Fosse Boy Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 After reading this post on the 'introduce yourself' thread the other day... Hi all,i live near cambridge,hence my members name!genius eh.Started supporting Leicester as a kid,as it was the 1st shiny badge i got in the album.i only get to about 10 games a year these days,but the kids love it now.also managed to brainwash a mate who liked footie but didnt have a team.1 of my fav match away to wimbledon sf cc cup. ...it got me wondering about quaint/weird/odd/charming/random reasons why people support certain football teams. There must be some people on this board who support Leicester for reasons other than family/birthright etc. Come on people, what's your story?
Matt Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 I supported United as a very young lad then my dad started getting free tickets to FNF games back in the day so starting going to them, I progressed realized I wanted to go and was serious so he started taking me to proper matches, I also realized i'd never get to see United regularly so why bother supporting them? I'd caught the bug it was in my blood from there on Leicester were my team no looking back. I'm so grateful for my dad taking me to see Leicester aswell, as where I live (Nuneaton) I could so have easily been brainwashed into supporting the inbreds we played on Sunday. Thank-You Dad.
FoxyPV Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 I used to support United as a kid (idolised Keane and Irwin because they were Irish of course) and then I started being contrary and when Leicester won the League Cup under MON i turned to Leicester. Haven't looked back since!! I think it was the romance of supporting a small team . My dad isn't really into soccer, being a GAA / basketball man and he just laughed!!
fatmando Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 Nope, I am boring, born in Leicester Royal Infirmary. However I am very proud to say my old man is a strong Chelski fan and tried his very best to make me one. He still keeps the photos of me in the kits . Unlucky pops! As I write this though, I am worried I'm trying to brainwash my boy in the same way! Arrrghh, at least there's no big clubs round where I live now. Hopefully I'll win him over!
Matt Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 Nope, I am boring, born in Leicester Royal Infirmary. However I am very proud to say my old man is a strong Chelski fan and tried his very best to make me one. He still keeps the photos of me in the kits . Unlucky pops! As I write this though, I am worried I'm trying to brainwash my boy in the same way! Arrrghh, at least there's no big clubs round where I live now. Hopefully I'll win him over! Well Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal ain't round here but plenty of people I know 'support' them.
Mike the Metal Ed Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 Not my story, since I'm a boring third generation City fan, but I once heard someone not remotely Scottish phone 606 to talk about Brechin City. Alan questioned him on his choice of club, and the caller responded that while all his mates at school were choosing to support Leeds, Liverpool etc, he instead opted to support the lowest team in the Scottish Second Division, and had done ever since.
fatmando Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 Well Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal ain't round here but plenty of people I know 'support' them. Losers! So many Liverpool fans in my office with zero connection to the shithole!!
Fosse Boy Posted 23 March 2010 Author Posted 23 March 2010 Not my story, since I'm a boring third generation City fan, but I once heard someone not remotely Scottish phone 606 to talk about Brechin City. Alan questioned him on his choice of club, and the caller responded that while all his mates at school were choosing to support Leeds, Liverpool etc, he instead opted to support the lowest team in the Scottish Second Division, and had done ever since. Now that's the kind of story I'm after.
Jimothy Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 A childhood friend of mine supported Spurs. She was adopted, so not knowing where she was born, she chose Spurs because she fancied Ian Walker. She'd lived in Leicester all her childhood and has no connection to London.
Maybes Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 By birthright I should support Cov/WBA/Wolves really. However moved to Leicester at the age of 4 and then started going to games with my Dad who I had to force to go as he has no interest in football whatsoever. The rest of the family are all Villa with a small pocket of blue noses.
C-man Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 Isn't Alexei a Leicester fan because he played with us on FIFA or something.... sure I heard that somewhere. No story from me, we're all Leicester in my gaff.
Corky Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 One of the people in my previous college course supported Hereford because he managed them once on Football Manager or Championship Manager, can't remember which. Before that they followed Ipswich.
Tommeh Posted 23 March 2010 Posted 23 March 2010 No real special story here although was born in Nottingham due to Leics Royal not being able to cope with such a huge birth. Fu cking hate going abroad now with that Hell hole on my passport. Was mainly Lincoln growing up however due to the old man, I often viewed Leicester as the "big club" and going Filbert was always a treat and wasn't a regular occurance until I was 11/12.
shen Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 Isn't Alexei a Leicester fan because he played with us on FIFA or something.... sure I heard that somewhere. No story from me, we're all Leicester in my gaff. Might be me I first noticed Leicester City when I was playing USM 2. Don't know how it came to be, but I looked them up on the net a short while after, read about the club's history and learned about their recent success (promotion under O'Neill and first League Cup under him) despite being unfancied. I've always had a penchant for underdogs and so I started following them.
Darkzzz_ Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 I had always liked Man Utd, 'rebellious' in a house full of Liverpool fans but my first love for Leicester came when I was 10 years old. My first game didn't follow until I was 11, It was a day I will never forget when I got the phone call in the morning from my Leicester supporting football manager to say he was taking me to filbert street for my first game and it was against Middlesbrough. We sat right at the front of the double decker stand and I can remember being so small I could barely see. Kevin Poole was in goal that day and my memory is that of one of the best individual performances I have ever witnessed from Juninho, he danced around the Leicester team and rounded Poole to score a spectacular goal. Although it finished 1-3 to them it was a day that will stay with me forever. Match Report Vs Boro 16th March 1997
MC Prussian Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 Isn't Alexei a Leicester fan because he played with us on FIFA or something.... sure I heard that somewhere. And what a silly a reason. But with years passing by, I'm growing rather fond of it.
StanSP Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 Similar to others, and probably not so quaint, but I used to support Arsenal and Liverpool as a young kid, then realised I was never gonna get to see them, while my dad and brother kept going to Leicester games. So one day my dad took me to a game against Newcastle. I don't remember much of it, but from then on I have never looked back!
The Doctor Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 I quite like celtic purely because my relatives support rangers. And i keep an eye out on SSN for cowdenbeaths results (partially due to heratige and because they have a quality name)
Wycombe Fox Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 My paternal Grandad emigrated to England from Cork in the mid-thirties. He landed in Liverpool so he started supporting them. During the war he was posted to Burma, still supporting Liverpool. The camp he was at had entertainment and it was during one of these that a magician got him up onto the stage. The magician told him to pick a card and to write his favourite football team on it and then put it back in the pack. The guy shuffled the pack and pulled out a card. Trouble was it said Leicester City rather than Liverpool so from that day until his death he supported City. That's magic!
LCFC-ARAB Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 My paternal Grandad emigrated to England from Cork in the mid-thirties. He landed in Liverpool so he started supporting them. During the war he was posted to Burma, still supporting Liverpool. The camp he was at had entertainment and it was during one of these that a magician got him up onto the stage. The magician told him to pick a card and to write his favourite football team on it and then put it back in the pack. The guy shuffled the pack and pulled out a card. Trouble was it said Leicester City rather than Liverpool so from that day until his death he supported City. That's magic! That's an awesome story
Webbo Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 I used to sit next to a man from Slough who supported us, when I asked him why he said that watching the 63 cup final on the TV all the rest of his family supported ManUre so he supported us just to be different and he's supported us ever since.
AoWW Posted 24 March 2010 Posted 24 March 2010 Steve Walsh fingered my mum. Anotherofwalshieswomen He told her she was special. Speechless. And I ain't Shrenchel's Mum.
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