Our fans are also to blame

[iancognito]

1 hour ago, Adster said:

He's simply calling out the fickle nature of most football fans? Can't argue with that to be honest. 

He should be looking at his own team mates that gave up early well before he looks at people who may have spent a week's pay on tickets and travel yesterday.

 

Fickle fans is just another way of saying you should cheer when you win but not boo when you lose.

[The Horse's Mouth]

I hate this narrative tbh, football is escapism people want to show up in droves and support the football club. We aren’t in the position of morcambe nor Sheffield Wednesday 

 

the decline of this club is inexcusable, but the idea of shaming people showing up to support the club is ****ing stupid. 

[sbfox]

1 hour ago, em9999 said:

Start playing and acting like proper footballers and we will start acting and supporting 👍 like proper fans 

 

Works both ways 

What's a 'proper' footballer? 

[purpleronnie]

2 hours ago, mohammedsaqib said:

Abdul thinks we’re to blame too 

 

 

You'd think he'd be used to it, LP's half empty near the end.  You do seem to see it a lot more in england than elsewhere though, I've seen games abroad and there seems to be very few leaving....why that is I have no idea.

Having said that it's nothing new, I remember going regularly in the early 90's and it happened then.

[AKCJ]

The stream I was watching kept panning to the away end showing old biddies sat there silent with their brand new Leicester tops on.

 

Absolutely a key factor as to why we're in the shit. Too many people too quick to give King Power their cash without questioning anything that is happening on the pitch.

[goog]

13 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

Unpopular opinion but I genuinely don't care less anymore. 

 

Our fans that think that turning up at the stadium every week and buying merch from the shop etc, is actually helping the club are deluded. 

 

The club is beyond broken and cannot be fixed without a major reset which involves new owners, new board and new players. 

 

This owner, this board and the majority of this group of players do not deserve our money or support.

 

Top and his cronies do not accept they are doing anything wrong, because there is not enough dissent from the fanbase. 

 

We've had project reset etc but ultimately we don't have enough of the fanbase on board to make real changes at the club. 

 

Unless people are turning up to the stadium to protest and show their dislike to the board and the majority of our players, why are you even going to the games? 

 

We are an absolute disgrace and our fanbase is allowing it to happen. 

I really don't understand this poster.

 

You have gone onto say you have not been for years and watch non league football.

 

So basically you are not a Leicester City Fan.

 

Then why come into a forum of a team you don't support and moan  like hell about a team you don't give a toss for? 

 

And your headline is you blame the fans?! 

 

If you don't support Leicester City, Stay away and leave the forum? 

 

Go and moan somewhere else. 

Edited 17 August 2025 by goog

[Fear Of The Fox]

17 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

The stream I was watching kept panning to the away end showing old biddies sat there silent with their brand new Leicester tops on.

 

Absolutely a key factor as to why we're in the shit. Too many people too quick to give King Power their cash without questioning anything that is happening on the pitch.

It's the same people who will go to the pub and complain their pint has exactly 1mm more head than they prefer. But they're happy to pay £80 (or whatever) for a shirt. 

I'm more cynical. Had happy days following the club, bad days, amazing days but in the end this is a private company. If the product I'm paying for is rubbish, I demand change and improvement. Until then they're not getting a pence from me. I'm not going back to a restaurant which poisoned me twice. 

Tbh I'm not enjoying modern football with the odd exception here and there. I find myself having more fun watching baseball and American football nowadays. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

23 minutes ago, goog said:

I really don't understand this post.

 

You have gone onto say you have not been for years and watch non league football.

 

So basically you are not a Leicester City Fan.

 

Then why come into a forum of a team you don't support and moan  like hell about a team you don't give a toss for? 

 

And your headline is you blame the fans?! 

 

If you don't support Leicester City, Stay away and leave the forum? 

 

Go and moan somewhere else. 

Wow. Obviously you didn't understand anything he posted. Do you think we're not allowed to have any critical thinking? 

[JimmyC74]

Do the fans need to lift the players or the players lift the fans.

?
 

It’s a bit of both, but the away fans have always been the team’s biggest backers and it’s clear to see we are a mess right now.  

 

 

[MS0204]

7 minutes ago, JimmyC74 said:

Do the fans need to lift the players or the players lift the fans.

?
 

