LCFC sliding doors moments

[jayfox26]

49 minutes ago, Bert said:

Played up front 

Mad, was he often played up front or was it just because of injuries. I only really remember him playing centre back. 

[Bert]

1 minute ago, jayfox26 said:

Mad, was he often played up front or was it just because of injuries. I only really remember him playing centre back. 

He used to get sent up front with twenty mins to go a lot Of the time. 

[Daggers]

We actually fielded a team of Barry Hayles’.

 

Next day, cancer cured, Brexit never happened, Viagra became redundant as every man always got it up, and every house now spends their day in luxuriant pleasure pastimes. 

[urban fox]

Seem to recall it was a home game against Swindon? Lined up as normal, but as soon as we kicked off Walsh went straight forward and played upfront for the whole game. This then set the pattern for the rest of that season

[BenTheFox]

Andy King not scoring that goal at home against West Ham to make it 2-1 in 2015. 

[davieG]

No Morrisons near the Stadium.

[fuchsntf]

Fa.cup against Arsenal. So many sliding door moments in those 2 games..

 

Deflect Weller cross for a Worthington header,who hits the bar,

Farrington goal disallowed called offside when he was in his own half

Replay..Glover screamer hitting the post

               Worthington hitting one post rolling up the post

                then along the line hitting the other post.

Played Arsenal in cup over the 70s,bounce of the ball,sliding door moments

1961 and 63 Fa.cup,sliding door..chances and injuries

ice kings 63..last 5 games lost Banks ,Gibson,keyworth,Ian King,that was

our backbone,with Mclintock carrying a knock,title lost..

2 Fa.cup finals and ice king title lost,

with a permanent long corridor of sliding door moments..

 

but our rollator conveyer belt of sliding door moments

in our title year and FA.cup year,made up for those horrors

of fate from the past..

But those days of 

#Mclintock,Stringfellow,Gibson,Keyworth,Riley,Sweenie

#Worthington,Weller,Glover,Farrington Gibson

 

Attacks and movement,built up fond memories..

[Guy]

17 hours ago, AKCJ said:

If Ayoze Perez scored that absolute sitter against Chelsea a few days after we won the FA Cup then we'd be in the same sort of position as Villa and Newcastle are and the stadium redevelopment would be well on the way.

I'd actually forgotten all about Ayoze Perez for all of this season until the mention of him by you! A real waste of £30m and a typical Rodgers signing, end of! Now look at Celtic!

Edited 21 February by Guy

[Sooper Steve's shin]

10 hours ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

Yes that’s right - playing as a striker. I think we had a lot of injuries and we were playing players out of position everywhere, but I was also 8 year old at the time so maybe someone else has a more reliable memory! 
 

I have a DVD full match of this, and my god the football we played then was awful. We were really outplayed football wise by Derby. But I suppose needs must, with a lot injuries etc you play to your strengths and stick all the big blokes on to get flick ons for little blokes like Joachim.

There’s a very good episode of the Quickly Kevin 90’s football podcast with Brian Little where he talks a lot about his time with us and mentions this game. We’d lost two play-off finals on the bounce (Blackburn and Swindon), so this was one he had to win by any means. Derby were a decent footballing side and we had a few injuries, so he played to the strengths we had - height and physicality. Walsh, Ormondroyd and Roberts as a front three.  It was definitely the worst footballing side we had for any of those finals but it worked. Glorious day. 

[iancognito]

11 hours ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

Yes that’s right - playing as a striker. I think we had a lot of injuries and we were playing players out of position everywhere, but I was also 8 year old at the time so maybe someone else has a more reliable memory! 
 

I have a DVD full match of this, and my god the football we played then was awful. We were really outplayed football wise by Derby. But I suppose needs must, with a lot injuries etc you play to your strengths and stick all the big blokes on to get flick ons for little blokes like Joachim.

Little moved Walsh up front earlier in the season. He'd been sent off a couple of times (of about 9 in his career) and he wanted him away from aggro with strikers and contributing not sitting in the stands. He was forming a good understanding with Joachim when he did his ACL. We struggled for about a month hitting long high balls up to Joachim and Speedie before we signed Iwan Roberts (from Hudds I think) for the usual £300k. The guy comes in bags two against Wolves on his debut and a hat-trick against Derby. Cult status achieved.

