kiwifox6 Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Relatively new poster on here, but don't go easy or I'll never learn! Got a bit tired of reading all the negative posts on here and it made me think about why I started supporting the mighty Foxes. If you have not worked it out yet, I live in New Zealand (no I have never been to a live City match) and wanted to share my story of how I became a City fan living in a rugby mad country. I also thought it would be great to hear other supporters stories. In 1997 a guy selling cheap rip-off football shirts visited our small town in Marlborough. I was 13 years old and the only English teams I had ever heard of were Man United and Liverpool so seeing all these shirts from all the teams I went mad! I hung around the place so much the guy gave me a part time job after school helping him for the week he was in town for and he paid me in shirts! On my last day he gave me a blue and white shirt that had "Walkers Crisps" on the front and I thought it was the funniest thing id ever heard of! He told me to watch out for the foxes on the t.v the upcoming week as they took on the mighty Arsenal (his team). Apparently City were to be taught a lesson in how the game should be played. EPL games were rare on television here we used to only get one or two games a week and id forgotten about the match until I got home from school. That night there was a replay of Leicester City vs Arsenal from Filbert street, August 27 1997. And from that night on I was hooked! The way that team refused to lie down against an impressive Arsenal side (and one of the greatest hat-tricks ever) was incredible to watch! I can only hope that those moments return in the future, but until that happens, all I can do is to keep subscribing to Foxes player and wake up at all hours of the morning to hear Stringer talk about sweets with Youngy. Its of my opinion that sometimes we forget that we are supporters and its important to take a step back every now and then to look at the bigger picture. We support a fantastic club who have a great history of punching above our weight and supply us with outstanding memories from time to time. Who cares how far apart those memories are!? The important thing to remember is that they will come again. Up the Foxes!!!!!
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Good story, bet you regret choosing city every day. I was much the same and my Pop gave me probably the exact same shirt........not looked back.....wish i did tho!
brockmyster Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Worst choice anyone could ever make ha! Always wondered what time do u lot down under have to wake up for a normal 3pm saturday game over here?
kiwifox6 Posted 19 April 2012 Author Posted 19 April 2012 at the moment kick off is 2am, daylight savings its 4am. really shit times haha
brockmyster Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Horrible u must be only fans who like midweek games more!
Kitchandro Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Great story, far more interesting than 'I just live ere and my Dad told me to support em'. I just used to watch all our season reviews when I was a youngster in the 90s, so can't remember when I'd have seen our first live TV match. The first match I went to was Leeds in the league cup, not a 3-3 but a slightly less entertaining 0-0, still, at least we won on pens.
brockmyster Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 My first league game was actually Newcastle away when we lost 1-0 Carl Cort in the last minute yet he couldn't do that for us
Bayfox Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 wba away 1989 i think it was a 1-1 draw. terracing, could hardly see a thing as a 10 year old and the place was falling apart. but from that day i was hooked. the last 10 years have been difficult to take. but no one will ever be able to take the mon era away from me and my 7 trips to wembley are now something i hope my kids will one day have the chance to do. maybe not 7 time tho.
ThurnbyLodgeFox Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Grew up supporting Liverpool but then I moved to Leicester and realised they are sooooo much better. I'm Leicester through an through
ta-fc Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Mine was the standard scenario always lived in LE3 and my dad was a huge City fan... Unfortunately he grew up supporting the foxes in the 60s and 70s when football violence was rife this always tainted his opinion that it was too dangerous to take a young lad down the city. My first live game was against Luton in the early 90s when a kind hearted neighbour (who was a steward) took me with his son, city got spanked 3-0 and I was hooked. Eventually the old man chilled out and we had a season ticket together for almost a decade from the Little era right through to Micky Adams. The old man passed away in 2003 and I fell out of love with the city, always kinda related live football to spending time with him. Nevertheless I always followed from a far attending the odd game with his old mates and shouting at the radio. In 2010 I had a child and immediately brought her a city shirt, this year I've been to 6 games and I can feel the love coming back, my daughter will attend her first game next season and whilst those ten years with my dad were some of the best of my life I'm almost just as excited about taking my little girl to her first game.
paulsherwood1 Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 My first game was actually the last game of the season at home to Cov in the relegation season of 1987. Obviously I had no understanding of the rivalry between the clubs as an innocent 12 year old! It was a midweek game under the lights. I can still remember my dad parking over the bridge near narborough road ( mainly resident parking now ). I remember walking over the bridge towards Filbo, and looking at the lights in the distance. We sat up in the double decker and lost the game 3-2, I think Cyril Regis scored. I can clearly remember the steps upto the double decker, the smell of cigars....unbeatable!!!! I was totally hooked from then on. I spent the next 10 years following City home and away, through the Pleat years, into Little and beyond. I was at Barnsley when Julian scored the wonder goal, I wont ever forget the bus driving up the hill looking down on oakwell, and all you could see was a sea of blue. I also remember winning a game away at Tranmere and forest had been playing up that way too. We stopped at a motorway services and there were several LCFC coaches and only one forest coach! They got hell ( not in a nasty way, just lots of singing etc ). I can also remember travelling down to a game vs Brighton. On the way down the weather was dreadful. At Toddington it was like a snowstorm. The supporters coach stopped at Toddington to ring ahead ( there were no mobile phones then!! ). Brighton said the game was on. We arrived at the Goldstone ground and the weather was beautiful. Clear blue skys. However, the game was off! The pitch had been waterlogged by the storms!! It was Kevin Cambpells last game on loan from Arsenal. They had arranged for Arsenal to pick him up from the ground. So the City bus dropped him off outside the ground and left him stood there with all his bags waiting for a lift! He actually came on our bus to see us. Those were the days!!
