Another man buying your son a Chelsea shirt instead of LCFC

[Danno]

You can't change teams when your 10 ever, that's ridiculous.

Well kind of a fan rather than a supporter, I still wanted Leicester to win but liked both teams a lot. Stopped being interested in football until I was about 14ish and been to every Leicester home game since!

[Guest Basildon Fox]

This story reminds me of the Mark Robins one that was in the paper years ago. He bought a Leicester kit for his then partners child while playing for us. The dads child was furious about it because he felt that it was his right as his dad to choose his team.

The best part of the whole story is that right near the end the dad reveals who his team which was Derby County.

[Guest bss9401]

I'm afraid that the 'chelsea fan' knows what he's doing but a real man would never do such a thing. I would be furious at such an act and your son's mum should have known better. I'm afraid that I would burn the shirt but not in front of the kid as he's done nothing wrong. Believe me (and I know) you will always be his main man and he won't be so vulnerable for long.

[Danny the Fox 95]

I was a Forest fan until I was 10

[KFS]

Down here I have to use completely different tactics than the "let the boy choose" business. The blue of Leicester is pretty hard to come by.. Therefore, my girlfriends little brother tells all his mates that you can't support a team that plays in red, only a blue team!

[sylofox]

Step parent and your worried about him getting him a chelsea shirt.

Can think of a lot worse get a grip FFS

[Out Foxed]

I'd imagine he did it knowing it would wind you up.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

A bit of a disappointment for you I know, but I really can't see it is worth making a big issue out of. ( Too much over reaction on here so far.)

Being put in a Chelsea kit wont stop him from supporting his home team in due course, if that is his wish.

Certainly, try to get him to some games. At only five years of age, he wont have any great feelings right now.

Time will tell, but you can do your bit of encouraging.

[C.J]

Step parent and your worried about him getting him a chelsea shirt.

Can think of a lot worse get a grip FFS

I dont think you understand the gravity of the situation.

[sylofox]

I dont think you understand the gravity of the situation.

You must be right please explain

[kingfox]

Moving on from my comment earlier

How about trying to steal his Chelsea shirt, then when successful use it as your door mat

[m00nie]

I dont think you understand the gravity of the situation.

yeah buying your girlfriends 4 year old child a top and having fun in the park with them is some HEAVY shit..

maybe we could start a petition and open a facebook page to stop this kind of activity in the future..

[1884Fox]

Kill him, before he lays eggs!!!

[Ashley]

You sir are correct, why didn't this glory supporting fan boy consult you before buying him a Chelsea shirt?

Take your son next week to the PBoro game. Get it done!

[PAULCFC]

I have been separated from my ex for a number of years now and she's been seeing a fella for a while.

I have a son with my ex who turns five in October. From day he was born, I have always said that my son would follow Leicester as it is his local team and it is the team I have supported since I was a boy. I've always said that once my son was old enough to choose a team I'd let him pick (so long as it wasn't Florist or Direby).

It was always my intention that this season, I would take my boy to his first city match. We'd make a day of it and he'd be bought a kit, scarf, hotdog and sweets etc before going into the game and we'd make a real day of it so he'd want to go back again. It was my mum who got me into the City and I've always been looking forward to doing this with my boy.

I have today discovered that my ex-partners fella has bought my son a Chelsea strip (this fella supports Chelsea despite being from Leicester) and has had him down the park wearing this strip with photos being taken etc. I have flipped my nut at this and had a massive rant about the fact that following a football team is something passed from father to son etc.

I just wondered what other peoples thoughts were? Am I right or wrong to be so angry about this?

Cheers

I was in the same boast as you 12 years ago...split up from her and she sent him down in a man utd shirt .He was 8 at the time and said utd were dead good!Got him a season ticket with me.He's 20 now and stil a season ticket holder.....allthough i do rib him from time to time about his man u phase.And to be fair she said when i saw her next that she knew it'd wind me up!

[Captain...]

I don't see it as a big deal. As others have said it is better that he is showing an interest in your son, I am guessing he lives with your son, and at least he is getting in to football and will definitely want to go to a match, just make it clear it is OK to support both teams, as long as they are in different divisions then you will have a season to convince him, by which team the Chelsea kit will be out of date.

