The City fans also settled into quiet resignation that a rubbish nil-nil may be on the cards too and the atmosphere was, as it often is at the new stadium, lacking, to say the least. Doom and gloom descended and City fans got frustrated as the game wore on. The only thing to look forward too was if Trevor Francis dared to to put Akinbiyi on or not. Most City fans were torn between wanting a laugh, and worrying that the git would score against us.

Walker was forced to save as early as the 8th minute and was the busiest of the two keepers in the first half. Don't think there was a shot on target for he first 20 minutes or so. 1st division football really can be quite dire. As usual we were left thanking someone somewhere that the opposition yet again were bloody rubbish.

Big Trev was having no impact at all and Micky changed things round sticking Tricky Trev out on the left and bringing Scowy in to try and win some headers. Scowy played a blinder and ran around like a good un and went for every ball. At one point Mad Frank went up into midfield, (which was good for those of us with a quid on him to score first) and a relief to most City fans as he was having an absolute nightmare of a game at right back. He couldn't do a thing right.

City fans howled in frustration 8 minutes before half time when at last City started to put pressure on but a golden chance was blown as Scowy nutted a free header straight at the keeper.

4 minutes of injury time for the first half was agonising as it went on and on for about six minutes with goalmouth scrambles in front of the Kop. How City didn't score is anyone's guess.

Half time saw a presentation of £1100 to the Foxes Trust from the Dog & Gun pub who had held a Q&A session with Birch, Micky and Corky. Not a bad amount raised.

The second half didn't show any signs of anything different happening, (other than someone got frogmarched out of the West Stand which was unusual) and City fans started yelling more and more abuse. Micky decided enough was enough and made changes. Matt Jones came on for Matt Heath and went to right back, with Mad Frank moving into central defence, and Big Trev made way for young Tommy Wright.

City started to make more chances and be a bit more creative. And then a masterstroke...a scoreflash came up on the scoreboard.

This hasn't been done before...but as the 27000 people saw that Sheff Utd had gone 1-0 down to Millwall a huge roar went up and the atmosphere suddenly changed. Everyone urged City on and the players responded.

A great ball in from Matt Jones found Jamie Scowcroft running into the box. Blocked by the defender, Scowy got the ball back out to Jones who had followed in. He tripped over the ball and confused the defender, managed to toe poke it across to Dickov who somehow collected before a defender did. Dickov took the ball, turned and curled a wonderful left-footed shot into the back of the net from 20 yards out.

The stadium erupted with relief. E I E I E I O started up.

Francis decided we needed a laugh and put Ade on for the last 15 minutes. Those who thought he may get a sympathetic reception couldn't have been more wrong. The boos rang out loud and clear and the poor guy was jeered onto the pitch. Unfair perhaps...but rather amusing. His new long hair bounced around but couldn't cover up the fact it was still Ade...he did naff all!

Within minutes of his appearance Matt Jones took him out and left him rolling round the floor in a ball in agony. "What a waste of money" sang the Leicester fans.

He managed to carry on but needless to say did absolutley nothing for the rest of the game, other than get a slap in the face in the penalty box from one of our defenders to the hoots of laughter from the Kop.

Adams pulled Dickov off in the 90th so that he could get his well deserved standing ovation. Ran his arse off again for us. And how nice is it to have a Leicester player in the top goalscorers list for the division for a change? Corky must be doing something right on the training ground. (Although Big Trev's probably beyond help)

Favourite Dickov moment of the game was when he got taken out and bounced straight back up to have handbags with the Palace player. But he was so injured he was facing up to the guy standing on one leg (check out the photo on the official site!) and then fell over again. A foot shorter and one legged and my money would have still been on him to win the fight though!

The Sheff Utd result flashed up. We cheered. The final whistle went. We cheered.

Man of the match? Difficult one. Dickov great as ever. Scowy played a blinder, and Walker kept us in the game.

Need to up the tempo big style against Pompey in a couple of weeks though. This performance wasn't really good enough...

Elliott gets up for a corner	Tricky Trev notices the offside flag...again
He's back! Ade and his new haircut	Jonesy takes him out after a few minutes