Our overseas posters.

[Raj]

16 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Born in Leicester, lived off narborough and Ashley road area.  Came to canada as a little one. Mum is born/bred in Leicester.  Dad moved there at 3 from the pind and was raised there.

 

Believe he played for GNG football team back in the day. Most of my dad's siblings were born and raised there.  Most have since come here.  Naturally,  support my dads team and where i was born. Been an overseas supporter for over 30 years.  In the early internet days read about games as well as watching footy games on TSN hosted by Graham Leggat (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Leggat)

 

As i got older watched games online when/where possible. Come over to watch matches when i can otherwise watch on the tele or stream etc. Have an older bro who moved back to england 10 years ago so another reasonto visit.

 

My son is also a city supporter. And so it continues. 

 

Useless fact: two of my uncles grew up with and were friends with Dion Dublin. So they tell me.

Did you get much reaction from school/work colleagues when you mentioned city?

Obviously  until 2016 no one had really heard of us!! I presume most of your social circle supported Man U/ Liverpool

[FoxesDeb]

23 minutes ago, Raj said:

 

 

Sigh...

@FoxesDeb help a brother out here

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Why did you move abroad, where you moved to, what you doing etc...x

 

I was born and brought up near Kettering, so my football life started there, on the terraces of Rockingham Road. When I was about 18 we made the first round proper of the FA cup and we were on Sky TV, we played Plymouth Argyle. It was the best thing that had ever happened to Kettering! 

My boyfriend at the time was Leicester, and we moved there together. I went to a few games at Filbert Street, this was early nineties, and not too long after we were in Europe. I found myself on that bus trip to Madrid, stopping at empty service stations, being escorted for a wee by an armed police officer, watching Ian Marshall scoring, getting kept in the stadium after the match,  having bricks thrown at the bus windows, and finally arriving back in Leicester with ankles more than twice their usual size. Tickets for the home leg had been sold out while we were in Madrid so we had to go down and beg, we ended up with some restricted view corporate returns. I was hooked! 

 

That was 30 odd years ago, and in that time I've followed us home and away, the boyfriend at the time is a distant memory but City will always be with me. I was a ST holder until I moved, and I can honestly say that the KP is the thing that I miss most about the UK.

[Raj]

11 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

I was born and brought up near Kettering, so my football life started there, on the terraces of Rockingham Road. When I was about 18 we made the first round proper of the FA cup and we were on Sky TV, we played Plymouth Argyle. It was the best thing that had ever happened to Kettering! 

My boyfriend at the time was Leicester, and we moved there together. I went to a few games at Filbert Street, this was early nineties, and not too long after we were in Europe. I found myself on that bus trip to Madrid, stopping at empty service stations, being escorted for a wee by an armed police officer, watching Ian Marshall scoring, getting kept in the stadium after the match,  having bricks thrown at the bus windows, and finally arriving back in Leicester with ankles more than twice their usual size. Tickets for the home leg had been sold out while we were in Madrid so we had to go down and beg, we ended up with some restricted view corporate returns. I was hooked! 

 

That was 30 odd years ago, and in that time I've followed us home and away, the boyfriend at the time is a distant memory but City will always be with me. I was a ST holder until I moved, and I can honestly say that the KP is the thing that I miss most about the UK.

Nicely told Debs.

Probably the same sort of era I started going down Filbo(Brian Little was my first Manager- well not mine literally!).

Great times they were(Apart from the racist sh1t, but that for another day!)

Are you in Spain now innit??

[Raj]

40 minutes ago, GlennyFox55 said:

This is going well 

Its coming together now mate, just call me Ade Akinbiyi...started crap....erm scored a couple and stayed crap!!🤣🤣🤣

[Jattdogg]

30 minutes ago, KFS said:

Me too, now in the States and posting before I moved. Family are all from Leicester and was introduced by my Dad. 
 

Other than something to read while on the bog, the forum does a lot for connecting me with people with a shared interest. Moving abroad can be lonely at times, especially when your life is your football team yet everyone around you wants to cook bbq and ‘have a great day at the ball game’  

Lol i feel this and i was raised in Canada. Oh ya bud lets get some burgs and dawgs on the BBQ and watch some ball.  Differenr culture for sure. Same concept though.... a love for sport and togetherness with fans. If you can handle baseball or american football.

 

 

29 minutes ago, Raj said:

Did you get much reaction from school/work colleagues when you mentioned city?

Obviously  until 2016 no one had really heard of us!! I presume most of your social circle supported Man U/ Liverpool

I have been rocking my city top since my early highschool days. Thats when all the Canadian immigrant kids (parents from scotland, ireland, europe etc) would be like "who the fukc is Lie-Chester". Dont get me started on that. Lol.  Of course they all magically were liverpool fans and eventually united.

 

I've got cousins (2 brothers of my uncle who knows dion dublin) who support chelsea and liverpool. Wtf? They are much younger than me but at the time one loved gerard and the other was a plastic chelsea bandwagonner.

