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Yeah it's a circus now, good riddance to the PL and if the so-called big clubs want to leave, the door is open for them to go anytime they want!

I think that's a very fair reason to keep going, the social apsect is still very important. You'll enjoy no VAR for sure + I'm sure they'll score a goal again in the Championship! If I still lived in the county I'd have renewed I'm sure as next season should in theory be more enjoyable, but living 50 mins away it became a chore. Maybe we shouldn't travel silly distances to games, not thinking environmental reasons, just it's a long way for a lot of fans to travel. The peripheral often fall away in tough times.

If there's one consolation then all ticket offices are heading to dinosaur extinction levels soon too It won't be many years before clubs don't have ticket offices. It will all be done from a central database, no human interaction. Just someone in the FA or PL making sure algorythms work and they'll not be based at Leicester City either. LCFC have seriously turned up in the perfect storm as I do believe vast majority of people would have accepted the digital ticketing if we'd have been high up the table. Most clubs fans don't care when their team is doing well. They'll happily be herded through the digital ages. I'm same as you, I once loved the club and I no longer love it. I haven't fallen out with football as a game, and I now find myself in the lower leagues whilst they still resemble grass roots etc. I've clung onto my ST for past 2-3 years not caring about the club anymore, had it since 1998 when we had a real club back then Once I didn't want the PL to breakaway but now it can go and leave these shores!

Me neither, only done 4 games this year on my ST, I think I managed to sell it 4x on the official exchange in first half of the season but nobody wants the punishment of a ticket now. Had ST since 1998 and before that went to as many home games as possible Totally agree with your other point, fed up of donating money to millionaires on the pitch that could not care one bit about the fans in the stands Most of them enter the stadiums with head phones on to ignore the fans, and lets be honest they're lucky to be able to be paid like they are to simply kick a ball about.

So sorry as I meant to reply but time caught up with me, yeah Brackley are flying incredibly high in a tough league. 1 point between Brackley, Scunthorpe and Kidderminster with 4 games to go is all that seperates the top three, and with Chester just behind them too it's full of big clubs. I checked out Ramsgate crowds and they are superb, especially being two divisions beneath the NL South. Some clubs have really gained big attendences since 2020 and hopefully it will be sustainable. Looks like Ramsgate was c100-150 per match over ten years ago and now blasting through 1000 per match which is incredible. I'd say Brackley has a hardcore/loyal following of 500-600 and the rest that come along are floaters or away fans. Ironically the worst games of the season are in front of the biggest crowds so the floaters actually see very few wins. The best experience is the run of the mill games when there's less at stake as they tend to win those games easier. I'll be hoping to do two matches over the bank holiday weekend with Oxford at home and Leamington away I still support my old team... that's 1990s Leicester City, ha but not Corporate KPFC and that's why I love the non-league as it reminds us of football from a better time period!

This is really great to hear, I watched Ramsgate play at Brackley earlier in the season in the FA Cup and there really wasn’t much between the sides back then. A good sized and noisy away following too. I did two Brackley games this week (Kidderminster + Scarborough), superb crowds 1,777 and 871 respectively. it’s still a relatively small club but benefiting from a lot of housebuilding in the area!

Love that show, I wonder what the current LCFC staff ‘outies’ feel about the club from their outside lives! Funnily there’s two Leicester’s for me, the one I loved in the 90s and the current one. I think fans should take the ‘Severance’ procedure too to help get through the games!

Exactly this, it’s quite sad that we lost our club to big business and we now face the digital cage being built around us. For any evangelists that see no wrong with digital ticketing it won’t be so kind in the future when you can’t make a game due to illness and you have to upload a doctors sick note! Ha I may jest a little but they make supporting a club a chore and about as fun as working full time. Imagine if they do head down the leagues and there’s 10k spare seats, I bet they’ll relax their control grid but then only to tighten it once they get back on track. It’s ever so predictable. The only thing in Leicester’s favour is that they’re not clever enough to have implemented this themselves but still they seem to be not pushing back up the chain. I for one hope PL football bubble bursts sometime soon. It’s wretched. For someone that once loved this club, I now have no love left for it nor any big club.

Exactly this, it is a control thing and it’s Premier League/big city club wide. The thing they forget which could make life difficult for them is that as crowds plummet (which I hope they do) there will be less of an incentive to chain us to a digital seat. If crowds go below 25k and they start to ban fans for not worshipping the strange cult for a minimum of 80% of the time (or whatever imaginary figure they make up next) then they’ll be in the ever reducing circles territory. I imagine once they drop further away from the PL cult, they’ll be desperate for you/us to turn up again until they can trap us in our digital seats again when and if they ever return to the PL. The thing is as the Devil tarot card shows, we can take off our chains whenever we want! It’s us that keep them on.

This is such a good post, sums it up so very well To add to it, the new generations are much less interested in football now and the old way of being has been severed so badly that it’s less likely we’d see what we experienced in the 90s again. If you want to see a dying sport head to the Speedway (which I still love), the average age is care home numbers now! I’m not joking! I’m sure football won’t ever get into this mess but it is experiencing an aging following so you never know if the golden age has already passed.

