A Call for Change: A Footballing Reset at Leicester City Football Club

[Pliskin]

This needs bumping. 
 

This time we’re sleepwalking into a black hole….

[Lambert09]

Tell you what, arrange a joint protest with man united for this game if you actually want an impact. 
 

They would happily join in and that would actually be covered around the world 

[CosbehFox]

Fanbase don’t have it in us. The energy only returns after a loss. People need to step up if they want the pressure to continue 

[FrankieADZ]

2 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Fanbase don’t have it in us. The energy only returns after a loss. People need to step up if they want the pressure to continue 

thats true, cos when we have fans who dont even know why some want change shows it all really

 

the happy clappers, im sure theyll be there last home game of the season clapping them, i for one will not be

[Pliskin]

5 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Tell you what, arrange a joint protest with man united for this game if you actually want an impact. 
 

They would happily join in and that would actually be covered around the world 

I was just thinking this. Why not come together? But as @CosbehFox says, the majority of the match day fanbase don’t have it in them…. In fact, they probably don’t even realise what trouble this club is in. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 hours ago, Pliskin said:

This needs bumping. 
 

This time we’re sleepwalking into a black hole….

 

4 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I was just thinking this. Why not come together? But as @CosbehFox says, the majority of the match day fanbase don’t have it in them…. In fact, they probably don’t even realise what trouble this club is in. 

Reset are looking for people to help organise. Drop them a message.

[Tommy Fresh]

14 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Fanbase don’t have it in us. The energy only returns after a loss. People need to step up if they want the pressure to continue 

Every week then 

[Walshy86]

Are there any plans for another protest?

[Raj]

15 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Fanbase don’t have it in us. The energy only returns after a loss. People need to step up if they want the pressure to continue 

No disrespect to the organisers of our protest, like i said at the time i was there and standing outside Local Hero and it was a shambles.

Compare that to the protest by Man U yesterday( i know they have had alot of practise) and its miles apart.

 

Like Cosbeh ststed we just dont have the passion in our fanbase.

 

We applaud the players off after ANOTHER defeat(Oh it was SO improved we had 3 touches in the opposition half, blah blah blah!!!)

 

 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Every week then 

Yep,  a couple of days murmurs then it dies down. 

[purpleronnie]

We could 'do a derby' next season and nothing would change, a lot of our fans don't care about what division we're in, or what a mess the club is in.

 

Others do care but don't want to put themselves out of their normal matchday 'routine'.

 

There's little to no unity within most english fans, were notoriously independant when it comes to supporting a club. We go to games as individuals, in the rest of the world they'll often organise marches to the grounds, I've even seen this in the states, it really does make you feel part of something and that we're all in it together, there's none of that in England.

[Paninistickers]

5 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Others do care but don't want to put themselves out of their normal matchday 'routine'.

This. 

 

We have robotic, drone like fans who crave and are plugged in to routine

[Stadt]

We had thousands at the Arsenal protest. It's not true "we don't have it in us", all of the usual cited teams will have a proportion of happy-clappers who won't protest too.

 

We probably have a higher proportion of low-info, anaemic KPFC fans than other clubs do but there absolutely is enough appetite for it. It just needs organising s=and a bit of courage.

[foxile5]

So are there plans for more protests.

 

It seems a shame for the OP to have just left it. It's an important cause.

[FLAN]

If we go 3 down start a very slow hand clap to make it clear what a mess this is 

[Lako42]

12 hours ago, foxile5 said:

So are there plans for more protests.

 

 

No, one and done as it was a bit exhausting 

[bmt]

To be fair nobody knows it the OP has something which is stopping them from pushing it again. Someone else needs to step up (not me)

[Lako42]

4 minutes ago, bmt said:

To be fair nobody knows it the OP has something which is stopping them from pushing it again. Someone else needs to step up (not me)

He's already said he's stepping away 

[Trev3939]

Something has to happen at the Man U game, otherwise this will be forgotten and nothing will change

[00rawat]

46 minutes ago, Trev3939 said:

Something has to happen at the Man U game, otherwise this will be forgotten and nothing will change

Yeah same  I'm happy to help organise another but, would need a couple of people to help out as well!! I have seen a couple of posters willing for another protest, so I know there is interest in this! Just need those posters to step forward to help make it happen,like you said something needs to  be done otherwise the previous protest will have no impact and will be forgotten by. 

