Could you ever go back to being garbage?

[Carl the Llama]

I'm still in denial about us being decent so it shouldn't be too hard.

[Voll Blau]

As long as there are new grounds to visit and the lower leagues actually start capping away ticket prices I'd live with it. Whatever happens now, for good or bad, we'll always have the memories of these times.

[FoxesFourLife]

Every true city fan remembers wining league 1 with fondness I went to every home game that season atmosphere was brilliant.

[TrentFox]

We were never an uncouth, lout! We were always Cinderella waiting for our beauty and inner-worth to be recognised!!!!! 😂. And yes, football clubs are for life. At Wembley. On a park in some god-forsaken, northern hell-hole ex-mining town, ( you know who you are). It just doesn’t matter. 

[OhYesNdidi]

A club with a £100m training facility and a 40,000 seater in the championship would be an utter disgrace  you don’t create the best training facility on the planet for bog standard championship players to use, it’s the best facility designed for the best players.

Edited 9 August 2021 by OhYesNdidi

[STUHILL]

I do look at Forest and Derby and think wow, that could so easily be us, if we hadn't lucked out getting these owners. 

[Guest ttfn]

I was saying on Saturday I think I would really struggle to engage in quite the same way if we got relegated. It might be an age thing as it’s less a part of my life now than it was 10-15 years ago but I think I’d struggle to make the 100 mile round trip if we were 2005-8 bad again.

 

What I’m really hoping is that we can keep being decent for another 5 or 6 years, long enough to easily lock my kids into a lifetime of misery once the slide inevitably begins. It’s going to be a hard sell in a YouTube/post-Youtube age to bring up 2 Leicester supporters if we’re in the Championship or worse and I live 50 miles from Leicester.

[Captain...]

Being garbage I can cope with, it will be the transition period from great to garbage that will be tough. The steady decline from 2003 to 2008 was just soul destroying.

 

If we're going to go shit I hope we properly implode like Sunderland and just plummet to league 1 and start again. Seasons scrabbling around in the lower mid regions of the championship are just the worst.

 

[ian__marshall]

Of course. You have to experience the lows to truly enjoy the highs. I guarantee you that no Manchester United fan has ever felt how I felt when we won the league. The dark days as a Leicester fan are just as important as the success we've experienced in the past 7 years, they're part of the DNA of the club. 

 

The fascinating thing for me is that in the past we've only ever been one mistake away from disaster however I now think that even if several parts of the club failed simultaneously it'd take a sustained period of mismanagement for the club to really drop to a level that would threaten the status of the club which is quite remarkable. 

 

 

Edited 9 August 2021 by ian__marshall

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

I think if we ever went back to being where we were. Top, Susan and the board (whether they're here or not) would be devastated. The investment off the field is a genuine attempt to ensure we are competing at top end of the top league. It would be a disaster if we ever fell to the level of Sunderland for example. 

 

All being said, if it happened, its like someone else has said, it will just be normal after a few months. Championship/League One/ Prem etc. I'd be yearning to get back though - like I did for the ten years we were out of it. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Any true fan could quite comfortably still follow their team when they're shite.

That's all part of the fun, and is what makes you enjoy the highs so much.

[Clever Fox]

In my 60 years following Leicester City I never saw us a a small club, Just a big Club struggling at times.

In my heart I always felt the good times would come soon. Now they have I'm loving it and long may it continue.

[drumbeat]

Not being able to see us on the tele (streams) would definitely cause a diminishing of ardour. Reading the results and match reports (as I did for a number of years) doesn't create the same sense of belonging . It's too abstract when it's just names.

[Hoopla10]

If it all went titsup and we dropped down into the Championship it'll be alright. It's all relative. My fear is never dropping out of the league it's always with feeling that same disillusionment some fans feel towards their clubs, like Newcastle. Unable to let go but unable to feel connected any more. I've sat with Toon mates win a game and yet they barely care. It doesn't mean anything to them in any greater sense. Having owners like parasites, just keeping you alive so they can drain you some more. 

 

[STUHILL]

4 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

The fascinating thing for me is that in the past we've only ever been one mistake away from disaster

This is such a good point and why I think the owners deserve so much credit. They are putting in place a foundation which means a sudden decline is much less likely to occur. Losing Brendan and some of our best players will no doubt happen at some point, but the world class training ground, stadium expansion and our fantastic and growing reputation, will make it very hard to slip down the leagues again. 

