A great picture...

I'm yet another one who's favourite game was that Man City 4-3, a fantastic night. Great game of football, played on what was effectively a tidal mud flat.

My favourite team would have to be from the previous season, when we still had the Doog and Banks, but I do have a real soft spot for that 67- 68 side as well.

Big Frank was a fairly substantial outbuilding and a real handful in the box, I was sad to see him go, though sniffer was a good player. I guess Ian marshall is the closest we've had to Frank recently.

I was a big fan of Bobby Roberts, who was the sort of player we could do with now, someone capable of picking the team up off the floor and dragging them single handedly back into a game.

Strange how over all those years, the one consistent thing about City has been their inconsistency.

I can remember that night as if it was yesterday when we beat man city 4-3 what an atmosphere 2-0 down after 23 mins we came back with such a vengance,i remember my mum saying that she went outside and heard the crowd roar and we lived in stocking farm those days!!, i also remember reading in the daily express the next day and i qoute" in those 20 minutes that leicester scored 4 goals no team in the world could have lived with them" i can taste the atmosphere now just writing about it, i was in the kop that night and i swear that i will never experiance again it was so special and yes frankie large that night had the best game of his life he was a man possessed-a legend on that performance alone,anyone know if he is still alive if so whats he doing etc etc

I was also at the first game, a 0-0 a draw in Manchester. Went up on a 'Poles' bus trip from Syston. Shilton played out of his skin that day otherwise there would never have been a replay.

Team that night v Manchester City (19th February 1968):

Peter Shilton
Peter Rodrigues
Willie Bell
Bobby Roberts
John Sjoberg
David Nish
Rodney Fern
Frank Large
Mike Stringfellow
Graham Cross
David Gibson

I'm not so sure the photograph was taken during this game though.

Dounsouf,
You may well be right about when the picture was taken. It was just a great picture of Frank Large from that season. The LCFC website does not identify the match. I knew the photographer, a bloke called Richard Mitchell from the Leicester Mercury. I think he won an award for it. Montreal, I too used the Pole's buses (white) from Syston, where I lived. Happy days.

Frank Large - what a hero! As were all the city team that night against Man. City.

As for his broken nose - I'm not sure if it was in that particular game but I can remember him breaking it during one night match and playing on with claret running down his face. Again - what a hero!!

if i remember correctly montreal the first match finished 2-2 i also went but could be wrong ne1 else remember the first match score?could have been a dfferent year we seemed to get man city every year in the fa cup at some point

foreverafox - it was 0-0 away in the first match - only 2 days before on 17th. Attendance over the 2 games was 90,000 - 51,000 at Maine Road & 39,000 at Filbo.

And you're right - we did seem to get them a lot around that era in the FA cup - we were knocked out by them the season before.

Sure longtime. I wasn't implying anything. I was just curious that David Nish was wearing no. 10 on the photograph and my programme shows he was no. 6 that night.

As per usual I couldn't rest until I had done my research. Assuming Rodney Fern was the scorer, Frank Large and Bobby Roberts were playing and Nishy wore the no.10, I can only calculate this was taken during the Sheffield United match on 2nd March 1968. City won 3-1.

I've posted this before, I'm sure – might have been over on the old 606 – but seems kind of appropriate here.

When I was at school, I was playing in a cricket match against Ashby Grammar School and while we were batting (I was Nº11) I was flicking through their score book from a couple of seasons earlier. There seemed to be a lot of opposing batsmen out 'b Nish' and a few 'c Fern' as well.
They must have had some football team that year too.