drummindefender
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local pride (well not much lately...)
So why do you go to the Footy
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Mike - True Blue Tinter
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The first time I saw City was a Wembley League Cup Final. I felt so ashamed of how tatty the place was, yet for overseas players this was their holy grail - to play at Wembley. I will be much more excited about going to the new Wembley. The same with Filbert St. It does not hold the memories of hundreds or thousands of great matches for me. I remember MON's famous line about how he always led potential new players backwards down the tunnel so they would see the Carling Stand before the Cowshed!
The Walkers stadium may look similar to others but it does have it's own atmoshere when full. And I think Sky has been generally good for the game. The close-ups show the passion and emotion and that has brought people through the turnstiles.
We do have continuity in a support base that has always had huge aspirations for their team. Money and lack of appropriate skills amongst club and team management and players have often conspired against us in recent years, but we keep going back, expecting that this year the club will get it right and produce a team that we are proud of.
The Walkers stadium may look similar to others but it does have it's own atmoshere when full. And I think Sky has been generally good for the game. The close-ups show the passion and emotion and that has brought people through the turnstiles.
We do have continuity in a support base that has always had huge aspirations for their team. Money and lack of appropriate skills amongst club and team management and players have often conspired against us in recent years, but we keep going back, expecting that this year the club will get it right and produce a team that we are proud of.
Kettering Pete
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Excellent Posts Homer and Beighton!!! I think you've summed it all up. I don't go too often these days but I've been supporting the club since 1968. Back in the seventies and eighties I never missed a game. I hitched up to Newcastle once. Only saw the second half. (lost 3-2). Then I took up refereeing and kind of lost the habit. And now I often work weekends
Some of the magic has gone. I miss standing, I miss hearing the lads singing and running up the steps in pen 3 in excitemnt and anticipation to join them. I miss feeling part of the club, being able to walk up to Franky Wortho in Baileys night club and having a chat. I miss the traditions of all games being on a Saturday afternoon (Didn't we play Ipswich once one Saturday night?). The walkers is lovely and clean but it lacks character. Yes, Filbo was a hole, but it had something special, history. I miss the fact that once you got promoted you were always had a chance to compete against the likes of Chelsea, man U, etc. Realistically we ain't going to finish in the top 4 now. But back then we could have done. I miss being able to keep the same players even if you went down. I hate the dominance the premier league has over every other club and I fear for the future of football.
But, I shall still go from time to time. It's like being a junkie with a dirty needle. I still need my fix and that is all I've got. That's why I'm still on this board and thats why every day I look for news of new players, can't wait for the fixtures and have hope that we'll get promoted next year.
Anyone know a good therapist?
Some of the magic has gone. I miss standing, I miss hearing the lads singing and running up the steps in pen 3 in excitemnt and anticipation to join them. I miss feeling part of the club, being able to walk up to Franky Wortho in Baileys night club and having a chat. I miss the traditions of all games being on a Saturday afternoon (Didn't we play Ipswich once one Saturday night?). The walkers is lovely and clean but it lacks character. Yes, Filbo was a hole, but it had something special, history. I miss the fact that once you got promoted you were always had a chance to compete against the likes of Chelsea, man U, etc. Realistically we ain't going to finish in the top 4 now. But back then we could have done. I miss being able to keep the same players even if you went down. I hate the dominance the premier league has over every other club and I fear for the future of football.
But, I shall still go from time to time. It's like being a junkie with a dirty needle. I still need my fix and that is all I've got. That's why I'm still on this board and thats why every day I look for news of new players, can't wait for the fixtures and have hope that we'll get promoted next year.
Anyone know a good therapist?
Bilborough Fox
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Supported the Foxes for over fifty years. Had a spell due to work commitments where I couldn't attend games. You just don't realise what you have missed till you get back to it. It's in the blood, no matter how good or bad it is you still come back the next game. The state of the game has changed so much, don't really know if it's for the better, but you will never get players with loyalty like Walsh or Cross again. Financial state game has created such a gulf between top and bottom that it is unlikely that we will ever top the premiership(or the old First Division like in the 60's) again but we can dream and thats why it gets into your blood and we keep coming back.
