Your Match Day ?

[FoxyPV]

Sit in work. Struggle with FoxesPlayer for a while. Give up and rely on BBC match report and FT.

[samjohnson]

1pm - Drag self out ouf bed

1:10 - Shower, eat (sometimes at the same time)

1:30 - Out the door

2pm - Pick up friend

2:30 - find parking space

2:45 - take up seat

3pm - watch match

5pm - Pint time!!

6:30 - home!

[Kent]

Wake up sometime before 12

Watch Soccer AM/Football Focus/Soccer Saturday

Get a lift to Leics

Get my steak & kidney from the SK4 canteen

Watch the game

Get a lift back

Stay in and watch TV/play 360 OR go out in hinckley/leics

[mancunianfox]

7.00 Wake Up

8.00 Leave to get to Manchester Piccadilly

9.00 Board train to Sheffield

10.00 Change at Sheffield to Leicester

11.15 Arrive at Leicester, get something to eat.

13.00 Pub!

15.00 Watch Match

18.00 Train back towards Manchester (usually seems to involve chatting to/drinking with random fans coming back from other games).

20.30 Arrive back at Manchester Piccadilly

21.00 Meet wife and/or friends, go out.

3.00 Home.

[marbelladave]

DEDICATION MATEY !!

stupidity? loyalty? boredom? i dont know what it is, whatever it is i respect you ,you mad fool

I have to admit I only did that trip as written about half a dozen times between Jan 07 and The Fall in May 08, did the trip as a long weekend a similar number of times with Mrs M, either staying over with friends in Leicester or sometimes in a West London Hotel, so Mrs M could get to the shops and we could get a curry at the Bombay Brasserie, Mrs M's favourite.

Slightly more popular with me were the 'awaydays' in and around London and the south east, when I could get the Gatwick flight and travel easily by train/tube. QPR, Palace, Charlton even Brighton (the following year) are quite accessible.

Returned to the UK the summer after The Fall, took a while to get organised but since then I get to about 2 out of three games at the Walkers and most of the away games close-ish to London. I miss a fair few of the games in the northern wastelands, but then I get nosebleeds if I go too far north...

[muzzy1981]

I get up when I want except on wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen

I put SSPN on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house

I feed the foxes I sometimes feed the badgers too

it gives me a sense of enormous well being

And then i'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge

there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to Leicester City

All the city fans

So many city fans

They all go hand in hand

Hand in hand down to the...Walkers

[BoneDog]

Saturday homes:

7am Rise and shine with a cup of tea

7.30 Bath time

8.00 Put Radio Leicester on for the chance they might tell us some matchday news and to hear some classic 80's pop

800-9.30 Wait around for Mrs to get washed and ready

9.50 Taxi to train station

10.00 Train to Derby

10.30 Arrive at Derby and eat and have a pint or go to the offy

11.00 ish, Train to Leicester. Buy a sandwich and cake for an extortianate price from train lady and read paper

11.40 Arrive in Leicester, buy more food and decide where to go drinking before football

2.00-2.30 Arrive at ground, have a pint and pie, make a bet and go to seat

5.00 Roll around Leicester p*ssed up and go back to train station anytime before 9.30pm for a kip on the journey home

Away days are different and it's easier to get motivated for them. On a home match day I sometimes get out of bed with no enthusiasm at all.

[BigBawsFaeTheShaws]

Train

Wetherspoons

Black Boy

Market Tavern

Criterion

Swan & Rushes

F Bar (for a shot if time allows)

First half

Pint

Second half

F Bar

Swan & Rushes

Criterion (for punk rock juke box action...and more ale)

Market Tavern

Barley Mow

Train

Out locally or home in cab to annihilate X-Factor & ruin the Mrs night

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Etruscan Pepperoni & Roquito Pepper 12 inch Pizza

A Sam Adams or two from the fridge

[lcfc_jme]

7am - wake up, shower dressed and out the house for 8.

9am - get a train to wherever. Probably pick up a tin or four from offy. (8:30am for me this weekend to be in Sheffield for 9:30am)

10:00am. Arrive at wherever, find wetherspoons and nail a large breakfast with a Tyskie.

12:00pm - Jäger time ( ) + banter and chat in Spoons.

