To celebrate the 100th year of league football an independent panel selected 100 legendary football players who have played in any of the football leagues in the past.
Amongst the players selected were legends such as; Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst and then modern day greats such as; Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel. The reason I am telling you this is because amongst the 100 all time greats were five players who have played for Leicester City.
Now you're frantically thinking well I wonder who they can be, well I can help you, none of them have played in the last 20 years. Out of the five players two are goalkeepers, two are strikers and one is a midfield player turned defender. Another clue for those curious, one of the strikers is certainly not Ade Akinbiyi and the midfielder turned defender is not Frank Sinclair!
The two goalkeepers I would hope you all guessed straight away, and they are of course Gordon Banks and his apprentice Peter Shilton. Gordon Banks is the only English goalkeeper to have ever won a World Cup medal but both keepers are among the best England have ever produced.
Now for the midfielder turned defender, he started his career at Leicester City and played for us for seven years, and he is the Scottish International Frank McLintock. During his time at Leicester his honors included one League Cup trophy and two FA Cup runners up medals.
One of the two strikers is still the all-time record holder as the most prolific striker in football league history, having scored 434 goals in 619 games. He also scored 44 goals in one season for Leicester, more than any other player before or after him and he is the great Arthur Rowley.
The fifth and final player to make his name on the list is Leicester's best loved son, who went his entire career having never received a booking. He made 80 caps for England and scored 48 goals, and this is of course the living legend that is Gark Lineker.
So there we have it, five Leicester players are deemed to have been among the 100 legends to have ever graced the English football league, and they were: Banks, Shilton, McLintock, Rowley and Lineker.
Amongst the players selected were legends such as; Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst and then modern day greats such as; Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel. The reason I am telling you this is because amongst the 100 all time greats were five players who have played for Leicester City.
Now you're frantically thinking well I wonder who they can be, well I can help you, none of them have played in the last 20 years. Out of the five players two are goalkeepers, two are strikers and one is a midfield player turned defender. Another clue for those curious, one of the strikers is certainly not Ade Akinbiyi and the midfielder turned defender is not Frank Sinclair!
The two goalkeepers I would hope you all guessed straight away, and they are of course Gordon Banks and his apprentice Peter Shilton. Gordon Banks is the only English goalkeeper to have ever won a World Cup medal but both keepers are among the best England have ever produced.
Now for the midfielder turned defender, he started his career at Leicester City and played for us for seven years, and he is the Scottish International Frank McLintock. During his time at Leicester his honors included one League Cup trophy and two FA Cup runners up medals.
One of the two strikers is still the all-time record holder as the most prolific striker in football league history, having scored 434 goals in 619 games. He also scored 44 goals in one season for Leicester, more than any other player before or after him and he is the great Arthur Rowley.
The fifth and final player to make his name on the list is Leicester's best loved son, who went his entire career having never received a booking. He made 80 caps for England and scored 48 goals, and this is of course the living legend that is Gark Lineker.
So there we have it, five Leicester players are deemed to have been among the 100 legends to have ever graced the English football league, and they were: Banks, Shilton, McLintock, Rowley and Lineker.
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