LCFC - Family Night Football memories/photos?

[Groby_Blue]

They should definitely bring these back. I'd even attend a few myself to hear a load of ten year old chanting F**k off Rudkin. 

[Foxin_Mad]

8 hours ago, RYM said:

 

 

Unfortunately we are focussed on the Daniel Levy model of “maximising the matchday revenue ceiling”, which i understand to an extent but it’s a very, very short term game for a club like ours.

 

 

I get the revenue model. The problem is when you have a management team which is at best mediocre, at worst utterly inept and incompetent and cant even get basic decisions correct. Its going to be very hard to succeed at the top level.

 

Really the first step for the club is a competent management team.

 

At lot of the operational and commercial stuff in the club seems amateur and not well done for a multi million pound business. Surely stuff like this is a good bridge to supporters current and future, give it cheap or free to season ticket holders, even the womens games too. Try and fill the ground, surely 20k paying fans getting excited about Leicester City is a fundamentally GOOD commercial decision. Have the shop open, milk it a Christmas, get some decent streetfood in the ground, make it an experience. People pay good money for good experiences, now more than ever. To be honest Football is becoming a pretty flat lifeless experience thats very expensive. Im slowly taking the opinion theres better things I can do that make better use of what little money remains. 

 

 

Edited 13 June 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[Mark_w]

1 hour ago, Globalfox said:

Great topic and fondly remembered. At the last FCC meeting I raised reinstating something like this and bringing academy etc games back from the soulless Seagrave and facilitating a new generation of supporters. Linking the city and supporters back to the home stadium outside of the games would go a long way to reconnecting fans with the club I believe. Whether it happens or not time will tell but I for one will keep pushing the point. Would be great if others who agree speak up and start a trend.

1 hour ago, Groby_Blue said:

They should definitely bring these back. I'd even attend a few myself to hear a load of ten year old chanting F**k off Rudkin. 

I would assume (because to my shame I’ve still not actually been to one) that the women’s games at Filbert Way offer a lot of the same benefits for families and young fans. A more concerted effort to market those games would probably be better than diluting things further by bringing reserve/development games to the ground.

[Guest RYM]

4 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said:

I get the revenue model. The problem is when you have a management team which is at best mediocre, at worst utterly inept and incompetent and cant even get basic decisions correct. Its going to be very hard to succeed at the top level.

 

Really the first step for the club is a competent management team.

 

At lot of the operational and commercial stuff in the club seems amateur and not well done for a multi million pound business. Surely stuff like this is a good bridge to supporters current and future, give it cheap or free to season ticket holders, even the womens games too. Try and fill the ground, surely 20k paying fans getting excited about Leicester City is a fundamentally GOOD commercial decision. Have the shop open, milk it a Christmas, get some decent streetfood in the ground, make it an experience. People pay good money for good experiences, now more than ever. To be honest Football is becoming a pretty flat lifeless experience thats very expensive. Im slowly taking the opinion theres better things I can do that make better use of what little money remains. 

 

 

Totally, we had a champagne product with lemonade staff. Most of them recruited as we went down to league one and haven't been replaced since. I've written ad nauseam about the fan experience on here but there was a guy I spoke to a few times, Pete Winemiller, incredible bloke. He was in charge at Oklahoma Thunder basketball team. He told me "We can't control the purchased product ie: basketball, so we must focus 100% of our efforts on the fan experience". I worked by this school of thought but in football, there aren't many that "get it".

 

It's not always about free or cheap stuff, most people will pay for that "experience" but the offering has to be world class these days and fans have to feel valued. We make mistake after mistake at every supporter "touch point" opportunity. It used to hurt to my head and drive me crackers but now I've let it go......just about....!

[CosbehFox]

5 hours ago, Groby_Blue said:

They should definitely bring these back. I'd even attend a few myself to hear a load of ten year old chanting F**k off Rudkin. 

They effectively are there. The atmosphere of the women’s games is a very similar vibe and the fanzone works far better at those games 

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, Mark_w said:

I would assume (because to my shame I’ve still not actually been to one) that the women’s games at Filbert Way offer a lot of the same benefits for families and young fans. A more concerted effort to market those games would probably be better than diluting things further by bringing reserve/development games to the ground.

Literally what was mentioned at the FCC. Club have let the women’s team down in terms of support to build crowds. Other clubs achieving five figures. No absolute effort to make a particular game a showpiece on an international weekend, or a double header or similar 

[OntarioFox]

8 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

This is a bit of a "do I remember this right" but was the Man Utd 20k game the same night as Walkers launched Walkers Lites? I'm sure I remember having a free packet when I was a kid at one of these as part of their promo. Remember being there with my cousin and auntie as well as dad and sister.

 

If it wasn't the Utd game there was definitely one where they had free Walkers Lites. Just hoping it's not a false memory of a 6/7 year old!

My main memory of FNF was a match where they were giving out Pepperami sticks and making us kids sing 'what do we want? Pepperami! When do we want it? NOW!'

 

They were the best of times, they were the blurst of times.

[Guest Bilo]

21 hours ago, howlinmadmurfdoc said:

Remember us beating Oldham 8-1 in the 94/95 season. 

Remember that one myself. Even as a ten year old, I remember being genuinely impressed by how appalling Oldham were.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

21 hours ago, howlinmadmurfdoc said:

Remember us beating Oldham 8-1 in the 94/95 season. 

We beat Newcastle 6-1 just before or after that too.

[Guest RYM]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

They effectively are there. The atmosphere of the women’s games is a very similar vibe and the fanzone works far better at those games 

New game, new fans, new experiences, new habits. Easy wins which is great.

