It happened on the way to (or from) the ground

[C.J]

I forgot there was a game on at Filbo once, only when I was watching SSN & the reporter was outside after did I realise.

Fulham away midweek ,the coach left without me & my mate. Luckily it was stuck in traffic a mile away. 

[fazzyfox]

Away to WBA there was a policeman on a horse and another getting kids to feed it with a sugar cube (yes, THE West Midlands Police, I know). When a child gave the horse a sugar cube it lifted up a leg and a small crowd gathered to watch. I went up and said “four please” which the crowd found hilarious but the police reverted to type and forcibly moved us on by riding into us and shouting something about a breach of the peace. I hadn’t spooked the horse, it was just a verbal joke but they lost the plot and just rode into the crowd, coming from all angles, looking for the cheeky so and so who’d said it 

[Bourbon Fox]

14 hours ago, STEVIE B said:

Runs throughout every February. Venues all over Leicester & surrounding areas. 

I think he was talking about the football...

[Unabomber]

Didn’t happen to me but on the train to Scunthorpe away a lcfc fan went for a shit and whilst in there the train arrived at Scunthorpe. He didn’t get out in time and I think the next stop was York.

[rugbyblue]

I lived in Doncaster for a few years in the late 90s and after the league cup replay at hillsborough, the police were ushering all leicester fans onto the leicester train which was waiting at Sheffield station.  As i entered the station a copper asked " are you leicester" and i replied without thinking "yes".

I was promptly made to board the leicester train and despite my protests, south yorks police weren't interested that i lived in Doncaster and needed to get the local train.   They just wanted all fans out of Sheffield.  The train left very shortly after but im now glad i was forced onto it.  Great trip back with city fans. 

[C.J]

On the way to Peterborough once from Leicester train station, someone pressed the e-stop in the middle of nowhere 

[los dedos]

Met some Leicester supporting mates at the train station before a Man u  game mid 90s, ended up getting chased down Granby Street by the Baby Squad .

Only got saved from a kicking by one of the lads getting his season ticket card out. To be fair they were most apologetic afterwards.  😅

If was these days I would just shout " Back the lads " and  " We are where we are " and they'd all shake my hand  

[The mullet of Phil Gee]

On 22nd September 1990 we played Sheffield Wednesday at Filbo and the buggers hammered us 4-2.

 

Walking back to the car afterwards down Eastern Boulevard, me and 2 mates encountered some Wednesday fans who were not content with just beating us on the pitch.

After a few words, one of them swung a punch at my mate who quickly ducked his head to avoid it. Unfortunately, his head landed straight in the tray of chips that the guy was holding in his other hand.

 

Upon recovering, my mate let out a throaty roar of "I f**king hate curry sauce!". After that it all fizzled out to nothing, but it was funny at the time. 

 

 

 

[The off]

On the way back from winning the Derby play-off final doing 70mph up the M1, a van pulls up next to us and their sliding  side door opens to show 4 Leicester fans doing a moonie at us, each with a squashed beer can in the crack of their arses. And very nice arses they were, for us ladies it was the icing on the cake!!

[whoareyaaa]

The train station after the Wolves 4-3 away defeat when we was 3 up was filled with talent going to a Christina Aguleria concert  

 

And getting head locked by a massive bold Geordie (Sunderland fan) walking out the KP can't even remember why.

[Long Eaton Fox]

10 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

I think he was talking about the football...

Yes 🙂

[LCFCCKEANO]

Home game a few years back, my mate say Sheffield United but I am not so sure, saw a young lad who’d clearly had a couple too many doing anti Leicester chants on the main road past the holiday inn next to the ground get knocked out in the most brutal one punch way

 

outside soar point watched a lad jump off the bridge into the river after a match

 

saw someone have a heart attack before betting at goodison a few years back in that park outside their ground

 

Derby away as a maybe 13 year old got put in a headlock by police and dragged away from the station, could not for the life of me tell you why

 

most shocking of all, I watched Luke Thomas play pro football

[DJW1]

One for the anglers. Walking through Reading on the way to Elm Park, I watched a bloke battling a fish he'd hooked in the River Kennet. After 5 mins he pulled out a barbel of about 6 lbs.

 

[DJW1]

Why is It that after a home game there is always one bloke trying to cycle against a tide of thousands of fans?

[fazzyfox]

22 hours ago, The mullet of Phil Gee said:

On 22nd September 1990 we played Sheffield Wednesday at Filbo and the buggers hammered us 4-2.

 

Walking back to the car afterwards down Eastern Boulevard, me and 2 mates encountered some Wednesday fans who were not content with just beating us on the pitch.

After a few words, one of them swung a punch at my mate who quickly ducked his head to avoid it. Unfortunately, his head landed straight in the tray of chips that the guy was holding in his other hand.

 

Upon recovering, my mate let out a throaty roar of "I f**king hate curry sauce!". After that it all fizzled out to nothing, but it was funny at the time. 

 

 

 

So the punch missed but he still got a-salted and ended up in a Korma !

[DJW1]

On 20/02/2026 at 14:45, fazzyfox said:

So the punch missed but he still got a-salted and ended up in a Korma !

