why foxes

[Jeff]

 

[MKFox]

Er isn’t it because Leicestershire is the shape of a foxes head?

I'll have a pint of what you're drinking....

 

[tedfoxxx]

Because you've been hounded out of the Championship?

too far

 

[MKFox]

 

[norman leet]

It is Leicestershire looking like a foxes head.

Our glorious leader is called Spud or Richard for a similar reason

 

[Hazzman]

We'll be crap until we get a stuffed fox.

Let's nail the ****s next season just that....nicking our nickname :icon_roll

 

[Jeff]

Let's nail the ****s next season just that....nicking our nickname :icon_roll

They've also got a statue of a former Leicester player outside the ground, and one of the concourse bars is named after a player who played cricket for Leicestershire.

 

[olip6]

because "we never quit"...(apparently)

 

[MKFox]

because "we never quit"...(apparently)

Then we should be nicknamed the stalwart smokers or something....

 

[Motown Fox]

They've also got a statue of a former Leicester player outside the ground, and one of the concourse bars is named after a player who played cricket for Leicestershire.

Chris Balderstone is the latter who is the former City player?

 

[Jeff]

Chris Balderstone is the latter who is the former City player?

Hughie McIlmoyle

 

[DesertFox]

Foxes? That's Carlisle isn't it? We're the Filberts aren't we.....

What, because we play like Brazil? Pfffffft!

 

[OldGit]

What, because we play like Brazil? Pfffffft!

Yes, but a little smaller, cheaper and less appetising:icon_bigg

 

[Chuck T Masala]

Can't see it myself - very vague if it is! I certainly wouldn't say "fox" if someone asked.

More like an upsidedown map of Australia, don't see any fox there. I always thought it was the Fox Hunting connection

 

[SJN-Fox]

The arms incorporate elements from the heraldry of four important County families, three of whom became Earls of Leicester.
The ermine cinquefoil is that of the Beaumont family, in 1103 Robert de Beaumont was made the first Earl of Leicester. The Earldom eventually passed through the sister of the fourth Earl (FitzParnel) to her husband Simon de Montfort (1206-1264), from whose arms the white doubled tailed lion on red is taken. Simon also held the Honour of Hinckley, to which appertained arms consisting of a shield parted palewise indented silver and red, from which is derived the fessewise indentation in these arms. The ermine plume is the badge of John of Gaunt (another Earl of Leicester) and the black sleeve is the badge of the Hastings family, who built castles at Kirby Muxloe and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
The running fox refers to fox hunting, which first originated in an organised form in Leicestershire in the 1690's.The bull and ram symbolise the County's original major industries, grazing and wool. The bull's coronet represents the link with the Duchy of Lancaster, several Earls of Leicester were also Dukes of Lancaster.
The motto again refers to fox hunting, it is placed between a hazel leaf and a red martlet, which refer to Lord Hazlerigg, Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1925 to 1949 and Lieutenant Colnel Sir Robert Martin, Chairman of the County Council from 1924 to 1960.

 

[Mikeoadby]

oo er!!!!

 

[Hector]

I thought John of Gaunt was the Earl of Lancaster, or at least according to Shakespeare in Dick II:

"Old John of Gaunt, time-houred Lancater".

 

[fosseboy83]

because "foxes never quite".

spot on

 

[Hazzman]

I thought John of Gaunt was the Earl of Lancaster, or at least according to Shakespeare in Dick II:

"Old John of Gaunt, time-houred Lancater".

Rather apt than I seen our relegation in a pub called John O' Gaunt

 

[alex]

Be better nicknamed 'The Flumps' right now...