Some Leicester City fans have been reacting to a tweet that was recently posted by the club’s official Twitter account, sharing footage of a classic Leicester City hat-trick which was scored by their former centre-forward Steve Howard.
Howard scored six goals in 21 Championship appearances for the Foxes during the 2007/08 season, after joining Leicester City from Derby County for a transfer fee of £2.03m in January 2008.
Howard’s signing wasn’t enough to keep Leicester City in the Championship that season, as the Foxes were relegated to League One at the end of the 2007/08 campaign, after finishing in 22nd place on the Championship table.
Despite ultimately suffering relegation to League One that season, Leicester’s January signing Howard may have managed to provide some Foxes fans with at least one positive memory of the 2007/08 season, as he scored a hat-trick to help Leicester earn a 4-1 victory over West Brom at The Hawthorns.
Leicester City’s official Twitter account recently posted footage of this classic Howard hat-trick, which has got some Foxes supporters talking. Read the reactions of some Leicester supporters to Howard’s classic 2007/08 hat-trick at The Hawthorns in the tweets below.
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— Leicester City (@LCFC) March 15, 2020
This is right up there with the most baffling scoreline I’ve seen from us
— DT (@Dan_Turner_93) March 15, 2020
Was at that one too ? still got relegated ?
— Al (@AlSpreckley) March 15, 2020
This result tricked us into thinking that we’d be fine, that we could avoid relegation 🙁
— Dan Brown (@mediocre_dan) March 15, 2020
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Top man. That goal at home to Leeds in League One ?
— Chris Shaw (@Wolfy_CES) March 15, 2020
First away victory I saw live & one of my cult @LCFC hero’s ?
— // c o u l s o n // (@ZNC1993) March 15, 2020
@Kiezza_WBA_2k12 was on about this the other day at work ??
— Craig. (@Craig_LCFC) March 15, 2020
What do we think?
While the memory of Howard’s hat-trick at The Hawthorns may be unlikely to make up for the painful memory which may be shared by many Leicester supporters of their 2007/08 relegation from the Championship, it might be fair to say that Howard’s hat-trick and Leicester’s 4-1 win over West Brom may have given Foxes supporters some hope, for a period, that they may have managed to avoid the drop during the 2007/08 season.
It may be understandable for some Leicester supporters to have positive memories of this hat-trick, considering it may have provided a bright spark in an otherwise negative campaign.