N’Golo Kantè arrived at Leicester in August 2015, being signed from French club Caen for a fee of £5million. He had no international experience and not been capped at any youth levels at all. He was 24 years of age when signed, and had been on the Leicester City wish list for almost a year….
The long run of fantastic goalkeepers at Leicester City, who is the next wonderboy?
Going back in time, great goalkeepers have always been something of a trademark for Leicester City. We will start our journey with the legendary Gordon Banks, but before we start to talk, just a quick reminder on the Olympic gold medalist that was once in goal for Leicester Fosse, Horace Bailey, probably the first “great”…
Foxes A to Z, Mark Wallington, a record breaking goalkeeper and Leicester City club legend
Faced with the initially daunting and thankless task of succeeding Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton between the Leicester City posts, Mark more than made up for a comparative lack of charismatic flair by dint of a dogged consistency and willingness to work at the raw edges of his game, eventually building a monumental club record…
Foxes A to Z, Eddie Kelly, The Double with Arsenal and Leicester City promotion specialist
Frank McLintock’s first and probably most valuable signing at £50.000. Eddie was a former team-mate of his new boss during the glory years at Highbury as well as at Loftus Road. A scorer in the 1970 Fairs Cup Final, Eddie had gone on to contribute mightily to Arsenal’s 1971 Double, entering the record books as…
Foxes A to Z, Paul Dickov, two times a fox and twice at the “blue” moon
Paul Dickov is a player that has pleased so many fans of different clubs and twice we had the pleasure of seeing him in the Leicester City blue shirt. He will always be recognized for taking part in two great promotions for the club, getting back up in the Premier League in 2002/03 and then…
Leicester City can win the race for a massive talented forward, could we see another fairystory appear
Leicester City have over the past years been fantastic in their recruiting policy and done and completed some of the best transfers this World have ever seen. The profit gain on signings and sales of Riyad Mahrez, Danny Drinkwater, Harry Maguire and N’Golo Kantè are up there among the best. The fact that the team,…
Foxes A to Z, Frank McLintock, a special Scottish adventure in English football
Brought down from Gorbals and nurtured at Filbert Street as a probing wing-half, Frank possessed the rare combination of toughness and elegance and soon became a key element in City’s then revelutionary midfield strategies of the early 60’s. Wether switching wing-half and inside forward roles mid-match with Graham Cross or creating crossfield magic with Davie…
How can Premier League continue?, Leicester City players in self-isolation, games to continue behind closed doors, no, please close it down!
Today it was announced that Real Madrid players are in quarantine and yesterday the game between Arsenal and Man City was postponed, so why are Premier League talking of a continued run of games? Yesterday Liverpool played Atletico Madrid at Anfield with a full crowd inside, strange to see this under these circumstances. PSG played…
How Leo Ulloa became “The Special One” in Leicester City’s PL win
If you are among the competitors to win Premier League, you need at least one player from either Brazil og Argentina. If your squad doesn’t have a “special one” you are not really in the fight and will lose out. At the moment Leicester City does not have a player from one of those countries…
Leicester City getting fantastic respons on the development of one of their most talented players
TCF have watched Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall many times in the Leicester City U.23, and his presence have over the years been phenomenal and after each match, thinking of him as one that could make the grade and follow in the footsteps of Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes and Hamza Choudhury. He has been in and around the…
