If you could no longer support Leicester.....

[Nick]

I think I’d probably just indulge in a different sport or pastime. Football would be dead to me. I don’t have time to follow the MotoGP or the World Superbikes in the way I’d like, nor basketball, rugby, boxing... the list is quite extensive! 

[hejammy]

Honestly couldn't bring myself to support any other "mainstream" team. Would actually just lose interest in football most likely. Probably get more involved in grassroots or something. 

[goody2028]

I’d follow any of my mates teams just for the crack and the away day piss ups but there’ll be no emotion or support for it. Would be the day proper club football died wouldn’t it really for us. 

[fuchsntf]

Get me Jumpers out, Hang One over my wheelchair, Another over my Walking frame...creating Two goalposts....

 

Get  my mates to do the same.....and then play Football swinging on my crutches......!!!

Edited 19 April 2021 by fuchsntf

[LC/FC]

I'd probably just give up on football and switch back to Rugby with the Tigers.

[KingsX]

Cleveland SC.  Brilliant club at their level, and the only one I can go see.  But still a (mostly) amateur local club whose existence is shaky.  Even in the stands, I don’t care half as much about their results as I do watching LCFC on a screen.

 

Let’s be real -- it takes higher stakes than that not only to raise the adrenaline, but to cement a love.

 

City are about the last ones standing in the “club to love” sweepstakes, at so high a level.  All clubs jerk you around, but this one … however naïve this is, somehow seems to love you back.  You can almost feel a beating heart instead of a drip-drip-drip of dollars and pounds.  And the stakes are the highest.  That combination is emotional glue.

 

City’s grip on you cannot be replaced.  For lifers, and even for newbs from far away.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

5 minutes ago, KingsX said:

Cleveland SC.  Brilliant club at their level, and the only one I can go see.  But still a (mostly) amateur local club whose existence is shaky.  Even in the stands, I don’t care half as much about their results as I do watching LCFC on a screen.

 

Let’s be real -- it takes higher stakes than that not only to raise the adrenaline, but to cement a love.

 

City are about the last ones standing in the “club to love” sweepstakes, at so high a level.  All clubs jerk you around, but this one … however naïve this is, somehow seems to love you back.  You can almost feel a beating heart instead of a drip-drip-drip of dollars and pounds.  And the stakes are the highest.  That combination is emotional glue.

 

City’s grip on you cannot be replaced.  For lifers, and even for newbs from far away.

Of course you've already been through this when Modell took the Browns away to Baltimore to become the Ravens. Although the Browns were re-established a few years later, did you lose any of your passion for the Browns and/or the NFL in general?

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Anstey Nomads

That's me sorted then. 

[PAULCFC]

Probably spend a lot more time watching the county as well.

[filbertway]

Already watch coalville full time after jacking in watching pro football about 10 years ago. Being told to sit down while at the back of the family stand killed my enjoyment of the football experience.

 

So I'd carry on going down owen street 

 

 

[FoxOnWheels]

Sileby Town, best local cobs about!

[Mike Oxlong]

Has this poster been let out of prison yet ? 

 

We don’t have threads like this anymore ! 

 

Edited 19 April 2021 by Mike Oxlong

[KingsX]

11 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Of course you've already been through this when Modell took the Browns away to Baltimore to become the Ravens. Although the Browns were re-established a few years later, did you lose any of your passion for the Browns and/or the NFL in general?

 

I had a season ticket for several years, planned my weekends around them, lived and died with them.  We were the loudest crowds in the NFL, and I was sure we were what got “my team” over the line.

 

In one stroke, I was disabused of all that.  Just part of my passage to adulthood.  And while I'd do it all again (what better way to spend your 20s?), I'm only mildly interested in the NFL today.

 

City must be my passage to a second childhood 

[lee7]

Like others have said it would end my interest in football completely but for the sake of my kids i'd probably take them to watch a local team with an old style stadium so maybe someone like Luton or Northampton or Peterborough but i could never follow them like i do Leicester or be passionate about watching them play. 

[Unabomber]

Bristol City currently 

[shailen]

Quite honestly, I'd stop following Leicester if we signed up to this idea. Whilst I love the club, I love the sport more and this idea is monopolising certain club's position and removing the essence of competition. It simply won't work either. If you're playing Barcelona or Real Madrid every week, the novelty factor of playing such big clubs will ware off. The champions league is primed for this reason as you've got to earn the right to play in that competition. 

 

It's simply quite a pathetic attempt at cashing in on something that will never work. 

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

7 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Bristol City currently 

Watford previously? 

[Unabomber]

Just now, ROB-THE-BLUE said:

Watford previously? 

Wanted them to do well for a spell yeah 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Ipswich without a shadow of a doubt. My second team and been to a few games at Portman Road.

 

The other option is Villa since most my family support them (sigh) I wouldn't put on the full kit bought for me by my dad as a 5 year old and don't intend on starting now

[Scotch]

I quite like what Forrest Green are doing as a club. They seem like they have a conscious. 

[Kitchandro]

I wouldn't support anyone. Tbh, I'd more or less come to the point where I'd fallen out with football anyway. It's become largely unwatchable, there's nothing honest or meaningful about the games, especially without fans this season, VAR and diving getting more accepted by everyone seemingly by the day. I did still enjoy the result yesterday, mind.

 

But football supporting only makes sense if you have a lifelong connection to a particular team. Supporting a small local club instead makes no more sense than a Man Utd fan waking up one day and deciding to support Man City. Being from the same area doesn't make it the same club.

 

The club exists as an extension of the fans that have supported it all their lives and their shared memories. The stories that my dad told me about the games he went to, the love (and sometimes hatred) for former players and the delight we all felt when we won the league, or won at Forest in 2013 or Max Gradel's equaliser at Mk Dons. That's what being a Leicester fan is, I've never understood how you can 'support' another club, there has to be a familiarity and emotional history for you to love it.

 

If you don't feel the same passion for football anymore, just do something else. There are other things in life, maybe none of them are quite like football when it's good, but they're much better than football when it's bad. And by bad, I don't mean losing an getting relegated, I mean empty and dull.

[Foxaholic ME]

3 hours ago, lee7 said:

Like others have said it would end my interest in football completely but for the sake of my kids i'd probably take them to watch a local team with an old style stadium so maybe someone like Luton or Northampton or Peterborough but i could never follow them like i do Leicester or be passionate about watching them play. 

Peterborough  and Luton but Northampton have a newish stadiumand takng kids to  Luton ground would count as punishment

[Foxxed]

LCFC women. Or is that cheating?

[AyewJoking]

No fcuker, I finally be free

[Nalis]

10 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Has this poster been let out of prison yet ? 

 

We don’t have threads like this anymore ! 

 

Wtf did I just read?