Support Foxes without an association with Leicester?

[Bryn]

My family is from Melton but I've never lived in Leicestershire myself. Wish I could get to more games but my path in life hasn't taken me through Leicester yet.

[Jace]

I have absolutely no connection to Leicester at all.

 

Have never even been to the UK, was born in Melbourne and now live in Sydney.

 

The first time I ever played Fifa ('03 as a 12 year old), had no idea about football so just went through the PL teams and picked the one with the logo I liked the best. 10+ years later and I now stay up at 2am each week to follow the twitter account for game updates each week. Really hoping we go up as we get all PL games televised down here!

 

Met up with a few lads for the playoff at home against Watford last year and they couldn't believe I'd put myself through the pain of being a Fox with absolutely no connection to the area or club.

 

Looking forward to hopefully getting over soon for my first experience

 

To me someone like this who has never even been to Leicester is just as much as a supporter as someone who goes to every game. Its even harder being a supporter when you are far away 

[FoxDownSouth]

What like the owners? The first english game they saw was leicester, claridge shinning the ball in :') been fans ever since

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[Mickey O'Neil]

Great thread!! Very entertaining.

Everyone who doesn't have any links, post them up now before we conquer Europe and you get accused of being a 'plastic'!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cjslcfc]

Not sure if this counts or not. Never lived in or near Leicester. In fact the closest I have been to residing near Leicester is now when I'm at uni in Nottingham.

 

However, my parents used to go to Leicester matches quite often and were brought up there so I guess that's a link. Although I felt like I was forced to go originally, one of my first matches was the 5-2 vs Sunderland at Filbo. I was hooked ever since! It does mean I missed a lot of the good years though and ended up growing up as a teen with the Mark De Vries and Elvis Hammonds of this world leading the line!

 

Now have a season ticket myself and it's me trying to get my parents to go all the time. Difficult because we live a good hour and a half away from the KP but I'm using living in Nottingham to my advantage right now!

[LanguedocFox]

Like some others on here, I have absolutely no connection with Leicester. I grew up in Loughborough, so had the choice of City, Florist, Notts County or Derby County. City was chosen for me when I was taken there as a reward for passing my 11+ exam. 4-3 against Grimsby, January 1957, and I was hooked for life.

 

I don't have any other affiliation with Leicester: I only go there for matches, and I haven't been to Loughborough since my mother died nearly 20 years ago. I lived in London from the age of 22, and have lived closer to every London club than I ever lived to Leicester: just after we got married, I lived four streets away from Loftus Road, and when my son was born, I remember standing at the window of Hammersmith Hospital looking over a park at the QPR ground in the distance. Felt nothing other than mild curiosity.

 

When I lived in Sarf Lahdahn, my wife suggested I find a London club to support, so I went to Fulham because it was reasonably close and seemed similar to City in many ways: smallish ground, never done much of anything, a bit up and down. Craven Cottage was easy enough to get to - bus from the bottom of our road then a bit of a walk - and I went to see them play someone or other. I felt nothing at all, no involvement whatsoever, and I left at half time. Can't remember anything about it, other than that I went: three or four years later, I went there again when they played City, and we were making a late run for promotion. I can remember like it was yesterday the feeling of absolute joy when Ian Wilson scored the only goal of the game.

 

Supporting a team, unless you're one of the plastic Man U (or similar) fans, is like getting genital herpes: it doesn't matter where or who you got it from, you got once you've got it, it's yours for life.