You're a real Leicester fan when.......

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

I've noticed all the 'lads' near me who have been United or Chelsea fans for years are suddenly 'proud to be Leicester' and are attending games.

 

That gets under my skin a little, these are the same 'lads' that would have called us any number of insults over the years, but suddenly their local team is doing okay and they're loyal supporters...we could do without those types.

I know a Chelsea fan who always used to post photos of him on Facebook with stupid Chelsea hats or him having the tour at Stamford Bridge, now he's got that Leicester photo filter and posts photos of tickets when he goes to Leicester games. What a twat. How can any adult be like this? I can understand young children just supporting whoever is top of the league but in your late 20's? Eat faeces.

[Foxile]

Why? What harm are they doing to anyone?

 

Well, the ones I know are having season tickets 'whilst we're in the Premier League, it's not worth it otherwise is it?', so they're certainly taking away season tickets from other, more deserving fans.

 

They're a symptom of this half and half culture, whereby it's actually okay to have 8 different teams and just go to the closest one, thereby watering down the football fan culture that groups like Union FS are trying to promote.

 

Not to mention the faeces eating, as mentioned by Jnr Joachim.

 

It's also insulting to most loyal Leicester fans isn't it? The inference that we're only worth the time of day when we're playing Man United regularly.

 

As for HARM....actual REAL PHYSICAL HARM, it's not doing anything. But then I don't feel that I should have to come to PHYSICAL HARM in order to not like or endorse something. If I called you a shithead it's doing no HARM is it? But you'd be right to object to it. Similarly, discrimination based on height causes no HARM, but again you'd be right to be upset. Stepping in animal shit causes no HARM but I don't want to do it, nor do I want someone who has walking through my house. So in answer to your question, it is doing no harm, but that shouldn't, doesn't and won't stop me from thinking it's wrong, and it will never be a valid argument to my criticism.

[weller54]

I started supporting Leicester after the 1966 World Cup.. Gordon Banks was my hero.. Followed by Peter Shilton.

I was very ill as a youngster and my dear old mum wrote a letter to LCFC asking if they'd help me to see a match at Filbert Street... The response was amazing.

They invited me and 3 friends to a match day.. December 68..home to Manchester United.

They arranged to collect us from the train station, took us to the ground for a tour of the dressing rooms, onto the pitch etc.. We then met all the players as they turned up at the ground..

Peter Rodrigues pulled up on his Lambretta scooter!.. Met Alan Clarke, David Nish, Rodney Fern, Peter Shilton (God)... Etc

Had brilliant SEATS for the match..

Man United had.. Best, Law and Charlton up front!...

And to end the greatest day of my life Leicester won 2-1 with Rodney Fern scoring the winner!

...this is why my heart belongs to LCFC!

[Nick]

You've managed to hold a conversation with Bernie for at least a minute and felt his spittle hit your face and not walked away or punched him.

 

Then you'll be a Leicester fan my son.

[Jacnah]

You're a real Leicester fan when you are secure enough to not make/join in with threads like this and feel like you need to justify supporting your football team

 

How ironic    

[Jacnah]

You know you're a real Leicester fan when we're top of the league and you can't help feeling we're bound to fvck this up.

 

Thats the perfect definition 

[Corky]

You hear Smashing bunch of lads and Redouble efforts in training and you know exactly who they are referring to.

[urban.spaceman]

You know you're a Leicester fan if you know who Bernie is…

[Carl the Llama]

You're a real Leicester fan when every night you draw your LCFC branded curtains, get under your LCFC branded duvet and dream about being Andy King playing for LCFC.

[eye666]

You're a real Leicester fan when... could be applied to any football team. You're a real fan when you're up and down the country no matter how good or bad your team is doing, and living the highs and lows with your club.

 

So whether that's a last minute shinner to get promotion, a dire 0-0 to confirm relegation, a snowball fight in Walsall after drilling them 4-1, having your car broken in to away at Tranmere on a wet Tuesday night when you lose 2-0, playing with 5 defenders and 5 strikers away at Preston, or hammering Manchester United 5-3, you're a real fan if you follow the team through thick and thin.

