JackH Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 As a Leicester fan it's obviously impossible to even think about supporting another team. As part of my dissertation I'm researching various theories and generally trying to understand why I (and football fans alike) feel this way and are so invested in their football clubs. Why do you think you're so invested in Leicester? And do you think there could ever be a situation in the future that would stop you becoming so invested in Leicester? (ie- constant poor form/ poor ownership/feeling somewhat distanced from the club etc.) Your opinions on branding and commercialisation in football would also be really interesting!I'd likely reference any interesting points/topics of discussion for my dissertation so healthy debate is welcomed! It's worth mentioning that if anyone would like to help me further, you can answer my 8 question survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7X6HPCVThe title of my essay is "Branding in football: Why you can't sell what football fans want". Thank you for any help!
Guest LCFC_World Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 If we get relegated I'm gonna go back to supporting Chelsea
FoxInTheBirstallBox Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I can't really think of anything that could stop me loving this club, apart from unless we get connected somehow to some pedophile ring or Isis group
Illusion35 Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I've supported LCFC since I was first taken to see them play as a child 30 years ago and wouldn't change my allegiance ever for any reason. I started going to filbert street in the Pleat era so fair to say my support is not affected by poor form/ownership etc!
Bayfox Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Nothing. Been to the east to the west to the south to North. (Says more about the person who gets that ) That says if my wife starts buying flat shoes. Long skirts and bans sex. I'll have to get a new wife. No to be fair that's about my limit. You can never change your club and 2nd teams suck. Trust me mines Torquay and they are garbage.
Beliall Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 If the pitch opens up thunderbirds style and a nuclear missile flies out and nukes London, I'll still love LCFC
Koke Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I didn't choose the Leicester City life. The Leicester City life chose me.
TeamRocket Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 What would stop me would be if we join Nottingham f****rs and become one team
AmarteyAndChill Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 If i find out Ndidi has a £20m release clause I'd be very close.
Bayfox Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 3 minutes ago, AmarteyAndChill said: If i find out Ndidi has a £20m release clause I'd be very close. Heard it's only 8. Chuck yourself under a train now.
foxfanazer Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 That's a really tough one to answer. It's just a feeling. We've had some tough times as Leicester fans but our loyalty was rewarded by the best season any club has ever had. Nothing would make me stop supporting us
crazyleicester Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Most kids are introduced to sport growing up and obviously in England football is the number one sport. Its one we can play when we start walking and then that continues at early school where of course rugby, cricket or American football arent on the curriculum! By the time we are young men we are brain washed into loving football and its always readily available to watch on TV to boost our interest. I played football for teams at the age of 12-16 but it wasnt until I went to the old Filbert Street and got sucked into the event itself that I got a love for Leicester. The bus towards the stadium with mates, the walk to the ground, the smell of the stadium (no it wasnt the shite from the horses or piss from the toilets LOL) and that buzz that football stadiums give us. The fact that we were really crap back then under managers like David Pleat etc was immaterial. Its one of the first occasions you actually are proud where you come from and want to tell everyone by way of a sing song. Ok it may sound quite weak when you play Liverpool and sing that we are the greatest team the world has ever seen but its what your football team gives you that gets those emotions going. In a way I feel sorry for the newer generations and those supporting big clubs because at times they havent felt the pain we felt to know how made things have gone and the success we have achieved. Also playing in those older stadiums was just an almost spiritual experience. When you put words like emotion, spiritualism and love in when describing a football team you start working out how much football can mean to people. Even as we get a bit older and priorities shift, those deep feelings dont go away and you still get a sense of pride about your team. I`d be on holiday in America or Spain and will see a Leicester shirt and all of a sudden you get a weird feeling like you have just spotted a celebrity! As for shifting teams, nothing could do it for me. It doesnt matter if we ended up like Rangers and got bought out and went defunct and had to start again or whether we became boring by becoming the Barcelona of football and won everything. Football has given me so many memories, so many highs following Leicester away, so much skirt along the way on the nights out in those towns and cities and even taught me to be a man early by getting involved in situations that you dont want to get involved in ie fighting and confrontation. It helped toughen me up and make me understand whats right and wrong. Most importantly, Leicester has bought me so much joy and I am not talking about winning the prem. I would be so excited when we signed someone like Alan Evans back in the day to stiffen up the defence or when we bought Hossein Kaebi and watched Youtube to see the same clip of him tackling Ronaldo twice so that made him a world beater!! Its a love that cant be replaced even though my missus thinks Im mad when I plan occasions around if Leicester are on TV or if I have managed to get tickets!!! Still, on that subject I always win, she can have every other day!!
weller54 Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 If Rachel asked me to marry her... ...I'd be Yanited through and through!!
