Living in the Past and The Impact on Today

[MattFox]

Is there another club in English Football that lives in the past as much as us at present and on top of that lets it distort everything that goes on today?

 

Its like a weird hold on a section of the fanbase

 

- Can’t Criticise the Owners because they won us the league 

 

-Can’t criticise Vardy (Not that he deserves much) because he won the league

 

-Can’t criticise Rudkin because he was employed by the club when we won the league

 

- Can’t criticise the players when we get relegated and applaud them off because we won the league in 2016

 

- Can’t criticise the fact the ground is a complete tip with awful facilities because KP won us the league 

 

Could go on and on, it’s like wining the league 9 years ago has given the club some weird immunity from criticism 

 

 

[StanSP]

I don't like this post because we won the league. 

[Matt]

We were in League One.

[Sly]

I think the title is a little misleading, as basically lots of clubs live in the past.
 

Nottingham Forest and Leeds are two examples of that.

 

However, are a section of the fan base protective of King Power, certainly. 
 

I think we need to separate King Power under Vichai and Aiyawatt though. Fundamentally we are under two different forms of ownership. 

 

[Corky]

I don't think the Vardy stuff is based on winning the league, he was having a good season until recently. The rest is fair, especially the facilities.

 

[Guest Lako42]

Is it any surprise 

 

Have you seen that absolutely horrid video they play at the end half time, it's utterly cringe worthy 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

6 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Is it any surprise 

 

Have you seen that absolutely horrid video they play at the end half time, it's utterly cringe worthy 

I don't get how the same people (because our ground is mostly STHs) can clap the same few seconds of Wes lifting the Premier League trophy every single match.

 

Some call the hierarchy at the club North Korea but that is seriously cultlike behaviour.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

We're a grief cult and it'll get worse. I would say 90%+ of the match going fans have Stockholm syndrome.

[Sunbury Fox]

The thing is that aside from the PL win it’s still very recent that we were a real force threatening the big clubs. It’s only 3.5 years since we won the FA Cup and missed out on top 4 on the last day of the season for the second consecutive season. It’s only 2.5 years since we were in a European semi final. Does harking back to those days even really qualify as living in the past? Our decline has been so rapid that I think a lot of fans are struggling to process the new reality. What’s becoming ever clearer, though, is that the club is in a terrible mess: we have a squad largely full of players with no resale value; we are burdened with a wage bill that is way too high compared to income; there is a lack of a clear strategy and plan from the owners and board, as shown by the inconsistency of recent managerial appointments; and the fanbase appears to have become resentful and passive at the same time, leading to a stale atmosphere in the ground. It feels like only root and branch change from the ownership down can turn things around now. It’s very sad that things have come to this, but that’s where we are.

Edited 5 January 2025 by Sunbury Fox

[Heskey2011]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Is there another club in English Football that lives in the past as much as us at present and on top of that lets it distort everything that goes on today?

 

Its like a weird hold on a section of the fanbase

 

- Can’t Criticise the Owners because they won us the league 

 

-Can’t criticise Vardy (Not that he deserves much) because he won the league

 

-Can’t criticise Rudkin because he was employed by the club when we won the league

 

- Can’t criticise the players when we get relegated and applaud them off because we won the league in 2016

 

- Can’t criticise the fact the ground is a complete tip with awful facilities because KP won us the league 

 

Could go on and on, it’s like wining the league 9 years ago has given the club some weird immunity from criticism 

 

 

Is there a group of supporters who cry as much as ours do about our their fellow supporters perceptions of King Power.

The owenrs did very good so people like them, is this what you mean by the weird immunity to criticism.

It's not weird is it.

[Samilktray]

1 minute ago, Heskey2011 said:

Is there a group of supporters who cry as much as ours do about our their fellow supporters perceptions of King Power.

The owenrs did very good so people like them, is this what you mean by the weird immunity to criticism.

It's not weird is it.

Yes, it’s really weird. 

[JimmyC74]

The relegation under Rodgers was / will be viewed as a seminal moment I think - I don’t think we (the Club, the fan base)have recovered, not really.

 

A section of fans can’t get past the decline from competing in European competition / Top 10 of the prem / being surpassed by the likes of Brighton, Brentford etc and a section worry about biting the hand of Kingpower and what the future without them would mean

 

 

Edited 6 January 2025 by JimmyC74

[bovril]

I think it's kind of inevitable though - we went from being at best a yo yo club and at worst a mid table Champ side to promotion and winning major trophies very quickly. That means most of our fanbase over the age of like 22, which is most of our fanbase, can remember the times of stagnation and frustration and are probably just happy to have experienced that period of unprecedented success, as fleeting as it was. So I agree with the OP to a great extent but I think it's a very different situation to for example a club like United who had sustained success for a long time before everything went to shit. 

