Ted Maul Posted 13 September 2016 Posted 13 September 2016 It only feels wrong to some of you because we've had a bad start. Just because we're not playing particularly well on the pitch, doesn't mean that should put last season's achievements in the shade. We can sing that we're the current champions of England with as much certainty as singing that our name is Leicester City FC. So f**king sing it until someone else wins it, because you'll probably never get another chance to. Are United fans embarrassing because they sing '20 times'? Yeah right, they've got the best away support in the country. Nowt wrong with celebrating our success.
Poznan34 Posted 13 September 2016 Posted 13 September 2016 I heard "Champions of England, five thousand to one" after we had just won the league. Sounds better than "we know what we are" imo. Less entitled, and unique to us.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 15 October 2016 Author Posted 15 October 2016 So, I ask the question again: at what point do we stop banging on about last season? Sing about and reference it, yes. But a large proportion of our fan base look content to sing about it regardless of what we're seeing in front of us on the pitch. 2-1 at Hull, 4-1 at Liverpool, 4-1 at United, 3-0 at Chelsea... these are all results of a side that are anything but champions of England. Drinkwater's the only one in this team that's taken his game up a notch (let alone maintaining form from last season) but how can we expect the players to play like they've not achieved all that they ever need to achieve when our fans are setting the tone that anything's fine because we won the Premier League once?
treer Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 1 hour ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: 2-1 at Hull, 4-1 at Liverpool, 4-1 at United, 3-0 at Chelsea... these are all results of a side that are anything but champions of England. LOAD OF TWADDLE We are Champions of England, have been every time we have taken the pitch in every of the above matches, for gods sake realise the enormity of what we achieved last season. This year Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Spurs, Man U, Chelsea think(hope) they will win league, 80% of them will be disapointed. Some of them for the NEXT 25 YEARS!!!!!!! WE WON IT 3 MONTHS AGO, why the negative aura?, THE PLEASURE AND INCREDULITY will last me FOREVER
Manwell Pablo Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 1 hour ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: So, I ask the question again: at what point do we stop banging on about last season? Sing about and reference it, yes. But a large proportion of our fan base look content to sing about it regardless of what we're seeing in front of us on the pitch. 2-1 at Hull, 4-1 at Liverpool, 4-1 at United, 3-0 at Chelsea... these are all results of a side that are anything but champions of England. Drinkwater's the only one in this team that's taken his game up a notch (let alone maintaining form from last season) but how can we expect the players to play like they've not achieved all that they ever need to achieve when our fans are setting the tone that anything's fine because we won the Premier League once? Ask as many times as you want my answer will remain until someone else lifts the trophy.
Old Fox Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 24 minutes ago, treer said: LOAD OF TWADDLE We are Champions of England, have been every time we have taken the pitch in every of the above matches, for gods sake realise the enormity of what we achieved last season. This year Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Spurs, Man U, Chelsea think(hope) they will win league, 80% of them will be disapointed. Some of them for the NEXT 25 YEARS!!!!!!! WE WON IT 3 MONTHS AGO, why the negative aura?, THE PLEASURE AND INCREDULITY will last me FOREVER So much over reaction. i am with you and Pablo......keep enjoying it.....compared to some of the dark days in the past 40 years we are still in dreamland. We have not turned up away yet but it is clear that the focus in the first part of the season was Champions League ....we need to be right at it even in the premier league to get points but I trust Claudio to sort it. Maybe some of our players will never reach the heights they achieved last season as the timing suggests some of the back 4 especially peaked last season but we achieved something that most fans from other clubs can only dream of so having Forest,Derby, Cov, Villa etc all jealously looking at our achievement is something to behold!
Guest Col city fan Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 2 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: So, I ask the question again: at what point do we stop banging on about last season? Sing about and reference it, yes. But a large proportion of our fan base look content to sing about it regardless of what we're seeing in front of us on the pitch. 2-1 at Hull, 4-1 at Liverpool, 4-1 at United, 3-0 at Chelsea... these are all results of a side that are anything but champions of England. Drinkwater's the only one in this team that's taken his game up a notch (let alone maintaining form from last season) but how can we expect the players to play like they've not achieved all that they ever need to achieve when our fans are setting the tone that anything's fine because we won the Premier League once? I'll never forget our achievement...the biggest in sporting history. That said, we ARE letting ourselves down this season. To be champions and to be trounced by Liverpool, Utd and Chelsea in the way they did is embarrassing. The unfortunate thing is this fuels all those who said we were lucky. I don't give a shite about that personally, but we'll hear it more and more if this away form goes on.
Cityfox60 Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 On 10 September 2016 at 21:05, Webbo said: We can sing it until somebody else wins it and I don't care if we're bottom of the league at the time. Get real mate, total loser!
Webbo Posted 15 October 2016 Posted 15 October 2016 4 minutes ago, Cityfox60 said: Get real mate, total loser! Right oh mate.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 16 October 2016 Author Posted 16 October 2016 So many that don't get the difference between singing about being champions and blindly disregarding what they see on the pitch just because we were champions last season. I'm not saying don't sing about it, just pick your moments. You ask a question about at what point do we realise that we need to stop banging on about last season and actually get real with what's happening this season and you get met with a load of "I'll never stop singing it, me" and "I'll sing about us being champions all year as it'll never happen again". So many of our fan base would be willing to sleep walk into a relegation battle as they're still dreaming about last season. So many don't realise that they set the tone for our players to forget everything that made them what they were. "What they were" being the key phrase in that. We sing "just like Forest you live in the past" but we'll be that fan base in 5 years time.
ozleicester Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Losses to 3 of the probable top 5 sides... AWAY, im not surprised and only slightly disappointed. If we hadnt won the league and werent champions of England, we would accept this as a typical start to a premier league season.
