Controversial theory

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Regarding the discussions on how good our support is, I can't help but feel there's a bit of a fad for people to knock our support in an almost self-righteous kind of way. As if the majority of the people they're forced to share a football ground with are inferior to them because they don't see things the way they do. Our support is, and always has been, good numbers wise and I can think of plenty worse followings for atmosphere to be part of. Our support isn't good enough for you? Too many different opinions? Go and support someone else, but I doubt you'd find that any better.

As for booing....

I agree with the bit about St Ledger getting booed, what exactly was that going to achieve during the match?! It was a mistake, a costly one, but a mistake all the same. The guy didn't mean to cost us a goal did he. Don't know if anyone saw Bamba telling him not to worry about it/forget it? That's the way to react during the match.

As for booing at a full-time whistle, I'm undecided. People pay their money and have a right to boo if they chose. But there seems to be this automatic assumption that booing will really affect the team's performance. If it's at the end of a game are the players really going to stew over it for a week in training and still think about it by the time the next game comes around rather than just being focused on righting their wrongs? I find it hard to believe that they would.

Another argument that always gets aired on this topic, and which I have a big issue with, is that it affects people's confidence thus worsening their performance. Maybe so, who knows. But whatever happened to a player getting booed and it spurring him on to play/perform better? Did all the abuse and booing Savage used to get affect his performance? Yes, he thrived on it. How many times do you see a player who's been getting stick run to the crowd cupping their ears or shushing their lips having just done something special? Quite a lot. That player has been given that extra motivation to stick it to the booers, benefiting his team in the process.

There never seems to be the consideration that someone may think: "hang on a minute these ****ers are booing me, I'll show them". People assume that football players are these weak little creatures who wilt under the pressure of a few punters letting them know that what they're doing is just not good enough by booing. I know everyone's different but I personally would be pumped to prove the doubters wrong and undo this injustice of me having been booed. Maybe it's jsut me

[Basil Brush]

Because that makes it even more unbearable and embarrassing if we fail to go up.

I think you've worded that wrong.

yes alright, thats true

[Kitchandro]

Righty-o, whatever leaves you content with yourself. Long as you've got closure, that's cool.

We're all here for you buddy.

I accept your apology

[MPH]

This is the biggest pile of shite I've ever read.

So it's OK to come on here and slate fans who have and will support Leicester for their whole life, but not ok to slate players when they are embarrassing us and being a total disgrace?

Our fans are right to be constantly pissed off, we DO have a large fanbase, surely the biggest that has never won the FA Cup, the top division or the European Cup. We have been underachieving for over 125 years and we're still doing it.

And don't make out everyone was booing St Ledger, that's bollocks. Of course it was a minority. The only person that had any mass prolonged boos was the ref.

Stop being such a self-righteous dick.

i love it that whenever anyone speaks the truth they are called self righteous...

[Dan]

My theory, the main fvckers of us? The media.

Not going in detail, I'll just say, they've milked it, bigged us up to be far better than we are, we've been expected to romp Cov, romp Reading, romp Bristol City, and go on to romp the whole league.

The second we look like not doing this - our fans are frustrated. I agree with the OP that ours are very impatient, I've never known a fanbase like it, but ultimately they've all been lead to believe we'll walk the league this year, and like I say the second we start to fvck it up, is the second the fans will start getting on their backs.

In short, the media have bigged us up, the fans have fell for it (as usual) and Leicester are failing to deliver.

Goodnight.

[Part Of The Crowd]

****ing hell, you'd think you lot have just been relegated with no wins all season. It's three games in. For the record, my mate was there last night and said the crowd seemed more interested in booing than getting behind the team. When nobody was booing it was 'Quieter than Stadium:MK'.

Having just read over this thread it'd seem some of you are very very sour over not getting instant success from the money spent, and instantly want to blame everyone else. Give it some time, bloody hell.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Too much writing in this thread so I will sum up why there are dissapointed fans.

We have been given hope with the money spent which has raised expectation. Crushing disappointment is now following as we are not ripping the arseholes out of the weaker teams in the league. In fact for quite a while against all the teams we have played so far this season even including Rovrum we have been outplayed. Reading are a good team and will win more than they lose this season but ffs Cov and Bristol City are poor.

