Will we become the new Forest with our PL Championship win?

[Kitchandro]

2 hours ago, Koke said:

Thing with Forest is they're a small to medium sized club who had a couple of years if unreal success. In reality they should be named Brian Clough Football Club. They were a small club before him and they're returned to being a small club post-Clough. The evidence for that is their fanbase. We haven't won much in our history yet our size of fanbase have always been on par with theirs (we've probably surpassed them by now). 

 

A big club don't spend 20 years in the 2nd & 3rd tier with average crowds of 19,000. For a club that have won back to back European Cups in living memory they have a shockingly poor fanbase  

This.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about your clubs' greatest achievement. What's wrong is using it to make out you're a bigger club than another.

 

They're one off achievements, they aren't the norm for us or Forest, so are pretty irrelevant to the 'size' of a club. Talk about trophies when you're winning them every 5 years, not every 50, or a few over a very short, unrepeated period. Our crowds were generally better than Forest's for a sustainable period of time in the 2nd tier, so that's why it was always so ridiculous for them to harp on about being a bigger club.

 

I don't think us winning the title makes us any bigger on it's own, though it does make us more famous than Forest

[foxy boxing]

We've every right to keep celebrating it as in all likelyhood it will never happen again. I hope we do go on and win more stuff but if this is it then so be it. It's not like the big clubs who win things every year or so. It was a fantastic achievement and deserves to be celebrated again and again. We won the league in an era dominated by big clubs and massive spending power  and that is the biggest achievement. We gave hope to clubs like Stoke and of that size that anything is possible if you have The right set up and mentality.

[KingsX]

When I read the OP I thought thousands of y'all had gone down the KP to relive the day, this morning

Glad that's not the case.

[Kitchandro]

'Bricklayer Chris Pole, 53, of Glen Parva, there with his boxer dog, Alfie and 10-week-old bulldog pup, Little Stanley'

 

 cliché!

[Matt]

Because of my location all I've heard for 30 years is 19bleedin'87 FA Cup Final, in the past 10 years or so that's dwindled abit because of fans boycotting/not admitting to being a Cov fan...this is our time.

 

Made me laugh how they compared their Check A Trade Trophy with 1987 the other week!  

[Alf Bentley]

2 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Nah we won it when it mattered. They won the league when Rochdale & Preston were probably top flight clubs, and then knocked Pompeii FC out in the European cup before beating the lost city of Atlantis in the final 

 

 

Got to give them some credit for that European Cup run. The atmosphere was volatile at that Pompeii match, and fvck knows how the coach driver even found the ground for the final.

[davieG]

9 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

 

Got to give them some credit for that European Cup run. The atmosphere was volatile at that Pompeii match, and fvck knows how the coach driver even found the ground for the final.

Apparently the whole ground erupted.

 

 

[Foxxed]

Forest achieved big then vanished. And they look back to no recent successes.

 

We need to not vanish. We need another success. 

 

We need longevity and, ideally, another trophy or European campaign every few years at least.

 

We need to become a club like Southampton and Everton, if not higher.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

5 hours ago, Koke said:

Thing with Forest is they're a small to medium sized club who had a couple of years if unreal success. In reality they should be named Brian Clough Football Club. They were a small club before him and they're returned to being a small club post-Clough. The evidence for that is their fanbase. We haven't won much in our history yet our size of fanbase have always been on par with theirs (we've probably surpassed them by now). 

 

A big club don't spend 20 years in the 2nd & 3rd tier with average crowds of 19,000. For a club that have won back to back European Cups in living memory they have a shockingly poor fanbase  

 

Absolutely huge game for them at the weekend and they've only shifted 23,000 tickets. Proper shithouse club, I'd be overjoyed if they vanished.

[urban.spaceman]

4 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Nah we won it when it mattered. They won the league when Rochdale & Preston were probably top flight clubs, and then knocked Pompeii FC out in the European cup before beating the lost city of Atlantis in the final 

They're still going!

[fuchsntf]

5 hours ago, davieG said:

I didn't ask the question because of current celebrations it was more of can you see us being the same in 20-30 years time especially if we never win it again which is very likely.

 

I'm not really that bothered as I'll likely not be around then  or if by chance I am I probably wont even remember it 

Come come now..we  115yr old hoolis  will have to keep together, to tell the young whipper snappers how it all began..

Oops sorry didnt want to wake you..

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, Kitchandro said:

This.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about your clubs' greatest achievement. What's wrong is using it to make out you're a bigger club than another.

 

They're one off achievements, they aren't the norm for us or Forest, so are pretty irrelevant to the 'size' of a club. Talk about trophies when you're winning them every 5 years, not every 50, or a few over a very short, unrepeated period. Our crowds were generally better than Forest's for a sustainable period of time in the 2nd tier, so that's why it was always so ridiculous for them to harp on about being a bigger club.

 

I don't think us winning the title makes us any bigger on it's own, though it does make us more famous than Forest

If  we could, just find some Famous bones, in a car park, and have a small pub, for only 22 people, create a decent Tram

System, find a nice friendly crook in Charnwood forest, and get ' old john' to put on a few years,

Wouldnt, couldnt we just become a bit more famous..

[promised land]

7 hours ago, davieG said:

RELIVED Leicester City's title triumph: Thousands make pilgrimage to stadium
Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/relived/story-30304890-detail/story.html#tfVUwMqpT89yVj5k.99

 

How many years will this last?

 That brickie in the write up who had the hip operation on the day of the trophy I know and have worked with, I'd have cancelled the operation, he has a season ticket.

[Corky]

We should always talk about the title win, it's the best thing I think we'll ever have, and the journey before it makes it even more surreal and adds to it, for me.

 

But what we need to do is not live off it forever, judge the club accordingly and carry on trying to be a competitive Premier League team, aiming to win the domestic cups and qualify for Europe. Hopefully we'll have a continued spell in the top flight, the ground is full every week and we remain attractive to potential players and managers.

[Max Wall]

6 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

What we we achieved isn't really comparable to anyone else - Forest's acheivement was great and all that but it was in a different time where the circumstance were much different. 

 

Football is a closed shop these days and we'd only just been promoted. AND spent a full 6 months at the bottom of the Premier League before the Greatest Escape. We were 5000-1 for a reason - we are Leicester City. We had no right to even be in the top ten. Everyone thought we'd be going down. 

 

For us to then outperform and outfox the richest clubs in the world and to win by such a margin is quite simply the biggest shock and greatest achievement in the history of any sport. 

 

So I will be living off this joy for the rest of my life and I don't care what fans of any other clubs think about it. 

 

Leicester City. Champions of England. 

[Spudulike]

10 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Think we're already worse than them. At least they don't sing "You'll never sing that" at fans of cubs who have won the thing.

Oh Jeez, not again "sing" ... in the future, "sung" ... in the past.

 

If Chelsea sing that to us next season they might be right.