Filbert Street - The Legendary Home of Leicester City Football Club

[PAULCFC]

No you're right there was plenty of space behind the (South Stand) Kop. The Shithole houses backed onto the east stand shed that the away fans sat in. 

And their still their now!Even the entrance to the East stand has been made into a house of sorts!Still look at that everytime i pass it.

[Dan LCFC]

State of modern journalism. It's almost like they deliberately get the facts wrong. Summed it up the other week that that Hull fan's journalism project was based on 'hits' rather than quality. Embarrassing & amateurish.

[4everfox]

What houses surrounded the kop?

I may be wrong you may know better but always thought the electricty board was behind the kop.

You're probably correct, I was always in the CIS stand away from the commotion of the kop end. I only attended games at Filbert Street between the ages of 8 and 14 so my inaccurate information isn't surprising to me. I remember the turnstiles for the away end being in alleys between peoples houses, and if I remember correctly the kop was a small stand too so I assumed they were both situated on streets behind houses. Edited 19 June 2015 by 4everfox

[SpacedX]

 and if I remember correctly the kop was a small stand too so I assumed they were both situated on streets behind houses.

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[4everfox]

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What stand am I thinking of then? The one with the scoreboard on it, always thought that was the kop.

[Steven]

In order to refresh memories, try this. 

 

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/old-grounds-and-stands/filbert_street_leicester.htm

[4everfox]

In order to refresh memories, try this.

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/old-grounds-and-stands/filbert_street_leicester.htm

This clears things up, cheers. I used to sit in the south stand.

[Steve_Walsh5]

What stand am I thinking of then? The one with the scoreboard on it, always thought that was the kop.

The lower tier of the double decker was the kop.

We had a couple of scoreboards one on the east stand above the away fans and then one the opposite end of the ground above the boxes.

[Fox92]

Both Filbo and are current ground were/are shit, really.

One had 2 stands which were of a non-league standard and the other is the most boring stadium I've ever set eyes on.

 

There's no reason why we shouldn't have a unique, atmospheric ground that's big enough as well.

 

 

Filbert Street was beautiful man. Proper ground.

[4everfox]

The lower tier of the double decker was the kop.

We had a couple of scoreboards one on the east stand above the away fans and then one the opposite end of the ground above the boxes.

I was always in the upper tier of the south stand, and the stand I mistakenly thought was the kop was the one with the boxes above it on the opposite end. Brilliant football stadium anyway, there's not many like it remaining.

[SpacedX]

I was always in the upper tier of the south stand, and the stand I mistakenly thought was the kop was the one with the boxes above it on the opposite end. Brilliant football stadium anyway, there's not many like it remaining.

During the eighties in particular, the fighting up in the Double Decker was horrendous. Most of the Main Stand used to watch that instead of what was happening on the pitch. Then from below you could hear the constant clatter of sharpened coins against the mesh separating pen 2 and 3. The acoustics in the Kop were brilliant though...one of the main reasons Filbert Street was so loud.

Edited 19 June 2015 by Line-X

[rico]

Remember seeing a pigs head with 'Fvck Off' written on it thrown from the DD into the Newcastle away end in the 90's  

[st albans fox]

During the eighties in particular, the fighting up in the Double Decker was horrendous. Most of the Main Stand used to watch that instead of what was happening on the pitch. Then from below you could hear the constant clatter of sharpened coins against the mesh separating pen 2 and 3. The acoustics in the Kop were brilliant though...one of the main reasons Filbert Street was so loud.

 

Pens 1 and 2. only pen 1 was away fans.

[Steve_Walsh5]

I remember being in the kop with my dad when I was about 9 or 10 so it would have been around 1998 and we were playing Nottingham forest.

The forest fans were throwing that many coins into the kop that the stewards had to move onto pitch behind the goal. When they moved me back into the kop to give me back to my dad I must have found about £15 in change on the floor.

[SpacedX]

Pens 1 and 2. only pen 1 was away fans.

Not always. Sometimes 2 was empty, but for bigger games it was used for an away allocation. I remember Derby County in the Milk (league) Cup in 1986 I think as one example. The game that ended in the riot in Highfields.

[4everfox]

During the eighties in particular, the fighting up in the Double Decker was horrendous. Most of the Main Stand used to watch that instead of what was happening on the pitch. Then from below you could hear the constant clatter of sharpened coins against the mesh separating pen 2 and 3. The acoustics in the Kop were brilliant though...one of the main reasons Filbert Street was so loud.

I only remember seeing one violent encounter at Filbert Street and that was in a 3-1 win against Aston Villa sometime in the late nineties. An Aston Villa fan was a few rows behind me having a proper strop as a result of the action on the pitch, a couple of nasty looking fellas weren't happy with him and gave him quite a pasting before all three of them were escorted out of the stadium by the stewards. Not nice to see from an 11 or 12 year olds point of view, football has changed quite a bit over the years in terms of hooliganism and racism.

[hackneyfox]

Then from below?

There wasn't anything below the pens.

[hackneyfox]

The most extreme fighting I've ever seen at FS was against Villa

[Spudulike]

1978 ??

[SpacedX]

Then from below?

There wasn't anything below the pens.

Posted Today, 02:33 PM

Line-X, on 19 Jun 2015 - 1:40 PM, said:

During the eighties in particular, the fighting up in the Double Decker was horrendous. Most of the Main Stand used to watch that instead of what was happening on the pitch. Then from below you could hear the constant clatter of sharpened coins against the mesh separating pen 2 and 3. The acoustics in the Kop were brilliant though...one of the main reasons Filbert Street was so loud.

[Spiritwalker]

My second ever game as a youngster was against Millwall in the

late 70's. The fighting in the streets after the game was like something

from Lord Of The Rings.

[davieG]

These posts about Filbert St should be in here - http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/45200-filbert-street-the-legendary-home-of-leicester-city-football-club/page-13#entry3381365

[Facecloth]

My first game was sat in the top of the DD against Norwich in the 90's I remember the Norwich fans throwing coins at the City fans in the lower part of the DD.

 

What surprised me most was that people from Norfolk had that kind of money the throw away!

[hackneyfox]

Upstairs in the double decker wasn't penned as far as I know.

[Vlad the Fox]

fnf didn't we get 14000 v man utd

I think it was about a sell out, in the end there was that many outside trying to get in and not enough stewards and turnstile operators that they opened the big exit gates and just let everyone in.