 

Anyhow, when we won the league  i messaged one of my highschool mates on linkedin and said "That's who Lie-Chester City is mate so **** off"  lol. He enjoyed the banter 20 years later and laughed it off. I did a solid air fist pump when he replied like a BAD MON. Lol

Edited 18 January 2022 by Jattdogg

[Webbo]

52 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Born in Leicester, lived off narborough and Ashley road area.  Came to canada as a little one. Mum is born/bred in Leicester.  Dad moved there at 3 from the pind and was raised there.

 

Believe he played for GNG football team back in the day. Most of my dad's siblings were born and raised there.  Most have since come here.  Naturally,  support my dads team and where i was born. Been an overseas supporter for over 30 years.  In the early internet days read about games as well as watching footy games on TSN hosted by Graham Leggat (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Leggat)

 

As i got older watched games online when/where possible. Come over to watch matches when i can otherwise watch on the tele or stream etc. Have an older bro who moved back to england 10 years ago so another reasonto visit.

 

My son is also a city supporter. And so it continues. 

 

Useless fact: two of my uncles grew up with and were friends with Dion Dublin. So they tell me.

My dad was offered the chance to manage GNG back in the late 70s.

[KFS]

6 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Lol i feel this and i was raised in Canada. Oh ya bud lets get some burgs and dawgs on the BBQ and watch some ball.  Differenr culture for sure. Same concept though.... a love for sport and togetherness with fans. If you can handle baseball or american football.

 

 

I have been rocking my city top since my early highschool days. Thats when all the Canadian immigrant kids (parents from scotland, ireland, europe etc) would be like "who the fukc is Lie-Chester". Dont get me started on that. Lol.  Of course they all magically were liverpool fans and eventually united.

 

I've got cousins (2 brothers of my uncle who knows dion dublin) who support chelsea and liverpool. Wtf? They are much younger than me but at the time one loved gerard and the other was a plastic chelsea bandwagonner.

 

Anyhow, when we won the league  i messaged one of my highschool mates on linkedin and said "That's who Lie-Chester City is mate so **** off"  lol. He enjoyed the banter 20 years later and laughed it off. I did a solid air fist pump when he replied like a BAD MON. Lol

Yeah I’ve actually taken to Baseball of all of them. It’s probably the same level of passion with some history of thuggery that says to me people actually care about it like we do. Not that thuggery is a good thing, I just think if there’s history of Yankee fans chasing a Red Sox fan up the foul line pole to get at him; they’re more like me than a tailgating NFL fan who ‘just wants to have a nice day’  

[Aus Fox]

Born and raised in Leicester, was a season ticket holder and travelled home and away for many years until they gave the job to Rob Kelly, then I knew it was time to get out. 
After a fair bit of travelling, I finally found Melbourne to call home. I’ve now been here about 16 years. 
Rarely miss a game, have been known to cancel morning meetings because we have a league cup 3rd round away at Cheltenham.  
When I first arrived, very few of any people knew who Leicester City were, now most people do, and. I’ve converted a fair few along the way. 
It’s not easy being a Fox down under, many late nights, early mornings. A Saturday 3pm kick off is 2am Sunday morning. 

[Foxdiamond]

8 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Born and raised in Leicester, was a season ticket holder and travelled home and away for many years until they gave the job to Rob Kelly, then I knew it was time to get out. 
After a fair bit of travelling, I finally found Melbourne to call home. I’ve now been here about 16 years. 
Rarely miss a game, have been known to cancel morning meetings because we have a league cup 3rd round away at Cheltenham.  
When I first arrived, very few of any people knew who Leicester City were, now most people do, and. I’ve converted a fair few along the way. 
It’s not easy being a Fox down under, many late nights, early mornings. A Saturday 3pm kick off is 2am Sunday morning. 

Well done for spreading the good word in Oz. Hope your sleep patterns are not all over the shop.

[jonthefox]

I'm on the Isle of wight. That's overseas. 

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

I'm on the Isle of wight. That's overseas. 

Is that Pompey or Saints Country?

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, KFS said:

Other than something to read while on the bog

Regardless of where you live, it’s the only reason any of us are on here if we’re honest 

[Raj]

10 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Regardless of where you live, it’s the only reason any of us are on here if we’re honest 

Beats speaking to the Mrs!!!

[1972 Fox]

1 hour ago, FoxesDeb said:

That was 30 odd years ago

Let's not exaggerate Deb! 24.5 years ago. 

[jonthefox]

17 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Is that Pompey or Saints Country?

Wouldn't have a clue mate. I'm only joking btw. Actually, it reminds me of a story about a mate who wanted to book a hotel in southampton . He went on Booking.com and found one that was one and a half miles away. It was, but directly across the solent on the Isle of Wight 

[MPH]

1 hour ago, KFS said:

Me too, now in the States and posting before I moved. Family are all from Leicester and was introduced by my Dad. 
 

