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Last one out, turn off the lights...(14/05/02)


A lot of grown men & women were in tears last night as we all stood and watched 111 years of history come to a close at Filbert Street.

A Lenny Glover team took on an Alan Birchenall team in a City Legends game, followed by the current City players taking on Gary McAllister's ex-Leicester City allstars team.

The likes of Tony Cottee, Stan Collymore, Gary Parker, Julian Joachim and Sooper Stevie Claridge showed they could still hack it.

Goal of the night though went to the original "Ooh Tommy Wright" in the legends game.

The East stand and Micky Adams started the wave and 15,000 enjoyed themselves at Filbo for the last time.

The second game fittingly ended with Steve Walsh giving a penalty away in the last minute, with Leicester ref Peter Jones (who's also retiring) deciding Walshy could take it instead. He had it saved! Jonesy said the keeper moved and let him have another go, with Walshy blasting it home for the game to be a 3-3 draw and the final whistle go.

Over 100 ex-City players were dragged out onto the pitch including Pontus Kaamark,Neil Lennon, Shilts, Tony James, John Sjoberg, and of course Frankie Worthington.

15,000 fans linked arms and sang Auld Lang Syne as fireworks went off on the pitch and slowly the Filbert Street floodlights were turned off in stages until the last one went off.

Just the scoreboard remained shining brightly spelling out "Farewell to Filbert Street"...with lots of the parts missing just as it always does.

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Mr Leicester City, Steve Walsh, scored the last ever goal at Filbo.

 
 
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