I hate Derby but....

[dobbylcfc]

For me the sheep shağğèrs are 3rd on my list of hatred. It must have something to do with what part of Leicestershire you grew up in if your Loughborough side it’ll be forest Ashby more than likely Derby city side more Cov. Cov and Forest usually change between 1 and 2 in the hatred spot derby 3rd. Don’t get me wrong watching walshie score the winner at Wembley against them in 94 and the 4 goals in 15 mins in 97 at there gaff were brilliant.

[Glasgow fox]

7 hours ago, Tuna said:

They are absolutely hopeless and almost certain to go down, can't score goals and clearly not good enough.

What about Derby though? 

[Gazza M]

Growing up in NWLeics Derby were always number 1 rivals. Hated them with a passion during the 90's. Forest a close 2nd. Now switched around due to Derby's demise a bit. 

Now living in Donington I am only 8 miles from Pride Park and my address finishes 

Castle Donington, Derby, Leicestershire.  Leicester in the minority of the 3 clubs here. You see more Forest colours at the min for obvious reasons. 

Coventry never on the radar for me, but obviously our closest professional rivals as the crow flies. 

 

[OnlyOneCity]

Usually a guaranteed 6 points for City.

[Clogger_]

"Oh, Iwan is a Welshman"

 

I think it's largely an age thing. Younger fans seem interested in Cov; guessing this is driven by social media. I personally couldn't care less about them, but I love beating Derby - and despise F****t! Looking at our region, not much apart from fields between Leicester and Coventry*, whereas _many_ people live in the 'triangle' between Leicester, Derby and Nottingham.

 

[*Yeah I know there are a few places!]

[Claridge]

8 hours ago, Izzy said:

Sounds just like us

I presumed he was talking about us

[Stuntman_Mike]

Remember how wanting Forest to come up turned out. 

 

If we play them we play them, but I can't actively want any rival to do well. You wouldn't get it at any other club.

[Ashley]

They'll be some spice in the game and the usual banter before. 

 

Genuinely hate Forest and Coventry though. Coventry probably more after the stunts the cvnts pulled last year with the vichai banners. Think they'll be nasty games(trouble wise) for a good few years to come

[kristianity77]

I have nothing against Derby whatsoever. In fact when I was at uni in Derby if I had nothing going on over a weekend I used to watch them at the Baseball Ground as uni students used to get in to a game for a fiver back in the mid 90s

[SpacedX]

10 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

My main rivals growing up, going to school in Ashby. They’ve become somewhat irrelevant though over the last few years. Was the last time we played them in the FA Cup on a Friday night in Feb ‘17?

Correct. 3-1, but the best thing about it was the Nugent reception at 82 minutes. 

 

I can recall some horrendous encounters over the years. Obviously the abandoned match against Burton Albion at the Baseball Ground in January 1985 for which Burton had the home advantage but was ironically moved there for safety reasons. Predictably to everyone other than the FA, the Lunatic Fringe turned up in numbers and started pelting the pitch with missiles resulting in the Burton keeper being rendered unconscious - so the match was abandoned at 6-1 and replayed behind closed doors one afternoon at Highfield Road. Ind Coope, sponsors of both teams offered both sets of players an incentive to progress to the fourth round; a barrel of best bitter, containing 288 pints. Imagine that now. 

 

 

Easy bit of trivia - name each of the players pictured. 

 

Later that year, but the following season, we played Derby in the Milk Cup which was carnage. That's the sole match in which I recall the clatter of sharpened coins between the mesh of Pen 2 and 3 being constant and unrelenting throughout the game. Fighting erupted outside the ground and then spilled over to Highfields causing a major riot until the early hours that evoked memories of 1982. When questioned about the cause, Peter Soulsby, the then Labour leader of Leicester City Council, attributed it to "a generation of young people who feel alienated from society".

 

My fondest encounter? 0-4 at Pride Park, April 1998, which we won in the first 15 minutes through a Heskey brace and goals from Izzet and Marshall. 

 

 

[murphy]

3 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

Correct. 3-1, but the best thing about it was the Nugent reception at 82 minutes. 

 

I can recall some horrendous encounters over the years. Obviously the abandoned match against Burton Albion at the Baseball Ground in January 1985 for which Burton had the home advantage but was ironically moved there for safety reasons. Predictably to everyone other than the FA, the Lunatic Fringe turned up in numbers and started pelting the pitch with missiles resulting in the Burton keeper being rendered unconscious - so the match was abandoned at 6-1 and replayed behind closed doors one afternoon at Highfield Road. Ind Coope, sponsors of both teams offered both sets of players an incentive to progress to the fourth round; a barrel of best bitter, containing 288 pints. Imagine that now. 

 

 

Easy bit of trivia - name each of the players pictured. 

 

Later that year, but the following season, we played Derby in the Milk Cup which was carnage. That's the sole match in which I recall the clatter of sharpened coins between the mesh of Pen 2 and 3 being constant and unrelenting throughout the game. Fighting erupted outside the ground and then spilled over to Highfields causing a major riot until the early hours that evoked memories of 1982. When questioned about the cause, Peter Soulsby, the then Labour leader of Leicester City Council, attributed it to "a generation of young people who feel alienated from society".

 

My fondest encounter? 0-4 at Pride Park, April 1998, which we won in the first 15 minutes through a Heskey brace and goals from Izzet and Marshall. 

 

 

Bobby Smith, Steve Lynex, John O'Neil, Gary Lineker, Alan Smith, dunno, Andy Feeley.

