Frenzied Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Was reading a post about the Chelsea v Barca game earlier and our rivalry with Chelski was mentioned; I was only a kid when it started, I think, but would someone please explain what's behind that song (the chelsea ran away etc) and our mutual dislike for each other as clubs. Cheers
Head Honcho Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Was reading a post about the Chelsea v Barca game earlier and our rivalry with Chelski was mentioned; I was only a kid when it started, I think, but would someone please explain what's behind that song (the chelsea ran away etc) and our mutual dislike for each other as clubs. Cheers Sorry wrong day 26th December 1979 was the day when Leicester tried to take the shed! ..and the next time they came to Filbert St about 300 of them tried to take the Kop
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 i was there, not sure of the date though? Hark now hear the leicester sing, the chelsea ran away, and will will fight 4 ever more because of boxing day. they also mention us when singing , we will follow the chelsea over land and sea, AND LEICESTER.
Finnegan Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Also doesn't help Combat 18 Chelsea supporters turning up and sitting in the Kop. Remember that as a kid.
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Also doesn't help Combat 18 Chelsea supporters turning up and sitting in the Kop. Remember that as a kid. can't remember them SITTING in the kop, but they did come in a few times when it was standing!!
Disillusioned Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Right season, wrong game. It was the infamous home game in the old Second Division on April 5th 1980 which City won 1-0 (Larry May header - what's he doing now?). After the winner, it all went off in the corner between the Kop and the chicken run underneath the old Members Stand. In those days before segregation, several hundred Chelsea fans had infiltrated that area knowing they were well placed for a ruck whichever way fortune ran. What took place was the largest mass brawl that I have ever seen inside a stadium. The match was televised on Soccer Sunday with the legendary Hugh Johns at the mike. His attention was drawn to the disturbance: 'there's a riot going on there in the corner - I've never seen anything like it!' I noticed just before the game squads of Chelsea Headhunters running down isolated Leicester fans outside Filbo. What was peculiar about this was their war cries. They had nothing to do with football. The scumbags were chanting 'National Front' and 'Seig Heil' and giving the Nazi salute. I remember one thug in their crew. I'm convined his doppelganger appeared alongside Wilder and Pryor in 'Stir Crazy' (the ginormous bald bloke). After that game I was convined that the far right was responsible for most football hooliganism, that it was clearly being organised and that it was being used as a training ground for their heavies. Footnote: Leicester went up as Champions that season.
Phube Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 i was there, not sure of the date though? Hark now hear the leicester sing, the chelsea ran away, and will will fight 4 ever more because of boxing day. they also mention us when singing , we will follow the chelsea over land and sea, AND LEICESTER. It's this song that is the reason they Tim 'Soccer AM' Lovejoy ALLWAYS calls us 'AND Leicester'
Head Honcho Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Right season, wrong game. It was the infamous home game in the old Second Division on April 5th 1980 which City won 1-0 (Larry May header - what's he doing now?). After the winner, it all went off in the corner between the Kop and the chicken run underneath the old Members Stand. In those days before segregation, several hundred Chelsea fans had infiltrated that area knowing they were well placed for a ruck whichever way fortune ran. What took place was the largest mass brawl that I have ever seen inside a stadium. The match was televised on Soccer Sunday with the legendary Hugh Johns at the mike. His attention was drawn to the disturbance: 'there's a riot going on there in the corner - I've never seen anything like it!' I noticed just before the game squads of Chelsea Headhunters running down isolated Leicester fans outside Filbo. What was peculiar about this was their war cries. They had nothing to do with football. The scumbags were chanting 'National Front' and 'Seig Heil' and giving the Nazi salute. I remember one thug in their crew. I'm convined his doppelganger appeared alongside Wilder and Pryor in 'Stir Crazy' (the ginormous bald bloke). After that game I was convined that the far right was responsible for most football hooliganism, that it was clearly being organised and that it was being used as a training ground for their heavies. Footnote: Leicester went up as Champions that season. The Boxing Day reference though is from the same season when we played them at the Bridge on Boxing Day funnily enough! Leicester had a huge mob that day and it was mayhem, I was at both games, I remember the home game because I had left school the previous day never to return! Even sweeter was the fact that we beat them that day and that probably cost them promotion!
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 to be honest in them days all london clubs loved coming to leicester cos they knew it would kick off, i can remember going down to london and going to say fulham and fighting with chelsea just up the road near a big park, and it would kick off all over the place on the underground, it was just how it was!!
