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  .. Review Round-up (19/08/01)  
 


Here's some snippets of some of the reports and comments about yesterdays 5-0 thrashing by Premiership new boys, Bolton...

Newly promoted Bolton Wanderers ripped up the form book to thrash Leicester City 5-0 and kick off the English Premiership season with a bang on Saturday. Bolton - odds on favourites to finish this season relegated back into the First Division - tore one-time England manager Peter Taylor's woeful Foxes to shreds at Filbert Street.

The result was a nightmare start to the season for Taylor, who finished last year under pressure after a dismal form slump. (DailySoccer.com)

But highlight of the day came at Filbert Street where manager Peter Taylor must be wondering what hit him after Premiership newcomers Bolton ran home five unanswered goals against the Foxes.(Soccer.com)

It took Bolton Wanderers 10 minutes to get used to the fact that they were back in the Premiership and that the side who they had been lucky enough to get for their first game were as poor as anything they have met in the First Division. But once they had made that discovery they started scoring goals with almost embarrassing ease. (The Observer)

City got the season off to an utterly disastrous start with a 5-0 defeat at home to Premiership new-boys Bolton Wanderers. Peter Taylor's side picked up where they left off with a defeat that offered no consolation whatsoever…Frandsen found the top right hand corner with a 25 yard free-kick which sparked a rush for the exits by thousands of disgruntled home fans.

'Taylor Out!' rang out from the Kop and other areas of the ground as both teams played out time, with the biggest cheer of the day reserved for the introduction of old favourite Ian Marshall. Where do we go from here?

This display was so awful that serious concerns must be raised as to City's Premiership future even at this stage of the season.(The Fox)

THE ACCUSED: Peter Taylor
SCENE OF THE CRIME: Filbert Street
THE OFFENCE: Impersonating a football manager.

Astonishingly, it wasn't until 18 minutes into the second half that the chants of "Taylor out!" were heard ringing around Filbert Street. By that time, we were 4-0 down to the side who were by far everybody's hot tip for relegation.

As the players came out for the second half, Peter Taylor demonstrated the kind of tactical acumen that makes me feel his time is up at Filbert Street. He took off the two strikers Sturridge and Akinbiyi (who hadn't exactly had a great deal of service) as well as a defender, Callum Davidson.

The were replaced by Arnie Gunnlaugsson, Lee Marshall and Junior Lewis. Lewis went into defence, as did Marshall. Elliott went up front alongside Arnie!!!! Sitting on the bench was Trevor Benjamin, the £1 million striker from Cambridge.

Lewis was signed for £50,000 from Gillingham, and looks to be worth every penny. Not a penny more, however, as he's so out of his depth in the Premiership, you'd need a submarine to find him. Completely and utterly dreadful would be a kind way to describe his performance. (from the terrace)

Before this match, which was historic in that it was the opening match of our last season at Filbert Street, we had dancing girls, a steel band, flowers and fireworks but somehow I could not get excited I felt an uneasiness like I have never felt at this juncture of an opening season in all my time watching Leicester City, which is something I have done since the 1950's.

After the game it was all drizzle, despair and depression but sadly it matched my pre - match uneasiness a feeling I suspect I will wallow in until Peter Taylor is finally drummed out of time.

Leicester City looked flabby, overweight, unfit, dull, slow, below standard....in fact quite awful so it was no surprise that they turned in the worst performance I have ever seen from our boys in Royal Blue. It was absolutely pathetic, the team should be ashamed of themselves and the management should take full responsibility, do the decent thing and stand aside to let people with ability take over ....... Taylor should go and go now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and take his Division 1 Players with him (Gilbert the Filbert)

Peter Taylor's Leicester City have been humiliated on the opening day of the season - losing 5-0 to relegation favourites Bolton. Is this where the Taylor bubble finally bursts? The odds on Leicester City's Peter Taylor becoming the first managerial casualty of the new season shortened considerably on Saturday as the Foxes were thrashed 5-0 at home by relegation favourites Bolton.

Is Peter Taylor on his way out at Leicester City? Will the Foxes turn it round if they don't panic - or have Taylor's disastrous buys sealed their manager's own fate with only a week of the season gone? (Football365)

Talk of Europe and the new signings improving on a squad which had many of last season's injured casualties returning, seemed very far fetched by half time as City's best team were demolished by a bunch of players who were Nationwide last season…

Plenty of calls for Taylor to leave already, the feeling maybe he won't have long for the axe will fall. We have been tipped to go down with Bolton by most pundits this season, on this performance one of will definetly be down by Christmas. Lets just say this is gonna be a very long season. (Totally Foxed)

Flowers was left exposed time and time again, enraging home fans who ended the match chanting for the head of under-pressure manager Peter Taylor. (Soccernet)

LEICESTER were booed off as new boys Bolton got off to a fairytale start on their Premiership return...This humbling was too much for Leicester fans, who demanded that boss Peter Taylor be sacked and chanted ‘Taylor out'...

It was a nightmare for the Foxes and even former Leicester star Alan Birchenall, now the club's public relations official, had blasted Leicester's performance at half-time. He took his microphone and told fans:

"I'm not usually speechless but what a way to start a season.

"I hope the second half is better than that because that was absolute c**p. The players know they were c**p for 45 minutes." (News of the World)

Doubles from outstanding Dane Per Frandsen and brilliant 19-year-old prospect Kevin Nolan plus a Michael Ricketts pile-driver left Leicester boss Peter Taylor punch drunk and humiliated. LEICESTER: Flowers 4 - Sinclair 5, Elliott 6, Rowett 5, Davidson 5 (Lewis 45mins, 6) - *IMPEY 7, Savage 5, Wise 5, Izzet 6 - Akinbiyi 5 (Gunnlaugsson 45mins, 5), Sturridge 5 (Marshall 45mins, 5). (Sunday People)

Leicester City boss Peter Taylor was stunned by the opening day 0-5 thrashing by Premiership new side Bolton - insisting "I'm shocked." Taylor, who faced criticism for Leicester's demise in fortunes at the tail end of last season, immediately found himself facing more questioning after Bolton tore his side to pieces with four goals before the interval. (Football News)

Bolton created the first shock of this season's Premiership by crushing Leicester City at Filbert Street. The result left Leicester reeling, with manager Peter Taylor suffering calls for his head on the first day of the season. ...Leicester had their share of possession but did little with it ...The Foxes, meanwhile, left the field with their tails between their legs to the sound of booing from their supporters. (BBC)

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