MOST IMPORTANT TIME IN HISTORY FOR LEICESTER FOSSE?

I heard today, Mr Ranieri state that this final run in for his very exciting 2015-16 Leicester City team is this most important period in the history of the club. I tend to agree but having looked up the 20 or more blogs (out of about 580) that I have written containing the word Leicester, there is quite a bit of "history" to the Foxes. I nipped out two past blogs which you probably won't have read and probably won't be bothered to suffer now, but if you do I promise you won't be disappointed.

http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/richard-and-monks.html
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/total-football-or-just-very-good-players.html

Leicester FC has been on the go since 1884 and were originally known as Leicester Fosse playing on a ground by the Fosse Road, (a Roman Road which marked the western border of the Roman Empire. It was originally a fossa or ditch).

Leicester adopted the name City in 1919 when it was given "city status" and has moved grounds a few times since then. I am proud to say that Charterhouse School 1st XI was lucky enough to play at Leicester City FC in the ISFA Cup Final a couple of times. And very welcoming they were too. Now for some history.

Having been elected to the Football league in 1894 the club lost its first league game against Grimsby Town 3-4. The first league victory was over Rotherham Utd the following week at Filbert Street.The next season, which must have been a good one, the club was promoted to the First Division.

I think an FA Cup Final appearance in 1949, losing to Wolves 1-3, was a landmark, especially since the club was just surviving in Division Two, by winning a crucial match a week later. They then won the Dvision title in 1954 with Arthur Rowley the leading goal scorer, whom you should know! he scored loads of goals.

The Foxes lost two FA Cup Finals in 1961 and 1963 and in 1964 won the League Cup over Stoke (the club's first silver ware) and lost in the final the next year to Chelsea. This was when their manager Matt Gillies produced the "whirl and switch" system of movement on the pitch, manufactured from the legendary Hungarians and Austrians from a previous decade or two.

The Foxes went to another FA Cup Final in 1969 and after a bit of messing around between divisions the club finally won a trophy, the League Cup in 1997 and 2000, being runners up in 1999.

In 2002-3 the club moved to the Walkers' Stadium after 111 years at Filbert Street. In 2013-14 Leicester won the Championship, the seventh time of winning the "second tier", a record. The next period fo football is well known and may be found in previous blogs!!!!