SemperEadem Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Wouldn't say stop supporting but slowly slowly my intetest is waining. Many reasons but mostly they are cost,our poor away ends vocally, how corperate and plastic the club is. Modern football I suppose. Football culture in this country is on its knees, since going to see football on the Continent has really highlighted that for me. Football just seemed a load more fun even 5 years ago.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Born here, as was my dad, who took me to my first game in 1980. Poor form? It's almost synonymous with Leicester City! Why would I stop supporting Leicester? So long as we are a football club, I'm their man.
LcFc_Smiv Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I've been a fan all my life, and attended games as regularly as possible without a season ticket up until this season where I am now working in football myself. I love the club but I have felt distant from us this season and Leicesters results don't make or break my weekends anymore. It's a strange feeling, and I was unsure if it was just a hangover from last season.
bovril Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 24 minutes ago, Beliall said: If the pitch opens up thunderbirds style and a nuclear missile flies out and nukes London, I'll still love LCFC If it nuked Cov I'd love them even more.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 3 minutes ago, weller54 said: If Rachel asked me to marry her... ...I'd be Yanited through and through!! Plastic!
Mike Oxlong Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 I think that there are a variety of reasons why people support certain teams 1) You were born or grew up where the team play. It's a part of who you are and your sense of identity 2) You have a relative who supported the team, may have taken you to matches and instilled their choice into you so you've grown up supporting that team for as long as you can remember 3) You have an association with the city (eg went to Uni there or moved because of work) and perhaps went to games whilst living there. Perhaps it was during this period that you got into football 4. You have low self esteem, a sad life and have few if any real friends. You probably smell of wee and your internet search history would rightly get you arrested. This person supports one of the "big" teams for no reason whatsoever other than the need to be associated with success. As for ceasing to be invested in the club - well, I'll always support Leicester. It's just in the blood. However, all the money in the game could put me off going to watch matches in the future. The season in League One had a real charm to it and I have thought about chopping in the season ticket and going to watch some non-league but I haven't been able to kick my addiction yet.
Lestoh Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 because me dad told me I was a melt for supporting Liverpool then beat it out of me wi a belt
Bayfox Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 6 minutes ago, bovril said: If it nuked Cov I'd love them even more. Still the one thing Hitler got wrong. Deserved to lose the war after that. 6 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said: Plastic! Don't call rachel plastic.
Stadt Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 If we were fielding a team full of foreign players every week, I'm particularly keen on seeing how Barnes progresses because it's great having a local lad playing.
coolcol Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 Why I love Leicester city.....hmmmm...they are like my children.....there is too much past emotion invested in them. What would stop me loving Leicester City....Hmmmm......Death ?
Nalis Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 33 minutes ago, Bayfox said: Nothing. Been to the east to the west to the south to North. (Says more about the person who gets that ) That says if my wife starts buying flat shoes. Long skirts and bans sex. I'll have to get a new wife. No to be fair that's about my limit. You can never change your club and 2nd teams suck. Trust me mines Torquay and they are garbage. Well my 2nd team is Huddersfield and we could be swapping leagues next season... As for the OP, nothing.
Guest Bilo Posted 9 February 2017 Posted 9 February 2017 The only hypothetical situations that would stop me supporting Leicester City are extremely unlikely to happen, and even then I would be inclined to support a breakaway or fan owned club sporting the original club's name, colours or identity. The first would be if the club were somehow no longer Leicester City, such as in the event of a corporate rebranding by some shysters like Red Bull, with the second being an MK Dons style relocation. I honestly can't think of any other scenario.
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