LEICESTER City fans have been put through the mixer a fair bit the last few seasons, having to endure administration, relegation and even a strike force led by Adi Akinbiyi. Today in 2006 another dodgy character came onto the scene as Milan Mandaric bid to take over the Foxes.

Mild-mannered Mandaric had been out of football for a year since selling up at Pompey to Alexandre Gaydamak. His time on the south coast had been turbulent, as after winning promotion to the Premiership he irked off manager Harry Redknapp by bringing in a director of football, Velimir Zajec, causing ‘Arry to hotfoot it down the road to Southampton.

Redknapp would eventually come back to Fratton Park and as soon as Mandaric and his squabbling ways left the club they would enjoy their best-ever Premiership finish and pick up last season’s FA Cup.

Mandaric obviously decided he needed someone else to annoy. After lodging a £25m bid for Leicester he eventually took over in February 2007 and set about shaking things up.

It took him a month to sack manager Rob Kelly and bring in Nigel Worthington for the remaining five games of the 2006/07 season. The two of them failed to click though and Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Allen was brought in. With a nickname like that it wasn’t going to take long for them to fall out and by August Allen was on the scrapheap licking his wounds.

Gaffer number four of 2007 was Gary Megson who only hung around for six weeks as Bolton surprised the world of football and gave the ‘ginger Mourinho’ another shot in the Premier League. In November chipper ol’ Ian Holloway joined the cause and he would somehow manage to ride it out for the whole season.

As is normally the case when a chairman is so trigger happy, Leicester failed to gather any momentum on the pitch that season and despite Ollie’s best efforts, were relegated to League One, their lowest ever position. Holloway left the club by mutual consent (pull the other one Milan) and they now have Nigel Pearson in the dugout as they try and dig their way out of Madaric’s mess.

If you managed to keep up with Milan’s merry managerial merri-go-round, then check out this compilation of some of the Foxes’ finest goals and also check out which way the footballing planets were aligned today here. Unless we go leaving any untoward answerphone messages we’ll be right back atcha tomorrow, so see you then.

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