Finnaldo Posted 16 March 2016 Posted 16 March 2016 https://twitter.com/TomBrownTV/status/710083275356823552 https://twitter.com/BBCRNS/status/710069466839838721 Fvcking Christ. The Ultimate mid-table Championship Derby maybe.
The Bear Posted 16 March 2016 Posted 16 March 2016 You're angling so I'll have a nibble. To be fair this season they probably do sound like they mean it. After all it's easier to hide their feelings when they don't have to worry about us in the league. Indeed they probably are legitimately pleased for us right now too if they see our success as beneficial for the region as a whole giving them some coat-tails to ride on as it were. Don't think for a second though that either set of fans would be able to maintain the facade if one of them got promoted and had to compete with us in the Prem - on the contrary they'd be more than happy to talk up their rivalry with the best team in the country the fickle so and sos. I wasn't trying to fish honest! I'll leave it alone now.
bovril Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 We've done this to death. But here we go again. I have family in all 3 camps and I'm from a neutral zone (Fens) so I reckon I have a good grasp of the situation. Leicester Derby isn't a real rivalry. It was quite heated in the 90s and early 00s and maybe a bit in recent years. But it's mostly because we were in similar positions and the games were always pretty close and intense. It's a good fixture, but nothing more. Honestly Derby fans I know care little about Leicester and I'd say the same about our feelings towards them. Leicester Forest is a derby. Not the most passionate, hardly Celtic vs Rangers, but it's a derby. There is mutual dislike. I personally can't stand Forest, I look out for their result after Leicester's. And Forest fans in my family pretend they don't care about Leicester but the dislike is there. I think a lot of it is insecurity on their part, constantly reminding us of the 'glorious' past because they hate the fact we've been the most successful E. Midlands club for 20 years now. The thing that makes Leicester Forest less of a derby, in my opinion, is that there has never been any huge, classic fixtures between us (apart from the Knocky game), and our fortunes have fluctuated so much. How many times have we even played each other in 25 years? Leicester Cov is weird. They're West Midlands really, but there was a time in the 90s when we hated each other. Now I just see them as weird chavs from down the M69. I've worked with Cov fans in the past and there really don't like us. I just pity them. Derby Forest is a big derby. Don't even try to pretend it's not. They hate each other. I mean, it's a crap level of football and the fixture rarely means anything and yes they over-exaggerate it because they have nothing else, but they fvcking hate each other for whatever reasons. Anyway, that's my experience.
Guest Kopfkino Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 There's a Forest fan in my halls and we were at dinner the other day, someone asked if there was a rivalry between Leicester and Forest and he tried so hard to convince me there was. I was saying why would we care about an irrelevant Championship club right now to wind him up a bit and he got serious how there is definitely a rivalry there and then went on to say how does it feel that it still won't be the greatest achievement ever in English football etc. Never cared for Forest, probably because I'm from south west Leicestershire so it's more about Cov. I knew one person who was a Forest fan at school and he always told me how Forest and Derby is a proper rivalry. I mean it is but it's the only love in rivalry I've ever seen. They actually do secretly love each other
Carl the Llama Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 They actually do secretly love each other Nothing secret about it.
AyewJoking Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 i can see villa v forest and derby being hyped up alot next season. we'll just have to invent our own rivalry against barcelona or somebody.
Finnaldo Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Leicester Cov is weird. They're West Midlands really, but there was a time in the 90s when we hated each other. Now I just see them as weird chavs from down the M69. I've worked with Cov fans in the past and there really don't like us. I just pity them. I live Hinckley way so I absolutely loathe the cvnts. Although it's sidetracked for absolute pity last season when they were fighting for League One survival but then I reminded myself of what Cov and Nun'ton (Cov-lite) actually is and those feelings quickly perished.
Fox92 Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Not sure if you're on the wind up but.....Leicester have always hated them, there's nothing 'invented' there. There isn't a more 'invented' rivalry in football than Forest/Derby. It's actually embarrassing people see it as an actual derby. Rivals are supposed to hate each other but Forest and Derby fans actually love that they have Clough in common and got together like a group of mates and decided to play for a trophy. Is that 'invented' enough for ya? I could easily say Wolves try to invent a rivalry with Villa and Birmingham. You're kidding yourself if you don't think Forest/Derby is a proper rivalry. Every football fan I've ever know knows about how fierce Forest/Derby is. As for Wolves, why would they invent a rivalry when they have a proper derby with West Brom? Again, Wolves and West Brom hate each other. Leicester/Derby and Leicester/Forest is an East Midlands Derby but neither is as big as Forest/Derby.
Voll Blau Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 You're kidding yourself if you don't think Forest/Derby is a proper rivalry. Every football fan I've ever know knows about how fierce Forest/Derby is. As for Wolves, why would they invent a rivalry when they have a proper derby with West Brom? Again, Wolves and West Brom hate each other. Leicester/Derby and Leicester/Forest is an East Midlands Derby but neither is as big as Forest/Derby. Forest and Derby is a genuinely intense rivalry within the two cities it's played (I live in one of them). Playing each other for an actual trophy and describing it as 'The Ultimate derby' is frankly ridiculous though. Imagine the stick Burnley and Blackburn, for example, would get if they did that.
Samilktray Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Tbh both Derby & Forest are pointless football clubs and we should pity them.
Fox92 Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Forest and Derby is a genuinely intense rivalry within the two cities it's played (I live in one of them). Playing each other for an actual trophy and describing it as 'The Ultimate derby' is frankly ridiculous though. Imagine the stick Burnley and Blackburn, for example, would get if they did that. Oh yeah I agree with that. Dunno why East Midlands Today (or whoever it is) would build it up as "the ultimate derby". And I dunno why but I thought you lived up near Lancaster.
AKCJ Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 of course it's the ultimate derby... i mean, where else can you see richard keogh mark nelson oliveira?
Corky Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Forest and Derby is a genuinely intense rivalry within the two cities it's played (I live in one of them). Playing each other for an actual trophy and describing it as 'The Ultimate derby' is frankly ridiculous though. Imagine the stick Burnley and Blackburn, for example, would get if they did that. The Clough factor must make it a strange rivalry at times, most clubs try to play down their rivals' best achievements but the same man was the best at both clubs. I've seen Derby fans mocking Forest for living in the past yet their best times were further ago than that.
theessexfox Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Living down here, none of my football following mates (younger generation) would see Forest v Derby as a derby of any real significance.
Dan Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Truth is those pair get their kicks from the past and we get ours from the present, and that's been the case for the majority of my time as a Leicester fan. Forest even more so. At least Derby have actually been in the top flight since I've followed. I have never seen Forest in the top flight since I've followed football and funnily enough even between 2004 and 2008, the absolute nadir since I've followed Leicester, Forest were somehow worse. Always baffles me how they think they're massive. They're similar sized to us. Very impressive achievements but lets not pretend here. They aren't even bigger than Sunderland.
Richard Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Derby forest is on par with Burnley Blackburn i.e a pretty average provincial derby between 2 generally shit sides. If they're on TV I wouldn't purposefully try and watch it
AKCJ Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Forgot how utterly shit Sky's coverage of the championship is.
marko Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Forgot how utterly shit Sky's coverage of the championship is. Don Goodman - enough said.
AKCJ Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Don Goodman - enough said. They talk about the likes of Albert a****ingdomah as if it's a wonder they don't play for barcelona.
Guest Manini Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Can never work out wether Adam Clayton is any good or not.
AKCJ Posted 18 March 2016 Posted 18 March 2016 Can never work out wether Adam Clayton is any good or not. I can help you with that... He's an absolutely tragic footballer.
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