[The Year Of The Fox]

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[davieG]

26 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

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In full

 

Anger at Leicester City may give way to far more concerning emotion as first clues emerge
A protest was held before Leicester City's Premier League fixture against Arsenal last month, but it at least showed there is still a lot of passion around the club

ByJordan Blackwell
07:00, 12 MAR 2025

Fans hold up a banner in protest of the Leicester City hierarchy during the 2-0 defeat to Arsenal at the King Power Stadium (Image: Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images)

Protests are fuelled by anger, but that may not be the most concerning emotion for Leicester City to deal with.

A few hundred City fans showed their unhappiness with the running of the club and the heights from which they’ve fallen when they marched on the King Power Stadium last month.

In showing that emotion, they showed that they cared. And they still cared enough to attend the game.

 

It would perhaps a greater concern for City if that anger was swallowed by apathy. If supporters fall out of love with the club to the extent they stop turning up, that is a bigger worry.

There have been a few small hints at that. This year’s average home attendance is marginally the lowest it has been in the Premier League since City first returned to the division in 2014. But the difference, for now, is negligible and there have been lots of awkward kick-off times this term.

But the game against Crystal Palace in January saw the attendance at the King Power Stadium drop below 30,000 for the first time in a Premier League match since 2014.

It was a midweek night game, and they are usually less well attended, but it’s still a small marker of a very slight loss of interest.

This weekend, City host Manchester United and anecdotally, there appears to be plenty of season-ticket holders, who haven’t seen a home league goal since early December, planning to sell their seats back to the club or not bother to turn up.

A 7pm kick-off on a Sunday night will be a significant factor in those kinds of decisions but if a fanbase is invested, they will turn up whenever, especially for a game against a big club and one that looks like being significant in how the season pans out.

It will be interesting to see if the chatter around supporters not turning up impacts the attendance this weekend.

Where there is statistical evidence is for the Manchester City away game at the start of April. The original allocation for travelling Leicester fans has been reduced from over 3,000 to 1,500 based on the forecasted attendance.

Then again, it is another midweek game. At the weekend, at Chelsea, City still took 3,000 fans.

At the moment, these are very small signs of a loss of enthusiasm. It’s not yet at the point where it’s a concerning trend.

If the apathy is significant, it will perhaps only be seen if the club drop into the Championship.

Perhaps because the overriding emotion was still one of anger, City’s average attendance remained above 31,000 in the Championship under Enzo Maresca, 6,000 more than what it was when City won the second tier under Nigel Pearson 10 years earlier.

Would it be the same if City go down again this time? It attendances did drop, that would be a far bigger concern for the club than a protest.

 

 

[Stadt]

The decline has been chronic rather than acute but our league position hasn't necessarily borne that out. We were good behind closed doors which fostered a lot of goodwill so Rodgers from the tail end of 21/22 to 22/23 - didn't really get any grief despite how poor performances were.

 

We've almost had the perfect storm for apathy rather than anger. I'm so conflicted by wanting us to hit rock bottom because the people at the club deserve it.

[Ian Nacho]

I've just been having a look around as I'm a bit bored at work this afternoon and one name you never hear mentioned is Andrew Neville, who is the clubs Football Operations Director. I don't know how much involvement he has on day to day football operations (the clue is probably in the job title), however, after stumbling across his LinkedIn, he's been at the club since 1998. NINETEENTH NINETY EIGHT. Talk about stagnation. 

[Stadt]

2 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

I've just been having a look around as I'm a bit bored at work this afternoon and one name you never hear mentioned is Andrew Neville, who is the clubs Football Operations Director. I don't know how much involvement he has on day to day football operations (the clue is probably in the job title), however, after stumbling across his LinkedIn, he's been at the club since 1998. NINETEENTH NINETY EIGHT. Talk about stagnation. 

As far as I'm aware his role is quit logistical/secretrial e.g sorting travel, passports, hotels, food, buses etc