A
lot of grown men & women were in tears last night as we
all stood and watched 111 years of history come to a close
at Filbert Street.
A
Lenny Glover team took on an Alan Birchenall team in a City
Legends game, followed by the current City players taking
on Gary McAllister's ex-Leicester City allstars team.
The
likes of Tony Cottee, Stan Collymore, Gary Parker, Julian
Joachim and Sooper Stevie Claridge showed they could still
hack it.
Goal
of the night though went to the original "Ooh Tommy Wright"
in the legends game.
The
East stand and Micky Adams started the wave and 15,000 enjoyed
themselves at Filbo for the last time.
The
second game fittingly ended with Steve Walsh giving a penalty
away in the last minute, with Leicester ref Peter Jones (who's
also retiring) deciding Walshy could take it instead. He had
it saved! Jonesy said the keeper moved and let him have another
go, with Walshy blasting it home for the game to be a 3-3
draw and the final whistle go.
Over
100 ex-City players were dragged out onto the pitch including
Pontus Kaamark,Neil Lennon, Shilts, Tony James, John Sjoberg,
and of course Frankie Worthington.
15,000
fans linked arms and sang Auld Lang Syne as fireworks went
off on the pitch and slowly the Filbert Street floodlights
were turned off in stages until the last one went off.
Just
the scoreboard remained shining brightly spelling out "Farewell
to Filbert Street"...with lots of the parts missing just
as it always does.
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