 

Do  I get a prize?

[one F in Fox]

I’ve been going since the late 70’s and it’s definitely Forest for me.

That was obviously there most successful period and I absolutely hated them, I can still remember those shiny red shirts, still triggers me now.

Derby maybe 80’s - 90’s got a bit lively at times, remember “who let the sheep out” at Filbo 🤣

Never really thought much about Cov until recently. They seem to have a bee in their bonnet about us, funny what our success' does to your rivals.

 

Question though, can anyone remember a time when all of us were in the same league?

[SpacedX]

8 minutes ago, murphy said:

Bobby Smith, Steve Lynex, John O'Neil, Gary Lineker, Alan Smith, dunno, Andy Feeley.

 

Do  I get a prize?

Well you would have received a a barrel of best bitter, containing 288 pints, were it not for the fact that you failed to identify Ian Banks. 

[boots60]

Not too long ago, the teams I disliked were notts forest, derby & coventry. 

This was when local rivalry was to the fore & bragging rights at work were important.

For me, things have changed, football has changed, things are far more about big money than they ever have been & now I love to see any of the so called "Big six" lose & after Leicester City want every underdog to win.

The bragging rights now are mainly an uphill battle against plastic fans of Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool etc.

If notts forest ended up top 4, that would have been a disaster but these days I look upon it as 2 fingers up to the big clubs.

As for Derby, hope they stay up, if we go down then it's a decent away day out with quality boozers which I've not been too in a long time.

[suffolk fox]

9 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Derby aren't bothered by us, it's Forest for them. Coventry unless they sadly get promoted will be the big derby I think. Maybe perhaps Birmingham in some ways next season as I think they will be strong next season in the championship.

Coventry have improved  under Lampard, I agree.  However, they are not going up this season.  M69 Derby will be on next season.

[Loughborough Rob]

Growing up in Loughborough it was always Derby and Forest and it wasn't easy in the 70s. Never really got Cov 'till I started going down the City. Nowadays it's pretty well everyone I don't like, big hatred at the moment being our first team.

[Leicesterpool]

16 minutes ago, Loughborough Rob said:

Growing up in Loughborough it was always Derby and Forest and it wasn't easy in the 70s. Never really got Cov 'till I started going down the City. Nowadays it's pretty well everyone I don't like, big hatred at the moment being our first team.

Depends where your from Loughborough way always Forest, as theres a few forest fans. Whilst if you live in Hinckley, Narborough, Nuneaton and Northants its going to be cov.

[Voll Blau]

2 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Depends where your from Loughborough way always Forest, as theres a few forest fans. Whilst if you live in Hinckley, Narborough, Nuneaton and Northants its going to be cov.

I'm from Harborough and it was always Forest and Derby still. We're too far east to have had any Cov crossover.

 

Just hate them all. Keeps it nice and easy.

 

 

[niyaminski]

10 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

My rivalry hatred index goes around 92% Red filth, 4% Cov, 3% other west mids teams combined, 1% derby

Mainly agree with this apart from the west midlands teams.

 

Yes, I dislike them, but don’t “hate them”. In the same way I dislike spurs, but never feel any “hatred” towards them.

[rugbyblue]

It always used to be forest and derby for me.  It didn't help i did my training courses at Loughborough college and had to mix with "them"..

 

But i moved to Rugby (which is largely cov city country) about 12 years ago and i unfortunately have to spend time in cov for work and family stuff.  The hatred for us there is unreal.  Some literally foam at the mouth at the mention of leicester city 😂.  My daughter is a leicester fan too and at school with cov fans and she is still sent videos and ribbed 3-1....despite that being over a year ago, not to mention the fact we actually beat them at our place!  That truly was their biggest day out and achievement for years that day.  

So for me these days, it's cov.  Tools of the highest order

Edited 8 March by rugbyblue

[Vazman]

12 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

My main rivals growing up, going to school in Ashby. They’ve become somewhat irrelevant though over the last few years. Was the last time we played them in the FA Cup on a Friday night in Feb ‘17?

Which school in Ashby de la Zouch?

[Gamble92]

People don't really mention it but us having the success of recent times has intensified each rivalry massively imo.

 

Especially in Coventry's case. But all 3 (as much as 2 wouldn't like to admit it) sell out against us straight away and the Forest and Coventry games are more of a rivalry than what some clubs round the country would call their "fierce rivals". We will have "none" for our fierce rivals on FM though which annoys me. 

[RonnieTodger]

I don’t really care about Derby to be honest, but I’d never say no to two local derbies. We pretty much always beat them too.

 

Them being Forest’s rivals is their only general claim to any relevancy at the moment. 
 

Whilst I hate Forest and Coventry more, I understand people’s reasons for Derby. All this “we only hate X” is plain weird. You don’t get it in Lancashire or London. Fans should embrace spicier games.

 

Edited 8 March by RonnieTodger

[Stadt]

I dislike them, they’re rivals and there’s more riding on games against them than everyone  bar Coventry next season. I don’t think I could say I hate them though.

 

Humbling them in the 10s was great.

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I dislike them, they’re rivals and there’s more riding on games against them than everyone  bar Coventry next season. I don’t think I could say I hate them though.

 

Humbling them in the 10s was great.

I find it difficult to distinguish those games in my mind, especially as they were often about the same time of year and usually on TV. We won pretty much every one home and away I think, apart from the terrible run in spring 2013. I just can't remember which goal was scored in which game....