It is nothing to do with only being 3 games in. We may win the next 10 in a row and all will be forgotten but the level attained simply has not been good enough so far. We have now 2 games against 2 of the better teams in the division and we are going to have to majorly up their game or we are going to get whooped.

I think when we are told thet the team are happy to be favorites and will thrive on it by the squad and Sven during pre season then they need to be given a rocket up their arses if they play so poorly. Just my opinion but now is not the time for apathy. It is not the end of the world but people have the right to be massively dissapointed by the start to the season given all the hype we had before it started.

[tomtom]

Last night there was 45seconds on the clock(I kid you not!) when I first heard the blokes behind me shouting" Bamba your f'ing shit, you f'ing c**t,get that liability off" by 5 mins gally had f'ing tw@t win a tackle for once..then Bamba again even though it was Fernandes... followed by hit it long then **** sake play it short!

For all that was awful on the pitch its as equally unpleasant off it at the minute, we all pay our money but why go if its only to abuse our players from the off and then shout utter tripe all match?

Rant over but it really pissed me off last night!

[Dicko]

It is YOUR ****ing fault.

'Woah. Hold on there. What? Us supporters? Not the ref? Not the manager? Us?' - Yes, you, you pathetic excuse of a majority, I'm talking to you.

My theory is far fetched and probably ridiculous. Regardless of whether it is correct, I certainly have a point that our fans are among the worst in the football league. People ramble on about how 'brilliant' our support is. B*llocks. We live in a big city with no other major football teams surrounding us. That is why we get a large number of fans. We have one big city seperate from other cities nearby. When you look at the likes of Coventry who we look down on for their turn outs, it is clear to see that their club compete with Villa and Birmingham for their supporters. Burnley, for example, are also surrounded by big teams. Then there's the London clubs and so the trend continues. We don't have that. We're a city in our own right with rivals at a similar level to ourselves. You'll find less fans in Leicester with an excuse to support the likes of Man Utd or a big London club.

We do not have good fans, there are just quite a lot of us. The moment something goes wrong you all jump on the bandwagon, don't you? Jesus, SSL made a howler tonight, granted, but to BOO him afterwards? What kind of people are you? You could argue that professionals should deal with pressure better but for crying out loud they're probably going out there scared shitless that god forbid they might do something wrong. You BOO Nicky Maynard for scoring against after not joining us, when there is little he can do about it! He's a professional and I think the guy should take credit for not handing in a transfer request. He has a contract and unless those above him decide otherwise, he should continue to play under his contract. Doesn't that just sum it up? You lot boo without a thought. You're always going to find a percentage of football fans who are fickle morons at a football club but I'd argue we've got it pretty bad. We're infested by you oxygen thieves (to quote Russell Brand!) Do me a favour and leave your frustration from life at home. 'Times are hard. I'm skint. I am an absolute fool with no brain. I know what I'll do, go take my anger out on some footballers. I hope they're awful, cause I'd love a good ol' boo!' It's your fickle type that were out and about in the bigger cities last week looting. Scum. Sub human scum. (I can't rant without quoting Partridge at least once.)

This attitude of the fans doesn't exactly promote a positive atmosphere. So, why do you need a 'positive atmosphere?', I hear you ask. Look at Southampton. Look at Norwich last season. Look at us in our play-off season. Not particularly brilliant squads, so what made them successful? In my opinion, a positive air around the place off the back of a promotion season. So I ask you, why can we not give our players a fighting chance by getting behind them rather than waiting for them to slip up and jump on them? If you're at work and you mess up, what would you want? Your manager to absolutely rip in to you, even though it's the first thing you've done wrong? No. You'd want encouragement.

Don't get me wrong, I think our team were poor tonight. Isn't it interesting, though, that the times that we played our best football was after our goal and after their penalty miss? When was our worst football? After their goals. Of course, some questions should be asked of the mentality of the players. They should be strong enough to play good football regardless of what has just happened. However, perhaps if the large proportion of cretins our supporters yield would lay off for a second, our players wouldn't feel QUITE AS sorry for themselves. Just a suggestion.