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drummindefender
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i think its unfair for criticising the walkers stadium for lacking history-its not been around long enough to have as much!
homer
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It's not the lack of history that's a problem
It's the lack of character, soul, individuality, atmosphere, personality, magic etc. etc. etc..............
Brown Nose
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What an excellent thread.
How often do we question our level of commitment to a football club? During the all to infrequent good times, rarely. During the bad times, more often. I can recall far too many occasions over my 28 years of attendance when I’ve shuffled away from the stadium, sometimes nowadays even before the final whistle, disappointed and questioning my sanity. Under this cloud I will often have a mental battle with myself, “you don’t have to go” whilst contemplating what else I could do with the time and money I’ve just wasted. Without fail, I’m back at the next game.
It is undoubtedly an addiction no less powerful than others such as alcoholism. I’m not talking about the social elements of football. The reasons for enjoying the company of like minded others are well known. I’m talking about the actual match day experience. Some can wean themselves off it, particularly by moving away from Leicester, but most of us can’t. I weaned myself off of away games and now very rarely attend them. This is far easier than home games though. A decade ago, I missed an important family wedding to see us lose 1-0 at West Ham without the slightest hint of remorse. I am the conspicuous absentee from the wedding photos. I now look at them with a twinge of guilt, but I accept the person I was back then. Four years ago, I was sufficiently ‘clean’ to get married on the day we were away to Rotherham.
Essentially, there are worse things than being addicted to Leicester City. Despite the horror show of 6th May at home to Wolves, I’d be happy if the new season started on Saturday. Like a hungover drunk, I’m ready for more. Players / Managers / Owners continue to excite and disappoint me in equal measure. My season ticket has been renewed despite my stuttering finances. Why do I, along with many of you, continue to do this? Because that club would be nothing without us. We belong there. We need each other. It’s very much like the experience of routinely visiting an elderly relative whose mind has gone. They don’t know you from Adam and couldn’t care less who you are or why you’re there. But it’s important that you are there because without you going, this slobbering person doesn’t really exist. This sense of responsibility and loyalty gives us our humanity.
How often do we question our level of commitment to a football club? During the all to infrequent good times, rarely. During the bad times, more often. I can recall far too many occasions over my 28 years of attendance when I’ve shuffled away from the stadium, sometimes nowadays even before the final whistle, disappointed and questioning my sanity. Under this cloud I will often have a mental battle with myself, “you don’t have to go” whilst contemplating what else I could do with the time and money I’ve just wasted. Without fail, I’m back at the next game.
It is undoubtedly an addiction no less powerful than others such as alcoholism. I’m not talking about the social elements of football. The reasons for enjoying the company of like minded others are well known. I’m talking about the actual match day experience. Some can wean themselves off it, particularly by moving away from Leicester, but most of us can’t. I weaned myself off of away games and now very rarely attend them. This is far easier than home games though. A decade ago, I missed an important family wedding to see us lose 1-0 at West Ham without the slightest hint of remorse. I am the conspicuous absentee from the wedding photos. I now look at them with a twinge of guilt, but I accept the person I was back then. Four years ago, I was sufficiently ‘clean’ to get married on the day we were away to Rotherham.
Essentially, there are worse things than being addicted to Leicester City. Despite the horror show of 6th May at home to Wolves, I’d be happy if the new season started on Saturday. Like a hungover drunk, I’m ready for more. Players / Managers / Owners continue to excite and disappoint me in equal measure. My season ticket has been renewed despite my stuttering finances. Why do I, along with many of you, continue to do this? Because that club would be nothing without us. We belong there. We need each other. It’s very much like the experience of routinely visiting an elderly relative whose mind has gone. They don’t know you from Adam and couldn’t care less who you are or why you’re there. But it’s important that you are there because without you going, this slobbering person doesn’t really exist. This sense of responsibility and loyalty gives us our humanity.
