How Lucky We Are

[The Year Of The Fox]

Incredibly lucky. We’ve been spoilt. That’s why it’s so hard to get up for anything these days. (Combined with 18 months of sideways football)

Edited 14 February 2023 by The Year Of The Fox

[Tommy Fresh]

7 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

That’s why it’s so hard to get up for anything these days.

Keep it about football please 

[Livid]

I was watching a Tik Tok from a Spurs fan, I like to see their misery and suffering, at the KP on Saturday and he was singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the cups at White Hart Lane..." 

 

He was in his mid 20's and I was thinking but you haven't have you. 

 

Wasn't the last thing they won when they beat us at the Old Wembley in the League Cup.

 

 

[SemperEadem]

46 minutes ago, Livid said:

I was watching a Tik Tok from a Spurs fan, I like to see their misery and suffering, at the KP on Saturday and he was singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the cups at White Hart Lane..." 

 

He was in his mid 20's and I was thinking but you haven't have you. 

 

Wasn't the last thing they won when they beat us at the Old Wembley in the League Cup.

 

 

2008 League cup win

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, SemperEadem said:

2008 League cup win

Assuming you start no earlier than 7 years old a Spurs fan will be at least 22 to remember the 2008 win

[Mr Weller 2]

13 hours ago, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

This argument is ridiculous.

It doesn't have to be (and isn't, and can't be) one or the other. It can be (and is) perfectly possible and correct to say that both Nigel Pearson and the owners made a crucial difference.

No it was just the owners. Pearson did a decent job, no more. The owners transformed everything, then, now and for years to come.

[Tommy Fresh]

11 minutes ago, Mr Weller 2 said:

No it was just the owners.

This reminded me of this at 49 seconds

 

[jmono84]

We have been fortunate compared to other fans but it’s more than luck due to the club being really well run which has led to our success.

 

I hope they strive to make us even more solid and hope with the training centre we concentrate on the next generation of players. FFP continues to severally hamper us compared to the so called bigger clubs so let’s hope they have a good plan in the coming years so we continue to be competitive in a unfair system.

[SheppyFox]

Yes we have done very well. It’s not so long back you couldn’t give tickets away.

[foxpleasure]

16 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Assuming you start no earlier than 7 years old a Spurs fan will be at least 22 to remember the 2008 win

If the song says cups not cup then you would have to go back to the last cup win before 2008

[CosbehFox]

But this is kinda of why I have been so annoyed at times this season. 

 

I don't expect us to repeatedly achieve the success we did but it would be utterly gutting that there is no legacy from it. At times this season it's appeared we are willing to risk all that. 

 

I work alongside a Bournemouth fan who's utterly peed off at that their time of success, they done nothing about their stadium and try to grow the fanbase. 

[pmcla26]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

But this is kinda of why I have been so annoyed at times this season. 

 

I don't expect us to repeatedly achieve the success we did but it would be utterly gutting that there is no legacy from it. At times this season it's appeared we are willing to risk all that. 

 

I work alongside a Bournemouth fan who's utterly peed off at that their time of success, they done nothing about their stadium and try to grow the fanbase. 

Foley said he wants a new one that's going to be between 20,000 - 25,000. 

[CosbehFox]

Just now, Pete52 said:

Foley said he wants a new one that's going to be between 20,000 - 25,000. 

Yeah, bloke thinks pie in the sky unless it's a Brighton type move out to somewhere like Christchurch. 

They've just put in for another 5 years planning permission on their semi-permanent/temporary South Stand this week. 

[MattFox]

35 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

But this is kinda of why I have been so annoyed at times this season. 

 

I don't expect us to repeatedly achieve the success we did but it would be utterly gutting that there is no legacy from it. At times this season it's appeared we are willing to risk all that. 

 

I work alongside a Bournemouth fan who's utterly peed off at that their time of success, they done nothing about their stadium and try to grow the fanbase. 

Yeah, going down in our 9th season when the likes of Southampton, Sunderland and Stoke all managed a decade at the top would be out right embarrassing 

[MattFox]

On 13/02/2023 at 22:52, Mr Weller 2 said:

Fantasy- he was okay but that’s it. Our Thai owners transformed the club and continue to do so.

Our Thai owners spunked millions in wages and transfers on the likes of Beckford, Matt Mills and John Pantsil before Pearson came back to spare their blushes

[CosbehFox]

Just now, MattFox said:

Yeah, going down in our 9th season when the likes of Southampton, Sunderland and Stoke all managed a decade at the top would be out right embarrassing 

No you've got the wrong end of the stick there. Nothing to do with embarrassment 

 

If we get relegated in the aftermath of glory, we miss the chance to support a 40k stadium in the city and therefore making tickets more accessible whilst the club is at its most attractive pull. All the outskirts of the country continue looking towards Leicester - so our support takes over towns like Loughborough and Melton who do have Forest fans within it (or had bigger sections). That goes further into Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.  