If I supported another team I would hate LCFC. Our fans are utterly ridiculous and right now all of those I criticised in this post deserve every last drop of depression from this defeat. I kind of wish I was a Bristol fan tonight. There's nothing more I'd love than to feel smug against LCFC fans.

/rant.

Agree with 90-95% of that.

City do have some of the most fickle fans in the country. Other fans do see us a bit of a laughing stock for the way we over-react and seem to feel that we have some sort of god-given right to be in the Prem.

[liamsm]

OR the European Cup. Key word - OR. So it read as one of three scenarios. You fucking plank.

Sides with bigger fanbases that haven't won the European Cup were listed.

Perhaps if you thought before you wrote, you wouldn't find yourself getting into silly squabbles, enforcing your fucking ludicrous opinions on the board. You're a fucking moron.

why are you so angry? perhaps it's your age or are you angry because you have been proved wrong you miserable plank

[Guest Col city fan]

I never once argued that we don't have a large fan base. I just don't believe that a large fan base constitutes a good one. For any body to boo St. Ledger is ridiculous, even a minority. The general reaction by the fans was one of rejection.

You've had no encouragement in the last two league games. Fickle anyone?

I've already made the point our amount of fans doesn't instantly mean we have good support. My life, what

you've just encouraged is a pantomime crowd. Good = cheer, bad = boo. Is it so hard to offer encouragement in adversity?

I hate people that say stuff like 'I've supported Leicester for thirty years...' to back a point. What does that prove? How on earth would that back your point any more? I could take a monkey with me for thirty years but I wouldn't then give him a medal and offer his wise words to the match day

programme.

N'aw. Are you one of those conspiracy theorists. I love your type! How you've jumped from a below par performance to 'THEY DON'T BLADDY CARE!!', is beyond me. Do you write for the Daily Mail?

I come on here to put my opinion out there, foolishly hoping in vein that some might realise how ridiculously they're behaving. I'd like to pose the same question to you. From where I'm sitting your purpose is to be miserable about the team and the opinion of others. Whenever I see your name at the top of a post I try to resist reading the

post because I know it will wind me up. I can never stop myself, though. I wish I could.

Thank-you.

My point is that it doesn't help.

Yeah. I too was disappointed. I'd have thought they'd have come out all guns blazing, with a point to prove. Perhaps you're right in that swapping it all around doesn't help. My point was merely that the negative reaction as severe as it was, does not help at all.

... that it was a Wednesday night. Douche.

I don't usually get abusive but YOU are a total tool. Your arrogance is astounding and you need to grow up

[Trav Le Bleu]

This is the biggest pile of shite I've ever read.

So it's OK to come on here and slate fans who have and will support Leicester for their whole life, but not ok to slate players when they are embarrassing us and being a total disgrace?

Our fans are right to be constantly pissed off, we DO have a large fanbase, surely the biggest that has never won the FA Cup, the top division or the European Cup. We have been underachieving for over 125 years and we're still doing it.

And don't make out everyone was booing St Ledger, that's bollocks. Of course it was a minority. The only person that had any mass prolonged boos was the ref.

Stop being such a self-righteous dick.

This is the biggest pile of shite I've ever read.

Stop being such a self-righteous dick.

I don't usually get abusive but YOU are a total tool. Your arrogance is astounding and you need to grow up

... says Col City Fan.

[David Guiza]

Here's me thinking that XI men who are payed multiple thousand a week should be able to play football infront of one man and his dog or 50k. Obviously the fans have an impact, ie look at S**ke at the Britania but i'd hardly say it was that imperritive. If it was how do teams like Coventry ever manage a home win. If you think the problem to our last two results is the fans then you're deluded in my opinion.

[The Doctor]

Again, the lack of reading has equalled a failure.

I'm not talking about booing, there was only minority booing, so stop making that point. I don't agree with booing and when our fans boo our players during a match I will slate them. This is what contributes to more bad play and that did not happen tonight.

I'm talking about fans being angry and fed up and then getting slated on here for not outsinging the away fans and not giving the players encouragement. I read a number of comments about this after Saturday and I think it's pathetic.

Too many fans on here are too quick to get on the fans' backs and give these well paid players too much praise. We are the lifeblood of this club, not them.