Kettering Pete
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Football, not just LCFC is an addiction. Why else would I or anybody else become a referee, run about a parks pitch every saturday and sunday for 25 quid, getting moaned at, being hated, occasionally assualted, frequently abused by two teams still pissed from the night before. And yet I did it for 27 years and have wonderful memories.
It must be an addiction; a form of self flaggelation and masochism. And maybe that is why we all despise the succesful teams so much. Because thier fans have never really had hard times. They don't know what it is to suffer, to lose frequently and see bloody awful performances from overpaid and underacheiving idiots. You might grudgingly respect them but who really LIKES the glory hunters and those who support them?
Yes I must be addicted.
This thread is really quite deep, intellectual and philosphical. Not used to it. Can't we start a "lets take the p out of F*rest" thread or something....
It must be an addiction; a form of self flaggelation and masochism. And maybe that is why we all despise the succesful teams so much. Because thier fans have never really had hard times. They don't know what it is to suffer, to lose frequently and see bloody awful performances from overpaid and underacheiving idiots. You might grudgingly respect them but who really LIKES the glory hunters and those who support them?
Yes I must be addicted.
This thread is really quite deep, intellectual and philosphical. Not used to it. Can't we start a "lets take the p out of F*rest" thread or something....
Polar Bear
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I love LCFC most of all, but also like football in general so can quite happily attend matches involving Banbury United, Barnet FC or other non-spoilt clubs. I'll watch the playoffs on the TV, and the Cup Final if it involves an interesting team. I don't give a flying one about the non-Champions League, and increasingly about the Premiership, but I do pay attention to foreign football. Football is a huge risk - you might spend shedloads on something dire and disappointing, or you might have the good fortune/sense to go to Ipswich away (my thoughts directly after purchasing the ticket - "what the !#@ did you do that for?!" Very glad I did).
I like going to strange towns I'd never go to if it weren't for a football match (Burnley, Barnsley, Colchester, Cleethorpes, Middlesbrough, Tonbridge, Chippenham, Gillingham, Crewe and many more).
And I like going with my mates, and am fortunate to have a good crowd of them. Though I don't know if I'll be getting an ST next season, but that's for personal rather than footballing reasons.
Oh yes - the pubs in Leicester are very fine too!
I like going to strange towns I'd never go to if it weren't for a football match (Burnley, Barnsley, Colchester, Cleethorpes, Middlesbrough, Tonbridge, Chippenham, Gillingham, Crewe and many more).
And I like going with my mates, and am fortunate to have a good crowd of them. Though I don't know if I'll be getting an ST next season, but that's for personal rather than footballing reasons.
Oh yes - the pubs in Leicester are very fine too!
Joe
Member
it definatly was it was like stepping back to the 70s in one of the little towns we stopped in on the outskirts.
four king power
Active Member
You must get really hot in that thick coat at the start of the season? Laughing in January though :icon_bigg
stevewalshwasgod
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ok back on topic,... people come to see their mates and catch up and watch some decent football
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
I don't think anybody has criticised the Walkers for lack of history. I commented on the fact that the move to the new ground has broken the continuity aspect that many people think is one of the things that is a major reason for continued support. That's a totally different thing.
It could be argued that we have in fact been more successful at the Walkers - one promotion in five seasons there - Filbert Street could not claim such a 20% record. But again, a different thing.
Darth Vodka
Well-Known Member
and a relegation?
what clubs have actually been more successful at new stadia?
erm...
more successful:-
boro
bout the same:-
us, derby, stoke, man city
less:-
cov, man city, arsenal (tee hee)
jonlcfc1
New Member
I go to the football because it's (hopefully) a relief from the everyday stress of life - there aren't many places where you can shout and sing as much as you like without getting funny looks (unless you're in the West Stand). I have felt a significant change occur in recent years and its not something I like. I can't say I feel as proud of being a Leicester fan now as I used to for a number of reasons - primarily the lack of passion shown by players recently, the ineptness of the management of the team and club, the at times soulless stadium - but I go because I hope it will improve, and I want to be there to see it happen.
four king power
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bocadillo
Water Gypsy
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| 2 | Arsenal | 23 | 47 |
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| 5 | Newcastle | 23 | 41 |
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