Union FS - Appreciation post

[RYM]

Just a huge thanks to these lads and lasses who have helped me enjoy my football again.

 

I worked in football for many years as you know (blah blah blah) and I fell out of love with this game completely. If it wasn't for my lads I doubt I'd go at all. After years of being in the family stand, this season I took my lads into SK1 so we could have a better match day experience. As a kid I used to stare at the Kop from the east or west stand and just want to be in there. I never made the jump until it was crazy corner and standing on seats / scraping your shins as we scored was the norm.

 

My lads are 12 and 14 so the move is perfect really and while the atmosphere at football is so cleansed because there are no dirty tackles or "oooh" or "aaaah" moments, what UFS do relentlessly is to back the team with constant noise and we love it. The fact the players and management recognise the area now is a credit to you all and to what you have built and are building. You have given us an identity on match days.

 

I'm 47, I'm not your target market at all but my boys are and EVERY SINGLE TIME we sing WYS together I look at my lads and I have tears in my eyes. They have the heroin like LCFC drug my dad passed to me and through the area you have created they are now enjoying their games like I wanted to as I looked on from my seat in the main stand.

 

So thanks for all you do, keep fighting the good fight and Up The City.

Edited 4 May by RYM

[Nolucklcfc]

100%, hopefully the boys don’t think their work goes unnoticed 👏

[Corky]

Their work, this year in particular, has been superb. The Tifos remain excellent and their reaction to the £25 charge was outstanding.

 

They put themselves forward to be criticised and never hide. A top group.

[Unabomber]

I’m not part of UFS but I need to say that they are absolutely unbelievable. Well done lads you are single handedly saving our support. The tifo today was world class. The fact the manager and players all go straight to you speaks volumes. I know there is that guy on twitter marky or something you slags you off but please just ignore him. You are doing amazing work 

Edited 4 May by Unabomber

[Noahfence]

You can tell the players and Enzo have come to really appreciate that part of the ground as the seasons gone on. Well done all. 

[adam]

They have done us proud this year. Great support and great Tifos

Shit drum though 🤣

[FLAN]

Sit down the front ahead of them. Brilliant group of people who make the atmosphere what it is. 
if anyone from the group is reading though….how come one of you is often in a suit?  He wasn’t today btw and was down the front with the banner 

[Bert]

Been brilliant with the Tifos for a while, but how they’ve managed to bring their section on is fantastic. Hopefully more growth for years to come. Well done to all involved, keep up the good work and fighting the good fight. 

[Daggers]

UFS good, KP bad. 

[Trekerz]

With the expanding topic, could UFS raise the topic of at least getting the few rows in front of the section included in the section? Would make it a tad bit better having the whole sk1 standing rather than 10 rows at the beginning not

[CrazyKopCorner]

Support the team phenomenally well. Communications are direct, to the point and make their views very clear and which I have 100% agreed with so far. Don’t get involved with some of our numb skull fans and have to put up with little hitlers at the club. I doff my cap to them. We could just do with there being more of them 

[pkonline]

Excellent work - well done - you are a credit to our community and Club 👏🏾

[The whole world smiles]

I've always been a fan of the group because the alternative is nothing - no one else is actively trying to improve the atmosphere but From the outside looking in it doesn't seem like union fs have always had a brilliant relationship with the rest of the fan base I have noticed piss taking and sometimes outwards hostility towards you both home and away and online through the years but this year seems like a massive break through and it seems like you have the backing and support of big majority of the fans now which can only help you continue to achieve your aims. It also seems like Enzo is a Big fan too so you have never been more powerful.

[Foxin_Mad]

Sk1 deserved the players celebrating there for a long time. The rest of the ground needs to step up it's game too.

 

The attempt at creating atmosphere has been excellent and I hope participation continues to grow. I think a few relatively short catchy quick songs might get more of the ground involved more often.

 

Keep it up. 

[filthyfox]

12 hours ago, RYM said:

I'm 47, I'm not your target market at all but my boys are and EVERY SINGLE TIME we sing WYS together I look at my lads and I have tears in my eyes.

That's because the version at the KP before matches is really quite depressing!

 

...anyway    FANTASTIC job on the Tifo yesterday, and as always.

 

JV9 will look back on that, and see something that his money cannot buy- I am certain, he would have been made to feel SPECIAL.

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/emotional-goodbyes-full-time-reaction-9264993

 

The club-made montage of the success this season on the big screen set the tempo before Union FS's spectacular tribute to Jamie Vardy pre-kick-off was a touching bonus to the afternoon. '190 thank yous will never be enough. Jamie Vardy, Leicester's greatest' read the banners across the East stand and Kop stand alongside an image of the striker.

 

 

The fan group have are renowned for producing top-tier pre-match tifos and they said before today that this one would be the biggest and best yet. Stretching across two stands, the full image is one that will stay in the memory of the fanbase for years and years.

[Nalis]

Great posts.

 

Now for an embarrassing one I've never thought of until now....

 

What does the FS stand for in Union FS?

[SemperEadem]

8 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Great posts.

 

Now for an embarrassing one I've never thought of until now....

 

What does the FS stand for in Union FS?

http://www.unionfs.co.uk/about.html

[LaCiudad]

Excellent tifos yesterday. 

 

When do we start protesting the actions of the EFL and the business model of the Premier League?

[AlexFT]

For every person who hurls abuse during the Tifo displays, hopefully the group can take solace in the amount that do support them. This thread for example shows that.

[Vestan Pance]

I don't know any of the guys and have no involvement, but I really enjoy what they do and have been funding  (albeit small amounts) from day one.

 

Total respect to them for getting off their backsides and doing something positive for the club, when it's much easier to moan and do nothing. 

 

 

[Lestagirl]

Absolutely brilliant TIFO, thank you so much for everything you do!

[Lako42]

Genuinely the only reason I'm still clinging on to attending these days. 

[Blueman1967]

Well done for your support, and TIFOs during the season, definitely added to the match day experience

[purpleronnie]

Thank flip for UFS...KP would be much duller without them.