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 I remember some bloke singing this song in the pub! which song ??
Head Honcho Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 to be honest in them days all london clubs loved coming to leicester cos they knew it would kick off, i can remember going down to london and going to say fulham and fighting with chelsea just up the road near a big park, and it would kick off all over the place on the underground, it was just how it was!! I remember the Fulham game, we won 1-0 Wilson I think scored, could be wrong though, great day out! We almost went down that year as well!
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 I remember the Fulham game, we won 1-0 Wilson I think scored, could be wrong though, great day out! We almost went down that year as well! yes was a good day apart from our coach doing a runner, had to dive on another one to get back!! .
Head Honcho Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 yes was a good day apart from our coach doing a runner, had to dive on another one to get back!! . Went on the train so didn't have that problem. Did however almost miss the last train home
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 Went on the train so didn't have that problem. Did however almost miss the last train home lol those were the days !!!
Head Honcho Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 I remember the Fulham game, we won 1-0 Wilson I think scored, could be wrong though, great day out! We almost went down that year as well! Getting my seasons wrong again the game I went to was in 1983 we went up that season Fulham finished 4th-that was the season when Derby did us a favour by beating them in the last day of the season! Went on the coach in 78 when we nearly went down!
Jonbluefox9 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 I remember going to watch Chelsea play a few seasons ago at Stamford Bridge and that was the first time I heard that they sing about us. At the time I had no idea why but now it makes sense.
trueblue1 Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 I remember going to watch Chelsea play a few seasons ago at Stamford Bridge and that was the first time I heard that they sing about us. At the time I had no idea why but now it makes sense. glad to hear us old timers have some uses, lol , i did 15 years home and away79 onwards , only missed a handfull of games in that time, oops and a few more cos of a ban, ssshhhh dont tell anyone.
Swedging Posted 10 March 2006 Posted 10 March 2006 . It was the infamous home game in the old Second Division on April 5th 1980 ... In those days before segregation Segregation was well in place by then, wasn't it? Just erratically enforced - or am I just going senile?
Ultra Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 The game wasn't all-ticket though. So Chelsea would just pay on the gate same as the home fans did. Clubs and plod weren't so clued up then.
Cobbo Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 Now then Mardy Bum, I see your frown and it's like looking down the barrel or a gun and it goes off.
LCFC UK Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 It seems to kick off a few times against Chelsea. Wasnt there an incident a few years back in the cup, at chelsea? I think it was the one the ref cost us the game, i watched it on sky and saw all leicester fans running on the pitch and fighting with the chelsea fans and the camera panned away and the commentator said 'we wont view that, we dont need this in football' or something along them lines.
Jonbluefox9 Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 glad to hear us old timers have some uses, lol , i did 15 years home and away79 onwards , only missed a handfull of games in that time, oops and a few more cos of a ban, ssshhhh dont tell anyone. Get off this forum you hooligan!!
stez Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 Right season, wrong game. It was the infamous home game in the old Second Division on April 5th 1980 which City won 1-0 (Larry May header - what's he doing now?). After the winner, it all went off in the corner between the Kop and the chicken run underneath the old Members Stand. In those days before segregation, several hundred Chelsea fans had infiltrated that area knowing they were well placed for a ruck whichever way fortune ran. What took place was the largest mass brawl that I have ever seen inside a stadium. The match was televised on Soccer Sunday with the legendary Hugh Johns at the mike. His attention was drawn to the disturbance: 'there's a riot going on there in the corner - I've never seen anything like it!' I noticed just before the game squads of Chelsea Headhunters running down isolated Leicester fans outside Filbo. What was peculiar about this was their war cries. They had nothing to do with football. The scumbags were chanting 'National Front' and 'Seig Heil' and giving the Nazi salute. I remember one thug in their crew. I'm convined his doppelganger appeared alongside Wilder and Pryor in 'Stir Crazy' (the ginormous bald bloke). After that game I was convined that the far right was responsible for most football hooliganism, that it was clearly being organised and that it was being used as a training ground for their heavies. Footnote: Leicester went up as Champions that season. sadly football is nothing but a footnote for the hooligan nobbers nazi's or not
macfox Posted 11 March 2006 Posted 11 March 2006 The reason Chelsea fans sing "and Leicester" is because on one of the motorways is a signpost stating ... "The North and Leicester" ...ahem I thank you.
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