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FAIRWELL TO FILBERT STREET
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FILBERT
STREET, LEICESTER
Date: 8 April
2002 | Kick-Off:
7.45pm
| Referee: P. Jones. Assistants: A. Green, G, Turner.
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THE MATCH PROGRAMME This is the first ever leicester v Celtic programme. The two clubs have never met before tonight's match. However, Leicester have a history of playing friendly matches against the Huns - 5 friendlies since 1894. The programme has 32 B5 pages, 9 are adverts and it cost £2. The front cover has a blue to green vertical fountain fill for a background, both club crests (Leicester's above Celtic's) in the middle of two action pictures of Matt Elliott and Neil Lennon side by side at the bottom of the page.
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Leicester City 0: Walker (Flowers 46); Heath, Elliott (Lyth 67), Sinclair, Davidson (Mortimer 76); Ashton, Savage, L Marshall (Sherman 74), Reeves; Piper (Wright 66), Deane (Stevenson 61). |
| Subs: Flowers, Price, Williamson, Deen, Lyth, Mortimer, Sherman, Wright, Stevenson. |
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Glasgow Celtic 1 : Douglas (Gould 62); Mjallby (Wieghorst 46), Boyd, Crainey; McNamara (Smith 62), Lennon (Petrov 46), Moravcik (Maloney 62), Thompson, Guppy (Petta 46); Larsson (Lynch 62), Hartson (Sylla 46). |
| Subs: Gould, Wieghorst, Smith, Petrov, Petta, Lynch, Maloney, Sylla. |
| Scorer: Hartson (10). |
Man of the Match: Lubo Moravcik
ran the show in the first half.
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THE BACK COVER
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| THE MATCH TICKET |
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THE LAST MATCH AT FILBERT STREET One month after the match against Celtic, Leicester City played for the last time at their Filbert Street ground. They had been playing there since 1891 but a new era awaited them just 400 yards away from the old ground at the brand new Walker Stadium. The last match was against Tottenham Hotspur on 11th of May 2003 and a 100 page souvenir programme commemorating the 111years of football at the Foxes' famous ground was published to celebrate the occassion. On the night of the match against Celtic, advertising leaflets (front and back displayed below) were handed out about the special programme that would be published for City's last match at Filbert Street. By posting the leaflet back with an order for the programme, you get your name printed in a fans' Roll of Honour to be included in the programme. As you would expect, 99.9% of Celtic fans were not interested, throwing the leaflet on the ground like so many Rangers scarves after the Mo Johnston signing. However, being a total anorak, I saved one of the leaflets and thought I would add my name to the list. The idea was that you would name your best ever match attended at the old ground with your order and that would be included with your name. I filled in the form, named the friendly match between the two clubs as my favourite ever City match, ordered two copies at £5 each and posted it away. They arrived. The programme is an excellent issue and
one that every City collector will want to have but the first thing
that I noticed was the small photograph of Martin O'God (when he was
City's Manager) in his famous leap pose, celebrating a goal for his
team. It's a great sight and one we hope to see many times in the future.
Next, I looked for my name in the list. Each copy of the ordered programme,
has a personalise number on the inside of the front cover corresponding
to when the application was returned and your name appeared in the list
in that order. There it was on page 64. I was 705 in a total of 1581
that replied.
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