto the hard shoulder waving baseball bats out of their car windows Derby fans not recognising our Royal blue in my scarf asking if I'd seen any ****ing Leicester The day when it dawned on me that all that absurd behaviour was in the past and I could go to the match without fear for my well being and have a pint and chat with the way fans in the pub before the match
Some of those The first one reminds me of something my Dad told me. It went more like 'a smoke bomb clearing in pen 2 to reveal Chelsea fans giving it the fascist salute'. lol!
Ade Akinbiyi running around the pitch with his shirt off against Sunderland after he scored at Filbert Street!
One of my earliest memories is being put on top of a big box thing at the front of the KOP as a tiny tot(there was a fence at the time) when we were playing Burnley and needed a win to be certain of going up, we only managed a 0-0 draw but still went up (and Burnley got relegated) thanks to a certain pitch invasion and stopping of a game several minutes early.
1. Being the BS mascot in the main stand enclosure in 1981/2 season and sitting on the shoulders of some of the market boys. 2. The famous night match against Liverpool - electric atmosphere...must have been 1985/6?? 3. Having a nuclear temperature cheese and onion pie in a plastic wrapper and wafting it to cool down (was in the East stand) only to watch the pie fly out of the wrapper and land on the pitch. Howls of laughter followed and I went Forest red! 4. Being smacked by a copper in the face (complete with his brown leather gloves and cane) on Brazil street when we played Villa. I was a scoat then. 5. Play off final against Swindon. Boozing at town Hall square at 8am and playing footie only for a mate to elbow me in the eye. Eye closed up completely and was concussed and then sick. Coach got done by dibble. I was coach organiser and got fined. 3-0 down and I was telling everyone it wasnt over...and it wasn't 3-3 ...but then it was! 6. The best maybe was when we beat Tranmere at Filbo in the playoff semis and me and this down syndrome kid just embraced each other and jumped up and down - that's how football connects you; two blokes that never met before! I'll take that one to the grave.
Where to start???? 1. Sitting in the Double Decker with my Dad, smack in the centre of the goal. When a young lad by the name of Andrew Peake picks the ball up near the halfway line, dances thorugh the Liverpool midfield & defence and from 30 yards beats Ray Clemence into the top left hand corner. Brilliant!!!!! 2. The infamous FA Cup game against Shrewsbury, 2-0 up and cruising, Wallington gets injured 2-2, 2 different keepers later we win 5-2. Phew!!! 3. 4-0 up against Direby in 15 mins 4. Playoff final against Swindon, 3-0 down at half-time, get it back to 3-3 dodgy pen and we lose 4-3 in the last minute..... 5. Collymores hat-trick against Sunderland in his debut. 6. Bergkamps, (dare I say it!!!) Brilliant hat-trick against us to draw 3-3. + many more, too numerous to mention. Regards
