Why do you love city?

[SOCCERROO FOX]

As per the title why do you love city?

1. Cos my Pop introduced them to me and is why me and him have the closest relationship out of his 30 plus grandchildren and great grand children.

2. Because of days like tomorrow, i may not be there but the game starts here at 1am and i will be non stop looking at my watch waiting for the game to start. No one will know why i will be on edge all day and even if i did explain it they wouldn't understand.

3. Being proud to be an Indivdual Australian not supporting the likes of the top 4 but an obscure team (well non prem and definetly not a top 5 prem team) and knowing every player, results etc.

4. Being 17 and having your clubs star player Muzzy Izzett question and be bemused as to why you are a city fan and why you hung around they training ground all day too see him. Then to have him tell you he is staying for the rest of the season and thank you for you're support. ( woudn't happen at a big 4 club)

5. Matt Elliott club skipper at the time, knock on the passenger car window and offer you an autograph and genuinely want to know why you are an Aussie supporting Leicester.

Last but not least

6. It's the unknown, unpredicatble results, quarter finals of fa cups when we are battling in the championship. Linked with big names, managers such as Sven, wins away to top of the table sides, walking in Melbourne wearing a city shirt and someone yelling out "Go Foxes". All in all it is a rollercoater but one i would never take back. I may not have been born a blue like most of you but more than haf my life hs been following the foxes, i don't regret it and i never will, i may come across as dick on this forum but i love city and am so pumped for tomorrow!

So why are you a City supporter?

C'mon you boys in Blue bring on Chelsea and barely any sleep before Monday work!

[Tom17LCFC]

I have absolutely no idea.

If i had girl who let me down as many times as Leicester have, she'd be long gone. Leicester runs in my family though and will do as long as we exist.

[ScouseFox]

Life would be more boring supporting someone good.

And me old man sort of made me. I even stayed strong when Liverpool won the FA Cup, UEFA cup, Carling Cup and Champions League when I was a kid living around here.

We won League One and that was enough for me!

[hemelfox]

Have supported LCFC since 1973 it's in my heart :-)

[The Year Of The Fox]

I was born at the royal. Dad took me to my first games as a young kid. Moving away from leicestershire on my own, living with others who all support the top four in the prem, it gives you a real sense of identity. Yes Leicester's a shit hole, but its my home and i love it.

[Bert]

It's in the blood.

[HEGGSY]

It's in the blood.

This. I wouldn't want it any other way.YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU BLLLLLUUUUEEEESSSSS!!!

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Because they were my local team. Quite a lot of the time they feel like a mate who keeps letting you down. I say that is it. I get sick of them constantly ruining a Saturday/Tuesday and swear never to bother with the game (usually on Foxesplayer being a PAP these days) yet I still find I need my fix the next game.The buggers then go and get a great win somewhere and although I know it is a false dawn, we become friends again.

[MikeyT]

My home town club. I'm born and bred in Leicestershire. My team.

[Kitchandro]

I ask myself this question all the while. I've never had a good answer for it.

Maybe they'll remind me why I put myself through it tomorrow. Maybe.

I've probably got that memory of going to Wembley when I was 7 stuck in the back of my mind somewere telling me that one day we'll get what we had back again.

Then there's that other side of my brain that tells me those perfectly sensible reasons to not bother. But he's always been a twat so I ignore him.

[Lobsterboyuk]

Inevitable for me - easy choice as a young 'un - older cousins/uncles (i.e. heroes to me) well into the city, all their stories on a sunday about the day before - mum wouldn't let me go too young because it was the dark days for violence.

Free tickets from school at the age of eleven in the mid-late eighties - romping about the east stand with my mates - Gary Linker (went to my junior school, signed a card for him when he scored his first England goal, he came to our school fete one year), Gary Mac, heroes - the absolute misery of nearly falling into the abyss with the Pleat years

Then getting the taste for wembley way in the Little years with my mates, pen 2, home and away, the chanting, Steve Walsh - golden era for me - those late teen years, very special time for me

Delirious times under MoN - bit flat after that for me, marriage, career, kids take up time and you follow the results and go to the odd game for old times sake - but football has lost it's magic for a while

but then my boy comes along and the circle continues, new found enthusiasm as he bubbles over about his favourite players - I'm back in fester after long spells working away - he can stay awake for the mid week matches so time for his season ticket - family stand - city turn a corner - We Love You kicks off - you realise supporting Leicester is the best club in the world - all that pain and heartache or just rubbish football for long periods just makes those incredible times so much sweeter - any plastic glory grabber watching whoever on sky don't know what they're missing

I was on cloud nine after Brum on tuesday - what else can inject that little bit of magic into an ordinary night in a provincial city - only my Leicester

Makes no sense at all, that's why it's love - not everybody feels it - FFS FoxesTalk and the RL moan-in, comments in the Merc makes that clear but if you've got any sense - endless optimism and love is a good coping strategy!