2:30pm - head to ground perhaps have a little sing song.

3:05pm - barrel in at the back of the stand and seems a football match breaks out at any point.

5:00pm - leave ground after inevitable 2 hour block of drinking.

6:00pm- whenever.. - either head back to Leicester for a night out or stay in the away town for a further night out.

Sounds frighteningly the same as what this coming Saturday is looking like.

[Alf Bentley]

7am: Out for a little jogging in the country lanes of Leicestershire. I like to keep fit.

8am: Back to Svenska Mansions, Burbage, where Nancy has finished her yoga and has prepared a lovely meatballs breakfast. Life is good, I think.

9-11am: I am making a few phone calls. It seems that the new Swedish Rooney wants to play for the Foxes. That's good, but who can tell the future?

11am: Sign a few Man City players. They are nice boys. Milan says he will sort out the paperwork. That's OK.

12 noon: Sir Alex rings. He has a young striker from Liverpool who is unsettled and he is wondering whether a loan spell would be good. I advise that he should take a holiday and do some yoga.

1pm: To the Cross Keys for pre-match lunch. They do a lovely smorgasboard. Ulrika is there so we share a few nice words and good memories.

2pm: Arrive at the stadium, passing that Portuguese man selling the Big Issue. His suits were once so smart but now they are looking rather frayed.

2.30pm: Share a joke with Bernie as I enter the stadium.

2.45pm: Derek is telling the boys that we must keep the ball, pass and move. That is good, I think so?

3.45pm: I advise Steve and Martyn that they should relax and try a little more yoga

5pm: Wind down after the match. Explain to Top why top is bottom and bottom is top. Life is like that in football.

8pm: Try the new Lebanese restaurant with Faria. Very good, the food too. She is a kind girl.

8-12: I am taking the Leicester air and trying a few English ales. Very good, I must say. Then some music down at The Musician, also very good. The young women there are very kind to me.

[skegness fox]

9.10 Get on train with a couple of tinnies which are normally opened around 10.30

11.15ish arrive in nottingham and a quick dart across station to catch train to Leicester as i don't want to stay in notts to long in case i get shot or stabbed!

12.10ish arrive in Leicester and its straight to Wetherspoons for a beer and burger, after a couple of pints its down to the Peel sometimes stopping in the swan and rushes

2.45 arrive at ground quick piss and take my place in the kop

3.45 queue up for a coffee and whatever they have left to eat which is normally a chocolate bar

5.00 proceed back to station to catch 5.55 train home with a couple more tinnies arriving in skeg vegas about 9 and after another pint in the local its off for a kebab

10.00ish home in time for match of the day but normally fall asleep watching it

[Wycombe Fox]

Typical Saturday;

8.00am Bash the alarm clock for the first time (and by 'alarm clock' I mean just that - not Bishop)

8.10am Bash the alarm clock for the second time

8.20am Bash the alarm clock for the third time

8.30am Bash the alarm clock for the fourth and final time; get up and grab some brekkie

8.45am The 3 S's

9.15am Leave home and drive to Shanklin Football Club

9.40am Set-up training for Shanklin Youth Under 14's

10.00am Start training session

Noon Finish training session and put equipment away

12.15pm Drive to Brading to get fresh Isle of Wight fruit and veg from 'The Vegman'

1.00pm Arrive home and shower again

1.30pm Grab some lunch

2.00 to 3.00pm Listen to Radio Leicester on the internet; try and find a live stream and place the day's £5 random accy.

3.00pm Sign-in and listen to Foxes Player; sign-in to Live Chat on FT.

3.00 to 3.45pm Listen to City; bite nails; type on Live Chat; listen to City, bite nails; type on Live Chat etc etc; swear at Stringer

3.45pm Wee-wee and check Random Accy progress

4.00pm to 4.45pm As 3.00 to 3.45pm

4.50pm or

4.55pm Check Random Accy

4.56pm or

After that it's all about Saturday night out!

