The Leicester Perception whilst on your travels

[Sly]

Okay, weird title I know! 
 

However, I’m Currently in Mauritius and my mind was blown yesterday, as our Taxi driver thought we’d only been formed a few year before we won the Premier League title! We had a good hour discussing our history whilst my wife went to sleep in the back 😂 

 

He thought I was crazy when I told him I’d changed my team to Leicester from Barcelona when I was younger. 
 

He was a Liverpool supporter. Apparently Liverpool have  built an academy on the Island and most of the players typically play for France. 
 

The Island is apparently largely Liverpool  / Manchester. He said it’s like a national holiday when they play. 
 

……. he could be feeding me BS, however it did make me laugh. 

 

Anyone else found some weird perceptions on us whilst travelling around the world? 

[Aus Fox]

The title win changed perceptions of us, it went from me explains to everyone who we are, and trying to describe where Leicester is in England. To everyone knowing who we are, I’ve even been called a glory supporter a couple of times 😂.

Standing with less than 10,000 at Filbert St all those years ago, I never imagined I could be called a glory supporter.

[jonny_wright]

Here in Halkidiki I was speaking to some Russians from Samara who knew lots about leicester and even said after 2016 we are lots of peoples favourite PL team

[justfoxes]

4 hours ago, Sly said:

Okay, weird title I know! 
 

However, I’m Currently in Mauritius and my mind was blown yesterday, as our Taxi driver thought we’d only been formed a few year before we won the Premier League title! We had a good hour discussing our history whilst my wife went to sleep in the back 😂 

 

He thought I was crazy when I told him I’d changed my team to Leicester from Barcelona when I was younger. 
 

He was a Liverpool supporter. Apparently Liverpool have  built an academy on the Island and most of the players typically play for France. 
 

The Island is apparently largely Liverpool  / Manchester. He said it’s like a national holiday when they play. 
 

……. he could be feeding me BS, however it did make me laugh. 

 

Anyone else found some weird perceptions on us whilst travelling around the world? 

Beautiful place to Visit take your Mrs to a Restaurant in Le Chamarel it’s amazing the views from the canopy and the food is  superb !

https://www.lechamarelrestaurant.com/
 

on your post tho went to Cuba and the waiter asked for my shirt before we leave, I gave it to him that day as I had another one  he certainly made our stay an even better one giving us the non tourist watered down with local alcohol whiskey 

[mazarron fox]

After we won the league cup my mrs who worked in the clubs ticket office was wearing a Coca Cola shirt with Leicester city champions on it. We were on safari in Kenya near Voi and had stopped at a gift shop. She swapped the shirt for 2 carved elephants with the owner.

[Bilsthorpe Blue]

4 minutes ago, mazarron fox said:

After we won the league cup my mrs who worked in the clubs ticket office was wearing a Coca Cola shirt with Leicester city champions on it. We were on safari in Kenya near Voi and had stopped at a gift shop. She swapped the shirt for 2 carved elephants with the owner.

You've set yourself up there wait for the comments..........😀

[smallpauldj]

It could be just me, but I think people almost double take when they see a Leicester shirt abroad now, and that includes the English. We have almost earned a strange kind of respect. After we won the league, I went Disneyland in Florida and the guy that is there when you get of the coach to say welcome saw my shirt and I couldn't get away. 😂 Even the locals in Cape Verde know us and can name some of the players. I'm going back Florida in just under 6 weeks, I'll see if our fame is still the same haha

[rico]

When we were in Rome for the semi final we got talking to Lazio fans, one got on his knees and begged for James Vardy to score the winner 

[adejo92]

1 hour ago, mazarron fox said:

After we won the league cup my mrs who worked in the clubs ticket office was wearing a Coca Cola shirt with Leicester city champions on it. We were on safari in Kenya near Voi and had stopped at a gift shop. She swapped the shirt for 2 carved elephants with the owner.

Cool story and that but i'd never let slip that any loved one has association with the ticket office.

[st albans fox]

The Chinese always nod and say ‘oh wardy’ ….

[Foxdiamond]

I think even in blighty perception changed. As long  as we are in the top half of the Premier League and challenge for a cup or give the big sides the odd bloody nose will will retain respect. Before we got good you would get a quizzical look from other fans. When we did become good I had to point out more than once I was not a new fan of the club. Old friends and colleagues knew I had paid my dues after years of suffering 

[justfoxes]

1 hour ago, mazarron fox said:

After we won the league cup my mrs who worked in the clubs ticket office was wearing a Coca Cola shirt with Leicester city champions on it. We were on safari in Kenya near Voi and had stopped at a gift shop. She swapped the shirt for 2 carved elephants with the owner.

