Callum Davidson got a huge ovation and even his own chant for the first time (To the same tune as the Matt Elliott chant). And lots of chants about Dennis Wise not being particularly popular, which got a round of applause fom the 2,500 Gills fans up in the North East corner.

Before the game got going, the Internet Foxes got a mention over the PA thanks to Birchy, and their 5-1 win against the InterGills was announced. FFS even got a sneaky plug in for free!

City lined up with Former Gills player Junior Lewis keeping his place against his former club. FFS was extolling his praises and how he'd be up for it and how he'd score. Nah, said the bloke next to us. They'll know too much about him and he won't score until hell freezes over.

Eleven minutes later said bloke acknowledged that they may be having some funny weather in hell at the moment as Junior bundled in a goal somehow off his (peanut) head to make it 1-0 to the Foxes. A feature in the programme tells of several of Junior's nicknames over the years. As well as Bambi and Flip Flop, he was also apparently called Peanuthead, Giraffe, Pterodactyl, Coral foot and Mr Bunion.

He spent most of the game living up to most of them, lolloping around clumsily. But effectively. He held the ball up, pased it around and did what he had to do all game. Didn't manage to fall over his own feet too much this week or tackle himself as usual and only gave the ball away about once. An all round good performance by Junior and the fans reacted well to him, chanting his name, singing "Junior for England" and clapping enthusiastically whenever he did something good. Man of the match stuff?

But then all the players played much better today. Muzzy Izzet was outstanding showing real skill and creating real chances early in the game. Dickov ran like a madman as usual chasing down the goalie and harrassing defenders to force errors. Scowy and Deane were effective in the air and holding the ball up. There was more passing and less hoofing and Impey was looking back on form. Taggs and Elliott solid as rocks at the back, with Walker practically nothing to do all game.

Gillingham never looked like scoring and weren't helped by an over zealous ref who gave many decisions Leicester's way. Any time they did get near shooting they wellied wide and high to laughs and chants of "Ade, Ade" from the City fans.

Gills player / manager Andy Hessenthaler got more and more ratty as the game wore on and he and two teammates picked up uneccessary yellow cards in a game that wasn't particularly dirty (apart from one incident where Andrew Impey rolled around on the floor with ex-shagger Tommy Johnson and nearly came to blows).

City dominated the first half, and made it 2-0 after 42 minutes. Walker took a goal kick, it was flicked on by a Brian Deane header to fall for Paul Dickov. Dickov volleyed from over 20 yards out. Those of us in the South Stand watched in delight as we saw it curling towards goal and the goalie getting fingertips so close to it...but couldn't stop it. A beautiful goal. Can't wait to see it again and again on the highlights.

City were a different class even though we still had injuries and unfit players...but they were up for it today and were a millions times better and more positive than at Palace on Tuesday.

Half time came to thunderous applause from the stadium which was starting to get into the swing of things.

The Leicester Ladies U16 team came out to nearly as loud applause and chanting at half time to parade a superb cup they'd just won in Europe. They thrashed German team Montabaur 5-0 (a record) in the final. Nice one girls. And nice one to the Gills fans who applauded them loudly too.

Second half started well with Junior up for another goal. He unleashed an amazing shot, which was goalbound in the box, ten minutes into the second half. The shot was blocked by Deane who couldn't get out of the way - stopping a certain goal - and the ball ricocheted out and hit Scowy (who wasn't expecting it) on the head and City failed to capitalise.

Hessenthaler had made 2 subs at half time and Rod Wallace had come on up front for Gillingham. he didn't really make that much of an improvement, but at least forced one sort of save from Walker, which is more than Tommy Johnson managed all game. All Johnson got was a resounding chorus of "Derby reject" every time he failed to do anything of any note.

Adams felt confident enough to make some subs half way through the second half. Izzet was replaced (calf strain) by McKinlay who beavered away for the rest of the game. A few minutes later Deane (still recovering from injury) was given a rest and Trevor Diouf came on, and to huge applause a few minutes after that Callum Davidson made a welcome return for Jordan Stewart, allowing Rogers to push further forward and immediately look more effective.

That's when the fun really started. Despite Trev looking the part...Corky hasn't quite managed to turn him into a lean mean scoring machine just yet. When he wasn't on the floor a la Heskey, he did manage to win some headers and flick things on, and also managed to control the ball. But when it came to shooting...He missed a hat-trick, bless him.

Now at 2-0 up it wasn't too hard to laugh about it. Let's face it...we had enough practice laughing at Ade. It would have been different had we been 1-0 down! On the plus side they were on target. It's just he managed to hit them all to the goalie.

A combination of Heskey and Akinbiyi is a scary thought. Keep practising the shooting Trev...

The fans started to enjoy the day even more though and got the wave going round the ground for the first time. A good win in front of a pretty packed house saw City go into 3rd place and look a class above a team that are up there challenging for a play off place.

Impey tries to keep the ball in	Leicester Ladies parade their Euro Cup

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