How so?

You said that anyone who doesn't get angry when we aren't playing well doesn't give a shit. When people get angry with performances, they tend to boo.

What you're saying (even if it is not what you intended to say) is that if people don't boo last night's performance, they don't give a shit.

As for the fans, they should be backing the team. They are supposedly fans (short for fanatics) or supporters - both of which have strong connotations of actually ****ing supporting the team, getting behind them no matter what.

We should be out-singing the away fans as well, particularly when they don't even bring 4 figures like last night. Part of the "home advantage" is created by the fans singing and making the ground an intimidating place to come, our home atmosphere is about as intimidating as a cowardly chihuahua.

And those fans being slated are deserving of it, they are the deluded cvnts who boo after the first sideways pass, who call for the managers head after 2 or 3 games, who find things to gripe at even if we win by 4 or 5. Slating them is not being too quick to get on the fans backs or giving the players too much praise - it's merely a sign of being an actual Leicester fan.

[B52]

Have anybody ever heard that fans made the difference?

Last season I said that the play-off chance went away because Ricardo was bullied out of the team.

Psychology is the key word and a fair few doesn't understand it.

Regarding "I spent so much money", do you really think you get more value shouting shit on your own players?

Go practise martial art or boxing instead so you can support your team when they play crap also.

[markbsac]

Leicester Tigers ....do cov or notts or derby have a rugby club this size they have to compete with.....NO

[leicesterisme]

. When nobody was booing it was 'Quieter than Stadium:MK'.

Now that's physically impossible.

[cosmos]

I don't think it's too much of us to expect that the money SSL is on he can go about his trade without making howlers, i earn a lot less in a year than he earns in a week and if i made one big howler, i'd probably compromise my job, why is it ok for these players to constantly lose posession, miss chances etc-when we signed SSL i thought-hmmm Preston just got relegated and we've just signed their best defender-keep aiming high sven!

[Liam Newcombe 95]

It is YOUR ****ing fault.

'Woah. Hold on there. What? Us supporters? Not the ref? Not the manager? Us?' - Yes, you, you pathetic excuse of a majority, I'm talking to you.

My theory is far fetched and probably ridiculous. Regardless of whether it is correct, I certainly have a point that our fans are among the worst in the football league. People ramble on about how 'brilliant' our support is. B*llocks. We live in a big city with no other major football teams surrounding us. That is why we get a large number of fans. We have one big city seperate from other cities nearby. When you look at the likes of Coventry who we look down on for their turn outs, it is clear to see that their club compete with Villa and Birmingham for their supporters. Burnley, for example, are also surrounded by big teams. Then there's the London clubs and so the trend continues. We don't have that. We're a city in our own right with rivals at a similar level to ourselves. You'll find less fans in Leicester with an excuse to support the likes of Man Utd or a big London club.

We do not have good fans, there are just quite a lot of us. The moment something goes wrong you all jump on the bandwagon, don't you? Jesus, SSL made a howler tonight, granted, but to BOO him afterwards? What kind of people are you? You could argue that professionals should deal with pressure better but for crying out loud they're probably going out there scared shitless that god forbid they might do something wrong. You BOO Nicky Maynard for scoring against after not joining us, when there is little he can do about it! He's a professional and I think the guy should take credit for not handing in a transfer request. He has a contract and unless those above him decide otherwise, he should continue to play under his contract. Doesn't that just sum it up? You lot boo without a thought. You're always going to find a percentage of football fans who are fickle morons at a football club but I'd argue we've got it pretty bad. We're infested by you oxygen thieves (to quote Russell Brand!) Do me a favour and leave your frustration from life at home. 'Times are hard. I'm skint. I am an absolute fool with no brain. I know what I'll do, go take my anger out on some footballers. I hope they're awful, cause I'd love a good ol' boo!' It's your fickle type that were out and about in the bigger cities last week looting. Scum. Sub human scum. (I can't rant without quoting Partridge at least once.)

