Filbert Street or the King Power Stadium

[Bert]

Anyone that says KP instead of Filbert St needs sectioning. Even if you never got the chance to go to Filbert Street. 

[Sly]

14 minutes ago, whetstonefox said:

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.

The three games I always remember. 
 

Oxford at Home - Last day of the season. Not getting relegated in 1991.

 

 

Newcastle at Home, as I’d never seen violence like it and I was quite young. I just remember pitch invasions, chairs being thrown, police horses, fighting and in between that we lost to Kevin Keegans team.

 

 

Then the iconic 3-3 against Arsenal. Bergkamp was exceptional that night and when people talk about greatest ever Premier League players, I think everyone forgets literally how good he was.

 

 

[Clogger_]

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[Noahfence]

I personally call it the stadium bowl 

[Bilo]

27 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

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

I think it's because there's not a lot to have affection for in terms of the structure itself.

 

The memories are obviously incredible and we have the best years of the club there, but there is no real character to it. Filbert Street had character in spades; the ramshackle East Stand, the weird boxes at the Filbert Street end and the Double Decker with its pens meant that it was unlike any other ground. The KP is just St. Mary's with blue seats in terms of appearance.

[Clogger_]

Look, I've had my days. I'd *love* the younger generations to experience what we've lost. Corporate cack we're served nowadays does not compare. We've got to start somewhere, so... KP OUT!

 

(Yeah yeah hooligans etc. Even still.)

[cropstonfox]

Went to filbo from early 70s.

Some great games and memories.But what a shitihole.The Milne /pleat years were

Soul destroying.Thanks to BrianLittle/Martin O'Neil for reigniting us there.Then NP at the KP

All the very best memories are at the KP so it's a close call.although we have reverted back to soul destroying games in a soul less stadium. 

 

[Thefox81]

Filbert Street every time for me

[Bluetintedspecs]

Filbo for me no question,  from that starry eyed 6 year olds first game in 1969, to the last game,  it was  home for 33 years.

So so many memories, god I miss that place! 

[GlenParvaFox]

1 hour ago, Phil Mitchell said:

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.

Come on now.

[Speedwell 🦊]

Filbert st every day.Will never create the same atmosphere at the KP.I so miss those days.👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻👍🏻

[Groby_Blue]

No contest for me. Filbert Street every time. 

 

First match was in the Double Decker on those old bench seats, maybe 1980 with my Dad and his friend. 

 

First game on my own was in the East Stand looking at the Kop and thinking how mad it looked in there. 

 

Progressed to a ST in the Kop, standing on the seats in the old Pen One in crazy corner and stayed there until the end. 

 

So many games. So many great times. Pre match beers in the Victory when it was so packed you literally couldn't move. 

 

Going through the turnstiles and smelling the burgers and onions cooking at the back of the stand. 

 

Getting to the back of the stand and pretty much all you could see was the underside of the Double Decker and a bit of the pitch, and when you walked down the stairs to your seat (that you stood on) seeing the pitch appear in front of you and the rest of the ground appear - the tiny East Stand with the away fans in the corner, the mighty Carling Stand that looked massive and the fans at the top seeming miles away, the family stand on Filbert Street with the boxes and that knackered score board that never worked properly but everyone still got excited when SCOREFLASH came up. 

 

I went to the Walkers Bowl when it was not quite finished. You could go through the entrance, walk down the side of the new East Stand and back out through the concourse. 

 

I remember thinking, this is big and it's quite exiting but it's not Filbert Street. It's not our home. 

 

Like the Wellington pub and the Aviary nightclub, I'd give anything for another go. 

 

A pint of Worthington in the Wellington. A dance to Alexander O'Neill in the Avery and just one more of those games at Filbert Street. 

[Izzy]

20 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

No contest for me. Filbert Street every time. 

 

First match was in the Double Decker on those old bench seats, maybe 1980 with my Dad and his friend. 

 

First game on my own was in the East Stand looking at the Kop and thinking how mad it looked in there. 

 

Progressed to a ST in the Kop, standing on the seats in the old Pen One in crazy corner and stayed there until the end. 

 

So many games. So many great times. Pre match beers in the Victory when it was so packed you literally couldn't move. 

 

Going through the turnstiles and smelling the burgers and onions cooking at the back of the stand. 

 

Getting to the back of the stand and pretty much all you could see was the underside of the Double Decker and a bit of the pitch, and when you walked down the stairs to your seat (that you stood on) seeing the pitch appear in front of you and the rest of the ground appear - the tiny East Stand with the away fans in the corner, the mighty Carling Stand that looked massive and the fans at the top seeming miles away, the family stand on Filbert Street with the boxes and that knackered score board that never worked properly but everyone still got excited when SCOREFLASH came up. 

 

I went to the Walkers Bowl when it was not quite finished. You could go through the entrance, walk down the side of the new East Stand and back out through the concourse. 

 

I remember thinking, this is big and it's quite exiting but it's not Filbert Street. It's not our home. 

 

Like the Wellington pub and the Aviary nightclub, I'd give anything for another go. 

 

A pint of Worthington in the Wellington. A dance to Alexander O'Neill in the Avery and just one more of those games at Filbert Street. 

[Lesta2014]

Filbert street any day of the week! Take me back to them days! A proper atmosphere and some great times. 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

 

Then the iconic 3-3 against Arsenal. Bergkamp was exceptional that night and when people talk about greatest ever Premier League players, I think everyone forgets literally how good he was.

 

 

**** me what a game. Cannot be overstated. For anyone who was too young to be there, it really was as great as everyone says. 

[Double Decker]

Not even close.

Filbert Street.

Standing on a box in the family enclosure, supporters club corner, then progress to the kop. Finished off on the Bentley. 

Wish my boy could live those moments. 

 

[Double Decker]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

**** me what a game. Cannot be overstated. For anyone who was too young to be there, it really was as great as everyone says. 

On the Bentley for it. Unreal.

[bovril]

1 minute ago, Double Decker said:

On the Bentley for it. Unreal.

Now that is a story to tell the Grandkids. 

[boots60]

Reading the replies to this thread it becomes clear that most posters are basically saying 'Modern life is rubbish'

It's not just Leicester City fans who are nostalgic about their previous home. Ask any fan of West Ham, Derby, Sunderland, Coventry etc. etc.

they will all say the same.

Mass commercialisation & sanitisation has ripped the soul out of the 'Matchday experience'

But we all still go, cause we love it, the clubs know this & exploit.

 

Edited 2 February by boots60

[emmo1987]

We should switch grounds with the Tigers

[TeamRocket]

Filbert street all day long even though we won PL at KP filbert will always be home

[cropstonfox]

25 minutes ago, emmo1987 said:

We should switch grounds with the Tigers

And teams

[Daggers]

42 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Mass commercialisation & sanitisation has ripped the soul out of the 'Matchday experience'

But we all still go, cause we love it, the clubs know this & exploit.

 

I don't.

 

There are alternatives until clubs realise fans aren't customers to be continually exploited.

[Gamble92]

I think we had every chance of making the KP more valued or at least as valued as a home 2014-2023

 

It doesn't quite fit into that kind of old timer fan type narrative that everything that's in their day was better. The type who still put mostly players who never won anything in their best of Leicester XIs. But we have much better memories where we are. Not nearly men, actual winners. 

 

But off the pitch everything has reverted to 2004-2007 sort of days. Just hope it doesn't on it. 

[Spudulike]

Filbert Street lost its soul with the building of the Carling Stand and becoming all seater. Even going back to creating Pens in the Kop. I grew up on the Filbert Street terraces but I wouldn't want to go back, if I'm honest.