 

For a fanzone to work in the men’s game you need to make an offering worthwhile and then some. Like the OG city square, plus break habits of a lifetime with the 30+ crew (that’s impossible TBH), or you focus on families and play the long game.

 

We don’t do any of them very well.

[Langston]

On 12/06/2025 at 20:47, RonnieTodger said:

I’ve got very vague memories of watching us against Blackburn. I think it was a high scoring defeat but Laurie Dudfield and Stuart Campbell stood out for us. 

 

Laurie Dudfield was a machine at FNF!!!

[Bayfox]

2 hours ago, RYM said:

Totally, we had a champagne product with lemonade staff. Most of them recruited as we went down to league one and haven't been replaced since. I've written ad nauseam about the fan experience on here but there was a guy I spoke to a few times, Pete Winemiller, incredible bloke. He was in charge at Oklahoma Thunder basketball team. He told me "We can't control the purchased product ie: basketball, so we must focus 100% of our efforts on the fan experience". I worked by this school of thought but in football, there aren't many that "get it".

 

It's not always about free or cheap stuff, most people will pay for that "experience" but the offering has to be world class these days and fans have to feel valued. We make mistake after mistake at every supporter "touch point" opportunity. It used to hurt to my head and drive me crackers but now I've let it go......just about....!

Unfortunately 2 total different products and the American Market is used to all the cheese and show that comes along with pro sprot. Ironically that's exactly what the PL and LCFC along with clubs like spurs are heading towards

 

Different market and different history. Your point about those in power jot getting it are valid. 

 

I dont want an experience I want to turn up back those in blue, make a hostile environment and that's about it. I don't give 2 ****s about the food, drink, freebies that's what I grew up on and the English tradition, there's literally not a better noise than when a ball hist the back of the net in a UK football ground.

 

I've done MSG for the knicks give me a foot long hot dog, a foam hand, a popcorn bucket and a 24oz can of bud. But ibdont want that shit here.

 

The match going experience nowdays is better in plenty of European countries, but it shouldn't be. We need someone gets what football here should be about. Instead we have a club determined to drive those with any passion out.

[Ryanlcfc3]

Family Night Football had great cartoon mascots. I think there were mascots like Fred Flintstone, Bart Simpson, Tasmanian Devil (Taz), and of course Filbert Fox causing chaos at half-time.

Any photos will be great to look back at those memories.

[Voll Blau]

Probably the biggest mardy I ever threw as a kid was when me and my dad turned up to an FNF against Grimsby to find out it had been postponed. 

 

Used to get tickets from everywhere - school, cubs, vouchers in the Mercury. Used to feel like proper matches.

[dillonpanthers87]

On 12/06/2025 at 20:40, RYM said:

That’s Bart Simpson mate 

Actually laughing. Top class.

[Ryanlcfc3]

On 12/06/2025 at 22:27, howlinmadmurfdoc said:

Remember us beating Oldham 8-1 in the 94/95 season. 

Steve Agnew scored hat-trick, Steve Thompson scored twice. Ian Ormondroyd, Phil Gee and Steve Walsh also got on scoresheet in that game.

[Fox1980]

I was ball boy for a game against Liverpool and got put behind the goal at the North Stand. With it being a FNF game they didn’t open the North Stand so every shot that went wide or over went deep into the empty stand and I had to run up the stairs and find what row the ball was on and throw it back to David James.
There was the odd time when I couldn’t find it and David James was pointing and shouting “ I think it went over there mate” - not helping mate 🤣

Edited 14 June 2025 by Fox1980

[Ryanlcfc3]

Against Liverpool back on Monday 31st January 1994, Captain Scarlet was the star guest that night on Family Night Football.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

15 minutes ago, Ryanlcfc3 said:

Against Liverpool back on Monday 31st January 1994, Captain Scarlet was the star guest that night on Family Night Football.

See Sammy Lee on the bench there. 

 

Remember the odd occasion John Gregory or Alan Evans were on the bench.

[rn9013]

This was how I got into being mad about the foxes in the 90’s. My mum and sister would have a ‘girls night in’ whilst me and my dad went to the footy. We always brought a takeaway in on the way home for us all. Always looked forward to FNF nights until I became old enough / we could afford to go to first team games. 

 

Edited 14 June 2025 by rn9013

[howlinmadmurfdoc]

17 hours ago, Electric Yetis said:

We beat Newcastle 6-1 just before or after that too.

Yeah I was at that one with my mum and grandad. She didn’t come to Oldham one and thought I’d made the score up because she wasn’t there.

[Ryanlcfc3]

Other one here, back on Monday 28th February 1994 against Blackburn Rovers. The guests on the night happened to be my favourite cartoon characters, Tom and Jerry!!!! 

[fazzyfox]

20 minutes ago, Ryanlcfc3 said:

Other one here, back on Monday 28th February 1994 against Blackburn Rovers. The guests on the night happened to be my favourite cartoon characters, Tom and Jerry!!!! 

And now we’re just a Mickey Mouse Club!

[iancognito]

1 hour ago, rn9013 said:

This was how I got into being mad about the foxes in the 90’s. My mum and sister would have a ‘girls night in’ whilst me and my dad went to the footy. We always brought a takeaway in on the way home for us all. Always looked forward to FNF nights until I became old enough / we could afford to go to first team games. 

 

And thats how it should be now. Get the u18s or PL2 whatever its called used to playing in front of bigger crowds, get kids who cant afford or cant get STs in for a fiver and keep them connected to the club.

[Bourbon Fox]

On 12/06/2025 at 20:28, ramboacdc said:

Wayne Rooney hit my grandma on the thigh with a skyball even though we were on the 2nd tier of the double decker. 

 

 

If she was within grabbing range he'd have hit her with more than that