This attitude of the fans doesn't exactly promote a positive atmosphere. So, why do you need a 'positive atmosphere?', I hear you ask. Look at Southampton. Look at Norwich last season. Look at us in our play-off season. Not particularly brilliant squads, so what made them successful? In my opinion, a positive air around the place off the back of a promotion season. So I ask you, why can we not give our players a fighting chance by getting behind them rather than waiting for them to slip up and jump on them? If you're at work and you mess up, what would you want? Your manager to absolutely rip in to you, even though it's the first thing you've done wrong? No. You'd want encouragement.

Don't get me wrong, I think our team were poor tonight. Isn't it interesting, though, that the times that we played our best football was after our goal and after their penalty miss? When was our worst football? After their goals. Of course, some questions should be asked of the mentality of the players. They should be strong enough to play good football regardless of what has just happened. However, perhaps if the large proportion of cretins our supporters yield would lay off for a second, our players wouldn't feel QUITE AS sorry for themselves. Just a suggestion.

If I supported another team I would hate LCFC. Our fans are utterly ridiculous and right now all of those I criticised in this post deserve every last drop of depression from this defeat. I kind of wish I was a Bristol fan tonight. There's nothing more I'd love than to feel smug against LCFC fans.

/rant.

Completely agree with everything

Can't stand people booing and then expecting the players to feed off it. Moronic to say the least.

[Burmesefox]

I actually felt so sorry for the Ledge last night. I had nmy head in my hands with shock and really felt for him. What a lonely walk that was from the 18 yard box to his position for the centre. Having said that thought he had a poor game. I did not boo him but vented my spleen at the team's overall performance last night. I can forgive SSL that howler - how come fans cant forgive Kermit though? I'm rambling....I'll get me coat.....Giggsy...Gigsy wigsy...the left foot, the right foot, the shimmy the shammy..................jumppers for goalposts....three and your in......park footie.....isn't is?..............roll the ball in the dog shit and let your mate head it......................who am i?

[accessory]

To all those whinging about the boos, WHY do you bother following Leicester? You'd obviously be much happier at the Ricoh where the locals applaud their team even after defeats.

OK, Cov have p!sspoor crowds and aren't likely to threaten a promotion challenge any time soon, and the atmosphere at most of their home games is even worse than it is for ours, but none of these issues would bother you. Cos it's about supporting a manager and team, no matter what, eh?

[Burmesefox]

My rule is dont boo before or during the game or at half time as that can affect the players but booking after the game is perfectly acceptable as it gives the players something to think about. You have paid your money so feel free to boo and let them know who you feel. Personally I dont really do it (although I did in the Pleat years) but each to his own.

[sbfox]

To all those whinging about the boos, WHY do you bother following Leicester? You'd obviously be much happier at the Ricoh where the locals applaud their team even after defeats.

OK, Cov have p!sspoor crowds and aren't likely to threaten a promotion challenge any time soon, and the atmosphere at most of their home games is even worse than it is for ours, but none of these issues would bother you. Cos it's about supporting a manager and team, no matter what, eh?

Because we support our team through thick and thin? Win or lose, they're OUR team and we'll always stand behind them?

Go support ManU if you want to win every week.

[blueredswed]

I swear there's like 50 other threads like this

But whatever, I agree 75%

And those other 50 threads is not so good as this!

With this I (foreigner in Scandinavia must say) Support your team or leave for another

We must support our team and don´t boooooiiinnngggg!

Of course if they don´t playing well it would not helping with

Soo come on lets face how it is today, after Nottingham everybody will say soo good they are playing or shit so bad

But this is our team and it´s ours and TOPS don´t forget that!

:scarf:

[Trav Le Bleu]

Leicester City at the moment are Sven's team.

Many of the players would not be here had we not had a manager of Sven's stature (regardless of how well you think he's done here, he has kudos) - Johnson, Fernandes, Pantsil, Konchesky, Ball - maybe even Schmichael, Mills and Nugent. We would not have had a sniff at these players with our recent managers. It wasn't just about throwing money at clubs and players.

So bringing in someone else would be almost like a betrayal of the new players and we would have to start over again with even more new players or revert to using last season's team - no wait, half that team have gone back to their clubs.

Hmmm... it's tricky. Shame, I thought managing Leicester City was easy with obvious solutions to any problems we might meet and a 100% success rate guaranteed.