Minute by Minute: Leicester v PNE
Posted on: Wed 07 Jan 2009
Leicester City v Preston North End
Coca-Cola Championship
Tuesday 4th March, 7.45pm kick-off
Final Score: Leicester 0 PNE 1
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Full-Time: North End have had lady luck shine on them in the final exchanges of a game for a change. Top stuff.
90 +3 min: The keeper's up for one last assault on goal as Leicester are awarded a corner. And amazingly the ball's in the net, the keeper causing all sorts of confusion and the ball spins across the face of goal and is stuck in by Stearman at the far post. There's pandemoniam but...hang on a second...the officials have chalked it off once again!! The place is going crackers and they won't believe that they have had a hat-trick of goals denied them by the officials.
90 min: GOAL!!!! Unbelievable scenes here at the Walkers Stadium!!! Darren Carter might have just stolen the points for North End with an absolute belter. He danced around three markers and smashed a goal into the back of the net from about 30 yards out. It's a goal that must be seen to be believed! Wonderful stuff from the Yellows, truly heroic!!!!
82 min: St. Ledger is booked and Leicester have the ball in the back of the net again. But again it was ruled out for offside. It was from St. Ledger's trip that the free-kick was swung in from the left, Hayles rose to chest the ball into the path of Fryatt and he spun and slammed the ball home. The linesman's flag was flagging again and he makes himself even more unpopular with Mr Holloway.
78 min: A third and final change of the evening for Preston. Former Leicester boy Lewis Neal comes on for Simon Whaley. It means a tactical switch with Sedgwick moving to the right and Lewie operating on the left.
76 min: The Foxes have the ball in the back of the net!!! But it's ruled out for offside. It came after Hume was given the time and space to run at the PNE defence, he slipped the ball to Stearman who steamed past him on the overlap and Stearman hit a first time ball across the face of goal that Fryatt turned into the net. But whilst the Leicester fans were celebrating the referee had spotted the linesman's flag and ruled it out. We breath a sigh of relief.
70 min: The Foxes make two more changes. Steve Howard and DJ Campbell are replaced by Barry Hayles and Matty Fryatt, it's about time Holloway sent Fryatt on as the crowd have been cheering his name for the last 10 minutes.
65 min: The referee is being castigated by the home support. A long throw by Stearman lands at Mawene's feet in front of goal, the Frenchman nudges it back towards the keeper and Lonergan picks it up. Was it a back-pass? Not according to the referee and the crowd are furious.
63 min: Hill is booked for a challenge on Iain Hume down the right. It was six of one and half a dozen of the other as the grappling went on but the referee saw it differently
60 min: Ian Holloway decides to substitute his captain Clemence and sends on the youngster Joe Mattock into the fray. That means that Lee Hendrie moves into the centre of the park to try and influence play a bit more after marked out of the game by St. Ledger.
57 min: McKenna seems to have run his knock off, he sprinted and jumped to win the ball in the middle of the park with no worries.
54 min: The crowd is 19,264, the lowest league crowd of the season at the Walkers Stadium. Still there's plenty of noise from the North End fans to offer encouragement
51 min: PNE are deep in Leicester territory and they manage to get a strike at goal when Mellor volleys a hopeful ball into the box and it comes out to Carter who smashes one over the bar, high and wide.
48 min: Paul McKenna takes a heavy whack on the ankle as he pokes his leg at the ball and looks in some discomfort. We'll keep you up-to-date with his progress.
46 min: No changes for either side as the second half gets underway.
2050: Sorry folks, I've spent the half-time break warming my fingers up in my mandatory PNE gloves. Nothing at all happened.
45 min: We're now in injury time, of which there will be one minute according to the officials.
38 min: After that cheeky moment Beattie seems to have picked up an injury or a strain of some sorts and he's down on the touchline having a chat with the physio. He's not happy and when the Foxes win a corner Neil Mellor enters the fray to cut short what had been a promising debut for the striker.