 

That even knocks on to attracting youngsters at academy level. The performance of the first team will always hold some sway. 

 

Leicester as a city is huge - we are within the ten to fifteen largest in the UK. There's potential here as a club to really establish itself away from the tag it had as a child of yo-yo club. 

 

The economy impact the football club having 32k people in the city every two weeks is invaluable - this Saturday pre-match the city felt like it hadn't in a long time post Covid. Comedy festival on too. 

 

That's a legacy of the last few years and at times this season, the inactivity from the club in all areas has threatened that. 

 

[MattFox]

21 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

No you've got the wrong end of the stick there. Nothing to do with embarrassment 

 

If we get relegated in the aftermath of glory, we miss the chance to support a 40k stadium in the city and therefore making tickets more accessible whilst the club is at its most attractive pull. All the outskirts of the country continue looking towards Leicester - so our support takes over towns like Loughborough and Melton who do have Forest fans within it (or had bigger sections). That goes further into Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.  

 

That even knocks on to attracting youngsters at academy level. The performance of the first team will always hold some sway. 

 

Leicester as a city is huge - we are within the ten to fifteen largest in the UK. There's potential here as a club to really establish itself away from the tag it had as a child of yo-yo club. 

 

The economy impact the football club having 32k people in the city every two weeks is invaluable - this Saturday pre-match the city felt like it hadn't in a long time post Covid. Comedy festival on too. 

 

That's a legacy of the last few years and at times this season, the inactivity from the club in all areas has threatened that. 

 

Ahh I get where your coming from now.

 

We’re the third biggest one club city in the country behind Leeds and Newcastle afaik

 

That’s before you start looking at the county 

[BKLFox]

Considering we don’t appear in the top 20 teams  of all times (not just prem) to sit in the top division we haven’t done badly have we 👍 

[when_you're_smiling]

32 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Our Thai owners spunked millions in wages and transfers on the likes of Beckford, Matt Mills and John Pantsil before Pearson came back to spare their blushes

I’ve always had huge admiration for the way they realised that approach wasn’t working and changed it. Other owners would have spunked even more money away to the point it wouldn’t be financially viable and/or got bored of the toy and threw it away. They learned from their mistakes.

 

The legacy has already been laid. I’m sure many of you are the same as me and spent years travelling abroad and getting blank looks when you say you’re from Leicester. Now it seems everyone knows the city because of the football club. You’d never have thought that eight years ago. All football clubs go through relative peaks and troughs, but what’s been done will live with football fans for decades.

[An Sionnach]

Based on population and potential drawing power , our stadium is 10,000 seats too small. We should almost never be out of the top division and that illustrates why Leeds has underachieved so badly in recent years. Our natural average position in the table should be ninth or tenth. We have bettered that recently so overall we are doing OK but we should not let it slip.

[stretch1965]

I do feel very lucky and we are blessed.

Here's my story, 

Think it was around end of March 2015 when season tickets came on sale for 15/16 season, There was no waiting list then. Previously I had one for 12 years up to 2010.

We were sitting second from bottom at the time and I said to my friend lets get some as we are going down to the championship with a great squad, great manager, we will get more games for your £ and we should win that league.

Bookies, pundits and most city fans all thought we were doomed to go down too. BTW I do actually like and still watch the championship.

 

Then as we all know the great escape happened and I thought I was in for a dismal season of another relegation battle and to top it all Pearson sacked and Ranieri in was not good for me. So I thought.

 

Well, after the first game a 4-2 against Sunderland we bought on in the second half  what I described was an headless chicken running all over the place and was a bad buy. Yeah I got Kante wrong! 

Games after that were fantastic to watch I could not believe we were playing such a style of football that teams could not cope with, especially with Kante working so hard giving other players more time and freedom on the ball and the rest of our misfits having the season of their lives!

 

Moving forward I was so proud to be top at Christmas and was beginning to believe we could make the champions league!

After February when I started to believe we might actually win it was when I started to find it less enjoyable. What I mean by that is when you desperately want something so bad it was all I could think about day and night and Spurs winning or even drawing after us took away any joy I had from our win. I also thought it would be in true city style to have the title win cruelly snatched away from us towards the end. Probably by a Jon Moss dodgy penalty just to kick me in the nuts!

 

Anyway I am 58 years old and never expected to see us win the Prem or an FA cup in my lifetime so yes we are lucky, lucky to have fantastic owners and we should never forget that.

