davieG Posted 3 May 2016 Posted 3 May 2016 Leicester City made me fall in love with football again, a Nottingham Forest fan writes By Barry_Cooper1 | Posted: May 03, 2016 Forest fans are having a bad time of it at the minute Comments (0) Let's face it, the last 20 years or so have been nothing short of traumatic at the City Ground. A couple of flirtations with the top six in the Championship, some failed playoff campaign and relegation to League One come to the forefront of memory. In amongst the solitary foray into the Premier League which was hardly a roaring success, Nottingham Forest have fallen further than ever behind their local rivals. Derby County have been up and down, but did register the lowest points total in Premier League history. But they got there and have been threatening a return ever since. That return may even come this season, unless they fail once again when Richard Keogh slips over in the penalty area. But step forward Leicester City. Read more: Leicester City's Premier League title is one-off, says Claudio Ranieri A club who have often tried to muscle in on the Forest versus Derby rivalry have now rewritten English football history. And as a Forest fan, I find it something of beauty. As much as I'd have loved the Reds to get into the Premier League, few could deny it had become boring, predictable and expensive for the normal person. Unless you supported one of the Manchester clubs or two from London, realistically you never had a chance of making the top four. Leicester have changed that. They've shown what can be done with good management, team spirit, good, honest players and work ethic. I'd become bored of football. Forest losing at Derby in March Watching Forest this season has been a bind, as it has been for so many years. It's offered me little in terms of excitement and enjoyment. I've gone each and every week out of habit above expectation. Even watching the Premier League on a Sunday had become anything but inspiring. Then the Foxes came along; with a manager who cared not for mind games or histrionics. One who oozed charisma, charm and humour. And a team that played with style, pace and panache and everything that summed up their Italian manager. They might be a rival, but above all else, I'm a football supporter and I have loved just about everything in their season. A club united as one. A club with its owners, fans and players singing from the same hymn sheet, working for the common goal. Becoming the champions of England. Read more: Jamie Vardy trolls Harry Kane on Twitter with Lion King picture Everything that Forest aren't and are a million miles from. You don't see Leicester's owners on Twitter, or people claiming to be close to the owners acting like brats on social media. You don't see Leicester's owners making false promises and trotting out inane propaganda week after week while it sinks lower and lower. They quietly get on with things. People in the right positions doing jobs they should be doing and getting the results. It's a remarkable concept that Forest fans can only dream of. Ignore the odd tremble of bitterness, secretly, the like minded amongst us all admire what you've done. Leicester have beaten Financial Fair Play and lived to tell the tale. The club is one to be proud of. Fearless. Dilly-ding Dilly-dong Claudio Ranieri and Leicester City have made the game beautiful again. They've stuck two fingers up to the establishment, all those critics and pundits who laughed them off. Even myself, who tweeted last summer that Ranieri's appointment was a mistake, but I'm not too proud to admit that I got it wrong. Badly wrong. Many of us did. Claudio is the long lost Italian grandad we all wanted to be our own but he belongs to the city of Leicester, and my God should you be proud of him. Both of our famous, prestigious clubs can now lay claim to unlikely glory and rather than spend hours debating which one was better, just appreciate that we're both clubs full of heroes. Whether it was us in 1979 and 1980 or you now, we've shaken up English football and have history to be hugely proud of. Well done, Leicester City – just savour the moment. I for one, love football again. Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Congratulations-Leicester-City-Nottingham-Forest/story-29218434-detail/story.html#ixzz47cWZe9OI Follow us: @@leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook
GloverFox Posted 3 May 2016 Posted 3 May 2016 What a great piece, searching for the reasons why we all love football ... the Beautiful game! It makes you mad, laugh, cry and shout but most of all it draws you into itself and grabs your soul. I don't think I'm alone when I say I want to see Forest, Coventry, Derby and Birmingham teams back in Leicester competing for the 'local' bragging rights ... I made some wonderful, comical and downright opinionated '''''friends''''' after these games
murphy Posted 3 May 2016 Posted 3 May 2016 I had forgotten that Forest even exist. I like it that way. Lets leave them to their precious Derby rivalry, cheeky tw@t.
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