Take a trip down ... CITY IN THE 1980s
THIS WEEK
HERE at the Leicester Mercury, our archives are bursting with brilliant football photographs.
So throughout July we’ll be digging out the best ones to take you on a pictorial wander down Memory Lane – and who better to accompany you along the way than Leicester City’s official club historian, John Hutchinson?
John, whose fascinating articles on little known stories from the club’s past have entertained Mercury readers in the close season for a number of years, will be focusing on four decades over the four weeks.
We started with the 1960s a fortnight ago, and we’ll progress each Monday throughout this month, through the flamboyant 70s in last week’s edition, to the yo-yo years of the 1980s this time and the many Wembley visits of the 1990s, with two League Cup finals and joy and heartache in four play-off finals.
Every Monday will feature an eight-page pullout full of our most memorable football photography.
The picture spreads will reflect the highs and lows of following
City. We’ve already had the Swinging Sixties, which promised so much, with three FA Cup finals all ending in defeat, but the club’s first “proper” silverware, courtesy of a League Cup in 1964.
Last week we had the flamboyance of the 1970s, and the great City entertainers.
Anyway, make sure you get your Mercury every Monday never in a month of Mondays will you have enjoyed such cracking access to our archives!
And don’t worry if you can’t make it to the shops to get yours, or if you miss a copy – all of the photo specials will be available from our online store for delivery right to your door. Go to the website below, and click on East Midlands and select your product:
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As we look back on a decade which held many disappointments, we kick off with a smile as young Leicester City fans gather outside Filbert Street before their team’s FA Cup third round tie with Harlow Town. But the Foxes were held 1-1 by the non-league side, who then pulled off a famous shock victory over the Division Two promotion chasers in the replay
The season would end on a brighter note as City gained promotion to the top flight. Here, manager Jock Wallace acknowledges the Foxes faithful (Dick Williams/Mirrorpix/Getty Images) 3 City were back in the Second Division by 1981 but Jock Wallace’s side embarked on another promotion-hunting campaign. Homegrown striker Gary Lineker became an established first teamer
4&5 In April 1982, the Foxes were defeated 2-0 in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham at Villa Park (Mirrorpix)