An almost perfect end to the 2021/22 season for Leicester City after beating Southampton 4-1 on Filbert Way, with goals coming from James Maddison, Jamie Vardy and two for Ayoze Perez. However, Youri Tielemans gave away a penalty in the second half, allowing Southampton to get a goal back through James Ward-Prowse and denying a clean sheet for the Foxes on the final game of the season.
Alan Birchenall’s 40th and final run for Leicester City
I can’t believe today’s game was ‘Birchy’s’ final effort, having seen him running round the pitch for my 16 years of being a Leicester fan, it will feel odd not seeing him on the final matchday anymore. Even the East Midlands side’s chairman Khun Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha joined in.
Hopefully, this tradition will carry on and someone else will takeover as it’s something unique to our club and as many of us have grown up with the gesture. It would be so strange for the run to no longer continue. Maybe a former player will carry on this tradition, potentially Wes Morgan?
No one has learnt not to sing about Jamie Vardy’s wife
Opposition fans still haven’t learnt from previous occasions, don’t sing about Rebekah Vardy and not expect Vardy to score. I’ll be honest I will never understand it, unless they want him to score, I don’t know the stats of how many times he’s scored since opposition fans have sang about his wife, but I’m pretty sure he’s scored almost every time.
I absolutely loved the way the Blue Army responded to the Southampton fan’s chants of “your wife is a grass” and “(Wayne )Rooney” with chants such as the obligatory “he’s won more than you” and classic Jamie Vardy chant of “Jamie Vardy’s having a party” it certainly raised the atmosphere and somewhat improved it.
The way Vardy ran towards the Southampton fans when he scored, oh it’s just something you absolutely love to see, peak Jamie Vardy giving the opposition fans grief because of what they sang, he just thrives off it. However, he was very clever about it as he didn’t run all the way to the fans, because if he did I bet Jonathan Moss would’ve booked him, but you know damn well if he’d of scored in the first half in front of the family stand there would be no doubt about it that he’d head straight for that corner flag in front of the away end.
Feeling emotional
The final game of the season left me feeling emotional, what am I going to do until August without my weekly fix of football?! I didn’t expect to feel the way I did when we left the King Power Stadium this evening. I will certainly miss the midweek European nights but at least our fixture list will be less congested. Not to mention that LCFC can really focus on the league and who knows where we will finish next season.
A season full of European games, fa cup heartbreak and away days, an unforgettable season for me but this year more so on a more personal note. Being able to take my dad to European games and away days this season has filled my heart with so much joy, being able to give back to the man who sparked the love of football in my heart it’s just something else.
To my other biggest supporter, thank you for putting up with my non-stop chat about football and articles, and even coming to a few games when you can and I hope I’m doing all of you so proud.
But also being able to write about the sport I love so much, from my debut article in March up to now I have loved every second of writing for Foxes of Leicester and currently being the only female contributor fills me with so much pride, I hope my passion for this beautiful game shines through in my articles and I can’t wait to do it all again next season.
Finally, if you’ve managed to read this far, thank you. And I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these articles as much as I have writing them.