Warning for Miles Away - Gwilliam-esque lengthy rant below if you wish to scroll over it. :icon_wink
This has been coming for a very long time now, I cannot begin to explain the difference in my enthusiasm levels from 10 years ago to today.
One thing I realised today (when playing golf of all things) is that I have no positive feeling for any of our current squad, It is made up of individuals who have never achieved anything for this club and more than likely never will, when I compare this to the Izzet/Lennon/Elliot/Taggart years It goes a long way to explaining why I have only a small amount of enthusiasm left for Leicester at the moment.
Reel me back in Leicester...
I get what you're saying, though think how those of us didn't follow Leicester in the Izzet/Lennon/Elliott/Taggart days.
I feel it's exactly like following England atm: years of expectations being built up too highly and never achieving anything mixed with a squad of players who it's difficult to like grinds you down. It's just depressing having dislikeable diving and dirty lazy moaners like Mills and Wellens as your captain and vice-captain, much like it is for England having Terry and Gerrard as your captain and vice-captain. If I didn't support Leicester right now I'd probably hate us: we've got dislikeable, big name players on silly wages who don't seem to give half a **** on the pitch and we're being run in such a haphazard boom or bust kind of way which is indicative of everything I hate about modern football culture.
I think I've pissed quite a few people off recently with my even more annoying and repetitive than usual ramblings (especially Miles Away :icon_lol
and I apologise if I have done, but I'm just a fan who cares about his club and is frustrated about everything on and off the field and feels like the club is selling it's soul for some foreign business owners' who have no care for the club's get rich quick scheme, not saying that is what's happening, but that's what it feel's like what's happening.
It pisses me off at times and even makes me feel jealous hearing fans go on about the O'Neill/Gillies/Bloomfield days and talking about great players they saw, because I've never had that. The best players I ever saw were the likes of Paul Dickov, Les Ferdinand and Yakubu, none of whom are talked about in nearly the same breath. I'd like to see a Leicester team I'd like to call "mine" not one that I just hear older fans talk about. Not even necessarily being that successful, but just a well-knit team of loyal players and a manager who are all here for more than a couple of seasons would suit me fine. I've never seen a team or a manager that's been together long enough to gain any sort of emotional attachment to, like a lot of older fans have and it's frustrating.
I loved the idea of NP coming back, because when he was here before it felt like we were on the verge of that: it was a side full of young hungry players or players with something to prove mixed with wise old heads who always gave their all. Whether or not you thought Hobbs, Morrison, Howard, Waghorn, Fryatt and Berner were worse in quality than the players we have now and it's been debated to death now, they certainly played a lot better and put more into their game and got good performances out there and we were certainly a far better "team" regardless of how good the individuals were. King and Wellens also looked like so much better players at that time when they had something to prove and before they were given their big money lengthy contracts mid-way through last season (and they've never been the same players since).
I still hold out hope that NP will go out and get some young hungry players again as he did before and will build a team similar to 09/10, but which can go that one step further (and I'm still confident we'd have beaten Blackpool in the final who we did the double over that season if we'd have won that penalty shoot-out, not that it matters) which is why I'm looking forward to January and why I'm not as flat as some are.
I remember coming home from that Bristol City game in mid-February thinking we'd finally cracked it, as we'd learnt how to win when we weren't playing well, which is the one thing we really couldn't do at that point. I thought we were a shoe-in for the play-offs and even automativ promotion was a distinct possibility. I never thought for a second that game in fact was the game where it all started to go wrong and the last 10 1/2 months have been depressing stuff. Apart from those first 6 weeks, 2011 has been a seriously depressing time for supporting Leicester, the reasons for this have been discussed to death, not least by myself and I'm tired of playing the blame game now about it, there's so many contributing factors, but here's hoping 2012 will be a much better one. Roll on January.
And I fully realise that's the most blue mongie-ish post ever.
