Why you love Leicester City?/What would stop you loving Leicester City?

[Corky]

Only thing that would stop me really caring is if we were moved away from Leicester, similar to Wimbledon. We might change kit, ground etc but never the first part of the name. I travel a fair way for home games but even if a move cut the journey in half I wouldn't do it.

[Long Eaton Fox]

36 minutes ago, TeamRocket said:

What would  stop  me would  be if we join Nottingham f****rs and become one team

What like Leicester Forest service station

[filthyfox]

Change of colours, change of name, change of nickname.

 

Blue and white Foxes;  Leicester til I die 

[Wymsey]

As mentioned, an MK Dons-style breakaway.

 

But personally, owners being involved in corruption etc would put me off a bit for some reason.

[cc_star]

Nothing could stop me loving it

 

But really didn't like Sven's 'Championship All-Star' flops.

 

Had no feeling for him or his players. The club felt like someone else's as did the players. Not like the Drinkwater, James, Knockaert era that followed 

[whetstonefox]

Nothing simply because in 10 years time we could be enjoying our longest ever spell in the top flight or languishing in league 1 still regretting the last 2 transfer windows!

 

Either way I'd still expect to have a season ticket hoping for the best expecting the worst!

 

 

[chapero82]

Leicester is like your first loveyou never stop loving  

[gw_leics772]

I don't think I could ever stop supporting them, but during my recent rants, I genuinely think if Leicester go down because of a player revolt and refusing to play for Ranieri after last season, that could do it for me, with football overall.

 

If you can have them highs and still have the players collectively betray our great club for selfish reasons, I could seriously be done with modern football forever. 

 

If doing what we did could end with our club going into freefall, what chance does anybody have other than the established order?

 

Having said that, the Derby game re-ignited my passion. It wasn't the prettiest but it was different to the same old shite we have been served up for the vast majority of this season, so I am hopeful that we can turn it around if we drop the lazy bastards, as it looks like plan B, ie the B team, could work after all (in moderation of course)

 

Here's hoping I never have to question it ever again, because being a Leicester fan is what I do, it's a big part of who I am, and I feel as if my life would seem empty in a lot of ways without them. (obvious disclaimer for family, kids, etc.etc.  but my football is mine, it;s my time, and I ****ing love it. And even when I dont love it, it's still better than DIY)

[BoyJones]

Anybody who can stop loving Leicester City was never a real fan in the first place.

[LJS]

I couldn't stop supporting the club. It's the last real link I have with the city I was born and bred in, with the people I grew up around. It isn't and never has been about the football, really. I see the players (and club more broadly) as being representative of me, my city and my community. There's something primal about it. I left my 'Leicester life' behind a long time ago. Goimg to the ground still feels a bit like going home. I hope it always feels that way.

[Webbo]

1) I'm from Leicester

2)Not being from Leicester. 

 

[Guest]

 

1 hour ago, Bilo said:

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.

The MK King Power Foxes. 

[Vacamion]

 

My old man

 

Said be a Forest fan

 

I said quite a few things I actually regret, now I reflect upon the foulness of the language and the frailty of the parent...

[fuchsntf]

I am a Leicester Lad..

Since late 60s.Dortmund became my 2nd team.

I have travelled the world and lived in other countries.

I have followed other teams, I have cheered other teams and players.

My young friends and I would play games naming full teams, from all 4 leagues.

At one time I could name, all players in the top clubs in Europe.

Ditto for the top International -teams.

I got to know and became aquainted with a few.

After returning to Europe, then settling in Germany.The Bundesliga and 2nd liga.

I got to know as good as the English leagues.

Now, in the last 10-15 years, lost the intense interest.

But one thing has stayed, my close following and support for

Foxes, Tigers...and BVB, hasnt dwindled.

My son though more German than English, the same.

My 3 girls and wife, no interest...

 

The sad point is, its near on impossible to get match-day tickets.

Even at BVB, so One is forced to become a tv/sofa supporter.

After 50yrs I couldnt get a ticket for any game last season.

I couldnt even get to the victory parade..

Leicester city, and Tigers have the best badges on their shirts,

My city, when returning may be on the borders of being a dump,

but, The sport clubs, the town, the people....ITS MY SOUL..?????

 

Even this bloody moaning, misery of a forum..love it..

[Benguin]

I'm from Leicester so will always support Leicester. I didn't like football until my twenties and found the reason was because the result didn't interest me. I'd watch like Barcelona vs Real Madrid and appreciate the quality but I didn't care for the result and therefore didn't see the appeal. I then went to a city game, would have been 10/11 season and a culmination of the atmosphere and Leicester winning got me hooked. Never failed to watch/listen to a game since.

[lcfcben76]

Like others have mentioned, I'd only not love Leicester if we relocated/re-named etc... like Wimbledon. However if I found out we had been doping or match fixing or anything like that I would be absolutely livid and would hate every player/staff involved in what it may be and wouldn't love the club until they were all cleared out

[AyewJoking]

i started liking football when i was about 9 and naturally i wanted to support my home town team.

 

as a child you hate not getting our own way so it really used to hurt me in those early years of pain, defeats to blackburn and swindon in successive play off finals and then the ecstacy of victory against derby the year after.

followed by more grounding reality as we were relegated the next season.

 

i think if we werent a team that yoyo'd from success to devastation and back again i wouldnt have became quite so addicted. i dont think i could completely walk away even if i wanted to.

 

leicester are the best team in the world to support because you cant fully appreciate success unless you suffer the lows and this club has those in almost equal measure.

 

never boring. always stressfull

 

[Raj]

If there is ANYTHING to stop you supporting your team then you shouldn't be supporting them in the first instance.