It’s a bit of both, but the away fans have always been the team’s biggest backers and it’s clear to see we are a mess right now.  

 

 

And that is the million dollar question.. because we have two types of fan in the fan base, it means ultimately there is too much negativity.. I’m all for being critical and it’s important, but second league fixture after winning the first and the manager and probably the star player after bilal is getting pelters.. 

 

[Corky]

This is caused by the stale nature of the club. The same people in the same positions all the time regardless of performance. An outfield squad with literally no new signings and packed with failures and underachievers. Only the manager is different.

 

Put 5 new signings and a new Director of Football in place and I think time will be given. But no, we are same old, same old. It isn't the first defeat of the new season, it is the next defeat in the sequence of dire output from this squad.

[Osavo]

I don't think people care anymore, and tbh I'm in that group. People are genuinely in the stands just having a giggle at the so called 'footballers' playing for us.

 

I only go nowadays for the social aspect, a day out and a few pints with the old man and my mates. Does that make me part of the problem?

[Dan]

I think it of both us and Southampton - both have suffered pathetic declines, ours even worse, and both grounds are just really timid, the occasional boo but nothing that's going to make the players think "shit, I need to buck my ideas up here". It's all so tame.

[iancognito]

42 minutes ago, goog said:

I really don't understand this poster.

 

You have gone onto say you have not been for years and watch non league football.

 

So basically you are not a Leicester City Fan.

 

Then why come into a forum of a team you don't support and moan  like hell about a team you don't give a toss for? 

 

And your headline is you blame the fans?! 

 

If you don't support Leicester City, Stay away and leave the forum? 

 

Go and moan somewhere else. 

You're exactly the sort of person he's referring to, suggesting that critical thinking is wrong or - God forbid - there are non-match-going fans out there 🤣 and that blindly following the club no matter what is the best thing to do. Attending matches isn't a qualification for "Best Leicester Fan".

 

Without a mate and his spare ticket allowing me to go to most home games, I wouldn't have been to a fraction of our games in the last 15 years because getting a ST would have been nigh on impossible and buying match by match unaffordable. Who are you to tell me and those in a similar position, I'd be any less of a supporter for spending my money doing something else? You'll find the county is full of people that love the club but don't have the priviledge of being there. The club's been my life for 39 of my 47 years. I was here long before the players, long before King Power, I'll be as critical of them as I want.

[Chrysalis]

The only times I have heard our fans sing when we not comfortably winning in last few years is when they taking the piss out of their own team, missing passes etc.  Usually when its a unfancied manager.

 

Last season we had a miracle in one game where one game managed to get the crowd going.  That should be the norm every game.

Edited 17 August 2025 by Chrysalis

[sylofox]

14 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

I agree with this, people happy with situation or trying to blame the football league/Premier League for picking us up on our failings at PSR level instead acknowledging it's our problem are far more of a problem than those that just want to go to a football game. 

 

I think the majority on here do at least get there is a problem though.

I get the blaming the premier league though. They've picked on Everton Forest and us. Yet Man C and Chelsea are bending and breaking rules left right and centre. I talk to other fans and get one of two answers. You've broke the rules so tuff. Or you've broke the rules but it's totally wrong City and Chelsea have not been done and they've been doing it for years.

 

Yes they all think we should be done but think it's wrong that two clubs have got away with it for years. Most also agree the prem is either slanted or corrupt towards the big 6.

 

 

But our owner is totally to blame for the mess we are in. To a point I don't blame Whelan or Rudkin Top has allowed them to fvck it all up and done nothing about it. The fact he see's no wrong in what they've done to our club to me say's he's the only one to blame.

 

I also wonder if he has the final say in everything and tells them what to do and who to buy on what salary.

[LCFCJohn]

53 minutes ago, JimmyC74 said:

Do the fans need to lift the players or the players lift the fans.

?
 

It’s a bit of both, but the away fans have always been the team’s biggest backers and it’s clear to see we are a mess right now.  

 

 

I would say the onus is mainly on the players for 2 reasons.

 

Mainly, they are the ones with the influence to impact what is happening on the pitch. They can lift the fans. It doesn’t have to be a worldie of a goal, it could be a lung busting run to chase down a loose ball, a hard tackle followed by a roar to the crowd, pressing and harrying. All these things show effort and lift the fans but we are missing all this as the players just appear to be going through the motions.

