Links With The Past: Steve Walsh's 1996 Play-Off Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson's series continues with a look at Steve Walsh’s winners’ medal from the play-off final against Crystal Palace in 1996, which promoted Leicester City to the Premier League and ushered in the Martin O’Neill era at Filbert Street.

2021-07-13T10:58:19.440Z

by John Hutchinson

Published

13 Jul, 2021

Links With The Past: Steve Walsh's 1996 Play-Off Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson's series continues with a look at Steve Walsh’s winners’ medal from the play-off final against Crystal Palace in 1996, which promoted Leicester City to the Premier League and ushered in the Martin O’Neill era at Filbert Street.

John Hutchinson

2021-07-13T10:58:19.440Z

Links With The Past: Steve Walsh's 1996 Play-Off Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson's series continues with a look at Steve Walsh’s winners’ medal from the play-off final against Crystal Palace in 1996, which promoted Leicester City to the Premier League and ushered in the Martin O’Neill era at Filbert Street.

John Hutchinson

2021-07-13T10:58:19.440Z

Links With The Past: Steve Walsh's 1996 Play-Off Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson's series continues with a look at Steve Walsh’s winners’ medal from the play-off final against Crystal Palace in 1996, which promoted Leicester City to the Premier League and ushered in the Martin O’Neill era at Filbert Street.

John Hutchinson

2021-07-13T10:58:19.440Z

Links With The Past: Steve Walsh's 1996 Play-Off Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson's series continues with a look at Steve Walsh’s winners’ medal from the play-off final against Crystal Palace in 1996, which promoted Leicester City to the Premier League and ushered in the Martin O’Neill era at Filbert Street.

John Hutchinson

2021-07-13T10:58:19.440Z

City have played at Wembley on 13 occasions. These were five FA Cup showpieces, three League Cup finals, four First Division (now Championship) play-off encounters and a Community Shield clash against Manchester United.

The trip to Wembley to play Manchester City for the 2021 Community Shield will be the Club’s 14th Wembley appearance. Five of these previous visits resulted in victories for the Foxes, including the recent win over Chelsea to win the FA Cup for the first time in the Club’s history.

Steve Walsh played in six of these Wembley matches, and would have played in seven had he not been suspended for the 2000 League Cup final.

On three occasions, Steve left the Twin Towers with a winner’s medal.

Pride of place goes to the medal he won in the famous victory against Dave Bassett’s Crystal Palace in 1996. Steve Claridge’s famous ‘shinned’ goal four seconds from the end of extra time, seconds after Zeljko ‘Spider’ Kalac had replaced Kevin Poole in goal in anticipation of a penalty shoot-out, is one of the most famous goals in the Club’s history.

The medal itself reflects the fact that the Football League was sponsored by Endsleigh Insurance for three seasons, from 1993/94 until 1995/96. Endsleigh were just one of several companies to have sponsored the Football League since 1983.

Their company name is prominent on both sides of the medal. On one side, it surrounds a representation of a laurel wreath and a group of footballers, set above the inscription ‘Division One Play Off Winners’. On the other side, the Endsleigh logo is prominent above the inscription ‘Endsleigh League 1995-6’.

Steve’s play-off medal against Palace is exactly the same (apart from the date) as the winners’ medal he won against Derby County two years earlier, when he famously scored twice, including a late winner against the Rams in a 2-1 victory.

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