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Supported them since 1960. Yep, I'm an "oldie", and have been lucky enough to see so many fine players.
Mark_w Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Does anyone remember a Reserve game against West Ham back in the late 90's, I believe we won 4-2 but would love to know some more details? Think that was my first game, went to quite a few reserve games at Filbert Street plus the farewell to Filbert Street matches but Watford at the Walkers was the first league game I went to.
Zingari Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Relatively new poster on here, but don't go easy or I'll never learn! Got a bit tired of reading all the negative posts on here and it made me think about why I started supporting the mighty Foxes. If you have not worked it out yet, I live in New Zealand (no I have never been to a live City match) and wanted to share my story of how I became a City fan living in a rugby mad country. I also thought it would be great to hear other supporters stories. In 1997 a guy selling cheap rip-off football shirts visited our small town in Marlborough. I was 13 years old and the only English teams I had ever heard of were Man United and Liverpool so seeing all these shirts from all the teams I went mad! I hung around the place so much the guy gave me a part time job after school helping him for the week he was in town for and he paid me in shirts! On my last day he gave me a blue and white shirt that had "Walkers Crisps" on the front and I thought it was the funniest thing id ever heard of! He told me to watch out for the foxes on the t.v the upcoming week as they took on the mighty Arsenal (his team). Apparently City were to be taught a lesson in how the game should be played. EPL games were rare on television here we used to only get one or two games a week and id forgotten about the match until I got home from school. That night there was a replay of Leicester City vs Arsenal from Filbert street, August 27 1997. And from that night on I was hooked! The way that team refused to lie down against an impressive Arsenal side (and one of the greatest hat-tricks ever) was incredible to watch! I can only hope that those moments return in the future, but until that happens, all I can do is to keep subscribing to Foxes player and wake up at all hours of the morning to hear Stringer talk about sweets with Youngy. Its of my opinion that sometimes we forget that we are supporters and its important to take a step back every now and then to look at the bigger picture. We support a fantastic club who have a great history of punching above our weight and supply us with outstanding memories from time to time. Who cares how far apart those memories are!? The important thing to remember is that they will come again. Up the Foxes!!!!! what a great story i can see how you got hooked if that was your baptism
seenitall Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 I have a mate who started supporting Leicester becasue I did (I was living down south for a while when a kid) and although he still supports us 40 years later, I am sure he's never forgiven me
Chiswickfox Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 I have a mate who started supporting Leicester becasue I did (I was living down south for a while when a kid) and although he still supports us 40 years later, I am sure he's never forgiven me The man needs locking up for what he did to me man! I had a George Best poster and Bobby Charlton football boots before he started shooting his mouth off ...yes even then!
Hantsfox Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Watched 1969 cup final against Man City and remember feeling realy down, as a kid living not far from Filbert street i used to lay in bed listening to the crowd roar. The following season a school mate asked me to go with him, I think it was against Sunderland, can't remember the score. However that was it i did three paper rounds every day just to pay to go home and away games until i left school in 1974. I now live near Southampton but am still a true blue and so are my two boys, I renew my membership every year and go to as many games as possible. Flying the flag in Hampshire,
Bettsj2 Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 My dad and uncle were originally from Lowestoft. They hated it so when they were old enough to move, they said that whichever football card they got free with Weetabix, they would move to that City. Leicester was the card and to that City they moved and supported the team from then on in. My first game was in the early 80's at home to Ipswich. Lost 1-0. Set the tone really.
Leicester_Numan Posted 19 April 2012 Posted 19 April 2012 Growing up, I was a Liverpool fan but as I got closer to being a teenage a..ehole, I thought Leicester boys should be Leicester fans and that was that. You can imagine what I had to put up with from the individuality free clones at school in the early 80s for being a fan of City and Gary Numan. Unlike most kids though, I could handle it and knew who the real sad f..kers were. As you can see, nothing has changed with me. I'm Leicester and proud of it
kiwifox6 Posted 20 April 2012 Author Posted 20 April 2012 Some super stories!!!! love hearing the ones about old school matches!!! Think I need to get over and experience this first hand!!
Corky Posted 20 April 2012 Posted 20 April 2012 Around the time we were yo-yoing between the top and second tier. Then we settled, happily, in the top for a few years, with trophies thrown in. And back to yo-yoing, before settling at this level for several years, down then back to setting up home in the second tier again.
Carter The Boss Posted 20 April 2012 Posted 20 April 2012 I love threads like this, cuts through all the rowing and complaining about whatever travesty has happened and reminds me of why we love the club My Dad is from Leicester (I'm from London but lived abroad when I was younger). First game was Derby at home with my Dad and Grandad, ended 3-3 and from memory Iwan Roberts scored a hat trick, and all the goals were scored in the first 30 mins. Since then there have been cup finals (Tranmere), playoff finals (listening on the radio at 4am when living in Hong Kong), promotion parties, relegation tears, away trips ranging from Old Trafford to Yeovil, and I wouldn't change a thing. Never boring supporting this club!
wattolcfc Posted 20 April 2012 Posted 20 April 2012 Never boring supporting this club! Exactly. My first game was vs Norwich at home, just after Martin O'God left them and just before he joined us and I have not thought about getting off this rollercoaster since! Some people need to realise we have no devine right to be in the Premier League, nor do we deserve to buy promotion just because we have rich owners. We have massive highs and lows as City fans and mediocre in between but one thing that will never change is the love I have for this club. So let's all get behind the current team, manager and backroom staff and look forward to next season. ONCE A FOX, ALWAYS A FOX.
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