Really - When You're Smiling - sums it all up...

[davieG]

I'm still waiting for a team to emulate what I first saw in the 60's, classy, innovative football played from the heart in an enjoyable but competitive manner - well that's what hooked me.

[davelcfc100]

Why do you love city....yep that's the question I ask my self every week

[Corky]

Because I have to, it gets frustrating at times but you have to put up with it and accept that we'll never be consistently winning every week, and to try and enjoy it in other ways.

[Guy]

My late Grandad liked them through living in south Leicestershire yet he only went once in his entire lifetime, back in the 50s. It was probably through his having a range of other interests at weekends, football was not top of his list obviously! My parents never liked sport full stop so I guess I took on the baton from my Grandad plus as I was born in Lutterworth then I suppose I was a "Leicesterite"!. I didn't attend my first game until I was 15 though (in 1984 at Filbert Street, when in the old first division, the then top flight of course).

As we'd moved to Northampton when I was four then when I was old enough I spent a large part of the mid 80s through to the early 90s going to see the Cobblers for my sins with various friends. They had some good years back then though! In that time, then save for my 1984 debut appearance, I rarely went to see City yet still supported them! Me and my mate started going regularly to "Filbo" though during the Brian Little era, 1991-94. That included all the play off finals at Wembley also. In that time I became a season ticket holder for a decade in 1994 through to 2004, all the Martin O'Neill, Peter Taylor and Micky Adams years. I still get to about five-six games a season at King Power Stadium, despite having lived in the south west since 2005. Leicester til I die!

[lavrentis]

Dad supported them and I was born and lived in Melton for a bit and I loved being the underdog as a kid etc, I ****ing loved Paul Dickov as sad as it seems and use number 22 to this day. Always was Dickov as a kid whilst others were Beckham etc

[Gold Coast Fox]

Because I've spend some time at school in Leicester and have a lot of lcfc mates, so it's my home away from home.

And I love being the only Leicester fan on the gold coast

[NeilyBoy]

My Grandad played for the likes of Coalville and Leicester back in the days of the mercenary footballer who didn't/couldn't use it as a full-time job. Being, along with my uncle (his son), the only member of the family to share my enthusiasm for football, his passion for the foxes had a big effect on me as a kid. So although I've never actually lived in the city I consider myself a fox born and bred.

I am however ashamed to report that my cousins descendent from his daughter support Birmingham and Liverpool (Liverpool?!) respectively. When they're old enough I might have to slap em around a bit.

[Northants Fox 3]

My home town club. I'm born and bred in Leicestershire. My team.

This...I'm Leicester born and bred supported them since 1978/79 .... didn't go to a game till January 1981 though, not been since 1997 as i've been unable to afford it

[MC Prussian]

Because they never make it easy for a supporter.

If you survive ten years with Leicester City, you can survive anything.

[body102]

My grandad took me 37 years ago and i have been city ever since . When I was born i wasn't breathing so was a nice shade of blue so it could have been i was city from the outset

[Guest BlueBrett]

Because if you don't support where you're from you really are plastic.

[KIRBYFOX93]

my blood, my life, my heritage . I was born a blue and i will die a blue.

[FoxyTiler]

Was never to bothered about football till I reached the age of 15 then a mate asked me if I wanted to go to watch Leeds vs Leicester in about 89-90 season as his family were all Leicester. Like an idiot I said yes went up on the train surrounded by the london branch of leeds united fans and as they say the rest is history just loved the banter and excitement of following Leicester. I have now brain washed my nephew and neices and I am working on my two boys 2 and 4 so get em young!!. Whats even more strange is that were I live in Lincolnshire it's mainly the big four and Forest!!!

[mhs123]

always been loyal to Leicester,never flinched just something inside me,if you are a true supporter you will know what i mean