Yes that was a good team and I remember going to West Ham one boxing day and because of the various trains I needed I arrived at Upton Park when we were 2-0 up and Jackie had scored both goals.
I wished Id stayed at home afterwards because we lost 3-2.
Oh the joys of being a Leicester fan

Wow Vulpes, that brought back some memories! I was reminiscing with my neighbour on Monday night about the likes of these players & Howerd Riley & Colin Appleton. I did enjoy watching this side but this current team is the best all round team I have ever seen in City shirts. The skill & spirit all over the pitch is amazing. This is the best time to be a Leicester supporter & long may it last.

I am surprized Appleton not mentioned....not sure how this team would line up?

1-2-3-5 but who are the middle three? or if 4 at the back which 4 and how does the midfield line up?

I can't think of many Vulpesy, but there were many great 'providers' such as Lennie, Stevie Lynex and-a lightweight in so much that with a puff of wind you would feel he'll be blown over-John Farrington. Johnny boy had a great gift for accuracy and was a major cog in that wonderful 2nd Division team under Frank O'Farrell. Tight as hell throughout, particularly at the back.

48 years to the day since I first saw City 'live', I somehow managed to avoid seeing John Sinclair in action. I remember those two games over Christmas 1967 when we lost to West Ham. One was on the box-
http://youtu.be/m_c3o9LRHTI

I got a lack of flack off West Ham fans over this
"Dear, dear me"

...a lot of flack too

What is it with these bloody 'phones!

Great memories Vulpes. That was my first city sde as well and Jackie was my first favourite player.

It has to be said, trying to be an impressive, skilful side on those 'Christmas Pudding'-like pitches was an almost impossible task unlike the silky smooth surfaces they have the privilege to play on these days. Once the latter months of the year set in at Filbert Street there wasn't a lot of grass left.

That's a very good point downsouf – the current side wouldn't find it so easy to play a fast counter attacking style on a quagmire, it's true. Also, the balls then weighed half a hundredweight, as did the kit, especially if it was wet.

I still think Vardy would terrify defenders though – imagine him up against Heslop, Hennesey, Foulkes or big Jack. Mind you, with the reffing then, they'd just boot him into row F - if they could catch him.

It's a strange thing, but when remembering my favourite players over the years, there's usually a single episode that sticks in my mind. With Jackie, it's him hitting a penalty straight at the keeper in a 0-2 home defeat to Sunderland. That seems really unfair, but I can't shake it!

All I really remember about Jackie Sinclair after leaving City was him featuring in Newcastle's Fairs Cup win. It was 'live' on the TV and with a Geordie in the family I had no choice but to be glued to the set. Can't remember if it was the leg at St James' or in Hungary that I watched.

Yes Vulpes, the principal old git remembers Jackie. Great player. Think he beat five players at West Ham to score but the memory is fading. The rest were cracking players too who largely behaved themselves on and off the field. A credit to the club and the city. Appleton was very unlucky not to be capped but West Ham had a younger left half called Moore who knew a trick or two. As for free-scoring wingers, how about Stringfellow? Deeply saddened to read that Gordon Banks is fighting kidney cancer again. The greatest of the great, shabbily treated by the club.
Today's game is faster and more precise. Science has transformed fitness and injury treatment but I am convinced some if not most of yesteryear's players would have risen to the challenge. Don't anyone tell me Graham Cross would have failed to reach the standard. Fine all-round sportsman. Brave and determined. Sadly, Leicester players seldom get the recognition they deserve because the sportswriters are too lazy to go north of Watford or South of Manchester. I am so proud of this team. Odds and sods who have moulded into an ace "team". And I use the term advisedly.
Oh, yes and I have fiver on them to win the Prem title at 100 to 1. If it comes in I shall make a donation to a suitable charity.
In Oz for Christmas. Saw Vardy's goal (recording) in Singapore airport surrounded by a handful of Chelsea supporters.
Happy Christmas to all.

Thanks guys!

It was my birthday yesterday and I was feeling old until I read this thread.

From my era of goal scoring wingers I'd throw in the name of ooooohhhhh Tommy Wright!

longtime
Like most fans of that era, I loved and despaired of Stringy in equal measure, he could be hugely frustrating to watch, skinning a couple of defenders, then running the ball out of play. He did score quite a few though as you say, especially when they played him as a centre forward in 68.

'come on without, come on within,
you'll not see nothing like the mighty String'

Graham Cross, aka the tank. They don't make them like him anymore. As you say, he'd make the grade now, no problem, though he'd probably be dwarfed by some modern CBs.

downsouf
what's that about you telling WHU fans to flack off?

Thats my first team of the sixtys but for some reason Jackie passed me by as did Goodfellow, but the rest are indelibly etched in my Memory.
Banks, Rodrigues, Norman, Roberts, Sjoberg, Cross, Sinclair, Goodfellow, Dougan, Gibson, Stringfellow.

Stringy our first supersub, of course uncle Derek and the Boss Gibo, Roberts and Rodrigues couls we do with them. Banks the best keeper in the world and good man with it. But fro me my name sake Graham Cross ticks all the boxes and prison sacks. the last man to play for LCFC and LCCC at the same time. how i remembered him being carried around at his testimonial.

Nev: Cross was a decent all rounder for the county, from what I remember, rather better than his stats would suggest, especially given LCCC were the perennial punchbags of the Championship in the 60s (until Tony Lock).

A bit later (late 70s) when LCCC were a force to be reckoned with, Chris Balderstone was opening for them and playing for Carlisle Utd.

Must be amazing to be professional standard at two sports.

Vulpesy-although I have some roots in Leicester, I 'ploughed a lonely furrow' with a blue-and-white scarf amongst hundreds of clarets.

How rude of me not to mention it...

A Happy Birthday to you Jobsy. I guess the first round is on you

I've come late to this party but reading all the posts has brought back many memories of the 60s players and have to agree with Nev on Graham Cross - easily gets into my all-time top 10 of players to have worn the City shirt. And Davie Gibson - what could he have done with today's lightweight ball on the carpets they play on today? He could do magical things with the old heavyweight leather ball on the muddy, grassless pitches - what a footballer!! So sad to hear about Gordon Banks' battle with kidney cancer - hope he'll get over it.

gally – you're dead right about Davie Gibson, only reason I didn't mention him is that I'm always banging on about him on here at every opportunity!

I didn't know about Banks until Nev mentioned his illness, hope he recovers.

Gibbo handed out the boys wages and held the ball up on his own.
Remember going in the changing room after the game with Uncle Derek and all the players where in the communal bath except Banks who was having a long soak on his own. I was more impressed with the crates of Hoyes lemonade and orangeade than anything else.

Balderstone coached a friend of mine said he was the best bloke he ever met.

Vulpesy-I realise this is a year on but I only found out a few weeks ago that Dominic 'Nick' Sharkey had very sadly passed away.

I vaguely remember him at Leicester for whom he only turned out on half-a-dozen occasions but he still managed to score 5 goals. The club then sold him on to Sunderland where he was prolific and something of a legend.

I can't find out City sold him after such a limited number of appearances.