An incredible 9 years

[SK3Blue]

I don't know who wrote this....and apologies in advance if its been done before but I saw this earlier today and thought I would share. We all have our own memories of the last 9 years but this summed it all up for me. My hope is for stability and some crowd favourites next season, we need some real characters back at our club, someone we can connect with both players and management.

 

𝗔 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: when Leicester got promoted back to the Premier League in 2014, a footballing genie came to me in a dream.
‘I’ve got a few surprises for you…’, it said.
‘Over the next few years, you will see an unbelievable escape from an apparently certain threat of relegation.’
‘And then you will see your team win the Premier League, which will be the greatest and most ridiculously improbable sporting story ever.’
I shook my head and suppressed a disbelieving chuckle.
‘But that won’t be the end of it. You will go on to win the FA Cup and the Community Shield.’
‘You will reach the knockout stages of three different European competitions.’
‘Three?’ I raised an eyebrow.
The genie smiled and went on, ‘One season, you’ll go further in the Champions League than ony other English team. Also, you will see the first VAR goal scored in England’.
I looked puzzled, but the genie continued. ‘You will see spectacular goals and extraordinary comebacks. You will beat all of the biggest teams in England, several times each.’
‘In fact, over two particular seasons you’ll spend more time in the Premier League’s top four than any of those teams. In return, you’ll make over £300m selling them your best players.’
‘One of your players will break the record for goals scored in consecutive Premier League games, and - in a different season - will win the golden boot. You will record the biggest away win ever seen in the Premier League.‘
‘You will have two players in the top ten nominees of the Ballon d’Or.’
I looked sceptical. ‘You do know I’m a *Leicester* supporter?’
The genie nodded. ‘But of course this is football, so it won’t all be good - there will be shocking cup exits, agonising last minute defeats, terrible performances and managerial sackings. There will even, I’m afraid, be real tragedy.’
‘And then eventually, after nine years, the curtain will suddenly fall on this wildest of footballing rides, the chimes will strike midnight, and Leicester will revert to being Leicester. If you want all that to happen, when it’s over, you must promise me one thing.’
‘Of course I want that to happen’, I responded cautiously, ‘but…’
‘Amid the anger and frustration and fears of relegation, the “if onlys” and the “might have beens”, you must promise to pause for a minute and reflect on your good fortune to be on the wildest ride any football fan could have hoped for.’
‘A ride that - if it had been written in a fairy tale - no one would have ever believed was possible. Is that a deal?’
‘Obviously I *don’t* believe any of that is possible’, I replied, ‘but if it makes even some of what you’ve said happen then yes, I’m happy to make that promise’.
And it was so.

Edited 20 May 2023 by SK3Blue

[99 Problems]

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

[Matt]

4 minutes ago, 99 Problems said:

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

That's arguably the route we were going down with our change of style to become 'sustainable' and it's ultimately been our downfall and got us relegated.

[Nalis]

6 minutes ago, 99 Problems said:

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

I think you can do both to be fair - reflect on the journey but strive to be back in the premier league (or stay up)

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, 99 Problems said:

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

A small club mentality to reflect on how good the recent years have been? How is that small ? 

 

[ithuriel]

Yes, it has been an incredible 15  odd years.

Ever since we plummeted down into the third tier and then have slowly risen to such a high, the clubs spent sometime in the top flight over it's history but this has probably been it's best spell, only soiled by the shambles on the pitch this season.

[sacreblueits442]

6 minutes ago, Matt said:

That's arguably the route we were going down with our change of style to become 'sustainable' and it's ultimately been our downfall and got us relegated.

...I am sure the sustainability mantra, was at the fore of the club's mission statement when the new Owners arrived!!!

[ozleicester]

In sport, you get what you earn

[volpeazzurro]

8 minutes ago, Matt said:

That's arguably the route we were going down with our change of style to become 'sustainable' and it's ultimately been our downfall and got us relegated.

Not really. Things were successful and sustainable with the buy low sell high particular market we were working in. Rodgers changed all that and started buying the sort of dross he did with previous clubs. Aided and abetted by a nieve and pandering board.

[WigstonWanderer]

19 minutes ago, 99 Problems said:

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

Delusions of grandeur 

[Chelmofox]

This has convinced me we are staying up. 

[Matt]

11 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...I am sure the sustainability mantra, was at the fore of the club's mission statement when the new Owners arrived!!!

 

8 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

Not really. Things were successful and sustainable with the buy low sell high particular market we were working in. Rodgers changed all that and started buying the sort of dross he did with previous clubs. Aided and abetted by a nieve and pandering board.

I'm being misunderstood.

 

I don't mean sustainable regarding the business model rather this so-called sustainable way of playing that people speak off.