[GloverFox]

Being born and bred in the City of Leicester and being taken to Filbert Street by my grandad since before I could ever recall ... I can't even contemplate supporting another Club ... even plummeting the depths of the lower leagues, with the Club being sensible enough to not Lord it over 'so-called' smaller clubs and acknowledging we were there because we deserved to be was a good experience. 

Being recognised as not just a Leicester fan, but a life long Leicester fan as we had the utterly fantastic last season was emotional topping-up time. Now we are back to reality and fighting for any sort of finish .... well that's all good as well.

what would finish my support would be a franchise move out of Leicester, aka MK Wimble-dons! No, that just wouldn't work for me... leaving Filbert Street was bad enough, leaving the city and King Richard behind!!!! Forget it .... it's like saying Leicester City will play in red as a home strip .... really!!!!!! 

[Guest Col city fan]

Theoretically, look at your 'operant conditioning' as a reason why following a yo yo club is so addictive.

It's like gambling. Winning every single time would ultimately become boring. Over time, it would lose its buzz. Conversely, losing every time would make you switch off. You'd stop quite quickly.

Now.....it's actually far more entertaining following City this season, precisely because we aren't doing well. We've gone from heroes to zero's (relatively speaking) in the space of 6/7 months). This generates debate, discussion, media attention, upset, anger, confusion etc...all of which are far more emotive than if we were languishing in mid table mediocrity.

Imagine being a fan of a club that always won everything. Where's the thing to keep your interest up? 

A lot of us follow City due to being born and raised with it. Following family members and mates etc. But then the interest is maintained, to some extent, because success is so much more fulfilling when it's on the back of failure.

If Chelsea would have won the league last year, it would have just been 'another trophy'.

For us to win it meant so much more.

[foxy boxing]

nothing would stop me loving or supporting Leicester city. we've had so many ups and downs. that's what it is all about the drama and the atmosphere and not knowing what will happen next!

[Ted Maul]

I'm from Leicester, so nothing will change how I feel about my club. I'd become a bit disinterested with modern football until last season, which made it all the more special, but no matter how sterile, theatrical and commercial the game becomes, I'll always follow my club.

 

Looking back to my childhood, supporting your local club gives you a very strong sense of pride in your community at an early age that you don't experience in anything else. It's why the tough times are hard to take and the good times mean so much more, and why I pity anyone who took the easy option as a kid and supported on of the big clubs- they could win as many titles or European Cups as they like, but they will never experience anything like last season.

[Manwell Pablo]

12 hours ago, Bilo said:

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.

 

Yeah I'd think that'd do it for me as well. 

[midland_red]

Following LCFC is a link with home and heritage - born and bred in the great City of Leicester and despite, 40 years down here in the smoke, Leicester still feels, whenever I return, like home.

Like some other posters, I can live with League 1 (been there!) but could live a franchise operation outside of Leicester

[Guest worth_the_wait]

Why love Leicester City?
 
A simple question.   Not always an easy answer.  It almost falls into two parts: falling in love, and staying in love.   
And each of those is not necessarily one simple reason.

Back in the 70's when I started going ... the noise of the crowd, the excitement of the game, the smell of a football ground

(the mixture of cigarette and cigar smoke with fresh air is a wonderfully evocative aroma), the buzz of a goal being scored,

the sight of 1000's of fans swaying and jumping and singing, the sight of the beautiful green pitch (well a bit muddy in the

70's, but you get the point).   Everything mixed in ... just made you fall in love.
 
Then the love deepens and intensifies.   You become proud of where you are from, standing with your mates, being part of the swaying, jumping singing mass of fans behind the goal.   The physical hardships of the terraces intensifies your emotions.  Physically touching other people creates an invisible bond of emotions, the open terraces: cold and wet, straining to see the game behind barriers and fences all hightens the passions.
 
Then there was the danger.  From the late 60's to mid 80's, games could be scary or outright dangerous.   Being chased down back streets, having bottles thrown at you, being batton-charged by police, having your buses and trains bricked, having glasses thrown at you in pubs, and being given a right kicking just for being a rival fan ... not fun.   

This tended to either make you or break you.   You either wimped out and did something less scary, or you developed a ghetto mentality and got on with it.   Some fought back, others ran away.   But the danger heightened your passion and love for the team and city.
 
Then obviously you have all the ups and downs of the team.   Somehow, this tends to be the least relevant of why you support a team.   ok some people latch on because of success, and disappear when things go bad ... but that's a minority.

Then everything off the pitch seems to go downhill.   The terraces disappear, the clubs all try to sanitise football by

encouraging 'families' to attend, the price of attending goes sky high.  The authorities sell out the game to TV, put games on at every unearthly hour of the day.   The list to depress you is endless, and goes on and on.
 
But through it all ... it's still the same basic game.   It's still Leicester City, and we still play in blue.  It's still my

team, and my mates that I have known all my life still support them (admittedly less are actually able to attend games through cost or family commitments).
 
I've spent most of my life emotionally devoted to them.  It's part of what I am.   Not everything, but a big part.   It's who

I am.   As someone said earlier, I've invested too much emotional energy to just 'give it up'.   And besides ... although the

bad times are very bad, the great moments when the happen are so good, they take me to a higher place.  There is simply

nothing on earth that feels that good.
 
Some people may say that brilliant mind-blowing sex is better.   But it isn't.   And the reason is simple.  Great sex is as

common as muck.   Has been for thousands of years, for every race, creed, religion, nationality on earth.   Leicester winning the league or being at Wembley to see Steve Claridge clinch promotion with the last kick of the game ... is not common as muck.  It's mind bogglingly rare, and has to be witnessed to be believed.
 
What would stop me supporting Leicester City?   Change the name to Leicester Forest, play in red and relocate to East Midlands Airport ... would probbaly just about do it for me.   Failing that ... death.   That's all.