• History-making teenager Harry is living the dream with Leicester City

  By Patrick4939

  Hard man are you Geoff lane ? ever played in really subzero conditions ? I have been glad of the...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:34 on 04/05/12

  

  Teenager Harry Panayiotou is living the dream – the Leicester lad who makes his debut for his hometown club and scores the winner. It was also a goal that propelled him into Leicester City's history books as the fifth-youngster player to score a league goal for the club. Panayiotou is just 17 and was not even born when City were beating Derby to win the famous Wembley play-off final in 1994. But City's academy manager Jon...

• Athletics: Hat-trick of wins for Shaw

  By hiraldos

  16min 24sec - for a 5 mile race - he must be the fastest man in the world! ha ha...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 20/03/12

  

  Leicester Tri-Club's Carl Shaw maintained his 100 per cent record in the Braunstone parkrun with his third win in as many appearances. Shaw ran home over the five-mile parkland course in 16min 24sec. West End's Gary Hawksley, a winner in October, claimed the runner-up spot in 17.49, with Mark Lambell taking third place in 17.51, which was 34 seconds quicker than his previous personal best and secured him his highest-ever finish. In...

• Girls football: Leicester City Ladies storm into final with crushing win over Ibstock

  By Norman09

  Well done ladies, keep up the great work.

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 10/03/12

  

  Leicester City Ladies cruised into the Under-15 League Cup semi-finals with a 9-0 victory over Ibstock United. Played in very wet and windy conditions, it took City only four minutes to go ahead when Jamie Carr slotted home. On 14 minutes, Niamh Ruff showed her pace down the right and crossed for Carr to score her second. Two minutes later, Connie Ingall found Annie Taylor, who rifled in a shot from the edge of the area for City's...

• Athletics: Swaine storms to victory in toughest-ever Bowline

  By edprocter

  The 3rd picture in your montage is credited to Mike Sewell. It was actually taken by Ed Procter and...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:31 on 07/02/12

  

  Leicestershire athletes defied the weather to compete in Sunday's Bowline in the Charnwood Hills The race, over a 14-mile course climbing to 1,200 feet around Bradgate Park, Beacon Hill and Broombriggs, is organised by the Bowline Climbing Club. Official Tony Illston described it as one of the toughest races in the event's 26-year history, with Charnwood athlete Peter Swaine's winning time 11 minutes slower than Barrow's Tim Hartley...

• Girls football: Singh hits eight as City squad power to victory

  By ghostof66

  What's Sven doing at Hinckley United? Is that the biggest defeat ever by a Hinckley Utd team?

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 28/01/12

  

  Simran Singh scored eight times as Leicester City Ladies continued their relentless surge in the Under-15 Division. The leaders recorded their 14th consecutive win in some style, 19-1 against a depleted Hinckley United side, who started with just nine players. It was a fitting end to Leicester's first game at their new home venue of Babington Community College. Yet they did not have the best of starts, Abbie O'Flynn putting Hinckley...

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