36 min: A couple of cheeky moments from the Lilywhites. The first comes when PNE take a quick free-kick in their own half and pretend that they haven't taken it. St. Ledger saunters into the Leicester half and Leicester don't seem interested in tackling him, but the problem is that few of the Preston players seem aware that he's taken it either. The second piece of cheekiness comes when Beattie chases a ball into the corner and backheels the ball into the path of Chris Sedgwick who arriving from behind played an early cross to the near post, Brown and Kisnorbo challenge but the Aussie has it over the Brit on this occasion.
31 min: Well we wondering what Craig Beattie had about his game and we've just discovered he's got a bit of pace about him. Darren Carter launched a counter-attack down the Leicester left-flank and he sent Beattie away into space, the West Brom man had no worries reaching the ball and he cut inside his man before crossing the ball to the far post where Sean St. Ledger challenged for a header but referee Roger East spotted a foul. Don't know too much about Mr East, we know he's bald as a coot but we also know he doesn't really like to see to many aerial challenges on tonight's evidence.
27 min: It's gone a bit quiet. Very little to report in terms of action on the field but I will give a mention to the North End following's rather impressive 'Proud Preston' flag which is covering a large section of the Leicester seats.
16 min: Andy Lonergan is called into action as Matt Oakley almost gets a run on goal. The former Derby man slips as the ball is headed towards the Preston box but he still beats Matt Hill to the ball and Lonners is forced to come out to gather the ball as Hill, Oakley and the keeper look set to collide in a three-way smash.
13 min: North End have made the more positive start but Leicester have just given PNE's Yellows a couple of anxious moments. A couple of crosses being whipped in and the North End clearing headers falling to Leicester shirts in the box, but Preston hold firm with their blocking defence. Blocking defence is not an actual technical term but you know what I mean.
10 min: Suggestions that Leicester have an overweight fan from the North End faithful in the far corner.
7 min: One that is within shooting distance here for the Lilywhites. Whaley was manhandled on the edge of the Leicester box and the linesman flagged furiously, the referee awarded the free-kick but Carter's cross into the box was well cleared.
6 min: Andy Lonergan takes a free-kick midway into the North End half. Is this within shooting distance? Probably not as Kevin Pressman is not in goal.
3 min: The Leicester Tigers use this pitch occasionally and Simon Whaley did a great impression of a rugger player when his attempted cross-cum-shot quickly developed into a loping up-and-under.
1 min: The first minute of the game and Craig Beattie almost makes an unbelievable start to his North End career. The Scottish striker ran in behind the defence onto a Chris Sedgwick ball into the box, the Leicester defence was caught flat-footed and Beattie had a clear sight at goal. Paul Henderson did brilliantly to rush out and block the striker's effort which was goalbound.
1943: After my stint on the Whites World broadcast I'm back just in time for kick-off. You've not missed too much, just plenty of sweaty men running around trying to keep themselves warm, and that's just in the press-box.
1915: So a couple of changes to the side. Billy Jones is left out in favour of Sean St. Ledger and the new guy, Craig Beattie gets his chance to shine, only a few hours after meeting his new team-mates.
Leicester: Henderson, Stearman, Kisnorbo, N'Gotty, Clapham, Hume, Oakley, Clemence, Hendrie, Campbell, Howard. Subs: Hayles, Chambers, Fryatt, McAuley, Mattock.
PNE: Lonergan, St. Ledger, Mawene, Chilvers, Hill, Sedgwick, McKenna, Carter, Whaley, Brown, Beattie. Subs: Hawley, Jones, Lewis Neal, Chris Neal, Mellor.
1907: The press are treat amazingly well here at the Walkers. A £1 donation and all the food you can eat, it's like the great wedding buffets of old. Chicken Balti Pie went down very well indeed and apparently the Pizza Pods are also quite tasty, not really sure what a Pizza Pod involves, may have to investigate that one at half-time.
1858: So here we are at Leicester. When the media team set-off to the Walkers Stadium they were given a secret mission, to deliver a new kit and tracksuit to the team hotel on the outskirts of Leicester. Who was the player we were delivering this kit to? Were we tempted to look inside the bag and find out who we were signing? Of course not ;-) We soon found out though that it was Craig Beattie who was linking up with the Lilywhites. At this moment we don't actually know if he's in the side or not.
