2. Leicester City 0-5 Bolton Wanderers - 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-g7TZ4t7U Could one wish for a better start to Premier League life than a five-star victory away from home? For Leicester City, they were left reeling, having established themselves in the comfortable midriff of the Premier League. The plucky Trotters, promoted from the First Division with gusto, cruised through Filbert Street with ease, smashing five goals past a hapless Leicester side. The punters' choice for a quick return to the First Division, Bolton went some way to proving their doubters wrong by slaloming four goals past a despairing Tim Flowers inside the first half. With the 19 year old Kevin Nolan grabbing a brace, Michael Ricketts and Per Frandsen also struck for the Premier League new-boys before the Dane rifled home a superb free-kick seven minutes from time to cap a marvellous victory. Unsurprisingly, the ground was a cacophony of boos and wolf-whistles upon the sounding of the full-time whistle, with a vociferous home support screaming for the head of boss Peter Taylor, whose walls were well and truly closing in around him.
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