Both Matt Elliott and Gerry Taggart have been included in OPTA's team of the year for 2000/2001.

Elliott got a staggering 874 points while Gerry managed to amass even more and ended up with 903. You can see who else made the team by going to Planet Football.com.

But in the meantime here is what Opta have to say about our boys.

Matt Elliott
When Leicester briefly topped the table at the start of the 2000-01 season it was more attributable to stringent defending than goal scoring feats, and captain Matt Elliott played a pivotal role. The Foxes maintained six clean sheets inside the opening eight games and Elliott typically led by example. By the season's end, only Southampton defender Claus Lundekvam had made more blocks than the imposing centre-half and with his no-nonsense style, the Scottish international also slogged 366 balls away from the danger area.

Opta points score: 874

Gerry Taggart

Ulsterman Gerry Taggart follows team-mate Matt Elliott into Opta's best of British team of the season, despite enduring a season of interruption due to injury. It is no coincidence that the Foxes lost ten of the fourteen games that Taggart watched from the sidelines and they greatly missed his assured presence at the heart of the defence. When he did don the blue shirt, Taggart completed more than a century of headed clearances and lunged to make 11 vital interceptions. It is doubtful whether Leicester's late league slump would have been quite so dramatic had he remained fit for longer spells.

Opta points score: 903

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