They may not have won anything other than the Charity Shield during the decade, but the City side of the seventies is still widely regarded as the greatest ever seen at Filbert Street. Perhaps it was the flambouyance of a team that included Frank 'Elvis' Worthington, or the undoubted skill of Lenny Glover; the boundless enthusiasm of Alan Birchenall or the sublime talents of Keith Weller? Jimmy Bloomfied assembled a side that simply entertained - in a decade that began with the sublime talent of Peter Shilton keeper the opposition at bay and ended with the emergence of a supreme strikeforce of Gary Lineker and Alan Smith under that canny Scot, Jock Wallace. Included are some of Leicester's finest performances from sone of Leicester finest ever players, from an era when a match against City put a smile on every fans face, whoever they supported.
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