It needs to be said

[pkonline]

Attending a match doesn't mean you support all the bad decisions at the Club.

 

Many supporters go to the football for reasons that are personal to them. Anything from it may be their only time of the week to spend with their children or parents, or a bit of escapism from the problems of everyday life, or it might be the only time of the week they see anyone else. It may be that they have been to every game for 40 years and this is just what they do.

 

They should not be told they are part of the problem, and anyone who suggest that is arrogant and mean spirited.

[Jacob7839]

2 hours ago, poppowell said:

You can , a mate of mine who lives in North Wales did it about a month ago.He emailed the club and told them he was sick of driving a 7 hour round trip to watch that s - -t and they gave him the remainder of the seasons money back and cancelled his ticket.

Thank you I’ll look at emailing the club

[The Year Of The Fox]

14 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

If you attend games under this regime you're part of the problem and you're facilitating the downfall and mismanagement of this club

 

And I don't care about the abuse I'm about to receive 

If the 100+ people who liked this post to all donate £10 to the plane banner, we’d be about there 

[Sky Blues]

1 hour ago, pkonline said:

Attending a match doesn't mean you support all the bad decisions at the Club.

 

Many supporters go to the football for reasons that are personal to them. Anything from it may be their only time of the week to spend with their children or parents, or a bit of escapism from the problems of everyday life, or it might be the only time of the week they see anyone else. It may be that they have been to every game for 40 years and this is just what they do.

 

They should not be told they are part of the problem, and anyone who suggest that is arrogant and mean spirited.

I've seen it all happen with my own club. No matter how bad things got there was still hard-core support of about 3,000 that went whatever. This created problems with those who would go to the ground and protest but not enter the stadium. 'Scabs' and similar terms were frequently used because you were only allowed a single view. 

 

The best thing that could happen is both sides respect each other, but those that still enter the stadium also protest inside.

[Corky]

There was a lot of anger last night. Of course the freaks who applaud were there but very much in the minority.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

17 hours ago, phoneticerror said:

Agreed. I haven’t been and haven’t resold my tickets for a few home games now. No chance I’m renewing.

Makes me very thankful that I didn't renew this year. The club's only going one way, I wasn't willing to pay to continue to watch it, trouble is I still love My Leicester and watch the games on TV which drives me mad to see just how bad we have become. 

[Kitchandro]

5 hours ago, pkonline said:

Attending a match doesn't mean you support all the bad decisions at the Club.

 

Many supporters go to the football for reasons that are personal to them. Anything from it may be their only time of the week to spend with their children or parents, or a bit of escapism from the problems of everyday life, or it might be the only time of the week they see anyone else. It may be that they have been to every game for 40 years and this is just what they do.

 

They should not be told they are part of the problem, and anyone who suggest that is arrogant and mean spirited.

It’s more concerning to me that people would try to convince themselves all these excuses are valid just to do something that is obviously really unenjoyable. That’s the bit that gets me.

 

It’s a rip off experience and people just lie to themselves. I find it almost offensive that people would accept this level of insult from what are essentially just a load of self-interested rich people. They are the same kind who simp for rich people in other contexts. They have no self-respect. It makes our fanbase look utterly embarrassing and our club small-time.

 

The reputational hit to the club by accepting and supporting this level of decline makes us look a small club. It reduces pride in the whole institution, which reduces the meaning of the act of supporting a local club. Without pride it’s just paying rich people to bore you, annoy you, and even take the Mickey out of you. Anyone who retains that deep feeling of pride in the club they’ve had since childhood is ashamed to be associated with the fanbase for saying ‘we’re a small club and deserve to be below all these clubs that love mocking us’.

 

There’s no rule that you can’t spend time with family outside the football. Or watch other football matches. 
 

There might be the odd person who is struggling so badly and they have found no other effective distractions despite trying, or those who can’t really get out of it because it isn’t their choice (such as the example on the previous page). But let’s be honest, these are a tiny minority. It’s not 10s of thousands of people. What it is for most people is a misguided belief that being a ‘proper fan’ means always turning up, a refusal to analyse the situation, or a force of habit.

