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Im with you there. The only full games i ever watch now are leicester games and this season , thats not all that often. Obscene money. VAR. Ticket prices you need a loan for. Hardly any "blood and thunder" games anymore. Contact/real tackles being slowly outlawed. Obsession with possession. A million pointless stats. 3 levels of european competition and even the top one is heavily diluted. Stupid kick off times. Yesterday only 3 top flight games kicked off at 3pm. Lack of characters. Lack of local players making it to the first team..instead unheard of players from abroad, here mainly for the payday taking their place. Less and less traditional grounds (replaced with quiet bowls). Offside rule that's a mathematical puzzle to solve. Loud music killing any post match singing (rare for us these days). Big (even not so big) clubs not caring about the cup competitions. Clubs rinsing kids and parents for every penny (autographs/signing cards). Yeah its a different game to the one i grew up with too. Premier league especially. Its a wonder i still bother to be honest. Its less and less these days in truth. So, no Leicester, i wouldn't support anyone else. Few grassroots games or experience games abroad in countries where money isnt the be all and end all.

Oooh.....ashby friends 😂. Sorry lads , couldnt resist

It always used to be forest and derby for me. It didn't help i did my training courses at Loughborough college and had to mix with "them".. But i moved to Rugby (which is largely cov city country) about 12 years ago and i unfortunately have to spend time in cov for work and family stuff. The hatred for us there is unreal. Some literally foam at the mouth at the mention of leicester city 😂. My daughter is a leicester fan too and at school with cov fans and she is still sent videos and ribbed 3-1....despite that being over a year ago, not to mention the fact we actually beat them at our place! That truly was their biggest day out and achievement for years that day. So for me these days, it's cov. Tools of the highest order

Its a fair point. Buying just for the point and selling on takes the p*ss morally. But its a double edge sword really for us members. We dont usually get a sniff of tickets at popular aways (when we aren't in abysmal form) so the only way we get to go is if we buy one from ST holders selling them on. Digital will stop all that in any case, rightly or wrongly

This thread has made me re-watch the goal on youtube. I had forgotten about the awful forward roll celebration.....😂😂😂 Legend

Exactly this. I wont pay over 50 on a Saturday at 3pm when football is supposed to be played, never mind 7pm on a Sunday night. What a time. Looks like lots of people think similarly . People nees to get work stuff ready, get kids sorted bathed in bed early for school. Combination of things . Vastly overpriced, crap time and we are awful

Wembley fell silent for what felt like an eternity, im glad it isn't just me who thought that. There seemed to be a huge delay from the ball hitting the net to our end going up.....in a big way. Agree too that it was possibly the most euphoric single moment I've been in. I was bang in line with the ball when he hit it (it would have hit me if there was no net and it could have travelled far enough). I knew it was in the second he struck it.......but still that silence for a moment. Weird how clear these things stay with you and then i dont remember what i had for tea yesterday! Didnt look like a footballer but great signing and as someone else said....proper cult hero .

I bought a ticket to a gig from ticket master. That had a moving barcode. I believe the code changed every couple of minutes. The top and bottom of it was that the ticket couldn't be passed on or re-sold

Young un recently asked me do goal nets have to be square?. I didnt know the answer . They didnt used to be and i, along with lots of others most likely, would be able to tell you what ground you were at just by looking at the goal in many cases. I remember seeing foreign games as a kid and being in awe of the loose nets or how far back they went. It made goals look better than a lot of english nets that were so tight the ball just bounced out or hit a stantion and the net didnt ripple. Filbert street was like this at times .It wouldn't surprise me if these days there is a law stating clubs must have certain style of nets. Anyway im displaying my geeky side here..... Im a big boxing geek too and had a similar question as to when the 4 rope (rather than 3) ring became standard. Well....if anyone is as geeky as i can be, i found the article below interesting https://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/goal-nets-posts-and-stanchions-of-1980s.html?m=1

Watching the man city game. Those high electronic advertising hoardings are awful. Ive lost the ball about 3 times already. But who cares about the viewer/fans.....those hoardings are money makers

I did nou camp on the day Ronaldinho signed. Helicopter landed near ground and tour guide assured us it was ronaldinho......he could have just been sexing up his tour though 😂. Good tour . Allowed in the stands, dugouts. Museum was good. Unhurried. Then to top off the day.... i got arrested on the metro. Someone snatched my wallet so i gave chase and put in a rugby tackle martin Johnson would have been proud of. Unfortunately for me the Spanish police only saw the part where an English man attacked a Spanish youth and after about 6 hours of detention they eventually accepted my version of events ......true story!

Day by the seaside when the weather is getting better. Id go the other way and say it will be popular regardless of how crap we are

I distinctly remember a very attractive female police officer telling me and my friends to f**k off when we volunteered to be frisked by her rather than the other officers right on that spot 😂

Pure c0cks mate . Feels like a face saving exercise. Someone made the membership decision and dont want to go back on it for fear of losing face. Sounds a bit like a few places ive worked!

And me. My dreams have consisted of the mum from the 80s tv show bread, the foxy ladies and reliving a bonfire we had in pen 2 years ago which we danced round like native Americans (i think that's the acceptable terminology) making "wah wah wah" sounds. Yes i probably do need to see a doc 😂

This season id say you were guaranteed a ticket with a membership. But in truth i doubt you will need one. A fair few games have gone to general sale which i see carrying on, given our current state Nb. Im assuming you meant a home game

Ffs......again!!!! This is beyond ridiculous now

Personally i wouldn't go, for the same reason i dont watch friendlies. If there is nothing to play for, its meaningless and games often lose that competitive edge......not that weve had that in many games this season .

It may well have been a collection point rather than a ticket office. I just remember picking tickets up there a couple of times when i was young. Always thought it was unusual (in a good way) packed in among the houses

Loved that place! There was a ticket office in one of the upstairs rooms in that row of housing too, if i remember right. Basically walked up the stairs of a terraced house 😂

20 odd back on sale now.

Ive been saying this for a while but im not so sure these days, as much as i wish the gravy train derails. There's more football than ever on tv, there are games on any given night of the week, ticket prices are higher than ever, there is a div 1, 2 and 3 of european competition and lots of people are still lapping it up and making millionaires out of very average players and tv execs. Maybe people like you and me and a few others, who preferred the old days arent lapping it up but given lots are, it still doesnt seem to be slowing down any.

I suppose this is a risk you take but if you dont try youll never get there. My daughter wants to see stockholm anyway and is learning Swedish so at the very least we will get a city break if he doesn't deliver. Although the thought of the ABBA museum doesn't excite me quite as much as the derby 😂. Thanks for the link. Ill have a look and yes i did read about game being halted.

I hope you are right, in truth. As has been said plenty on here, the squad is pretty unlikeable. Vardy will likely retire and Fatawu and mads aside, i dont have any real enthusiasm for the rest. Theres no-one who will run through walls or bleed blue, like the walshies, elliotts, izzets and lennons of the past. Guys you knew would give it all. Even the original tommy Wright may not have been a world beater but was loved for his enthusiasm and and effort. Give me a team made up of triers and youth products over lazy millionaires all day long.