 

And secondly, it can’t be avoided, finances. Fans pay hard earned money to attend games. I know we hate the fact we can be treated as customers, but in this context, it applies. Fans pay for a service, which is a performance (I say performance not results), so it is up to the service provided to do so. The fact they are paid what they are is a side point.

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, sbfox said:

What's a 'proper' footballer? 

One that is here for the enjoyment of playing the game? And this is likely a wider issue about the game as it is now and the money involved, but 30 years ago, a young kid says they want to be a footballer. Why? Because of the love of the game and emulating their own heroes. And now? I bet in too many cases, money and fame. 
 

This is evidenced by how many will sit around waiting for their contract to expire rather than moving, given they are so unhappy of course.

[sylofox]

2 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I would say the onus is mainly on the players for 2 reasons.

 

Mainly, they are the ones with the influence to impact what is happening on the pitch. They can lift the fans. It doesn’t have to be a worldie of a goal, it could be a lung busting run to chase down a loose ball, a hard tackle followed by a roar to the crowd, pressing and harrying. All these things show effort and lift the fans but we are missing all this as the players just appear to be going through the motions.

 

And secondly, it can’t be avoided, finances. Fans pay hard earned money to attend games. I know we hate the fact we can be treated as customers, but in this context, it applies. Fans pay for a service, which is a performance (I say performance not results), so it is up to the service provided to do so. The fact they are paid what they are is a side point.

I totally disagree. Fans are referred to as the twelfth man. The fans job is to encourage and lift the team when things aren't great.

 

If you have to be encouraged to support your team I don't think you're a true supporter. 

[Dan]

It's a shame that statement - I'd have more of a word at your team mates myself.

[sylofox]

3 minutes ago, Dan said:

It's a shame that statement - I'd have more of a word at your team mates myself.

What statement? 

[LCFCJohn]

5 minutes ago, sylofox said:

I totally disagree. Fans are referred to as the twelfth man. The fans job is to encourage and lift the team when things aren't great.

 

If you have to be encouraged to support your team I don't think you're a true supporter. 

It’s a fair point and maybe it depends on circumstance. On a game by game basis, definitely yes. I think I was thinking more our case. 
 

I think we have a group of players that you could roar on for 90 minutes, and they have so little drive and desire to put the effort in, we would not see anything different. We are so many years into this apathy that is served up, it has drained even those who would usually be more positive and vocal. Obviously we have a high proportion of hanger on types anyway which doesn’t help. I also believe the stale type of football we have been served up for many years isn’t conducive to getting the crowd fired up.

 

Give where we are now, if you ask what it takes to break the rot and staleness of it all, I would say it needs the players to show they are serious about the task in hand and put a shift in. The reaction of the crowd will quickly follow in my opinion of course.

Edited 17 August 2025 by LCFCJohn

[Nolucklcfc]

Since the title win, the fanbase has never really been united. 

[jayfox26]

1 hour ago, goog said:

I really don't understand this poster.

 

You have gone onto say you have not been for years and watch non league football.

 

So basically you are not a Leicester City Fan.

 

Then why come into a forum of a team you don't support and moan  like hell about a team you don't give a toss for? 

 

And your headline is you blame the fans?! 

 

If you don't support Leicester City, Stay away and leave the forum? 

 

Go and moan somewhere else. 

The forum is here for people to have opinions. Why should I leave the forum because you don't agree with me? 

 

By all means come back at me with your views and opinions and we can chat, but don't tell me who I can and can't support and which forums I can and can't go on. 

 

For the record, I do support LCFC, I just don't support KPFC and won't give a penny of my money to this useless owner and board. 

 

I hope one day that I can get back to going to games again but it won't happen until there is huge change at the club. That's my choice, as it is yours to attend games, if you do.

 

My post was just another way of saying the fans need to try and do more to reset the club and that won't happen whilst the owner and his board think everything is OK because only a small section of the fanbase have shown discontent. 

[Harpenden Fox]

6 minutes ago, Dan said:

It's a shame that statement - I'd have more of a word at your team mates myself.

I’m glad someone at the club has had the guts to actually say something substantive and honest rather than the usual bland platitudes. Might not agree fully with Abdul, but glad he’s said what he thinks