I don’t demand people protest. It’s perfectly valid to feel football has largely lost it’s meaning to you, that there are more important things than football to put such energy into (socially as well as personally), or that you wanted to protest years ago and have to begrudgingly accept we don’t have enough hard line fans willing to make a real impact. Protesting outside the ground for hours sounds a great idea, I support it, but I suggested it weeks ago and people decided to just attend the match and shout a bit instead. If you don’t live in Leicester, travelling there and hoping that our fanbase magically grows a pair would be a waste of your time.
 

But the vast majority of people who make excuses to go (even those who convince themselves that a few disorganised and disparate bits of shouting inside the ground will send enough of a message) are embarrassing themselves and the club. The optics make us look a loser club.  
 

If people attend and there’s a real disruptive protest that the media and owner can’t ignore then brilliant. But nobody who attends genuinely believes that will happen, that’s not why they are going.

[bovril]

Have to say there is a kind of frisson to attending Leicester matches that I can't replicate going to other clubs' games, and I don't want to give that up completely. Even when we're diabolical it's an experience that operates on a different level to any other match or sporting event. 

[Footballwipe]

7 hours ago, OriginalRobboFOX said:

What a load of boll*cks. So me taking my young kids to watch professional football is part of the problem. You can generalise if you want to but don’t try and pull everyone down with you. 
 

I want a regime change too. And if people want to avoid going as some way of making a stand against Top and co that’s fine. That’s their choice. It may seem a futile protest that will hardly be reacted upon given Top isn’t going anywhere soon whilst there is such little worth to his investment - but I’ll leave the stay awayers to it and wish them the best. 
 

I’ve been going religiously since 1989 and seen some tripe in that time. However, I won’t be herded along into avoiding the games and I’ll continue supporting my team through the incredible highs and soul crushing lows and as the song goes I’ll always back the lads. If that makes me “part of the problem” I’ll take it. 🦊💙

You lot always trot out this line. Is the stoney silence and whining every time they play it out from the back or a misplaced pass part of this "always back the lads mantra?"

 

Does "always back the lads" mean you were applauding them off last night for a 'super effort'? If you booed or grumbled last night at that capitulation I'm afraid that is not "always backing the lads"

 

If you want to go with your young kids (always a good thing to use aswell to justify going) then that really is okay. But please don't pretend you "always back the lads" you don't. No one does, let's be honest. Unless we have a very different definition of what always "backing the lads" is.

[OriginalRobboFOX]

50 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

You lot always trot out this line. Is the stoney silence and whining every time they play it out from the back or a misplaced pass part of this "always back the lads mantra?"

 

Does "always back the lads" mean you were applauding them off last night for a 'super effort'? If you booed or grumbled last night at that capitulation I'm afraid that is not "always backing the lads"

 

If you want to go with your young kids (always a good thing to use aswell to justify going) then that really is okay. But please don't pretend you "always back the lads" you don't. No one does, let's be honest. Unless we have a very different definition of what always "backing the lads" is.

“You lot” says it all to me… 🙄

[Guest BlueApple]

I've never seen so many people fans patting themselves on the back by literally doing nothing.

 

Stop trying to dictate what fans are doing and stop trying to persuade yourself by not turning up is doing anything meaningful. 

 

Turn up, don't turn up, it's entirely up to the individual, why people feel the need to post it on a forum for some thumbs up validation is sad. 

 

The idea that it somehow gives you a moral high-ground is baffling to me, particularly when you'd be creaming your pants over some Saudi blood money. 

[foxfanazer]

37 minutes ago, BlueApple said:

I've never seen so many people fans patting themselves on the back by literally doing nothing.

 

Stop trying to dictate what fans are doing and stop trying to persuade yourself by not turning up is doing anything meaningful. 

 

Turn up, don't turn up, it's entirely up to the individual, why people feel the need to post it on a forum for some thumbs up validation is sad. 

 

The idea that it somehow gives you a moral high-ground is baffling to me, particularly when you'd be creaming your pants over some Saudi blood money. 

It's got nothing to do with thumbs up you dullard 

[whoareyaaa]

if you are going Southampton away you should reconsider you're life choices

[Steve Earle]

8 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

if you are going Southampton away you should reconsider you're life choices

And your English. You’re welcome

[whoareyaaa]

1 minute ago, Steve Earle said:

And your English. You’re welcome

I take it you are going.

[Steve Earle]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

I take it you are going.

Er, nope. Apologies - I was in pedant mode.

