The King Power Stadium - Our Home

[Guest MattP]

I hated it. I loved Filbert Street and still do, I never wanted to move. For a decade or so it was so boring and I wondered why I bothered at times.

 

But the last five years....I've shed more tears in this place than anywhere else, I've experienced more emotion in this place than anywhere else, it's the place I've stood in and seen things I never thought I'd see, I never cried after the Sheffield Wednesday game where it looked like we were going down  but I started crying around 65 minutes when we were leading against Southampton just thinking what we could achieve, let's not even go to Everton and Bocelli, after that the CL nights, that glorious anthem playing here that was only real in a dream - then today...the coming together of us all and big Nige, Don Claudio and our players walking around the pitch being led by Top. I've never been so emotional in a football stadium.

 

This is now our home. This is the home of Leicester City Football Club. For the first time now I feel that.

[Lestoh]

Amen. For a long time I thought of it as a characterless, boring stadium, usually home to boring football. Now? I hope we never ever leave

[SystonFox]

Top walking around today was a pure moment. How tough must that be for someone just 2 weeks on from the place his father passsd. What an atmosphere today. Full ground 30 minutes before kick off. Fantastic on 60 minutes. Whole ground pretty much still in 15 mins after the final whistle.

 

amongst all the other things you’ve said @MattPto add on to this but we really are the greatest club on earth

[stripeyfox]

Top's lap at the end was amazing. I hope that he drew strength and comfort from it as that is desperately the message I was trying to telepathically transmit to him as he came over to our corner. Tears were in my eyes and a fellow supporter (with whom I have had a slightly frosty relationship with) said "are you ok mate?' and put his arm around me and my son. A nice moment. Never been prouder of this club.

 

 

Edited 10 November 2018 by stripeyfox

[Fox92]

We've won three league titles, including the top flight, here so without doubt it's our home. I just wish we had a bit more signs of our history around it.

[PAULCFC]

The lap round the pitch did me!Top,Ranieri,Pearson......had to go home!

[EnderbyFox]

51 minutes ago, PAULCFC said:

The lap round the pitch did me!Top,Ranieri,Pearson......had to go home!

 

This, the whole lap was just surreal.

 

Top & Apichet draped in the Thai Flags, Pearson putting his arm around Claudio, return of Huth, Koncheskey, Cambiasso, Shakespeare & Walsh. Bocelli & Time to say goodbye. Just a perfect tribute, so poignant. 

[Corky]

The after-match tribute was stunning and a perfect chance for us to thank the players and staff and vice versa.

 

I hope Top and Apichet can take some comfort from it knowing that we are right behind them and supporting them all the way.

[Guest MattP]

Just now, Corky said:

The after-match tribute was stunning and a perfect chance for us to thank the players and staff and vice versa.

 

I hope Top and Apichet can take some comfort from it knowing that we are right behind them and supporting them all the way.

They must do given what they did today, it really was incredible. 

[Spudulike]

That moment on sixty minutes when the applause started up again, Vichai image on the big new screen above, and if Vardy had taken that chance in the very same minute then I would've been in bits. So nearly perfection.

[rachhere]

11 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

That moment on sixty minutes when the applause started up again, Vichai image on the big new screen above, and if Vardy had taken that chance in the very same minute then I would've been in bits. So nearly perfection.

Oh goodness, I know. He wanted that so badly.

[urban.spaceman]

3 hours ago, MattP said:

I hated it. I loved Filbert Street and still do, I never wanted to move. For a decade or so it was so boring and I wondered why I bothered at times.

 

But the last five years....I've shed more tears in this place than anywhere else, I've experienced more emotion in this place than anywhere else, it's the place I've stood in and seen things I never thought I'd see, I never cried after the Sheffield Wednesday game where it looked like we were going down  but I started crying around 65 minutes when we were leading against Southampton just thinking what we could achieve, let's not even go to Everton and Bocelli, after that the CL nights, that glorious anthem playing here that was only real in a dream - then today...the coming together of us all and big Nige, Don Claudio and our players walking around the pitch being led by Top. I've never been so emotional in a football stadium.

 

This is now our home. This is the home of Leicester City Football Club. For the first time now I feel that.

Glad you’ve finally settled in - just before we knock it down and rebuild it!

[Guest MattP]

11 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Glad you’ve finally settled in - just before we knock it down and rebuild it!

 

It's amazing really, this stadium now has more history than any other modern one.

[Wymsey]

14 minutes ago, MattP said:

 

It's amazing really, this stadium now has more history than any other modern one.

Might be going slightly off-topic here, but still.

 

When we first moved to the new one, initially thought it'd be like the Ricoh Arena in terms of both atmosphere and prospects (it was at the start, mind).

 

But, looking over the past few years comparing our owner's vision and what they've done for the club and its fans over the seasons gradually (compared to theirs - protests aplenty, hardly anyone attending, temporarily relocating over rows over stadium costs etc..), we have been and are now very lucky to have such caring people running the club in an ethical way. Should be a great example to other foreign-owned sides such as Forest, Cardiff, Hull, Villa, Leeds etc and others.

 

It could've been the other way round, being in Coventry's situation etc, and the lack of owner ambition/poor club management/leadership may well had took this club to more League One times.

Edited 10 November 2018 by Wymeswold fox