Coca-Cola Championship
Tuesday 4th March, 7.45pm kick-off
Final Score: Leicester 0 PNE 1
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Click here to listen to live commentary
Send a message to today's matchday team matchday@pne.com
Full-Time: North End have had lady luck shine on them in the final exchanges of a game for a change. Top stuff.
90 +3 min: The keeper's up for one last assault on goal as Leicester are awarded a corner. And amazingly the ball's in the net, the keeper causing all sorts of confusion and the ball spins across the face of goal and is stuck in by Stearman at the far post. There's pandemoniam but...hang on a second...the officials have chalked it off once again!! The place is going crackers and they won't believe that they have had a hat-trick of goals denied them by the officials.
90 min: GOAL!!!! Unbelievable scenes here at the Walkers Stadium!!! Darren Carter might have just stolen the points for North End with an absolute belter. He danced around three markers and smashed a goal into the back of the net from about 30 yards out. It's a goal that must be seen to be believed! Wonderful stuff from the Yellows, truly heroic!!!!
82 min: St. Ledger is booked and Leicester have the ball in the back of the net again. But again it was ruled out for offside. It was from St. Ledger's trip that the free-kick was swung in from the left, Hayles rose to chest the ball into the path of Fryatt and he spun and slammed the ball home. The linesman's flag was flagging again and he makes himself even more unpopular with Mr Holloway.
78 min: A third and final change of the evening for Preston. Former Leicester boy Lewis Neal comes on for Simon Whaley. It means a tactical switch with Sedgwick moving to the right and Lewie operating on the left.
76 min: The Foxes have the ball in the back of the net!!! But it's ruled out for offside. It came after Hume was given the time and space to run at the PNE defence, he slipped the ball to Stearman who steamed past him on the overlap and Stearman hit a first time ball across the face of goal that Fryatt turned into the net. But whilst the Leicester fans were celebrating the referee had spotted the linesman's flag and ruled it out. We breath a sigh of relief.
70 min: The Foxes make two more changes. Steve Howard and DJ Campbell are replaced by Barry Hayles and Matty Fryatt, it's about time Holloway sent Fryatt on as the crowd have been cheering his name for the last 10 minutes.
65 min: The referee is being castigated by the home support. A long throw by Stearman lands at Mawene's feet in front of goal, the Frenchman nudges it back towards the keeper and Lonergan picks it up. Was it a back-pass? Not according to the referee and the crowd are furious.
63 min: Hill is booked for a challenge on Iain Hume down the right. It was six of one and half a dozen of the other as the grappling went on but the referee saw it differently
60 min: Ian Holloway decides to substitute his captain Clemence and sends on the youngster Joe Mattock into the fray. That means that Lee Hendrie moves into the centre of the park to try and influence play a bit more after marked out of the game by St. Ledger.
57 min: McKenna seems to have run his knock off, he sprinted and jumped to win the ball in the middle of the park with no worries.
54 min: The crowd is 19,264, the lowest league crowd of the season at the Walkers Stadium. Still there's plenty of noise from the North End fans to offer encouragement
51 min: PNE are deep in Leicester territory and they manage to get a strike at goal when Mellor volleys a hopeful ball into the box and it comes out to Carter who smashes one over the bar, high and wide.
48 min: Paul McKenna takes a heavy whack on the ankle as he pokes his leg at the ball and looks in some discomfort. We'll keep you up-to-date with his progress.
46 min: No changes for either side as the second half gets underway.
2050: Sorry folks, I've spent the half-time break warming my fingers up in my mandatory PNE gloves. Nothing at all happened.
45 min: We're now in injury time, of which there will be one minute according to the officials.
38 min: After that cheeky moment Beattie seems to have picked up an injury or a strain of some sorts and he's down on the touchline having a chat with the physio. He's not happy and when the Foxes win a corner Neil Mellor enters the fray to cut short what had been a promising debut for the striker.