Sadly our reality is being digitalised and all leading businesses have agreed to this approach. They won’t admit it to you or I, nor will the news ever tell you what’s really going on. It is quite obvious that we’re being herded across all aspects of life so football has to play its part. The news is often crafted to match. i imagine the club have no choice in this aspect as directives will be coming down the chain. Unless people say.no then the digital cage gets locked further. I’m 100% not renewing and I will fondly remember the old Leicester City I once loved as it still holds dear but this modern version of big club football is absolutely dire. I will wish LCFC all the luck they deserve with their reduced attendances, spiralling costs and cinema style audiences. I may go to one final game either Newcastle or Liverpool to say farewell and that will be it

Looks like you have to email in, I’m doing the same. I only renewed by accident and don’t want to ever again. Only been to 4 games, and that 4 too many!

Nice club, good set up, saw them play at Brackley last year. If I lived in Scarborough I’d do the same.

Excellent thread as always, so good to read about experiences around the grounds. I was at Brackley v Alfreton yesterday, a really tough game as the visitors always make life tough down here. If I’m being polite to their style of football I’d say they’re disrupters! A hard game but Brackley persisted well and 2 goals from Matt Lowe secured it late. He’s on fire this year. We have some real gems in that team including Lewis Hall’s older brother (Connor). A favourite of mine is Ricardo Calder, ex Villa and shows real quality getting past his man. Almost 1000 in for the game and top of the table now. I’ve been going for 4 full seasons now, so barely go to Leicester City now. It’s sad as I miss the old Leicester City I once loved but feel incredibly lucky to have such a vibrant non-league club on my new doorstep.

Yeah I remember the ball hardly staying in play for ten seconds, it was awful Martinelli was the worst one for pretending to be injured. The priest was even called to read him his last rites and then lo and behold he made a miracle recovery to score a disallowed goal moments later. Arsenal were utterly embarrassing that day with their tactics. Glad I’m missing it this weekend tbh

That’s incredible, so good to see NL North similar too, almost anyone can beat anyone!

Really good to hear, it’s a breath of fresh air. I feel the same, especially as the old character returns when you visit small clubs. Much of that character is lost in the mega echo bowls they have at big clubs. I watched a few mins on YouTube of away fans at Chorley buying potato pies in butter and then being given metal spoons to eat them with! I have to admit I’ll give those pies a miss! I was at Brackley today, a hard fought 1-0 win. Enjoyed it fully as always. Just popped 5 mins of Brighton FA Cup match on TV and was instantly bored by it. The atmosphere was atrocious. Just echo sounds as a few booed or sung a little.

Just watched 10 mins of Brighton FA Cup match and atmosphere is awful, perhaps it’s a top flight thing now. I think too many are just going through the motions now, top flight football really is boring these days. I wish it wasn’t like that.

This is the best thread on FT and I’ve learnt a lot about the goings on in other non-league clubs for which I’m grateful It’s great hearing (and seeing) all of your experiences in non-league So with that in mind I’m at Brackley v Peterborough Sports tomorrow, anyone else got games planned?

This is so sad to hear, I’ve heard of similar stories where they literally just wave you off. Maybe it’s the low quality staff in the club not being paid enough to be bothered. We don’t need them to molly coddle us but on rare occasion a bit of understanding for long standing fans would be much more welcome than the nonsense they pump out before the game. Maybe we should have a text number blasted out for long suffering fans to be able to report their club of running it into the ground! On a side note… Truro City are a good team down your way, they’re well supported and I know I’d check them out if I lived in Cornwall.

Mobile phones are just the stepping stone so will only be a brief solution for ticketing. Facial recognition to gain entry into most things will be the end goal and it’s almost here. Probably 3-4 years max. USA already testing it at a venue and it’s no secret as a quick search will show that mobile ticketing is just the bridge between the old paper/plastic World and the new digital World.

That’s great to hear, it’s exactly how I feel too. We get to Brackley games an hour before kick off so we can get a drink in the superb clubhouse. It really is excellent in there. Crowds are generally a good number considering how small the town is. I think there are a lot of PL nomads down here. I miss the old LCFC we used to have in 90s but this new team I support now is easily replacing my old allegiance to Leicester. Some very good players in our team, and the main central defender is easily better than Leicester’s back two!

Filbert Street every day of the week First game v Tranmere 23 Feb 1994 Miss the 90s football a lot, would swap these last few years for those days in a split second No character in top flight now at all, almost all of it gone. Can we imagine Gazza playing now. Players are zombies now, no personality just like the stadiums

Let's face it, whether we like it not, we're being herded into the digital age. Even if LCFC would be happy for us to have the choice of analogue v digital entry they'll be under instruction to achieve it by a certain date. It's not difficult to see the direction of play especially with some big clubs already further down the line than us It's honourable seeing Foxes fan debate it and push back, but it only delays the move at best I'd bet almost everyone here will cross the line when pushed (after the asking phase has been completed) rather than missing out!

Highly entertaining game at Brackley today wining 4-1 against Spennymoor. Over 800 in was another very healthy crowd and it’s Kidderminster on Tuesday for what will be a real tough game at the top of the table. Brackley are a very well run club with a well drilled team. It’s always a tight league but they’re really punching above their weight in the NLN. I just read the ridiculous distances people are travelling to watch LCFC and it makes me so happy to be enjoying local football over PL now