Other than something to read while on the bog, the forum does a lot for connecting me with people with a shared interest. Moving abroad can be lonely at times, especially when your life is your football team yet everyone around you wants to cook bbq and ‘have a great day at the ball game’  

 

I live about 15 miles from a nascar stadium.. ugh… kill me now

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, jonthefox said:

Wouldn't have a clue mate. I'm only joking btw. Actually, it reminds me of a story about a mate who wanted to book a hotel in southampton . He went on Booking.com and found one that was one and a half miles away. It was, but directly across the solent on the Isle of Wight 

Ha cheers.

[HighPeakFox]

5 hours ago, Raj said:

Weve got some de dent overseas  posters on here.

I just thought its be nice for them to share some of their background how they came to follow city and if they ever lived here, when they moved overseas  etc etc.

@Jattdogg you start!!!!😁

de dent - is that some fancy foreign terminology I'm not aware of?

[Stadt]

@shen @VinceNoir

As Danes (?) how did you end up supporting Leicester? 

[shen]

5 minutes ago, Stadt said:

@shen @VinceNoir

As Danes (?) how did you end up supporting Leicester? 

Pretty randomly in my case. 

Grew up in Belgium where we had access to BBC. The PL was the league to follow.

Classmates had ties to Man Utd and Arsenal whereas I was just a 'general' fan.

 

Played a manager game when I was atound 13-14 years old, USM 98 I think, and randomly chose a club at the start of the season, which happened to be Leicester. I had a blast and went to find out more about the club. Leicester had just won the League Cup then against Spurs and were doing well in the PL despite being unfancied. As a Dane, that's something I could more easily identify with, so I chose to follow them and have done ever since.

 

Still need to pay my first visit to the city and the KP, but did manage to go to the game against FC Copenhagen in the CL. 

[HighPeakFox]

4 minutes ago, shen said:

Pretty randomly in my case. 

Grew up in Belgium where we had access to BBC. The PL was the league to follow.

Classmates had ties to Man Utd and Arsenal whereas I was just a 'general' fan.

 

Played a manager game when I was atound 13-14 years old, USM 98 I think, and randomly chose a club at the start of the season, which happened to be Leicester. I had a blast and went to find out more about the club. Leicester had just won the League Cup then against Spurs and were doing well in the PL despite being unfancied. As a Dane, that's something I could more easily identify with, so I chose to follow them and have done ever since.

 

Still need to pay my first visit to the city and the KP, but did manage to go to the game against FC Copenhagen in the CL. 

Fake news, mate  MODS!

[shen]

3 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Fake news, mate  MODS!

Haha oopsies, my brain is a mess with baby twins. I never saw the game against Boro, only read about it when doing my 'research'.

Guess I am a weird early-ish plastic 

[tom27111]

Good thread @Raj

 

I've completely gone off @FoxesDeb now that I know she's from Kettering. My dream was us shacking up together in Spain, cooking red cabbage and Paella together, but she's blown her chance  (for some slight context, I lived in Kettering for a while and my ex wife is from there)

 

Would also be good to know the story of all members spread across the country. Any ties to Leicester and if not, why are you a supporter?

 

I lived in Leicester for 32 years, from birth and moved away for work. I'm not exactly a million miles away in Northamptonshire. 

 

I've recruited 2 of the 3 step kids to be fans. Me and the boy travel everywhere. The step daughter now wants a membership next year, which is great.

 

The boy has even got a couple of kids from school hooked and gone to games.

 

I'm a big advocate of supporting your local team, always have been, but I won't turn anyone down that wants to watch us. It's better than losing them to the glory boys.

[HighPeakFox]

2 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

Good thread @Raj

 

I've completely gone off @FoxesDeb now that I know she's from Kettering. My dream was us shacking up together in Spain, cooking red cabbage and Paella together, but she's blown her chance  (for some slight context, I lived in Kettering for a while and my ex wife is from there)

 

Would also be good to know the story of all members spread across the country. Any ties to Leicester and if not, why are you a supporter?

 

I lived in Leicester for 32 years, from birth and moved away for work. I'm not exactly a million miles away in Northamptonshire. 

 

I've recruited 2 of the 3 step kids to be fans. Me and the boy travel everywhere. The step daughter now wants a membership next year, which is great.

 

The boy has even got a couple of kids from school hooked and gone to games.

 

I'm a big advocate of supporting your local team, always have been, but I won't turn anyone down that wants to watch us. It's better than losing them to the glory boys.

Born and raised in Oadby, parents were both immigrants (as in, from Durham and Brighton) so I'm not from generations of Leicestoh, and in fact I primarily supported Brighton until I was about 14 (although I went to a lot of games and stood in either the Family Enclosure or the other side of the tunnel from the age of 12). 

 

I cannot remember when I was properly won over - perhaps it was attending that epic midweek 3-3 with Liverpool that did it. I left home for College in 1989, but found fellow Foxes in Manchester and am still in contact with my childhood Foxes fans/friends too.

[Corky]

Going to live in Australia because Rob Kelly became manager is an extreme but also fair reaction.

 

20,000 others wish they'd done the same at that time.