 

Iwan had hamstring injury for a few weeks before the final and Walsh told Little that even if he was only 20% he'd play at Wembley. As it was, Little played Ormondroyd, Walsh AND Roberts up front and left Joachim on the bench til late in the game. We literally played "Gerritt Forward" football for 80 minutes and that cross and header was about our only bit of quality in the whole game. Still my greatest Leicester game, ahead of anything even in the title season or the cup win. It's a great sliding doors moment because without that win Little would have ended up quitting and all the years afterwards of McGhee/ONeill etc probably don't happen.

[Kinowe Soorie]

Mike Walker instead of Martin O’Neill.

[BertFill]

10 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

92/93 was when Little first tried Walsh up front due to lack of striker options. In 93/94 he missed a lot of the season, and Speedie and Roberts were brought in. But he was needed up-front in the playoff final as Speedie was suspended and Roberts wasn't 100% fit.

Thanks! I'd forgotten his injury.

(How could I forget "Walshie, wherever you may be, will you be fit when we beat Derby..." - one of my all time favourite songs...)

[Bergen fox]

If knockarrt scored and we beat Watford that year 

we wouldn’t have won the premiership. 
Thankyou Troy we owe it all to you😂

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, Bergen fox said:

If knockarrt scored and we beat Watford that year 

we wouldn’t have won the premiership. 
Thankyou Troy we owe it all to you😂

Or won it under Pearson…

[BertFill]

If Matty James hadn't knackered his knee, would we ever have signed Kante?

[HighPeakFox]

The Butterfly Effect. 

 

That is all. 

[Raj]

Signing Lee Chapman would have been epic!

[Permafrost]

4 hours ago, Bergen fox said:

If knockarrt scored and we beat Watford that year 

we wouldn’t have won the premiership. 
Thankyou Troy we owe it all to you😂

We didn't. 😉

[South Shire Fox]

If Fofana didnt behave like he did, forcing a move and completley disrupting the whole club then we wouldnt of got relegated last year. Wouldnt of been around Europe but definetley wouldnt of been relegated either. Faes and Amartey partnership was absolutely abysmal

[BertFill]

Ok, here's one:

 

Milan Mandaric sold the club to King Power in August 2010.

 

Venkys bought Blackburn Rovers in November 2010.

 

Presumably Mandaric selling Leicester to them might not have been impossible.

Do you think the next ten years might have been different if he had...?

[BertFill]

Oh, and if Richard III had got buried in York we'd be non-league now.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

2 minutes ago, BertFill said:

Ok, here's one:

 

Milan Mandaric sold the club to King Power in August 2010.

 

Venkys bought Blackburn Rovers in November 2010.

 

Presumably Mandaric selling Leicester to them might not have been impossible.

Do you think the next ten years might have been different if he had...?

Difference being Blackburn were in the Premier League at the time, we were just about recovered from the events that lead to relegation in 2008, but yeah, look at where we've been and where Blackburn are and have been from Steve Kean onwards.

[Realist Guy In The Room]

I always think about the play off final against Blackburn in 1992.

 

We were a very good side at that point and if we took our place in the first season of the Premier League, I think we'd have stayed there and become an almost Everton like fixture in the league.

 

Walsh hadn't suffered any injuries, Tommy Wright and Kevin Russell would have stayed, Millsy and Gibbo's legs were still there and good for another 2 years and we had Joachim to break through in the Premier League.

[don_danbury]

1 hour ago, South Shire Fox said:

If Fofana didnt behave like he did, forcing a move and completley disrupting the whole club then we wouldnt of got relegated last year. Wouldnt of been around Europe but definetley wouldnt of been relegated either. Faes and Amartey partnership was absolutely abysmal

fofana would probably have got injured tho. with the obsession rodgers had over amartey im sure he would've started him

[BertFill]

2 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

If Fofana didnt behave like he did, forcing a move and completley disrupting the whole club then we wouldnt of got relegated last year.

Maybe. But if Fofana didn't behave in exactly the same way to come to us he wouldn't have been here in the first place, so it's not as if we didn't know what he was like...