Obliviousness

[Jack1993]

I'm not sure if this is worth it's own topic but I didn't know where to place it so feel free to do whatever you like with it 

 

I thought that everybody in Leicester(shire) was aware of what is going on right but something happened recently that made me question it. Now I appreciate that some people aren't in to football, fair enough but I suppose what I'm saying is "How could you not know?"

 

My example is a conversation I had with my auntie yesterday that went like this;

 

Auntie: Tony at work says that Leicester could win that trophy soon, in their last home game?

 

Me: Well it's quite likely to happen but it's not guaranteed yet 

 

Auntie: Oooh how exciting, I bet this doesn't happen very often,  I'm going to go to the stadium tomorrow and buy tickets for me and the kids, dya think your mum will want one? 

 

It can't just be me that this has happened to?

 

Just to make it clear, I am not starting a thread to make fun of "glory supporters" trying to get tickets, I just found it amusing that she thought you could just potter on down to the stadium and buy a bunch of tickets for the family etc. 

 

 I hope I've explained it well enough for everybody to get the kind of situation I mean,  anything similar happened to anybody else?

[Fox 4 Life]

A friend was over from the US last week and he asked me to get him a ticket for the Soton game so he could come with me. When I laughed and said they had been sold out for weeks he was shocked and said "even for a small club like Leicester", nearly punched him!

[stripeyfox]

A guy at work usually takes his kids down the Tigers said to me "ooh, City are doing well. Might get a season ticket next year"

In your dreams pal...

[kingcarr21]

My wife still doesn't get how momentous this season is in world sport. She thought I was sad to be close to tears after the Soton game. 

 

Her black eye still hasn't settled down

[Matt]

Quite the opposite people around me are actually taking alot more notice, probably hard no to as it's national news, for example BBC national news have ran a couple of stories on us, which has got them interested and taking note.

[AKCJ]

I was at my parents house when the Germany game was on and my Mum didn't know any of the England players apart from Jamie Vardy when they did the national anthem camera panning thing.

[HEGGSY]

Liverpool fan at work who's done nothing but slag off the way we play for the entire season, saying Mahrez wouldn't get into their team (), general bitterness and negativity, then had the cheek to ask me if I could get him a 3 tickets for Everton : tosser

[Guy]

My folks and most old friends of mine still live in Northampton and when I'm up visiting from Devon and going to a game at City, they are still of the assumption that tickets are still available in a 'willy nilly' way - when they ask if they can go with me to a particular game as neutrals! 

[kingcarr21]

My best man at my wedding hates football. He has always said its a pathetic sport where players fall over when someone blows on them.

 

Yet every game now he is messaging me saying things like

 

'cant believe it' & 'Were gonna do it aren't we'

 

Are you real don't try and get in on the act now d*ckhead

[MrSpaM]

The one thing I've noticed at work is that the people who used to talk to me about football who support the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham generally don't even mention football any more

[4everfox]

Me and my Aston Villa supporting work mate had a friendly row about who was better out of Andreas Weimann and Jamie Vardy the summer that we got promoted, I haven't let him forget about how adamant he was that Weimann was better

[Carl the Llama]

The one thing I've noticed at work is that the people who used to talk to me about football who support the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham generally don't even mention football any more

Ikr.  Eager to talk about how great it is that a little team like ours can compete against theirs earlier in the season so they can use their "trust me, I support a big team" face as they explain why we aren't going to keep it up, but now they've realised what's happening it's just "shit, there's the Leicester fan, heads down and on with work lads, sorry no time to chat".

[Jace]

If I see 1 more post on facebook 'Hi I'm looking for someone with spare Man Utd/Everton/Chelsea tickets preferably 2 adult and 3 children but not too fussy' I think I may have a breakdown 

[General Smuts]

Reminds me of my Facebook status after the Saints game.

 

City are absolutely ludicrous. What is life. I keep trying to explain to non football fans what this means if we win the league. The best I can come up with is to ask if they remember when that dog won Britain's Got Talent. Then say well if you imagine Leicester to be a dog that the Britain's Got Talent dog met down the park once and then this random dog goes on to win the Oscar for best actor. And last year that dog was nearly put down. And that dog wasn't even in a film this year. And then they start backing away from me slowly whilst I'm shouting at them about Jamie Vardy having a bloody party. 
I think City have broken me.

[Voll Blau]

If I see 1 more post on facebook 'Hi I'm looking for someone with spare Man Utd/Everton/Chelsea tickets preferably 2 adult and 3 children but not too fussy' I think I may have a breakdown 

 

   

[fuchsntf]

I was at my parents house when the Germany game was on and my Mum didn't know any of the England players apart from Jamie Vardy when they did the national anthem camera panning thing.

No, you got it wrong, she thought it was Albert Steptoe...I bet she was waiting to see the horse n cart

outside the ground..

[ealingfox]

Me mam keeps saying 'Oooooh Leicester are doing well aren't they?'

 

Indeed.

[FoxonMaui]

The priceless look on the face of my longtime Arsenal buddy who's from North London and grew up on the Highbury terraces, when I ran into him at a building supplies store here on Maui just after the Southampton game.It was the exquisite mixture of hunched shoulders and pained facial expression of the entitled elitist Arse fan with nowhere to hide, finally coming to the awful realization that their delusional world was falling apart. I patted him on the back and suggested he get counseling .........!!

As he stumbled away he was muttering something incoherent about invincibles.

I laughed and just said ''pot one", maybe that was too cruel

[Dan]

I'll never ever be able to explain the scale of this to any non-football fan. They'll think I'm mad, if they don't already.

[Jace]

For me what is shocking is how many fans believe we don't need to expand, this isn't a new situation. We struggled for tickets in league 1 when it got to the end of the season, in the Championship the demand for tickets in the play offs and when we won the league went mental. Even before it looked like we were going to win the Premier League we have been sold out pretty much for nearly 2 years now. Coming from Cornwall when I was a young child I used to support Man Utd in the early 90s but it was impossible to get tickets for them so because my dad supported Leicester and used to take me to see them instead which is why I started supporting Leicester. Now I'm an adult and want to take my son to matches its the other way around its become impossible to get tickets for Leicester and incredibly easy for Man Utd. I know people are worried about empty seats but our tickets must be higher in demand than any other club right now we need to go upto 40,000 capacity asap 

[Rusko187]

Out with some old work mates last night, 1 of the lads is what I'll call a passive fan but to be fair even when we were bad he'd still have an interest but he's more of an egg chaser.

 

However my old boss... well conversation starts "I'm a Leicester fan now" yet I still had to explain the rules of football to him and how monumental this season could be to us. Think he got it in the end.

[ithuriel]

Have peeps asking me about tickets and season tickets about once every two weeks.

Just last Tuesday a guy at work asked about tickets and said he had tried to get some for the Southampton game but was told by the lady at the counter they were sold out.

Had a fair few peeps tell me the stadium is too small now 

One guy who said he supported Man Utd but had not followed footy for a couple of seasons was completely oblivious to the fact Leicester is the top team in the division.

[billyfox1]

Love it when people who know nothing about football try and get involved. My father-in-law genuinely thought I was getting wound up after his repeated "I read in the paper that Forest are trying to sign that Vardy bloke." He just has no concept of how ridiculous the statement was and thought I was getting worried.