As for the stepdad talk to him, unless he is a dick then he will probably understand, and if he is a dick then you should have greater concerns than what football team your son supports. Hell even take the stepdad with you to the games, you'll probably convert him too seeing as he is plastic.

As long as he lives in Leicester he will become a fan.

[samstown92]

Im 19 and don't have a kid but I never had someone to follow in the footsteps of supporting a club, I ended up 'supporting' Liverpool because I liked Gerrard and Owen! but my cousin took me to a few games and I felt like I was watching more than football, it was where I was from, there was passion and ever since i've supported Leicester.

He will be a Leicester fan!

[glenny_fox]

You have every right to be pissed off! football is one of the best bonding past times for a father and son, so it should be your fatherly right to give him his first kit, take him to his first match etc.

If i were you i'd start taking him to matches straight away and get him a city kit.. then scrape your dinner on the chelsea kit just to be sure.

[Leicester_Numan]

I used to be a fan of Liverpool as a young boy, that all changed when I started to go down to Filbo. Watching Leicester week in week out was far more appealing to me than watching Liverpool on tv. Let's face it, how many times is your son realistically going to see Chelski? About as many times as the tw*t who bought him the shirt. Just keep taking him to the KP and explain the reasons he should choose Leicester as a Leicester boy instead of Crapsea and he'll make the right decision in the end

[Frost]

Well a complete over reaction is exactly what is needed. Act irrationally. I recommend buying stupid amounts of merchandise.

Get your lad a 'I Love King Power' cap. He'll fall in love with the club.

[silebyboy]

Just reading the original post made me mad, you must have been seriously pissed off at that?

If I was in your position I'd certainly have to say something to the bloke, in a nice way of course.

[Izzy muzzit]

I would be pissed! Bang the chopper!

Take him down to a few games and spoil him! He will soon be asking santa for a city shirt! I wouldnt worry too much.

[ScouseFox]

I reckon it's a bit out of order from the Step-dad but maybe he doesn't understand the situation? You say he's a "Chelsea fan" from Leicester, which makes most people assume he had no real interest in football until a few years ago when Chelsea started winning things, so presumably his Dad didn't take him to games from an early age, thus he doesn't understand the whole Father-Son bond of football.

I don't live with my Dad but since I was about 4 or 5 and we moved here my Birthday and Christmas present every year was a City shirt and a home game, it was the one thing me and my Dad did together. That's why I stayed a Leicester fan despite living in Liverpool with a Liverpool fan for a Mum. If you keep using City matches/shirts/merch as a treat he'll start to love it (I did) and there's no way he'll want to be wearing a Chelsea shirt after a few games watching City.

And for the past 5 years or so I've had a season ticket with my old man and it's still the one thing we do together, once every two weeks. It'll be sound once you get him going and his Step-Dad occasionally shows him a Chelsea game on TV he'll be thinking "this isn't as fun as being with my dad, at the game, with all the singing and shouting and excitement."

[Dan]

I'd imagine he did it knowing it would wind you up.

A bit of a disappointment for you I know, but I really can't see it is worth making a big issue out of. ( Too much over reaction on here so far.)

Being put in a Chelsea kit wont stop him from supporting his home team in due course, if that is his wish.

Certainly, try to get him to some games. At only five years of age, he wont have any great feelings right now.

Time will tell, but you can do your bit of encouraging.

Both of these comments are true and what's annoyed most people (I'd like to hope) is the fact the step-dad has clearly done this as a dig at the one who made the OP, the fact it's Chelsea (even though the other bloke's surely at an age to realise glory-hunting is embarrassing) is pretty irrelevant.

[Captain...]

Both of these comments are true and what's annoyed most people (I'd like to hope) is the fact the step-dad has clearly done this as a dig at the one who made the OP, the fact it's Chelsea (even though the other bloke's surely at an age to realise glory-hunting is embarrassing) is pretty irrelevant.

How do you know that? He may just be trying to connect with his step-son and not realise he is stepping on the OP's toes, if I was the step-dad in that situation and I had a son interested in football I would probably buy him a City shirt take him to some games, maybe not thinking about his biological Dad, even if I was living in West London and his biological dad was a Chelsea fan, I would do my best to treat him like my own.