Edited 11 February by Steve Earle

[theessexfox]

I was in my early teens when Pearson’s second spell started, so all I’ve really known is an upwards trajectory, clear identity and pride and increasing success until 4/5 years ago, and now it’s come to this. I’m completely numb now and feel a complete lack of connection to the club.

 

I have a vague memory of going to games when I was little in the Championship when we were very average and eventually got relegated to league 1. Genuine question: in those years did it feel equally soulless, or was there more of a connection and identity and fight within the club that allowed you to connect and fall in love with it? 

[foxfanazer]

Just now, theessexfox said:

I was in my early teens when Pearson’s second spell started, so all I’ve really known is an upwards trajectory, clear identity and pride and increasing success until 4/5 years ago, and now it’s come to this. I’m completely numb now and feel a complete lack of connection to the club.

 

I have a vague memory of going to games when I was little in the Championship when we were very average and eventually got relegated to league 1. Genuine question: in those years did it feel equally soulless, or was there more of a connection and identity and fight within the club that allowed you to connect and fall in love with it? 

Don't get me wrong it was bleak but nothing like the last few years supporting us. The blatant disrespect to the fans from the club is disgusting and you just get the feeling nobody is actually worried about our plight 

 

The club is unrecognisable 

[Jabbaranks]

9 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

I was in my early teens when Pearson’s second spell started, so all I’ve really known is an upwards trajectory, clear identity and pride and increasing success until 4/5 years ago, and now it’s come to this. I’m completely numb now and feel a complete lack of connection to the club.

 

I have a vague memory of going to games when I was little in the Championship when we were very average and eventually got relegated to league 1. Genuine question: in those years did it feel equally soulless, or was there more of a connection and identity and fight within the club that allowed you to connect and fall in love with it? 

It was completely different, there was no real disconnect like there is now with the club, just a bunch of sub par players who tried their best but ultimately weren't much cop. The relegation felt like an inevitability after many years of circling the drain.

 

Now? Just totally out of love with the club, the owners, the players and the game in general which is really sad after what's happened over the last 12 years.

Edited 11 February by Jabbaranks

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, Jabbaranks said:

It was completely different, there was no real disconnect like there is now with the club, just a bunch of sub par players who tried their best but ultimately weren't much cop. The relegation felt like an inevitability after many years of circling the drain.

 

Now? Just totally out of love with the club, the owners, the players and the game in general which is really sad after what's happened over the last 12 years.

And didn't we go down with something like 52 points which we won't be anywhere near this season. Remember it being quite a high points total for a relegated team

[Bazly]

The only thing needed to be said is February 11th 2016 top of the EPL, February 2026 hurtling towards relegation from the Championship having landed -5pts from the last 6 games.

[Bugg]

4 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

And didn't we go down with something like 52 points which we won't be anywhere near this season. Remember it being quite a high points total for a relegated team

Yes and we also had the second best defence in the league with only 45 conceded. 

[theessexfox]

2 minutes ago, Bazly said:

The only thing needed to be said is February 11th 2016 top of the EPL, February 2026 hurtling towards relegation from the Championship having landed -5pts from the last 6 games.

It’s only 5 years since we were presumably in the top 4 and looking very likely to qualify for the champions league. 

[Langston]

17 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

I was in my early teens when Pearson’s second spell started, so all I’ve really known is an upwards trajectory, clear identity and pride and increasing success until 4/5 years ago, and now it’s come to this. I’m completely numb now and feel a complete lack of connection to the club.

 

I have a vague memory of going to games when I was little in the Championship when we were very average and eventually got relegated to league 1. Genuine question: in those years did it feel equally soulless, or was there more of a connection and identity and fight within the club that allowed you to connect and fall in love with it? 

 

It was an absolute mess between 2004-8 tbh but we didn't have a pot to piss in, the hangover from itv digital going pop was definitely still lingering and the players weren't among the divisions highest earners by and large.. I do think that period is perversely looked at through rose tinted specs at times though, now is objectively worse and the players way more dislikable, but it was still really really shit going to watch us back then..

 

The starkest differences now to then is the division in the fanbase and the fact that swathes of fans are actually, and rightly taking aim at the higher ups..

[Corky]

I think this has been collectively the worst quality of football but that period was not much better. Plenty of complaining about the effort of the players in that era. Got to remember we finished well below the likes of Colchester, Luton and Plymouth so, even though we had financial issues, we still performed extremely poorly.