Drew Peacock Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Despite our dismal away form, I'm just ever so slightly looking forward to Tottenham in a couple of weeks. Shall we not sing about being Champions or telling our opponents they came third in a two horse race? If we are playing badly and getting another battering, shall we just applaud them, and sit down in quiet appreciation of a good footballing team? Football is about bragging rights and banter surely. You come back with whatever you can. We have had nothing to come back with at any PL away this season, so it's the obvious choice, although it's beyond me why you wouldn't sing it all season anyway. It doesn't make us arrogant, it makes you a supporter of our team.
Guest Col city fan Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 57 minutes ago, ozleicester said: Losses to 3 of the probable top 5 sides... AWAY, im not surprised and only slightly disappointed. If we hadnt won the league and werent champions of England, we would accept this as a typical start to a premier league season. What? 13 goals in 4 games?
waylander Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Remember palace conceding 9 in one game were not so bad lol.
Sammy Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 I will be singing about winning the league for 90 minutes at Spurs in a couple of weeks. Imagine a club not singing about their greatest EVER achievement at every possible opportunity 5 MONTHS after it happened.
NeilLCFC Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 3 hours ago, ozleicester said: Losses to 3 of the probable top 5 sides... AWAY, im not surprised and only slightly disappointed. If we hadnt won the league and werent champions of England, we would accept this as a typical start to a premier league season. Regardless of last season, I wouldn't have accepted the mannor in which we've been loosing, especially not in our third season in the PL. But most importantly, we did win the league last season, have kept the same squad (excluding Kante), the majority of whom have been playing together for 3/4 seasons now. We Were in the strongest position in our history to sign and attract real quality players. So I don't see why we should have the same expectations we would have, if last season had never happened. We should be using that achievement as a platform to push on and establish ourselves as a top 6 side, not settling for going back to being a yo-yo team. By no means am I expecting to repeat what was achieved last season, but I do expect us to look better than we did in our first season back in the PL, unfortunately this isn't the case right now.
Donut Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Were Leicester City. Im going to sing about winning the Premier League forever. It might not be "champions of England, we know what we are", but I see no wrong in the Leeds fans singing about their past, the Forest fans singing about their European Cups. We are a medium ish sized club. We dont win much. We certainly dont win the biggest prizes like Premier Leagues. Im going to hail that achievement forever, not disregard it because it was a "fluke" and weve took a couple of hefty beatings recently.
Donut Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 16 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said: So, I ask the question again: at what point do we stop banging on about last season? Sing about and reference it, yes. But a large proportion of our fan base look content to sing about it regardless of what we're seeing in front of us on the pitch. 2-1 at Hull, 4-1 at Liverpool, 4-1 at United, 3-0 at Chelsea... these are all results of a side that are anything but champions of England. Drinkwater's the only one in this team that's taken his game up a notch (let alone maintaining form from last season) but how can we expect the players to play like they've not achieved all that they ever need to achieve when our fans are setting the tone that anything's fine because we won the Premier League once? Quotes like these i find highly interesting. Its almost like, because winning the league was so unexpected, it doesnt register with people that it actually happened. And because it SHOULDNT happen, people have erased it from their memory and that we think Leicester are underperforming against out normal expectations of where they should be? No doubt the last 3 results have been painful away but i dont see why that would stop you hailing the clubs finest moment. It might be the best moment the club ever has, it would take some kind of monumental change in football landscape for us to win a 2nd Premier League. Is it daft to sing about Steve Clardige and "did you cry at Wembley" to certain teams, because we are going back 20 years and the history of that is so long ago its barely relevant now? singing about a playoff win despite going up and down numerous times since then?
melrose Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 On 10/09/2016 at 20:34, Fox92 said: "Champions of England you'll never sing that" to a side that's won it 18 times You speak with forked tongue
Max Power Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 We should sing about it forever but it would be nice if we could find a bit more of an original song
Donut Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Is the "Champions Of England, Youll Never Sing That" just more of a tongue in cheek comment when it is being sung at clubs who have won it multiple times?
SystonFox Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Personally yesterday I thought it was "champions of England, you'll never see that" ? Which is fine IMO
FraserSorensen Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 Once in a lifetime season, actually, once in 5000 years season according to the bookmakers. Most fans have been waiting their entire life to have the possibility of singing about being champions. Whatever this season brings, we know there are at least 38 games this season that the fans can sing about something so incredible it still hasn't truly sunk in. And why shouldn't we? The players don't honestly pay attention to what's being sung, just that there's noise being generated to give them momentum. Claudio's not sat in the dressing room thinking 'my players are doing everything right, but you know what will ensure Wes actually keeps track of Costa for 90 minutes, if the fans could support their team rather than living in the past'. English football has always been particularly self deprecating (Aston Villas 'Let's pretend we scored a goal' for reference), and at Old Trafford I particularly enjoyed 'Champions of League 1, you'll never sing that' and 'Is there a fire drill' directed at the United fans. It's a day out that at 4-0 down you might as well still be singing and enjoying yourself than sat being miserable or walking out. Come May, realistically there will be new champions, but until that point, I see no harm in singing about it until we can't sing anymore.
ScouseFox Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 7 hours ago, SystonFox said: Personally yesterday I thought it was "champions of England, you'll never see that" ? Which is fine IMO then when chelsea responded champions of europe you'll never be that it's like bro do you even know football we have basically already won the champs league this year. gimps.
sdb Posted 16 October 2016 Posted 16 October 2016 We should be singing it all the time, it's just annoying the players are making us look like mugs whilst we're doing it!
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