This was it then. The real deal! No more dress rehersals, no more stage fright, no more excuses. Only three points and hitting the ground running would do for our first year in the third tier. Couldn't have been a much tougher prospect though as we would be pitting our wits against an MK Dons side very much on a high after their promotion and cup winning season of 2007/08.
Heavy rain greeted us as we left home and headed to the Walkers Stadium - hopefully not a sense of pathetic fallasy of how the day would turn out. As is tradition with home games, I made my way to the kop first to greet Helen and get the pre game insults in. Heading into the concourse, I was greeted with a site for sore eyes - Leicester fans who have accepted the challenge of sticking with the team through thick and thin.
By no means a full stadium but with kick off 5 minutes away, the place was filling up nicely and soon it felt like we'd never been away from the place. Was it really 3 months ago that Hume missed that penalty ensuring defeat against Sheffield Wednesday and leaving us feeling so depressed??
Those feelings have hopefully departed the stadium now and that chapter of Leicester City's history has been firmly closed and hopefully will not be re-opened any time soon.... although after the latest signing, who can say what will happen. Enter a certain Mr Dickov. Last seen leaving the Walkers Stadium for pastures new in 2004 and promptly scoring winners against us for Blackburn and Blackpool. Now he was back and the fans were ready to embrace him once more as the old friend lost to us. In fact some fans hadn't wasted any time at all....
And so to the game. Not much to report on that really. Leicester started brightly and pretty much set up camp in the MK Dons half without actually looking too much like scoring.... or that seemed the case until a mazy run from Fryatt saw him chopped down in the box and the referee instantly pointed to the spot. Could our luck finally be turning this season?
Possibly so as Fryatt cooly dispatched the penalty and from then on we rarely looked like losing our lead. Dickov was brought on to an incredible reception from the forgiven fans and the MK Dons left back is still looking for some new shorts after Max Gradel kept ripping them down around his ankles whenever they tried to tackle in. Mesmorising stuff from the young man and has already brought about the first quote of the season: "I'm going gay for Gradel." Classic.
His skill and trickery created a second opportunity for Fryatt late on and he didn't disappoint to send us home happy with a 2-0 win over a team who could well be up there come the end of the season. And to top it off, we must be the only team in the country to have a 100% record in league one..... good times!
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