If the bloke had been carrying fish and chips he might have got battered

[Guest worth_the_wait]

Drove to Middlebrough in 2000, won 3-0, great game.

 

Leaving the ground, traffic in Middlesbrough was gridlocked ... so we decided to do a slight detour, and use the Tees Transporter Bridge.

 

Drove onto the cradle, and to our surprise, Martin George was parked up on our right in his Roller.   Wound the window down, and had a really nice chat as we swung across the Tees.   He was a real football fan, as excited as any young lad who had just watched the match.   

[dayday]

The Villa v Leicester league cup semi final a few years ago, my mate and I was catching the train from Rugby to Birmingham 

 

I was speaking with the ticket guy ( Man City fan) who  I knew , and he was asking my thoughts about the game , before I could really tell him  my mate shouted me come on Dave the trains leaving in a few minutes, so I legged it to the platform and got on the train , after a while I said to my mate this train is taking ages , and we hadn’t got to Coventry yet , that’s when it dawned on me  my mate had got us on the wrong train and it was actually heading to Euston 

 

The only saving grace is we got the 2.00 train which was early , so when we got to Euston, we told the ticket people the guy at rugby station had put us on the wrong train, luckily they believed us a gave us a free ticket back to Birmingham 

 

Got to the Villa ground at 7.20 and you just know it’s not your day when they beat us undeservedly 

 

A day to forget 

[Le Renard Blue]

My first away game as a teenager, Birmingham City at St Andrew’s. The bus driver got lost, eventually we saw the floodlights, then a few minutes later the ground and a sign. Welcome To Molineux. We turned around and went back to Leicester. We won.

[DJW1]

10 hours ago, Le Renard Blue said:

My first away game as a teenager, Birmingham City at St Andrew’s. The bus driver got lost, eventually we saw the floodlights, then a few minutes later the ground and a sign. Welcome To Molineux. We turned around and went back to Leicester. We won.

Was that the driver's first and last driving job?

[TrentFox]

On 20/02/2026 at 09:16, DJW1 said:

One for the anglers. Walking through Reading on the way to Elm Park, I watched a bloke battling a fish he'd hooked in the River Kennet. After 5 mins he pulled out a barbel of about 6 lbs.

 

I used to live a few metres from the Kennet in Reading! I find it hard to believe you could pull anything out of there that weighed 6lbs or more unless it was a shopping trolley or a dead person. 

[ashbyj]

Once bumped into Gazza in the carpark, I think it was around 2018 against Chelsea, looked in a bit of a bad way but still a massive privilege for me shaking hands with one of my biggest football hero’s, even kissed my 5 year old son on the head for luck after the photo.

[DJW1]

27 minutes ago, TrentFox said:

I used to live a few metres from the Kennet in Reading! I find it hard to believe you could pull anything out of there that weighed 6lbs or more unless it was a shopping trolley or a dead person. 

This was in the 1980s, when I lived there. I dont know if it´s very polluted but it´s a reasonably big river in Reading. It´s surprising the size of the fish that get caught in small rivers and canals. In the Erewash canal pike and carp of upto 20 lb have been caught. 

[Guest worth_the_wait]

Went on a Midland Red bus to Birmingham City in the 1970's.  That was a time when you were literally taking your life into your own hands.
 
Parked up on some dodgy bit of waste land near the ground.  Walking up to the ground, it looked liked some bomb had hit Small Heath.  Slum clearance around the ground, it was just barren.   All it needed was tumbleweed rolling down the street.
 
There was nothing outside the ground telling where you were going, just a turnstile that said "pay".  Found ourselves in the Tilton Road End, no segregation anywhere.   Within a few minutes, some poor lad was getting a kicking in the toilets.  Gulp!     We somehow managed to avoid a beating - ironically enough, because we were prepared to stand in the middle of the terrace showing our colours.   The locals "respected" us for that.    
 
Anyway, got back to the bus afterwards, only to find that nearly everyone else had been there an hour - having been run out of the ground at half time.  The 70's really were dodgy at some grounds.      Unfortunately the driver wasn't there.   We assumed he'd been so traumatised by the stick he got on the journey over, that he'd decided to leave us all there and make his own way home.   (As it turned out, he'd actually been to visit a relative, and struggled to find his way back.)
 
So here we were, 50 of us stuck on a bus on a (now) deserted waste ground, getting dark, near to a railway embankment.   And what does one of the City fans do?   Puts his hand into a socket, and starts the bloody engine.  Someone then climbed into the drivers seat, and started driving it round the wasteground.  My first thought was "sh*t, how close are we going to that railway embankment drop?".    I can vagely remember a mix of laughter and screams of terror coming from the bus.
 
And after what seemed like half an hour, but was probably only a minute ... the driver magically re-appeared.    I have never been so pleased to see a bus driver in my life.   We got back to Humberstone Gate in one piece, and vowed never to go Midland Red again.   

[TrentFox]

1 hour ago, DJW1 said:

This was in the 1980s, when I lived there. I dont know if it´s very polluted but it´s a reasonably big river in Reading. It´s surprising the size of the fish that get caught in small rivers and canals. In the Erewash canal pike and carp of upto 20 lb have been caught. 

I lived in Reading for 15 years in 80s and 90s. Loved it. Where were you?