Stand Up if you love Leicester

[syston_fox]

Fcuking Definitely! My kids WILL support City and I will make sure of that!

I'd be disappointed if my kids didn't support City but if they choose not to then that is their choice. I'd take them to games at the walkers stadium but if they felt that it wasn't for them then I wouldnt force the club upon them.... but they can bugger off if they think I will be buying them a replica shirt and taking them to Old Trafford and the likes!!

[Raj]

fooking little bastards , any kid of mine asking for a Man u shirt will get a bloody good kicking . I bleed Royal blue and so will any youngster of mine

I'm actually dreading the day that our future little one says

"Daddy can i support Liverpool please?"

[syston_fox]

I'm actually dreading the day that our future little one says

"Daddy can i support Liverpool please?"

As if your kid will respect you enough to ask your permission

[Sparky]

supporting another club was never a choice for me . Finest thing my old man ever did for me was turning me in to a city fan

[Raj]

As if your kid will respect you enough to ask your permission

Probably right.

He'll end up as disrespectful as that Lildave3!!!!

[syston_fox]

Probably right.

He'll end up as disrespectful as that Lildave3!!!!

You could just cut out the middle man and adopt him?

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Hate to admit it but as a kid I used to support all the teams. It varied week to week. I was like a crack addict after my next fix. Liverpool, Blackburn, Arsenal, even Leeds ( ) were all half heartedly supported by me. No matter how hard I tried to "support" these teams though, I always looked for City's results first. When the club you really care about wins the feeling of joy is ten times bigger than if you're a glory hunter.

Oh, and I saw this article in the Mercury yesterday, all the kids in Madrid, Liverpool, Barca and Yanited tops looked like they needed swift kicks to the nadgers.

[Floating Fox]

I can't remember where I heard this but I was just listening to someones conversation (Well it was about football!! ) and I remember someone asking this bird from Sheffield why she didn't support Sheffield United.

Her answer was that they never won and that she'd "Get mocked for supporting them".

Most kids wear the shirts as fashion statements these days anyway. Its a sad state, and one reason why actuall football supporters should stick together, regardless of the team they support. I'll respect any fan who actually goes to their teams games.

[placidcasual]

Same as it ever was. Going back 15 years there were hardly any Leicester fans in my year at school. I can think of about 5 off the top of my head.

[Samilktray]

I used to be dirty.

But with the kind help of Foxestalk and some of its select posters I too was able to see the light.

Give £2 a month and they promise to make sure that more people like you and I also see this light.

Please... think.

[Joe.]

I used to be dirty.

But with the kind help of Foxestalk and some of its select posters I too was able to see the light.

Give £2 a month and they promise to make sure that more people like you and I also see this light.

Please... think.

[Simi]

I used to be dirty.

But with the kind help of Foxestalk and some of its select posters I too was able to see the light.

Give £2 a month and they promise to make sure that more people like you and I also see this light.

Please... think.

I blame Fulham away.

[Lovejoy]

Interestingly when I lived in Leicester (only until I was 8) I seem to remember that most kids at my school were LCFC fans.

When I moved south, my dad was very relaxed about the whole football situation (despite being a serious Leicester fan) and he said "look I understand if you want to support another team because we have moved. But I won't buy you replica shirts and won't take you to see them"!

Anyway a decade on I am still a Leicester fan , but whereas before kids would take the p*** out of me for it, people now respect it, and are impressed that I actually watch my team (though of course there are still the glory hunting twats who laugh, yet don't even know their teams away colours ).

What truly shocks me though is the amount of people where I live who don't actually support a football team. A number of them I know their dads who are football fans, yet the kids aren't interested. The school where I've just finished, there was me; 3 Tottenham fans; 3 Palace fans; 2 Dons fans and 1 Peterborough fan who actually watch their team (all are season ticket holders). That was it! Loads of people are just like "nah, football's not cool".

[Fosse Boy]

And I think the further out of Leicester you go the less likely you are to find a City fan...

Dunno, I'm certain more than one in six of the people I went to school with in Harborough supported City, seemed to be a disproportionate amount of F*rest and Huddersfield fans though...

[Floating Fox]

I blame Fulham away.

If so, I'll take some claim.

