Oh yes, this is right up my street.

Fabulous team players and look at the state of that pitch. Len Glover arrived here around this time 44 years ago. I could go on all day about this. The best times I could ever remember.

If football players these days played in the same conditions they played in back in the day they'd have a fit. Full respect to the football players from back then, they seem to be much more admirable than the Balotelli's and Tevez's of our generation.

I was trying to remember how much it cost to go to a match. I only earned a tenner a week so it could not have been that expensive.
One of the best goals I ever saw by a Leicester player was scored by Derek Dougan. Someone pushed a long ball through but it fell behind him. He flicked it over his head and thundered it home. Gazza eat your heart out!

...and the Bobby Roberts thunderbolt against Sunderland in the FA Cup at Filbert Street in early 1970.

I have a vague recollection of Stanley Matthews playing at Filbert Street aged 50! It must have been after substitutes were allowed or was a preaseason friendly as he went off at half time. His appearance was good for the gate. Someone in the know told me that Ritchie Norman, our uncompromising left back, was ordered to stay in his kennel. Seeing the Perfect Gentleman of English football kicked off the pitch was not what the crowd wanted to see!

I was there for both the games mentioned in the article.
The 6-0 drubbing at Maine Road was not so much that we were rubbish but more that Man City put on a performance of such quality that I have seen nothing to match it in the 44 years since.
The cup game was a fantastic night and the Filbo atmosphere was unrivalled.
Frank was a real hero and he never stopped chasing lost causes until the ball had been won and cleared.
The sight of him bearing down at full speed used to put fear into the best of goalkeepers--I saw him chase a halfway line backpass at Roker Park (Sunderland) and Jim Montgommery who was a pretty good keeper (England under 23s) got to the ball a good 15 yards before Frank but was so spooked that he fudged his clearance and big Frank calmly stroked the ball home.
Those were the days of my teens when I went to every game home and away and that article has brought back some great memories.

Do I EVER remember these guys and this team. This was just the point at which my adherence to City was sealed for all time, and these were the names pencilled against the slots in my subbuteo box. Rodney Fern was a hero of mine - the crazy hair and sideburns, I guess - and also the giant defensive pairing of Cross and Sjoberg. But highest in my young favour was Peter Rodrigues, a very cultured full back for his day, and a star of the Wales side too.

It was a great side, unlucky to lose the '69 Final, at the end of which I wept like the child I was.

Ah dearie me.

Great to read about Frankie Large again. That 4-3 win against Man city in '68 is my all time favourite city match. Wonderful memories.

My favourite match too. I was in the Kop that night, goosebumps now just thinking about it. TBH, younger fans who haven't experienced nights like this have sadly missed out. If I remember correctly, Frank got his second goal at the kop end, a diving header with the biggest cheesy grin on his face BEFORE he headed it! He knew where it was going, and so did we. Didnt realise he only played for 6 months for us though. Great player, an early version of Steve Howard.

Worst thing we ever did was part exchange Frank Large for Clarke. Still remember the bar bouncing from one of his headers.
Peter Rodrigues - our Charity Shield winner with a scramble in.

Our Charity Shield winning goal was scored by Steve Whitworth, Rodrigues I think having left for Southampton by then. It was indeed a scrappy one - I was there to see it. They all count! A very fine day.

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.