Hope she had another T-shirt on her that could have caused a few red faces 😉

[Mike the Metal Ed]

I was talking to a Bolt food delivery guy in Riga who asked where I was from. He still had no idea where Leicester was (although telling him it was near Birmingham gave him an idea), but then after a couple of seconds thought said "Ah! Champions Leicester!"

 

Top lad, Valentins.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

In our slightly less famous 90s heydey, I was wearing my City shirt in Spain after we won the League Cup (and possibly after exiting the UEFA Cup) and the bar man said "Ah, Leicester City, you not forget Juninho, eh?"

Enough of a fan to have seen the UEFA Cup games, and not enough to have seen Kaamark stopping him playing in the final, I suppose. He was apparently a Barca fan anyway.

Edited 17 July 2022 by Mike the Metal Ed

[Jobyfox]

2 hours ago, mazarron fox said:

After we won the league cup my mrs who worked in the clubs ticket office was wearing a Coca Cola shirt with Leicester city champions on it. We were on safari in Kenya near Voi and had stopped at a gift shop. She swapped the shirt for 2 carved elephants with the owner.

Were you actually with her when this happened? … or did she just return not wearing any shirt and holding a carved elephant? Did she say? “ … I couldn’t resist his trunk?” 

[Reginaldo]

7 hours ago, Sly said:

Okay, weird title I know! 
 

However, I’m Currently in Mauritius and my mind was blown yesterday, as our Taxi driver thought we’d only been formed a few year before we won the Premier League title! We had a good hour discussing our history whilst my wife went to sleep in the back 😂 

 

He thought I was crazy when I told him I’d changed my team to Leicester from Barcelona when I was younger. 
 

He was a Liverpool supporter. Apparently Liverpool have  built an academy on the Island and most of the players typically play for France. 
 

The Island is apparently largely Liverpool  / Manchester. He said it’s like a national holiday when they play. 
 

……. he could be feeding me BS, however it did make me laugh. 

 

Anyone else found some weird perceptions on us whilst travelling around the world? 

Was in Rhodes and there was big 6 souvenirs and one other club - little owd Lestoh 

[FoxyJim1987]

I remember in gran canaria a few people shouting Leicester city champion at me when I was wearing my city shirt. And they were just the drunk Rangers fans.

[Bert]

On the flip side, the amount of people I’ve had say to me “oh I bet you only started supported them when they won the league”  

[Bayfox]

2 minutes ago, Bert said:

On the flip side, the amount of people I’ve had say to me “oh I bet you only started supported them when they won the league”  

Spent a whole summer in 16 having to justify and explain that my lad was wearing city shirts most days on holiday because I had been going since the late 80s and followed us pretty much everywhere in that time.

 

Got right on my nerves. Especially when half of then probably support man utd from an armchair.

[Collibosher70]

Holiday in tenerife and noticed amongst all the fake real madrid/Barcelona shirts a leicester one with vardy on the back.

Now we're big time 😉

 

[FoxesWalk]

Winning the league made us known almost everywhere I’ve been, especially close to the time of the win, before that I’d often have to describe Leicester and being next to Notttingham… “Have you heard of Robin Hood?”

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Nipped into the Foxes Arms in Alcudia yesterday. There was a Norwegian Leicester fan in there on the table behind. I was astounded by his knowledge of the club from top to bottom.

Edited 17 July 2022 by Rain King

[Guest TamworthFoxes]

26 minutes ago, Rain King said:

Nipped into the Foxes Arms in Alcudia yesterday. There was a Norweigan Leicester fan in there on the table behind. I was astounded by his knowledge of the club from top to bottom.

Can’t believe that place is still going, I was there in 2015 and amazed by it!

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

8 hours ago, jonny_wright said:

Here in Halkidiki I was speaking to some Russians from Samara who knew lots about leicester and even said after 2016 we are lots of peoples favourite PL team

They’re pretty used to being fed propaganda bullsh*t by their leader too aren’t they 

 

I put a funny story in one of the threads a while back about being in Marseille in the Euros. It’s quite long winded but my leicester badge leg tattoo got us out of being battered by a fair few Algerians in a pub 

[The Year Of The Fox]

8 hours ago, jonny_wright said:

Here in Halkidiki I was speaking to some Russians from Samara who knew lots about leicester and even said after 2016 we are lots of peoples favourite PL team

They’re pretty used to being fed propaganda bullsh*t by their leader too aren’t they 

 

I put a funny story in one of the threads a while back about being in Marseille in the Euros. It’s quite long winded but essentially my leicester badge leg tattoo got us out of being battered by a fair few Algerians in a pub 

Edited 17 July 2022 by The Year Of The Fox