36 min: A couple of cheeky moments from the Lilywhites. The first comes when PNE take a quick free-kick in their own half and pretend that they haven't taken it. St. Ledger saunters into the Leicester half and Leicester don't seem interested in tackling him, but the problem is that few of the Preston players seem aware that he's taken it either. The second piece of cheekiness comes when Beattie chases a ball into the corner and backheels the ball into the path of Chris Sedgwick who arriving from behind played an early cross to the near post, Brown and Kisnorbo challenge but the Aussie has it over the Brit on this occasion.
31 min: Well we wondering what Craig Beattie had about his game and we've just discovered he's got a bit of pace about him. Darren Carter launched a counter-attack down the Leicester left-flank and he sent Beattie away into space, the West Brom man had no worries reaching the ball and he cut inside his man before crossing the ball to the far post where Sean St. Ledger challenged for a header but referee Roger East spotted a foul. Don't know too much about Mr East, we know he's bald as a coot but we also know he doesn't really like to see to many aerial challenges on tonight's evidence.
27 min: It's gone a bit quiet. Very little to report in terms of action on the field but I will give a mention to the North End following's rather impressive 'Proud Preston' flag which is covering a large section of the Leicester seats.
16 min: Andy Lonergan is called into action as Matt Oakley almost gets a run on goal. The former Derby man slips as the ball is headed towards the Preston box but he still beats Matt Hill to the ball and Lonners is forced to come out to gather the ball as Hill, Oakley and the keeper look set to collide in a three-way smash.
13 min: North End have made the more positive start but Leicester have just given PNE's Yellows a couple of anxious moments. A couple of crosses being whipped in and the North End clearing headers falling to Leicester shirts in the box, but Preston hold firm with their blocking defence. Blocking defence is not an actual technical term but you know what I mean.
10 min: Suggestions that Leicester have an overweight fan from the North End faithful in the far corner.
7 min: One that is within shooting distance here for the Lilywhites. Whaley was manhandled on the edge of the Leicester box and the linesman flagged furiously, the referee awarded the free-kick but Carter's cross into the box was well cleared.
6 min: Andy Lonergan takes a free-kick midway into the North End half. Is this within shooting distance? Probably not as Kevin Pressman is not in goal.
3 min: The Leicester Tigers use this pitch occasionally and Simon Whaley did a great impression of a rugger player when his attempted cross-cum-shot quickly developed into a loping up-and-under.
1 min: The first minute of the game and Craig Beattie almost makes an unbelievable start to his North End career. The Scottish striker ran in behind the defence onto a Chris Sedgwick ball into the box, the Leicester defence was caught flat-footed and Beattie had a clear sight at goal. Paul Henderson did brilliantly to rush out and block the striker's effort which was goalbound.
1943: After my stint on the Whites World broadcast I'm back just in time for kick-off. You've not missed too much, just plenty of sweaty men running around trying to keep themselves warm, and that's just in the press-box.
1915: So a couple of changes to the side. Billy Jones is left out in favour of Sean St. Ledger and the new guy, Craig Beattie gets his chance to shine, only a few hours after meeting his new team-mates.
Leicester: Henderson, Stearman, Kisnorbo, N'Gotty, Clapham, Hume, Oakley, Clemence, Hendrie, Campbell, Howard. Subs: Hayles, Chambers, Fryatt, McAuley, Mattock.
PNE: Lonergan, St. Ledger, Mawene, Chilvers, Hill, Sedgwick, McKenna, Carter, Whaley, Brown, Beattie. Subs: Hawley, Jones, Lewis Neal, Chris Neal, Mellor.
1907: The press are treat amazingly well here at the Walkers. A £1 donation and all the food you can eat, it's like the great wedding buffets of old. Chicken Balti Pie went down very well indeed and apparently the Pizza Pods are also quite tasty, not really sure what a Pizza Pod involves, may have to investigate that one at half-time.
1858: So here we are at Leicester. When the media team set-off to the Walkers Stadium they were given a secret mission, to deliver a new kit and tracksuit to the team hotel on the outskirts of Leicester. Who was the player we were delivering this kit to? Were we tempted to look inside the bag and find out who we were signing? Of course not ;-) We soon found out though that it was Craig Beattie who was linking up with the Lilywhites. At this moment we don't actually know if he's in the side or not.
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