sbfox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 The powers-that-be at the Way have a decision to make about whether they want to continue as part of the problem, or become part of the solution.[/size] I don't really think its the club's fault that they have to enforce the laws on standing in the ground...
AndyBrew Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 The club don't enforce the laws on standing in the ground that's the point! Apparently it's the Fosse Boys who can't stand and them only
Fox1994 Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 The fosse boys should'nt give up! ! You need to wait till you have the numbers so you can fill the whole block, the stewards will never be able to eject you. Like L1 for example. They would'nt dare try and eject a whole block. Keep the faith lad's!
davieG Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 This is a sad, sad day in the history of Leicester City Football Club and demonstrates quite clearly that fans are no longer important to the club. This situation disheartens me much more than the unacceptable performances on the pitch and is matched only by the murky shenanigans of our owner. Each year recently, apart from last year I've been so near to saying that's it! I just hate the way the club is moving where the fans are marginalised but each season I think give it one more time. This year I really feel like I've been mugged what with having to purchase my ST so early on only to find a successful manager has been manoeuvred out of the club and the less than transparent poorly executed takeover that is still in the air. Having been mugged finding my fellow fans have been kicked whilst down by the most shameful and underhand tactics of manipulating ticket sales to prevent a natural and spontaneous response to the clubs draconian interpretation of the rules and their biased and cowardly targeting of a group of fans in more less the same way they did with the North Stand group whilst allowing the bigger groups congregating in the back of the Kop, L1 and away fans to break those same rules. If I hadn't purchased a ST I really do feel that I would give it all up, certainly my son feels the same as he nearly didn't bother to go today and really wished he hadn't, sufficed to say his best mate left at half time. It's going to take some almighty changes to make me renew next season, Mandaric will need to be distant memory and the eventual new owners will need to show they care for the feelings of the fans.
Fosse Boy Posted 28 August 2010 Author Posted 28 August 2010 Dear LCFC, Your actions today have forced me into a position of having a long, hard think about whether it's worth supporting the club I've adored since I was 5 years old anymore. The snide and underhand tactics of a few who work for you (you know who you are, as does just about everyone on this forum) today were absolutely pathetic. This club does not seem to understand the value of supporters who have happily taken shit, off and on the pitch, all their lives in pursuit of a team in blue and white that they love, and who would continue to support them even if they were playing in the flippin' Senior League (no disrespect meant to any Senior League players). This club has been in my family for multiple generations and I've loved it ever since I understood what football was, but it seems quite obvious that the powers that be would rather be devoid of people like me who dare to show passion for their team through thick and thin, and would rather try and attract a more sterile fanbase who are happy to boo their hearts out for the lads if they're playing shite, but who do nothing to encourage when the players need it the most. I've always tried to remain optimistic whenever I've supported City, but today I really realised that I, along with many other passionate fans, are simply not wanted here. Yours (as if you care), Fosse Boy
LCFC_Josh Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Don't give up over time when your numbers grow they will stop bothering you. You could move over to l-k block untill your numbers grow or keep getting the media involved. (mercury radio leicester) Sadly i missed the terrace era but my dad told me storys of back then on how good the atmosphere was. Over time fans will stand with you or near you so it will be harder for stewards to eject you.
Dan Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Actually felt fvcking depressing reading this, what the fvck..
Fox1994 Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Dear LCFC, Your actions today have forced me into a position of having a long, hard think about whether it's worth supporting the club I've adored since I was 5 years old anymore. The snide and underhand tactics of a few who work for you (you know who you are, as does just about everyone on this forum) today were absolutely pathetic. This club does not seem to understand the value of supporters who have happily taken shit, off and on the pitch, all their lives in pursuit of a team in blue and white that they love, and who would continue to support them even if they were playing in the flippin' Senior League (no disrespect meant to any Senior League players). This club has been in my family for multiple generations and I've loved it ever since I understood what football was, but it seems quite obvious that the powers that be would rather be devoid of people like me who dare to show passion for their team through thick and thin, and would rather try and attract a more sterile fanbase who are happy to boo their hearts out for the lads if they're playing shite, but who do nothing to encourage when the players need it the most. I've always tried to remain optimistic whenever I've supported City, but today I really realised that I, along with many other passionate fans, are simply not wanted here. Yours (as if you care), Fosse Boy Forward this to lots of newspapers/ magazines, anything that can get you heard. Im sure there will be uproar if people realise what is going on in the wider footballing community. It make me feel sad to have a season ticket when i realise how the club are treating you guys.
