Leicester City F.C.: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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Leicester City F.C., nicknamed the "Foxes", are an English football team. They played in the Premiership but were relegated to the Football League Championship at the end of the 2003/2004 season. They play at the Walkers Stadium, Leicester. Their manager is Micky Adams.

History of Leicester City

The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse because it played on a field by the Fosse Road. Before moving to Filbert Street in 1891, the club played at five different grounds. The club joined the Football Association in 1890. In 1894, it was elected to Division Two. The first ever league game was a 4-3 defeat at Grimsby, but a week later at Filbert Street the club recorded its first league win against Rotherham. In 1908 the club finished in second place in Division Two and were promoted to Division One for the first time, but the club was relegated at the end of the season.

In 1919, due to financial problems, Leicester Fosse ceased to exist and the club became Leicester City Football Club.

Throughout the twentieth century and until 1995 the club bounced between the top two divisions, never achieving great success. They reached the FA Cup final on four occasions and the League Cup in 1964

Under the management of Martin O'Neill from 1995 to 2000 the club was at its most successful in recent years, gaining promotion to the Premiership in O'Neill's first season and finished in the top half of the table in every season. The club won the League Cup twice with Martin O'Neill in 1997 and 2000.

Peter Taylor was appointed manager of the club after O'Neill's deparature, but after an excellent start to the 2000/2001 season, the club being top of the Premiership in October 2001 the club lost all the 10 final games, finishing 13th. The next season was worse, despite Tayor's huge spending on new players he was sacked after the team's form failed to improve and the club looked like being relegated. Dave Bassett took over with Micky Adams as him assistant manager. Adams took over four games before the end of the season, managing to get 3 draws and a win on the last day of the season but it was not enough to stop the club being relegated.

The team moved to their current stadium, the Walkers Stadium in 2002 from their longtime home at Filbert Street. Following relegation to the First Division the club had to go into administration in October 2002. Debts caused by the cost of the stadium, heavy spending by sacked manager Peter Taylor were exacerbated by the collapse of the ITV Digital deal. In February 2003, the club was taken over by a consortium led by Gary Lineker. Adams remained the manager and the club finished in second place in the First Division and returned to the Premiership in the following season, (2003/2004), but were relegated at the end of the season.

In March 2004, three players were charged for 'sexual aggression', on suspicion of sexually assualting three women in a hotel in La Manga, Spain. They were there with the rest of the team at a training camp. The charges were later dropped as it emerged the womens' stories claiming they had been sexually assaulted were complete fabrications.

City have produced a number of internationally famous players, including England goalkeepers Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton, Gary Lineker, and the current England international Emile Heskey.

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