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Agony for Leicester City fans as Wembley dream comes to an end

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Leicester City fans had their Wembley dream snatched from them by Watford today in a 3-1 defeat in the Championships play-off semi-final second leg. In pubs, clubs and bars across the city and county the agony and the ecstasy of City's roller-coaster ride of a match was played out. The quiet of the city's streets was punctuated by the cheers for Leicester's goal and penalty award and howls of dismay at Watford's three strikes, including their last-gasp winner to win 3-2 on aggregate. Anthony Knockaert's extra time penalty award had the hundreds of fans packing out the Slug and Lettuce in Market Street on their feet in full cry. But their hopes were cruelly deflated when Watford broke away to score a third and deny the City faithful of a trip to Wembley. A surprise visitor to the pub was Leicester boxer Rendall Munroe just hours before he was due to make his return to the ring at Leicester's Club Republic this afternoon against Hungarian boxer Laszlo Fekete. The 32-year-old former WBC super-bantamweight title challenger, said: "I've just come down to chill with some mates and cheer City on.The atmosphere on Thursday night was brilliant." But duty called for the boxer who had to leave before Knockaert's penalty award. Rob McPhee, 46, a friend of the boxer, said: "We knew he'd be coming along, he always comes out with his mates. "I'm gutted about the result, only Leicester could miss a penalty at that stage of the game and then concede one at the other end. "I'm deflated, I was looking forward to Wembley, the whole city will be gutted - but that's Leicester." Tigers, City and Wigan fan Dave Lee, 49, experienced the highs of a successful trip to Wembley supporting the Lancashire club in the FA Cup Final and victory in the play-offs semi final for Tigers at Welford Road yesterday. Dave, of Eyres Monsell, said:"It was heartbreaking, right to the point where City got the penalty I thought they'd won. We could have had two of our teams at London finals. I had a good day at Wembley supporting Wigan, but it's a disappointing day today." Kayt(c) Cooke, 43, of the city centre, said: "It was the most tense 90 minutes of my life. The adrenaline went through the roof "Maybe we didn't get to the final, but what did it for me was beating Forest after 41 years - I'll always remember that." Door supervisor Dave "Big D" Noseley, 45, also of the city centre, has already bought two £32 return tickets to London for May 27, the day of the play-offs final. He said: "I thought I'd get in before the prices went up when everybody else went to get them. I felt sure we were going to be there. "At the end of the day we weren't good enough, but we beat Forest and that's all that counts. Pravin Lutchman, 57, of Wigston, said: "I was absolutely astonished when I saw that Knockaert was taking the penalty, he's never taken one all season, it should have been Nugent. I found it bizarre. I think Pearson should depart the club now." Disappointment was written all over the face of nine-year-old Tudor Vasilescu,(c) there with parents Paul and Alina, of Leicester's West End. He said: "I'm gutted. This was the season Leicester was supposed to go up." Heartbreak for City fans and players

Agony for Leicester City fans as Wembley dream comes to an end


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