AndyBrew Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 To be quite frank I don't think the club deserve me as supporter any longer, and hearing the boos ringing out today while we still continued our positive singing in support of the team just about summed it all up!
leftsideoverhere Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Makes depressing reading, but during the game I noticed several of the established 'kop' fans moving to sit / stand with those of the Fosse Boys who did get in to the ground, which shows that you're starting to get more of the fans on your side. For a large part of the second half your corner of the stadium was the only place that made any noise at all, but it was obvious that the numbers making that noise were larger than just the Fosse Boys. Your enthusiasm spread to many of those sat around you. Without the Fosse Boys tonight, the evening would have been even worse. The email protests and the media coverage this week has not done the club any favours, and I think this is the wrong time to give up. I think the FB should use this gap before the next home game to ask for another meeting with the club, and tell the Mercury and RL that you're asking for a meeting. In fact, you should invite the media to come with you to the meeting with the club. Point out that you're trying to build support for the club in good faith but that the club are deliberately behaving in a provocative fashion. You knew this wasn't going to be easy.
Narborough_fox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Quite frankly, You have been treated absolutely disgraceful. I feel sorry for all of you the club are treating you like pieces of dirt on the bottom of their nice expensive shoes.
Guest Bilo Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 This is a sad, sad day in the history of Leicester City Football Club and demonstrates quite clearly that fans are no longer important to the club. This situation disheartens me much more than the unacceptable performances on the pitch and is matched only by the murky shenanigans of our owner. Each year recently, apart from last year I've been so near to saying that's it! I just hate the way the club is moving where the fans are marginalised but each season I think give it one more time. This year I really feel like I've been mugged what with having to purchase my ST so early on only to find a successful manager has been manoeuvred out of the club and the less than transparent poorly executed takeover that is still in the air. Having been mugged finding my fellow fans have been kicked whilst down by the most shameful and underhand tactics of manipulating ticket sales to prevent a natural and spontaneous response to the clubs draconian interpretation of the rules and their biased and cowardly targeting of a group of fans in more less the same way they did with the North Stand group whilst allowing the bigger groups congregating in the back of the Kop, L1 and away fans to break those same rules. If I hadn't purchased a ST I really do feel that I would give it all up, certainly my son feels the same as he nearly didn't bother to go today and really wished he hadn't, sufficed to say his best mate left at half time. It's going to take some almighty changes to make me renew next season, Mandaric will need to be distant memory and the eventual new owners will need to show they care for the feelings of the fans. Good post that mate. Having heard all what is going on both on the pitch with the players and off it with the Fosse Boys being treated like criminals by a laughable hypocrite in his ivory tower, I mean you Barclay, I can say with some confidence I won't be renewing my season ticket next year. I may even return the current one if this is how the powers that be see fit to treat the people who pay their no doubt grossly over inflated wages. When will clubs realise that they would be nothing without the fans? That Barclay would probably be a particularly officious traffic warden without us? The disaster area on the pitch is bad enough, but if we were treated like the Holmesdale Fanatics are at Palace, I'd still turn up every week and renew my season ticket without question. I guarantee those lads, whose team finished 21st in the league and almost went into liquidation, had more fun at home than we did finishing 5th and within a whisker of Wembley. Why? Because their club respects them and their right to support their club in their own way and involve other fans wholly independently of the club. Unfortunately nobody in the corridors of power at Filbert Way has the common sense, intelligence and decency to allow such a thing. Fans standing, singing and waving flags?! It could catch on, and we can't have that. Fans might actually enjoy themselves independently of the club's matchday experience efforts?! Unthinkable. Fans mustn't have a mind of their own or an imagination, it makes us harder to control and use as performing monkeys to create that insipid, generic, anodyne matchday atmosphere great clubs like MK Dons have created to rave reviews from families who support one of the Big Four six days a week, pay their £100 once a fortnight, sit down, shut up and leave. A laughable club is what we have become. Do I honestly think I'll be showing my face in five year's time? Not unless there's a major change in the way we are treated, and that goes for whether we're in League One or flying high in the Premiership. I doubt the club will be bothered though as fans like me aren't wanted. I don't sit, buy seat cushions from the megastore or have any children to have their faces painted. Far too much like the football fans who used to go to that vulgar place called Filbert Street. Perhaps it's better we knocked the place down because if Filbert Street had become what the Walkers Stadium has, it'd be more than a little sad. Apologies for the rant and length of it but this twat of a football club has really pissed me off now and taught me love is NEVER unconditional.
MattyFromLE Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 as has been said by a lot of you. let the club know, let the mercury know - put it in the eye of the football club. it'll dishearten others to go. health and safety, and all of these restrictions are becoming an absolute farse. i was lucky enough to win 2 season tickets in 95 - i was about 8 at the time - and have adored City since then. From what i hear from you all; i think the message is clear. Football isn't for fans. what the FVCK is going on behind the scenes? Transfer requests, dodgy take-overs; i can see this ending in tears unfortunately. i can only hope that someone within the football club see's this thread/forum and uses a bit of common sense - which unfortunately a lot of people don't seem to use anymore.
