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If Leicester City didn't exist anymore

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Switzfox

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Aarau as I live there but I still haven't bothered to go and watch them yet as I just don't feel the connection like I do to Leicester. People at work are constantly trying to get me to go and watch Basel with them and I'm just not that fussed.

ElusiveEd

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Too late in life to ever feel the way I do about another football team the same way I do about LCFC but if I still needed my football fix and away days It would have to be my new local team Harborough Town

gerblod

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On 05/12/2025 at 21:42, bovril said:

In England, Orient, because I go and watch them quite a bit. Probably enjoy it more than Leicester at the moment, but I could never really support them like I do lcfc. 

 

Outside England, I go and watch Palermo a few times every season but have found it harder to support them now they're owned by City group. 

 

King's Lynn is my local team but can't be doing with English non league. 

I grew up in a village about ten miles from Leicester and five miles from Coalville. Coalville (surprisingly) didn't have a team in the 1950s although the area was football oriented. The closest moderately successful team were Ibstock Penistone Rovers - who yoyoed between divisions in the Leicestershire Senior League. My grandfather played for Hinckley Athletic in the years surrounding WW1 and also played for Leicester Fosse reserves at an earlier point. I didn't know that until I'd established my connection with City at the tender age of eleven - watching Spurs beat us in the Cup in '61.

My good friend from childhood moved to Suffolk and became involved with Bury St Edmunds FC. I've watched them, but like you non-league leaves me cold. Once you've watched Division One standard football and become a fan then nothing else matches. I did follow Everton for a season in the mid-sixties - everyone in my class at school seemed to be United or Liverpool supporters and I fancied some success I could crow about, but it wasn't the 'real thing'. 

I've followed teams rather than clubs - Jock Stein's Celtic, Busby's Babes, Sacchi's AC Milan and tiki-taka Barcelona. I guess Atletico is my favourite other team because of City's games against them. I like the way they've stuck by Simeone. So, had Leicester City not existed I'd have watched Stanton Swifts as I did every Saturday home game. Half-time they brought the lads a bucket of Camp coffee and orange slices. If you were lucky you could get a cup of what was left over. 

My great-nephew is (I believe still) on Tottenham's books, but he'll be very, very lucky to make the first team. They live down the Smoke so I've never seen him play. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up. 

 

 

 

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grobyfox1990

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Would go to Jersey bulls more as there's a good group of people there and it's a laugh. However they all do seem to be more concerned with talking about how amazing non-league is rather than actually enjoying the amazing non-league. Would go on a few away trips with them too if city didn't exist.

No connection like with city at all though, i don't care if they win, lose or draw. It's solely a good social. 

Fox92

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Interesting to see so much passion about the club despite the fact there are lots of posts about being disconnected from the club nowadays on here, some of which from the same posters too.

Jabfox

Jabfox

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Don't shoot me, I'd probably get a season ticket at Tigers and watch LCCC in the summer. I'd miss following/watching the club but not football I don't think.

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SouthLondonFox

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I went to Leyton Orient v Reading on Saturday - cracking game (Orient had two disallowed, hit the post, and Ballard scored a hat-trick), cracking atmosphere, better food and drink (Shepherd Neame and pie and mash), and easy to get to. This was part of ticking off every football league ground in London with my grown-up kids - just two to go - and one I'll definitely repeat. It was just really nice to have an enjoyable afternoon of football for a change. In the meantime, I'm going to watch South London's hipsters Dulwich Hamlet over the coming weeks, as I can walk there...

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Foxdiamond

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If there was a law that said you had to follow the team nearest to birthplace it would be Chelsea for me as just across the river. Funny as Chelsea featured in our League winning season when they beat Spurs and was our last game that season and of course the FA Cup win was against them

TiffToff88

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Toss up between Barnsley and Norwich - I've lived in Barnsley for 5 years now, and i have family from Norwich. So it's likely to be one of those 2 if it ever came to it

ElusiveEd

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4 hours ago, DAS Boot said:

I'd definitely have sex more.

 

Watching Leicester recently has basically stolen my nob.

When Daka scores I'm on the bitch.

When Daka scores I'm on the bitch.

 

Yep, It's come to that! :(

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