[murphy]

I don't know about living in the past but I think some people have been living in a cupboard under the stairs if they think that Leicester fans aren't critical.  Even during the good times.  From wanting the Don sacked (correct decision in my view but misunderstood by the wider football world) to booing substitute players onto the pitch.  

 

We have a reputation among some as being entitled, which I don't agree with, but to get there we must have been a critical fan base.

 

 

[honeybradger]

5 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think it's kind of inevitable though - we went from being at best a yo yo club and at worst a mid table Champ side to promotion and winning major trophies very quickly. That means most of our fanbase over the age of like 22, which is most of our fanbase, can remember the times of stagnation and frustration and are probably just happy to have experienced that period of unprecedented success, as fleeting as it was. So I agree with the OP to a great extent but I think it's a very different situation to for example a club like United who had sustained success for a long time before everything went to shit. 

So essentially "we were in league one once". Meanwhile actual historical third tier clubs in Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford are consolidating themselves in the PL due to their excellent management off the pitch.

 

Now we have to accept the fact that the ownership are spending massive amounts of transfer fees and wages on mediocre players, jeopardizing not just our position as a PL side but the financial future of the club. 

 

We need to get into our heads that at this rate of decline we wont even be a yo yo club in a few years time, especially with points deductions looming in the EFL next season.

[Gazza M]

Been saying we need to drop the Ranieri montage for ages. Let's move on now, we don't need to keep clapping every match. Wonderful as it was. 

[Buzzell]

But we won the Premier League. We're massiv.

[accessory]

9 minutes ago, Gazza M said:

Been saying we need to drop the Ranieri montage for ages. Let's move on now, we don't need to keep clapping every match. Wonderful as it was. 

Especially as our current "captain" played a leading role in throwing Ranieri under a bus - and has done the same to several managers since, including Steve Cooper.

[bovril]

12 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

So essentially "we were in league one once". Meanwhile actual historical third tier clubs in Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford are consolidating themselves in the PL due to their excellent management off the pitch.

 

Now we have to accept the fact that the ownership are spending massive amounts of transfer fees and wages on mediocre players, jeopardizing not just our position as a PL side but the financial future of the club. 

 

We need to get into our heads that at this rate of decline we wont even be a yo yo club in a few years time, especially with points deductions looming in the EFL next season.

No, what I'm saying is that because we went from playoff semi final defeat to PL champions in three years, as opposed to the clubs you mention experiencing smaller progressions every season, it always felt more unexpected and therefore more fleeting. And that idea planted itself in the heads of lots of our fans, aided of course by the fact that media and the club itself did sell it as a miracle. I'm not saying I like that mentality or that I think it's beneficial, it's just inevitable.

 

I also don't think that our fans' apparent passivity is just to do with our 2014-2021 success. It's a bit of a Leicestershire 'can't complain' mentality too that I have experienced. 

[rugbyblue]

1 hour ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

I don't get how the same people (because our ground is mostly STHs) can clap the same few seconds of Wes lifting the Premier League trophy every single match.

 

Some call the hierarchy at the club North Korea but that is seriously cultlike behaviour.

Totally agree.  Great achievement, yes,......but its gone.  Im proud we achieved it but lets be honest it doesnt mean sh*t today and I've seen it a thousand times.  I find it a bit cringey myself and dont join in with the mass w*nk off about something that happened ten years ago.

Edited 5 January 2025 by rugbyblue

[OnlyOneCity]

31 minutes ago, accessory said:

Especially as our current "captain" played a leading role in throwing Ranieri under a bus - and has done the same to several managers since, including Steve Cooper.

I sense a dislike for Vardy who is our “captain”. Which several mangers are you referring to. Thought we all wanted Rodgers and Cooper out

[Ian S]

35 minutes ago, accessory said:

Especially as our current "captain" played a leading role in throwing Ranieri under a bus - and has done the same to several managers since, including Steve Cooper.

Shame he didn’t find a bus sooner to chuck Rodgers under, if he had we wouldn’t be in this horrendous mess.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Agree with most of that but knocking Vardy. He could do a shit on pitch for the next half of the season and I’d still love him, plus he still is our best striker it shouldn’t be the case but it is 

[dillonpanthers87]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

We're a grief cult and it'll get worse. I would say 90%+ of the match going fans have Stockholm syndrome.

I mean that's just football all over isn't it? As a sport and as a club supporter 

[MattFox]

17 minutes ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I sense a dislike for Vardy who is our “captain”. Which several mangers are you referring to. Thought we all wanted Rodgers and Cooper out

Rodgers outers were getting physical abuse at Brentford a couple of weeks before he got the chop