[AyewJoking]

I'd lose interest.

Obviously I'll always be a leicester fan but I would despise being one of those championship teams that suffer year after year of mid table/relegation battles never getting anywhere and it would be worse for us because we now know what it feels like to be amongst the best.

[cruzFOX]

With the ownership and investment we have there is no way - no how we are going back to the championship.I still remember watching a game from the corporate box (my brother's boss invited us) when we moved into the new stadium then going pitch side after the flood lit game and thinking we are seriously going places one day. No way did I know what that really meant but I knew our struggling days at Filbert Street were gone. More than anything else 'we' as a club have created something special. We've achieved success in a unique way something no one has quite done ever before from the greatest comeback to the greatest win to one the most amazing players (vardy) I could go on. There is an amazing story behind each moment of success. When (not if) that movie gets made about our club there is more than enough highs & lows material for the script writers to create an epic. Put it this way of we ever do go back down I hope I'm not around anymore on this planet. I've been there may times, done it many times, got plenty of t-shirts to prove it. I'm more interested in how high we could go in the future

[AKCJ]

There's a lot to love about the Championship when you're a good team in it but being bad in the Championship is absolutely ****ing miserable.

 

The league is absolutely brimming with arrogant footballers that should be better than they are but just don't have the drive to do it. While the squad that took us down was bad, it shouldn't have ever been in the bottom three. It was just filled with twats and that makes them difficult to support.

 

My favourite seasons as a Leicester fan were the League 1 and Championship winning seasons (15/16 was just far, far too stressful to really enjoy).

[Foxhateram]

In a strange way, I kind of miss it. The football we watch now, at times, can be pretty dull.

 

Obviously I'm loving the success and the cheers etc for our winning ways, but there are parts of games, when we just control possession I get frustrated and want us to push forward and be more exciting. 

 

I miss that party atmosphere down in Yeovil and Torquay. What it meant when we scored against the big boys! That De Vreis goal against Spurs springs to mind. Kasper leaping like a salmon against Yeovil!

 

I grew up defending our club! I got slated and put down, but I'd always say "One day, we'll be better than you." Of course I was always laughed at 🤣 but I liked that I was unique and supported a club no one else round here did. 

 

These times feel better after living through the old times. So yes I love it, but no I wouldn't swap the pathway to here for anything and I would certainly do it all over again!

 

[SecretPro]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Yeah, there are certainly parts to enjoy about being crap.

Cheap tickets and interestesting grounds

[The Horse's Mouth]

I kinda miss being a bit shit tbh

[drumbeat]

1 minute ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

I kinda miss being a bit shit tbh

Oh we've been a bit shit manys a time over the last x years. 

[Fox92]

No. I don't want it to happen. I want us to be in the top flight forever (it won't happen of course).

 

Too many games in Championship. Too many midweek games. Plus the quality ain't great. There's good away days but that one reason isn't enough.

 

League One was a good laugh but I don't want us to be in that league ever again.

 

I like going to grounds like Anfield every season. I like seeing the best players. I like us playing the best teams.

[STUHILL]

4 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

I kinda miss being a bit shit tbh

Get your fix with Derby/Forest. I re-watched Forest concede in the 96th minute three times yesterday. Most enjoyable 

[FoxCal]

Sometimes I think back to the Championship and League One and look back on it pretty fondly, miserable though a lot of it was. There’s a charm to the Football League that is lost in the Premier League’s glitz and glamour, though I do wonder if that’s just a sign of the times and the gap in wealth between clubs being what it is. It’s probably why I enjoy pre-season games away at Burton as much as I do.

 

It isn’t going back to being dreadful that bothers me, though. I’d still be there. It’s the fear of the repercussions of it at this point. It’s terrifying to think about what a couple of failed attempts at promotion could do to us when we’ve seen what’s happened to the Boltons and Portsmouths etc.

 

The saving grace would have to be that our financial management is worlds away from those but if we did go that way, it’d likely be a result of our club management being drastically different. It’s probably not quite the safety net I’d like to think it would be.