[The Year Of The Fox]

Needlessly thrown it all away

 

Congratulations to Top and the fans who were stupid enough to not do anything about it

 

You reap what you sow

 

Enjoy 👏🏼 

 

 

PS We were League 1 15 years ago you know 

 

 

Edited 20 May 2023 by The Year Of The Fox

[Pliskin]

30 minutes ago, 99 Problems said:

I genuinely hate stuff like this. Absolute small club mentality in spades. The whole ‘let’s be grateful that our club is needlessly spiralling towards the championship and financial oblivion because it’s been an amazing ride”

 

If some fans want the old Leicester back - they’re welcome to it. For those fans that wanted a stable premier league club built on the foundations of unprecedented success - then our anger and frustration shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of gratitude for what we achieved 

Absolutely agree. I can’t stand this mentality, it’s been a cracking 9 years well done lads. 
 

It just baffles me that people genuinely think like this, and it’s such a defeatist mentality. When Michael Phelps lost his 200 fly race to Chad Le Clos, he didn’t just retire thinking “I’ve had a good crack, so I’ll leave it at that”…. No one would have said anything considering the amount of medals he had won throughout his career, he postponed his retirement for another four years, came back, beat Chad to regain his tile and then retired.

 

That is the mentality of a successful sports person. Yes it’s a different context in football, but it just goes to show how weak we are as a club, and how pathetic this downfall is. The idea of sports is to be competitive, and we’ve surrendered before we’ve even got started. 
 

I’ll probably spend the next god knows how many years absolutely fuming watching us stink the EFL because we still can’t get it right. 
 

Our only hope is that this wakes the club up, and come Tuesday morning Top is firing the **** out of his board members and starts getting to work ASAP. 
 

No summer off for these ****ers, any players who are staying I’d have the ***** back in every day, no holidays, no breaks nothing… and the club needs to slog its bollocks off to put this right. 

Edited 20 May 2023 by Pliskin

[HarryDee8]

It's been a good few years in the premier league. The wins against man utd and Man city rank up their for me. Vards goal against the Scouse. 

How run of games of winning under ranieri and Brendan and Nessun dorma ringing out

 

😭😭

 

Edited 20 May 2023 by HarryDee8

[ithuriel]

2 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Needlessly thrown it all away

 

Congratulations to Top and the fans who were stupid enough to do anything about it

 

You reap what you sow

 

Enjoy 👏🏼 

 

 

PS We were League 1 15 years ago you know 

 

 

League one for that season when we had hit rock bottom and started our rise 

[adejo92]

Another sh1t thread talking nonsense

[Dahnsouff]

Both things are valid.

 

We are not going to be a consistent top 6 side ever, this is not a small club mentality, this is life in the premier league as a non global club, without the riches, without the benefits of being recognised as so.

 

You can preach as many empty rallying cries as you wish, as many pro David vs Goliath tropes, but, there is no route we can take to make this club a consistent top 6 club without state or billionaire ownership, and the only irony here is that it is us that saw to that.

 

So yes, it was an incredible 9 years and I expect us to return to the top flight.

Edited 20 May 2023 by Dahnsouff

[The Doctor]

39 minutes ago, Matt said:

That's arguably the route we were going down with our change of style to become 'sustainable' and it's ultimately been our downfall and got us relegated.

eh? do you not remember how dogshit we were under Ranieri second season, going 2 months without a goal? or under Shakespeare after the bounce? if we hadn't gone down the route to be more sustainable we'd long have been in the championship by now, the downfall was in leaving a one dimensional manager in charge too long which is the exact opinion of moving to be more sustainable, we moved past sustainable and back into one dimensional and too easy to play against, just with a different style

Edited 20 May 2023 by The Doctor

[Matt]

6 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

eh? do you not remember how dogshit we were under Ranieri second season, going 2 months without a goal? or under Shakespeare after the bounce? if we hadn't gone down the route to be more sustainable we'd long have been in the championship by now, the downfall was in leaving a one dimensional manager in charge too long which is the exact opinion of moving to be more sustainable, we moved past sustainable and back into one dimensional and too easy to play against, just with a different style

Exactly, we're arguably saying the same thing, but too many people believe there is only one way to play nowadays, that has put us in this position and ultimately we're no more sustainable than we were before, it's just a bullshit buzzword in modern day football.

[RowlattsFox]

Might need a tbread of its own but I was thinking about favourite moments during this great era, obviously outside of the Tielemans goal And Morgan lifting the trophy. 

 

Fans after Palace, Ulloa goal, going 3-0 up at Man City all spring to mind. Any others? 

[MattFox]

Why is our fanbase so cringe 

[don_danbury]

we should be grateful, we were in league one 20 years ago. 

[Vestan Pance]

I can understand why people want to see the impending relegation as romantic rather than face the reality of the situation.

[MattFox]

50 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Delusions of grandeur 

Wanting a club with a wage bill our level as well as a premier league sized fan base in one of the biggest cities in the country to be a stable PL club is hardly having delusions of grandeur