LCFC_Josh Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 You could protest agaist it like the green and gold thing at man united?
lcfc_jme Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Well today, Arab and Fosse Boy were allowed into the ground freely but after that, 5 stewards stood infront of the turnstiles and started telling the rest of us (10 - 15) to stand to one side as we weren't allowed in because we were associated with the Fosse Boys. After a 10-minute discussion, we were told that we'd only be allowed to enter the ground provided we agreed to go into either L1 or K, seeing as we'd be allowed to stand freely in there and the club would turn a blind eye to us there. If we didn't agree to that, we weren't going in. Simple as. So said the man of hypocrisy without a backbone in the high-chair of his secure room. Most of us stayed on the concourse for the first 75 minutes of the game, had a good sing-song down there for the majority of the 2nd half, then went up into the stands on the 80th minute mark. Seemed well-received by most of the fans around us, but were obviously being targeted straight away by the stewards down the bottom. Got the "Supporters Not Customers" banners out at full-time, sang until the ground was empty then got swamped by stewards who were less than friendly and started threatening people with citizens' arrests and the like. Needless to say, the actions of the club today got many peoples' backs up and could potentially have caused a lot more trouble than it'd have been worth. It's made people want to give up and it's just highlighted how hypocritical, spineless, pathetic and unrealistic the club really is in its present guise. "Share the passion"? "We're all together"? Yeah, right, of course. Provided you're willing to turn up, spend your money, sit, make noise when the club dictates and then go home. Disgusted.
KFS Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 They are picking on you because you're a small group, don't sit down and take this shit. Leicester has been calling for this for so long and recently, you've made the atmosphere better. Quite frankly we need you. Looks like the shite on the pitch needs lifting and you did that today for very long periods. Maybe it is worth all sitting behind the banner for a couple of games and doing a roll call, increasing numbers. Then you could use the strength in numbers theory. I know it's stupid but I thought you could work with the club in which people who stumble across you and don't want to be with you can swap seats with people that want to be with you. For instance, me being a monthly goer could swap seats with grandad leicester fan. Anyway, keep it up, remember what happens when your sighing...
stix Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Can i get an actual cash refund on my season ticket? Seriously?
MattyFromLE Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Can i get an actual cash refund on my season ticket? Seriously? I'm sure they'll have a bit of legal jargon on the back of your tickets...i reckon you should all go in to the ticket office together. and all ask to cancel your season ticket. they're going to ask you why, get the manager down, make a scene
stripeyfox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 I'd love to know what is going on here. How is that someone turns up with a legitemately purchased match ticket and is refused entry if they want to sit here, but not if they want to stand over there? Someting stinks here and I urge everyone to continue to bombard the club with emails until we get an official written response. I feel bitterly sorry for the Fosse Boys, and everyone who has supported them who have made every effort to improve the atmosphere only to be crushed by the nobheads who run the club. It's been a long day. Go home, sleep on it. If they thnk they can beat us they've got another thing coming. If they want a war, we'll give them one. I'm so fooking pissed off. Not for myself - I'm not likely to be going to the Walkers any time soon but for you lads who've bent over backwards to try and please the club only to be fooking shafted by them.
Fox1994 Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 To be quite frank I don't think the club deserve me as supporter any longer, and hearing the boos ringing out today while we still continued our positive singing in support of the team just about summed it all up! A lot of the booing was directed at the ref i think, it was around me anyway. Fans should never boo there own team, and to be honest we played pretty well anyway. It seems luck is completely against us at the moment
Mike the Metal Ed Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Think if we bombarded the Football League Show with emails tonight Manish/Lizzie would read one or two out?
stripeyfox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 They are picking on you because you're a small group, don't sit down and take this shit. Leicester has been calling for this for so long and recently, you've made the atmosphere better. Quite frankly we need you. Looks like the shite on the pitch needs lifting and you did that today for very long periods. Maybe it is worth all sitting behind the banner for a couple of games and doing a roll call, increasing numbers. Then you could use the strength in numbers theory. I know it's stupid but I thought you could work with the club in which people who stumble across you and don't want to be with you can swap seats with people that want to be with you. For instance, me being a monthly goer could swap seats with grandad leicester fan. Anyway, keep it up, remember what happens when your sighing... What really pissed me off is that the club should be rolling out the red carpet for these boys. They're so fooking blinded by their own delusions of grandeur that they can't see that these lads want what is best for the club and that their enthusiasm will infect those around them. But no, lets be a bunch of twats and stop them sitting together. Piss you Leicester, I've had enough. I coudn't give a toss what the result was today. If we'd have lost 3-0 but the Fosse Boys had a stormer I'd have been thrilled. I'm going bed now; I'm fuming!
Ozwin Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Think if we bombarded the Football League Show with emails tonight Manish/Lizzie would read one or two out? I'll send a few in.
Narborough_fox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Think if we bombarded the Football League Show with emails tonight Manish/Lizzie would read one or two out? What is the e-mail address I am seriously thinking of sending an e-mail in.
KFS Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 A lot of the booing was directed at the ref i think, it was around me anyway. Fans should never boo there own team, and to be honest we played pretty well anyway. It seems luck is completely against us at the moment This. Everyone around me only booed towards the ref I'm sure of it.
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