[MPH]

bearing in mind i am 5 hours behind:

9am: wake up and remember im 5 hrs behind and jump out of bed to go do the 3 S's

9.30am get Get the ENGLISH muffins i bought from Walmart the day before to do sausage and Egg Muffins. Rush to the computer get straight on Foxestalk to find out the team line up. ( spend several frantic runs to the kitchen to check for non burning of breakfast items )

9.32 Go to pre-match thread on Foxes Talk as this is the closest i have to catch the atmoshphere of setting off down victoria park road, welford road, brazil street and then walnut Street.

Spend a few minutes remembering the excitement and the grins i used to get seeing all the Blue shirts of the Blue army on the march!

9.40am approx. EXPLAIN YET AGAIN to the wife that shopping for ANYTHING will have to wait until after the game which will finish sometime around midday for us.

9.40am and a few seconds. Wait extremly impatiently for the Match commentary to kick in on foxes player. Curse ian Stringer, remember Barber and Love Ian Stringer.

Anytime between 9.40am and 10.30am:

Get excited when iplayer kicks in and wait feeling like a kid in a sweet shop for the sound of the post horn gallop and grin like a cheshire cat, Ignore bemused shaking of the wifes head and mutterings of men and 'soccer'. Remind wife AGAIN that footy or football are the only acceptable names.

10am-midday approx. shake fist at computer jump up and down say Ohhhhh several times on live chat and Insult Finnegan, Isle of Wight Fox and many others on Live chat. Make really bad predictions of keeping a clean sheet.

midday Approx. Explain to wife AGAIN that just because the game has finished doesnt mean its time to go shopping. Explain about the enjoyment of post match interviews and reading comments in Foxes talk. on the BBC website and if i am lucky grab a few minutes of sky sports news on Justin.tv

12.30pm try and get out of shopping to watch the prem game on Fox soccer plus ( most appropriately named me thinks ).

1pm-3pm (depending on how successful my offers of doing the dishes for the next week to watch the live game are) mutter about how Tesco used to do online shopping and if this truly was a capatalist country the US should have it too.

[FoxyPV]

LEGEND

Brownie Points are essential to a father's/ married man's social life.

[lestajigs]

5:30am - Woke up by 'Baby Alarm'

5:45am - Take daughter downstairs and feed bottle, gain 2 man points

6:00am - Watch Fireman Sam / Pepper pig, occasionally flicking over to catch a bit of Sky Sports News whilst distracting child with toys.

8:30am - Dress daughter in City kit and feed breakfast, gain a further 2 man points

9:00am - Wake up wife with cup of tea and smiling, dressed and fed daughter, gain 3 man points

10:00am - Eat full english whilst watching soccer am cooked by happy, well rested grateful wife

12:00 - Don '74 cup final replica shirt revelling in past glories 5 years before I was born.

12:30pm - Dropped off in town to meet the lads for a pint, slip the missus some cash to 'treat yourself', gain 3 man points

12:30 - 3:05pm - Drink, eat and make merry, miss the first five minutes of the game, making additional room for beverages.

3:40pm - Miss the last few minutes of the half (and probably a goal) quing for more liquid refreshment.

4:50pm - leave the ground after another City victory.

4:55pm - Nip to the Holiday Express for a Stella.

5:15pm - Call the missus and promise not to be late home, gain 1 man point

5:16pm - 6:45pm - Copious Stella's

6:50pm - Turn off phone claiming 'Battery / Signal' issues, Docked 2 man points

7:30pm - Call missus off mates phone, explaining 'Battery / Signal' issues, Docked 2 man points

8:45pm Turn on phone, read / listen to numerous messages from wife, panic...... phone wife, panic further..... try to explain miraculous phone 'Battery / Signal' repair. Docked 5 man points

8:59pm - Finish speaking to wife, consider going home with tail between legs, realise a quick pint may help clearer thinking.

9:50pm - Grab chinese and cab home... Docked 5 additional man points

10:15pm - Apologise...

10:20pm - Apologise again...

10:30pm - Apologise agian, agian...

10:30pm - 11:00pm - Eat Chinese whilst apologising....

11:05pm - Fall asleep on sofa whilst watching rest of match of the day.

