Filbert Street or the King Power Stadium

[Nolucklcfc]

Wish I had the chance to experience Filbert street, especially seeing other fans comment on how intimidating it could be. World away from anything we’ve got now. 

[Phil Mitchell]

I'd half my lifespan just to see vardy bang one in in front of the double decker and run off towards the away section.

 

 

Cup of the ears, imagine.

[Vlad the Fox]

When we moved it would have been great if we built a new Filbert Street with carling stand and double decker but with a larger east and north stand.

[Vlad the Fox]

I hope one day someone can come up with a VR version so I can put on a headset and get back in there again.

[MattFox]

When Nepo Baby clears off what will we call the stadium?

[Phil Mitchell]

4 minutes ago, MattFox said:

When Nepo Baby clears off what will we call the stadium?

The BC.GAME Rudkin Arena

[Tuna]

Filbo no question, iconic.

[funkyrobot]

9 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Wish I had the chance to experience Filbert street, especially seeing other fans comment on how intimidating it could be. World away from anything we’ve got now. 

There were when Filbert Street was as toxic and depressing as the KP is at the moment. Those of us old enough to remember the Pleat era with angry crowds at times well below 10000! When it was like that it wasn’t intimidating for anyone other than the crap players Pleat had loaned in! 

[sharpylcfc]

2 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

There were when Filbert Street was as toxic and depressing as the KP is at the moment. Those of us old enough to remember the Pleat era with angry crowds at times well below 10000! When it was like that it wasn’t intimidating for anyone other than the crap players Pleat had loaned in! 

Won't get nothing like that these days especially while King Power are around unfortunately. 

[phoneticerror]

Filbert Street. Happier days before we ‘overachieved’

[Foxin_Mad]

Filbo, KP is a sterile bowl

[Bilo]

I adored Filbert Street, but it was doomed when we couldn't expand on the two smallest sides. If we'd been able to do so, we could have won everything we have at the KP on that iconic old pitch. The thought of Vardy smashing them in in front of the Double Decker under the lights gives me goosebumps. 

 

The KP has been dead for a while now and needs a significant revamp. Safe standing, expanded and renovated concourses. 

[Bourbon Fox]

I first went to Filbert Street when I was single digits in age, I'm not sure exactly when. Early nineties.

 

Columns of fans marching down Raw Dykes in a phalanx. Those not singing the songs were in a very small minority.

 

'When You're Smiling', 'Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly', 'Once Upon A Time There Was A Spion Kop' - I learned them all walking to Filbert Street.

 

Sometimes there was trouble, although it was rare that we were caught up because my dad, uncle, grandad knew where to avoid. There was a sense of danger though, and to my young mind an allure: 'they're baby squad. Come this way'.

 

It was male-dominated. It was adult. It was white men, Asian lads and a few black blokes. It was not a family experience. It was an initiation into a set of rules that only seemed to apply on Saturdays, but which resonated - a group of 200 blokes can walk where they want and do what they like. There was still a socialist, working-class flavour that I picked up in the pubs and the groups.

 

We were shit. The place was shit. From the double decker I would look down as the coins were thrown or incursions were attempted between the away corner and the kop. The Carling stand was incongruous, a harbinger of corporatisation and profit motive. A big pillar stood right in your field of vision. A man behind me pissed down a rolled-up fanzine. UPTON FOR STEEL.

 

That will always be football for me, for better or worse. An outpost of anarchy landing in the middle of the city on a Saturday afternoon.

 

I don't miss the stadium. I miss absolutely everything else.

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 February by Bourbon Fox

[Electric Yetis]

I've been to many, many more games in the King Power than I did at Filbert Street but the memories of Filbert Street stick out much more in my mind than anything that has happened at the KP including the title winning season. 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 February by Electric Yetis

[whetstonefox]

Is crazy to think you would have to be probably at least 27 to even vaguely remember Filbert Street let alone any games or major incidents. Shame we never upgraded the stadium when they were on about moving the pitch around in the early 1990s. At least the protests were more fun, the Pleat /Shipman out protests and even the infamous Sheff Utd game though MON did make us all look mugs in the end! I’m sure i remember more games from that stadium than the KP, even now just thinking of the Liverpool games in 80 and the 3-3 in 84, Cambridge play off semi, Shrewsbury 5-2.

Edited 2 February by whetstonefox

[Nolucklcfc]

It’s crazy really that we’ve had some Incredible times at the KP but no one really has any affection for it. 

[Bourbon Fox]

1 hour ago, purpleronnie said:

Never really understood why so many thought filbert street was a dump or it that it needed huge upgrades,  I go and watch the football, so as long as theres a seat or i can stand I dont really care about anything else.  

 

So Filbert street for me.

 

 

I'd have taken a toilet upgrade 

[Bourbon Fox]

52 minutes ago, sharpylcfc said:

Filbert Street all day long, would trade all the success we've had to go back. 

Steady on!

[bovril]

KP is at least close to the old stadium. And at times it has generated a good atmosphere and obviously seen some incredible moments, so I have a fondness for it I didn't think I ever would.

 

But nothing beats Filbo. 

[Frankel1981]

First game 3-0 vs spurs 95/96 ish!

[Clogger_]

FWIW, if any younger fans want to experience a little of what Filbo was like, I recommend the away end at Kenilworth Road. (Unless even Luton have purged old-school character nowadays!)

[fox_up_north]

KP. Easily.

Love having my prawn sandwiches away from the rabble. 

[FoxinNotts]

Filbo 

 

not even close 

[FoxesFan#1]

Filbert Street every day of the week 

 

First game v Tranmere 23 Feb 1994 

 

Miss the 90s football a lot, would swap these last few years for those days in a split second

 

No character in top flight now at all, almost all of it gone.  Can we imagine Gazza playing now.
 

Players are zombies now, no personality just like the stadiums 

[FoxinNotts]

First game was Stoke, ‘86 I think, 1-1 draw, my brother was the mascot 😂

Edited 2 February by FoxinNotts