 

Right now is such a great feeling for "real" fans because of all the bad times we've had over the past 10 or so years. I don't mind if people want to jump on the bandwagon, but they won't have those same feelings of elation when we beat the champions 2-1 to go back to the top of the Premier League, because they didn't witness a drab 0-0 with Northampton Town in League One. We know it won't last forever, but we're gonna enjoy this while it lasts, and I can only hope that other fans of other long-suffering clubs get to experience this at some point in the future (obviously after I'm dead though  :xmastongue: ).

[Freesolo]

You don't feel the need to make threads like this..........

[Steven]

You've gotten on a train full of Sheff Wednesday fans and they feel sorry for you (that's when you know you're bad),

 

This happened to me in 2008

 

... even better when a group of Sheff Wed fans are leaving the KP in a coach when Sheff Wed have come from 1 down to win and are waving their shoes at you. :xmasohmy:  

[Jimbo]

you know you're a Leicester Fan when you're earliest football memory is of Leicester City.

 

When you've felt emotional, had tears of joy or sorrow in your eyes, because of results involving Leicester City.

 

When you've had an adrenaline buzz, when you've just lost it and gone completely mental when Leicester City have scored a goal.

 

When you've felt nerves or excitement days before Leicester City's next match.

 

When you've been so angry and disappointed by a Leicester City defeat that you just don't want to talk about football to anyone for days.

 

That makes you a Leicester City fan!

 

It's pointless saying things like I was there when Josh Low was a decent winger.

 

I remember Cambridge in the playoff semi. My first game was the most rubbish 0-0 draw with Oxford.  I've travelled up and down the country watching Leicester play.  I was stood on the terraces at Yeovil in League 1.  I remember Steve Walsh's goals against Derby in the playoff final.

 

It doesn't make me a bigger or better fan, just means I'm older than some and more fortunate that I've been able to afford to travel to games and afford a season ticket every year.

 

What makes me a fan is the passion inside me for Leicester City.

 

If we get new fans across the country, across the world even, then fine by me.  As long as they share just a little bit of that passion.  I'm loving the attention we're getting.  I'm loving the media attention, I'm loving what most fans of other teams are saying about us. 

 

Just enjoying the ride

 

 

You're a real Leicester fan when... could be applied to any football team. You're a real fan when you're up and down the country no matter how good or bad your team is doing, and living the highs and lows with your club.

 

So whether that's a last minute shinner to get promotion, a dire 0-0 to confirm relegation, a snowball fight in Walsall after drilling them 4-1, having your car broken in to away at Tranmere on a wet Tuesday night when you lose 2-0, playing with 5 defenders and 5 strikers away at Preston, or hammering Manchester United 5-3, you're a real fan if you follow the team through thick and thin.

 

Right now is such a great feeling for "real" fans because of all the bad times we've had over the past 10 or so years. I don't mind if people want to jump on the bandwagon, but they won't have those same feelings of elation when we beat the champions 2-1 to go back to the top of the Premier League, because they didn't witness a drab 0-0 with Northampton Town in League One. We know it won't last forever, but we're gonna enjoy this while it lasts, and I can only hope that other fans of other long-suffering clubs get to experience this at some point in the future (obviously after I'm dead though  :xmastongue: ).

 

We're kinda making the same point.

 

I tried making the point to a "untied" fan a few years ago.  My point was the if Leicester won the Champions League or the premier league it would mean so much more to a Leicester fan than it would to a United fan if they won the league.  He was not having it.  But I stuck by the point, and still do today, that the lows make the highs feel so, so much better.

 

Not getting into the "real" fan debate.  But if we did win something big I know it'd mean more to me than it would others and I know I'm enjoying what's happening now more than others.  But there may be some who are feeling more about it than I am.

 

By the way, the snowball fight at Walsall ranks so high up on my list of good memories following Leicester, especially the snowball that hit the steward in the back of the head!

[Benguin]

You know you're a real Leicester fan when we're top of the league and you can't help feeling we're bound to fvck this up.

This haha

[Great Boos Up]

You know you're a real Leicester fan when we're top of the league and you can't help feeling we're bound to fvck this up.

Yes but we will always fvck it up in new and ingenious ways

[AKCJ]

You're a real Leicester City fan when you say that you're a Leicester City fan.

 

 

Anyone that actively broadcast's their support of the club is stellar in my eyes.