Cheers

 

 

[Jimbo]

We have been incredibly lucky, at least in my life time.

 

My very 1st game was a 0-0 bore draw with Oxford United, and I distinctly remember the chant of "what a load of rubbish" at full-time.

 

My uncle, who used to take me, was would get the occasional free ticket through work and we attended a few games in the early 90's. But I never really had the connection with football at the time, I had started to play rugby and football played second fiddle. I loved football still, my love for football came at world cup Italia 90, but for some unknown reason, I just liked David Platt, and (please forgive me) I was almost, kinda, just a little bit, a Villa fan if anything. But truth be told, I didn't have a team as such.

 

Then the playoff final against Swindon happened. I was in the Danny Lambert, don't ask why, it wasn't my choice, I was 12 

 

I remember then I was gutted about that result. The pub was full of Leicester fans and I felt the pain. That was when I was a Leicester fan.

 

The following year my uncle got tickets for the playoff final against Derby. Full face paint, fox leisure tracksuit purchased, ribbons and balloons on the car, spent hours cutting up paper for confetti. 

 

We of course won, and reaching the premier league was as good as it was going to be.

 

Of course it was, for that following season anyway. We managed to get to a few games, Spurs, Southampton, Villa all the exiting ones.

 

We got relegated and then my uncle decided to treat us to season tickets for the season after. I've had one ever since. We remember the O'Neill out night, then the run into the playoffs, the last second winner from Claridge, I was there again. And again, that was as good as it was going to get.

 

Another trip to Wembley a year later, and the subsequent trip to Hillsborough for the replay. That was definitely as good as it was going to get. It meant a European night at Filbert street. 

 

a solid enough run in the Premier league and another league cup, with a loss in the final sandwiches in-between, not getting better than than, surely!?

 

and it didn't. King Martin left, but very briefly we were almost title contenders and an FA cup semi final around the corner. Wycombe came to town, stopped that and out form dropped off the face of a cliff. The year after, relegation followed by financial troubles.

 

we still, somehow with Summerbee on a pay as you play deal, gained promotion back to the premier league. But we just weren't good enough to stay there. A squad full of journey men just didn't cut it. We were stuck back where we belong. A mid table, second tier team. 

 

so we were right, we'd had our golden era and that was an end to it. Things got worse though, down to the 3rd tier for the first time in our history, and that was definitely the end to any chance of success.

 

something happened though, big Nige came in and we walked to the league 1 title without any problems. A run to the playoffs again the season after and maybe, just maybe, we could see a return to some good times.

 

with some ins and outs, Sven trying to play football manager in real life and the return of Big Nige for a 2nd stint, the unthinkable happened. We didn't go up through the playoffs or by finishing 2nd, we won the championship relatively easily. Of course, there was the small matter of some Thai investors to thank.

 

1st season back in the premier league, roller coaster is an understatement. But we were back, we survived and a return to "good times" as Leicester city was happening.

 

A Trip to Thailand got all sorts of messy and then from there, the rest as they say, is history.......

 

 

to sum up, as a Leicester fan, actually in the ground at the time, there, experiencing it all, I've seen us win

 

2 playoff finals

2 league cups

League 1 trophy

Championship trophy

Premier league trophy

FA Cup and community shield. Not to mention the European nights, the great escape etc etc

Yes, we are incredibly lucky to have witnessed both the lows and the extreme highs in the last 30 years 

 

[iancognito]

Despite my criticisms of Rodgers in the last year & a half I always use the word "perspective". We could be FAR worse off, probably 88 or 89 of the other clubs in the league have far worse owners than us, our team isnt full of journeymen and mercenaries anymore, we've been privileged to have one of the best English midfielders play his peak football for us, one of the best strikers in the country spend his career with us and we've won every silver pot available in the last 23 years.

 

How lucky we are indeed 👍

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, BKLFox said:

Considering we don’t appear in the top 20 teams  of all times (not just prem) to sit in the top division we haven’t done badly have we 👍 

We haven’t but I think in relative terms for size of club and city we’ve only just caught up with a rightful number of honours. The all time tables are generally skewed towards northern clubs and their success in the periods before 1960. 

[BKLFox]

21 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

We haven’t but I think in relative terms for size of club and city we’ve only just caught up with a rightful number of honours. The all time tables are generally skewed towards northern clubs and their success in the periods before 1960. 

That’s true as clubs like Burnley, Blackburn, Sheff Utd & Wed, Bolton & Sunderland along with Leeds & Newcastle all appear before we head into the Midlands with Wolves, WBA and Derby and then the clubs we expect make up the rest of that top 20