[lavrentis]

I went to a school In Lincolnshire and there were VERY few Lincoln fans. The Lincoln fans I spoke to I gave them abit of banter, which of course you can't really with Manchester Utd fans.

[markbsac]

parents to blame...im a city fan to the end and thats what i have brought my lad up to be like....he loves leicester he was born in the baby unit LRI i held him up the the double decker stand from the hospital window and ..told him back the .."you are looking at the church you will worship in my son" ok so we moved to the walkers but his religion is still the same...LCFC to the end he says i have blue blood running through my veins...hes 13 and a loyal true blue.

[MrCrowley]

I've been livin up here near Doncaster for 10 years now and it was all Liverpool Mank U & Leeds fans around here,Started to change now that Doggy Rovers are in the championship though and theyre all crawlin out of the pits.Funny how much stick I'm getting from the tw*ts this year,Cant remember seeing more than a few Donny fans til this year

[Jackirius]

im 15 i live in norwich and i love leicester very hard when u got kids teasin u tho, so they just turn to the higher and btter clubs so that they can be part of other groups nd stuff.

[beer is gud]

Well I never realised the figure was that low. Unfortunately this is the state of modern football these days; no longer do you necessarily support the team your dad supports or where you grew up.

Having said that, and this is not meant in a racist way, but I would say that the majority of Asians living in Leicester don't support us and are happy to "support" Man Utd or Liverpool. That's certainly what I've found at school and through living in Leicester.

I have to agree with that mate. Also some of those kid's comments made me angry

[demon_dog]

Not really surprised by this survey. Kids will only latch onto success.

I know many local kids and adults who will claim to be Man U fans.

Yet they have never been to a game and don't even know where the ground is!!

Having been a City fan for about 45 years and a season ticket holder, I do take the piss out of fans who support other teams that have never ever ever been to their favoured teams grounds.

Armchair supporters, I hate them.

[Guest claude_leic]

What annoys me is all these people supporting leicester tigers and man u, or leicester tigers and liverpool, thers loads of them at my school

[Jordan]

It's a phase; they'll grow out of it!

[Thracian]

There are two major reasons as I see it - universal football served on a daily basis which was never the case when I grew up.

And the size of profile achieved by top clubs and brought about by the way they play and the stars they parade.

The above all connects to results but only emphasises how wrong people are to say it's only the result that counts and that the entertainment provided doesn't matter.

Leicester pay lip serice to loving their fans but have, for so long, not made any effort to provide 90 minutes of decent entertainment when matchday comes around.

For years our team has had no footballing heroes and no characters. We've had negative managers who's only ambition seemed to be to defend the 0-0 we started with or to plunder a one-goal win.

Now there's optimism because suddenly we do have potential heroes - Gradel, an in-form Fryatt, Adams etc - although our manager still insults the spirit of football by pulling everyone back into defence once we score and largely ensuring they stay there.

You reap what you sew. Be exciting and the television people want to watch you and the media want to talk about you, the club becomes attractive to the better players, having better players mean you have the chance to win things which generates the money to buy even better and feed the now-ravenous media machine.

We're at stage one now. We have the chance to be exciting. And that's what we need to be instead of having Mandaric so clearly piling pressure on to get results whatever and "or else" which inhibits our manager and in turn inhibits our team as was clear to see Saturday.

Even the Chelsea boss, while wanting success, recognises that he needs his team to be exciting.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I know many local kids and adults who will claim to be Man U fans.

Yeah, it's not just kids is it? There are two blokes in their sixties at my work who have become Man Utd 'fans' in the last few years. They both use the argument that it's 'because they're so entertaining' or some such bollocks. The Premier League isn't entertaining. Only two clubs can win it, and the same four occupy the top four places every bloody year, and it's full of overpaid narcissistic bastards that wouldn't piss on you if the replica shirt that you bought to line their pockets was on fire.

Chelsea, Man Utd and all that lot are just brands now. People pick them like they pick Nike or whatever - they don't even think about it, they just do what everyone else does. When it comes to kids doing this I'm not sure how much it matters, because presumably they're kids that don't actually give a toss about going to games - City might lose out on some replica shirt sales, but in the long term I cannot see many of these big name obsessed little wankers becoming Man Utd or Liverpool season ticket holders