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Coca Cola Cup Final Winners Medal

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Season Start Year: 1996
Season End Year: 1997
Others: Coca Cola Cup Final Winners Medal
Match: Leicester City v Middlesbough 1997 Coca Cola Cup Final

This was hard fought for. We played Middlesbrough in the league a few weeks before the final and got battered. Juninho ran the show and we really didn't get a look in. That game played a vital part in us winning the cup as without that we would have probably took a battering in the final. Martin O'Neil put Pontus Kaamark on Juninho for the whole game at Wembley and we managed a hard fought draw. It showed man marking Juninho was the right move, but Boro were a good team and not easy to beat.

The replay at Hillsbrough was again a very hard fought contest with two evenly matched teams. They had the white feather Ravanelli, Juninho and Emerson, but we had new stars in Lennon and Izzet as well as a solid back line. Then that man again Steve Claridge scored the only goal to win us the cup. He scored in the Play Off Final, then he scored in the League Cup Final. Two massive goals in two massive games. But the whole team played their part, including our greatest ever manager in Martin O'Neil for coming up with the tactics to beat this very good Boro side.