I hereby open up a new thread for Leicester. Have fun x 🦊 #lcfc 👇 https://twitter.com/FourFourTwo/status/1326482235294363648
1️⃣ March 2001

A bloke signed off Teletext knocks us out of the FA Cup quarter-finals for Wycombe, mid-table in the third tier. Kicks off a glorious nine-game losing streak.
2️⃣ February 2003

Remember that vote on renaming the club to Leicester Fosse? What a bizarre little episode.

"The more I thought about it the more sensible it seemed," said chairman Jon Holmes. Right.
3️⃣ February 2000

About 10 days out from the League Cup final, everyone gets on the beers in La Manga, which results in Stan Collymore – signed all of days earlier – decorating a hotel bar with a fire extinguisher.
4️⃣ March 2004

You'd think we might learn from mid-season trips to La Manga, but no. Nine players get arrested, three imprisoned and caught up in a scandal that turns out to have been fabricated by three German women. Not ideal.
5️⃣ June 2007

Sergio Hellings: remember him?

One of many outstanding Martin Allen signings, he never played and was transfer-listed months later. Later rumoured dead. Turns out to be absolute bollocks.
6️⃣ January 2004

There's only one way to protest a 5-0 home defeat to Aston Villa: get battered by your own team's goalkeeper.
7️⃣ October 2004

While we're on the subject, Kevin Pressman everybody. The commentator speaks for us all.
8️⃣ January 2001

Weird.
9️⃣ August 2014

Weirder.
🔟 Consider that our other great nearly men include Nicky Maynard, Jimmy Kebe and Gaston Ramirez.
1️⃣1️⃣ This is an actual team that started an actual Champions League match.

Can't believe we lost 5-0.
1️⃣2️⃣ Well, this thread needs to include the gory bits too.

Thank god we recovered as quickly as we did from this daft little episode – comfortably, the lowest I've felt as a City fan (more so than going down to League One, which was drawn-out woe).
1️⃣3️⃣ Well remembered from @gjburs.

No context required.
1️⃣4️⃣ Just the general phenomenon that was Ahmed Musa.
1️⃣5️⃣ Another of the weirdest games I've ever been to. Well, two actually.

Clive Clarke's half-time heart attack at Forest led to a replayed match in the League Cup, and this... yet still, a banter-era Gary Megson #lcfc side won 3-2. Sheehan!
1️⃣6️⃣ Hossein Kaebi. Well done for standing out among Allen's arrivals.

We were so excited: videos of him running faster than a juiced-up sprinter, and proof of him pocketing Ronaldo at the 2006 World Cup.

Reality: about 4ft and couldn't get in a team relegated to League One.
1️⃣7️⃣ This was actually A Thing.
1️⃣8️⃣ Before Lookman, there was Yann.

You've not been to Wembley for 10 years. Not been in the top flight for seven, via a low ebb in the third tier. (It's all relative, OK.)

After battling back from a two-goal deficit, you've taken the play-off semis to pens. AND HE CHIPS IT.
Almost (almost) worth it for the Dave Henson excellence that followed. 🎧
1️⃣9️⃣ The time we were so bollocksed financially that Micky Adams managed to convince two players to play for absolutely nothing.

Two months later came administration. Nine months later came promotion. Neil Warnock loved it.
2️⃣0️⃣ Nine!
2️⃣1️⃣ Feb 2009, Leicester (top of League One by 10 points) host Oldham.

50' Oldham's keeper is sent off in giving away a penalty. There is no sub keeper.

51' Dean Windass saves penalty from top scorer Matty Fryatt.

FT Dean Windass keeps clean sheet in goalless draw.
2️⃣2️⃣ Meggo!

🗓️ Sep 13, 2007: Joins Leicester, having been out of work for 19 months.

🗓️ Oct 24, 2007: Leaves Leicester for Bolton.

League games: seven. Goals scored: two. Tears upon departure: zero.
2️⃣3️⃣ April 2002

Robbie Savage takes an emergency dump in Graham Poll's toilet before a match. Fined £10k (two weeks' wages) for the privilege.
2️⃣4️⃣ OK, we're almost there.

King Nige – Lord, saviour and all-round hero – leads us to seven wins from our last nine in a mad end to 2014-15, after strangling an opposition player, calling a journalist an ostrich and Mike Dean "one of the most arrogant men I've ever met".
OK, we're almost there.King Nige – Lord, saviour and all-round hero – leads us to seven wins from our last nine in a mad end to 2014-15, after strangling an opposition player, calling a journalist an ostrich and Mike Dean "one of the most arrogant men I've ever met".
OK, we're almost there.King Nige – Lord, saviour and all-round hero – leads us to seven wins from our last nine in a mad end to 2014-15, after strangling an opposition player, calling a journalist an ostrich and Mike Dean "one of the most arrogant men I've ever met".
OK, we're almost there.King Nige – Lord, saviour and all-round hero – leads us to seven wins from our last nine in a mad end to 2014-15, after strangling an opposition player, calling a journalist an ostrich and Mike Dean "one of the most arrogant men I've ever met".
2️⃣5️⃣ But no Teletext foe, crap signing, god awful manager, unlikely cult hero or car crash of a performance will ever be the weirdest thing associated with #lcfc.

There's only one way to end this thread. Goodbye.
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