 

Piss off with this high horse bollocks. I have seen players like Joe Mattock score against Yeovil. I don't have to ****ing brag about it.

[deejdeej]

Well, you know if somebody has been going since at least the Championship days if they remember the difficult choice for lager drinkers... stay sober or drink THAT Carlsberg.

[johnny the fox]

I witnessed the  Birch/ Currie snog..and the I saw Steve Earle clear off the line as the Leatherhead lip was about to put them 3 up...Iv'e served my time.

[Great Boos Up]

When you're still slightly impressed by the electronic LED pitch side advertising boards.

[EGBFitness]

The whole plastic fan really gets under my skin.

For people in foreign countries I totally get it and I'm fine with, outside of England I like and have always liked Barca (so means I hate Real) but will also like some other teams depending on what their style of play is etc but never in a million years would I dream of making out I'm now a avid fan etc

In this country, to class us as a team they like etc is fine, don't act as if your now the biggest Leicester fan going. It's embarrassing and annoying when you have always followed a team but are quick to switch soon as a club come good. That is what annoys me especially when there has been real fans that have endured the good and the bad times

[Bayfox]

You're a real Leicester fan when... could be applied to any football team. You're a real fan when you're up and down the country no matter how good or bad your team is doing, and living the highs and lows with your club.

 

So whether that's a last minute shinner to get promotion, a dire 0-0 to confirm relegation, a snowball fight in Walsall after drilling them 4-1, having your car broken in to away at Tranmere on a wet Tuesday night when you lose 2-0, playing with 5 defenders and 5 strikers away at Preston, or hammering Manchester United 5-3, you're a real fan if you follow the team through thick and thin.

 

Right now is such a great feeling for "real" fans because of all the bad times we've had over the past 10 or so years. I don't mind if people want to jump on the bandwagon, but they won't have those same feelings of elation when we beat the champions 2-1 to go back to the top of the Premier League, because they didn't witness a drab 0-0 with Northampton Town in League One. We know it won't last forever, but we're gonna enjoy this while it lasts, and I can only hope that other fans of other long-suffering clubs get to experience this at some point in the future (obviously after I'm dead though  :xmastongue: ).

 

 

Without getting all high and mighty this about sums it up, I'm happy for us to gain new followers but grown men who change their club at the drop of a hat, that's just plain wrong.

 

I guess for me this weekend sums it up, I am getting a train at 7.15 am for Everton and get back to Leicester at about 11.30 at night. In Dec 2008 I did the same thing getting a train at 5.15 am to make it to Carlise.

 

This high is massive, but I will accept more lows may well come.

[Benguin]

We're kinda making the same point.

 

I tried making the point to a "untied" fan a few years ago.  My point was the if Leicester won the Champions League or the premier league it would mean so much more to a Leicester fan than it would to a United fan if they won the league.  He was not having it.  But I stuck by the point, and still do today, that the lows make the highs feel so, so much better.

 

Not getting into the "real" fan debate.  But if we did win something big I know it'd mean more to me than it would others and I know I'm enjoying what's happening now more than others.  But there may be some who are feeling more about it than I am.

 

By the way, the snowball fight at Walsall ranks so high up on my list of good memories following Leicester, especially the snowball that hit the steward in the back of the head!

 

 

Going for a wee feels good, no one can deny that. But going for a wee when you've been no where near / incapable of getting to a toilet for several hours feels fricking incredible.

[Mark_w]

Kind of diverting from the point of the thread but while we're reminiscing about our recent woes, it's amazing to think that you only have to have been watching seven years to have seen us in the the lowest league position in our history and the highest. Touch wood it'll be the highest finish in our history, but either way it's been a ridiculous rise, I'm still not over the Cardiff play-off Semi-Final and we're about to win the Premier League FFS.

[Dan]

You know you're a Leicester fan when you've got Everton, Liverpool and Man City as your next three games and you know for a fact your next loss is at home to Bournemouth.

[ajthefox]

I must admit that it annoys me when mates from Leicester who support the "big clubs" are now jumping on the bandwagon and "supporting us", when they've been taking the piss out of how shit we are for years. Don't take the piss out of me for staying true to my roots and then pretend you've always had a soft spot for us when we're smashing everyone.