Man Points Gained = 11, Man point Lost = 14, Net Points -3 (no more City visits for a month or until i can be trusted again).

yea this is about right ha ha ha

[Jimmy]

8.30am get home from work and go to bed

1.30pm get up

2pm get bus into town

2.30pm get food and go to ground

5.30pm get bus home and eat dinner

7pm get bus back into town to go to work

[LCFCUSA]

bearing in mind i am 5 hours behind:

9am: wake up and remember im 5 hrs behind and jump out of bed to go do the 3 S's

9.30am get Get the ENGLISH muffins i bought from Walmart the day before to do sausage and Egg Muffins. Rush to the computer get straight on Foxestalk to find out the team line up. ( spend several frantic runs to the kitchen to check for non burning of breakfast items )

9.32 Go to pre-match thread on Foxes Talk as this is the closest i have to catch the atmoshphere of setting off down victoria park road, welford road, brazil street and then walnut Street.

Spend a few minutes remembering the excitement and the grins i used to get seeing all the Blue shirts of the Blue army on the march!

9.40am approx. EXPLAIN YET AGAIN to the wife that shopping for ANYTHING will have to wait until after the game which will finish sometime around midday for us.

9.40am and a few seconds. Wait extremly impatiently for the Match commentary to kick in on foxes player. Curse ian Stringer, remember Barber and Love Ian Stringer.

Anytime between 9.40am and 10.30am:

Get excited when iplayer kicks in and wait feeling like a kid in a sweet shop for the sound of the post horn gallop and grin like a cheshire cat, Ignore bemused shaking of the wifes head and mutterings of men and 'soccer'. Remind wife AGAIN that footy or football are the only acceptable names.

10am-midday approx. shake fist at computer jump up and down say Ohhhhh several times on live chat and Insult Finnegan, Isle of Wight Fox and many others on Live chat. Make really bad predictions of keeping a clean sheet.

midday Approx. Explain to wife AGAIN that just because the game has finished doesnt mean its time to go shopping. Explain about the enjoyment of post match interviews and reading comments in Foxes talk. on the BBC website and if i am lucky grab a few minutes of sky sports news on Justin.tv

12.30pm try and get out of shopping to watch the prem game on Fox soccer plus ( most appropriately named me thinks ).

1pm-3pm (depending on how successful my offers of doing the dishes for the next week to watch the live game are) mutter about how Tesco used to do online shopping and if this truly was a capatalist country the US should have it too.

Don't forget there's only a 4 hour difference this week.. clocks already changed back home.

Throws me for a loop every year

[Mack]

9:17 Lay in bed and knock one out.

Copy and past as required!

[The MayneFox]

9:45: get up and get showered for football training

11:50: get back from football training and have another shower

12:10: watch Football Focus

1:45: meet up with my mates and walk down wearing our blue shirts

2:20: arrive at Snutch News on Narborough Road and say hello to Sanjay

2:40: arrive at ground and watch us WIN!!

5:00: get a Maryland Chicken with my mates and walk home

6:00 get home talk to my dad about the match and then on FIFA 11 until MOTD and FLS

(with the occasional peak at Wagner on X-Factor in the next room )

[Zingari]

get up feeling optimistic , go bed disappointed

[MPH]

Don't forget there's only a 4 hour difference this week.. clocks already changed back home.

Throws me for a loop every year

. yeah... i would hate to miss some of the game...

ty

[foxoffderby]

6am wakeup

6.30 leave for work

7am start work

12 pm finish work

12.30pm arrive back at home have a shit, shave and shower

1.pm have a bacon sandwich

1.15pm watch soccer saturday/prem match

1.30pm log onto the net read foxestalk/log onto dream team sites make changes

1.45pm leave Derby head to Leicester

2pm switch on Radio Leicester

2.15 arrive in Leicester park just off Hinckley Road

2.30pm jump into my brothers porsche

2.45 park at the ground and get abused by home fans as we drive in (happens every week)

2.50 beers in Keith weller Lounge

315pm watch the match

3.45 beers and piss break

6pm leave the keith weller lounge after more beer and another piss

7pm get to Loughbough

10pm go on the piss in Loughborogh

1am chat up students

2am get blown out by students

3am arrive back to Derby in a cab

3.01 am goto sleep on the sofa

[James.]

India time (5.5 hours ahead):

10:30pm: turn on computer

10:35pm: swear at computer

10:40pm: finally get internet connection

10:45pm: check score

10:50pm: turn off computer