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[Harry - LCFC]

The only time I have booed was that Barnsley away game the season before last. While saturday was a pretty poor result it certainly isn't worth booing.

 

Same here. You could tell it was different that day too, there was real anger accompanied with it. A much more aggressive noise than the dull drone we got on Saturday.

 

 

I will always support a persons right to boo. I don't understand the obsession that some people have with castigating anyone who boos regardless of the circumstance. I was pissed off sitting at home in my office watching the game on the computer and had I had the opportunity to vent my frustration to the players and management I would have booed.

In the bigger picture of course I am happy with where the club is and I fully support the players and management but I take each game in its own unique context. We (in my opinion) picked the wrong team, played way below par, made the wrong substitutions and threw away two points. In the context of this individual game booing was totally deserved.

Of course I respect others right not to boo. And that is the difference.

 

What?   You sound like an abortion advocate. Me saying I think you're an idiot for booing isn't some form of government oppression, it's just me thinking you're an idiot. I'm not 'taking away your rights' FFS.

 

Personally, I'll only boo when I think the performance and effort from the team were both unacceptable. Given that the Burnley game is something most fans experience five or six times a season it doesn't come anywhere near to deserving a booing by my standards.

 

And that's really what I'd emphasise most here, is booing (an attack on the team) really appropriate several times a season? I don't think so, not by a long way.

[StanSP]

Same here. You could tell it was different that day too, there was real anger accompanied with it. A much more aggressive noise than the dull drone we got on Saturday.

 

 

 

What?   You sound like an abortion advocate. Me saying I think you're an idiot for booing isn't some form of government oppression, it's just me thinking you're an idiot. I'm not 'taking away your rights' FFS.

 

Personally, I'll only boo when I think the performance and effort from the team were both unacceptable. Given that the Burnley game is something most fans experience five or six times a season it doesn't come anywhere near to deserving a booing by my standards.

 

And that's really what I'd emphasise most here, is booing (an attack on the team) really appropriate several times a season? I don't think so, not by a long way.

 

It's not appropriate, but more to the point it's detrimental to the players. It does them no favours. I get all the points about fans having an opinion and their right to it. But when you think about the start we've had it's nonsensical to boo. Those who did boo must be the ficklest of people. It's like they've forgotten the incredible tough start we've had, the massive achievement of getting points from said start and just go by what happens as each second ticks by. Yes we should have got 3 points over Burnley but it's as if a sense of realism bypasses their fickle minds and they forget what effect it has on the players. 

[chicagofox]

No less a fan (short for fanatic); less of a supporter though.

Again this is bo!!ocks.  This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[Oxfordfox83]

What actually makes people boo anyway?

It can't just be the football, I've seen disappointed and devastated fans at Sunday league games and they don't boo.

Can't really be the money either? If you go to the cinema and see a crap film or feel let down at a restaurant you don't stand there booing the screen or the chef on completion.

When you think about it it's actually quite bizarre human behaviour.

Never been a booer, but there is a definite emotional difference between meals and films and football. I've definitely felt rage, elation, despair at football that you just don't get in normal walks of life, and when you spend the game being vocal, I guess you vocalise whatever's in your head. Still don't like to hear it, and hope people will appreciate the overall trend in our performances is a million miles from most of 2004-12.

I've definitely called opponents, refs and occasionally our own players everything under the sun, just never felt that the note I want to leave on is booing. Particularly the last few years, where really we've always been at most two games from a good performance...

As an aside I thought booing last season was particularly brainless-we never deserved a boo, not even close, but some people couldn't distinguish between momentary results and the bigger picture. Presumably very part time fans. To hear it when we went in at half time one down or level, top of the league and flying, beggared belief. We seem to be a bit more perspicacious this season (ticket pressure so fewer part timers?), and hopefully it stays that way. If we do get in a dogfight at the bottom (and I doubt we will), that's when the players need the roar and the songs most...

[Unabomber]

You should never boo, everyone should just simultaneously tut and shake their heads in disapproval. That would be much more hard hitting for the players.

[artursteppe]

I didn't boo, but I did have a very angry rant after the game. Burnley were absolute rubbish and we were little better. It was a 2-2 draw, we should be anihilating teams like that with just a little more urgency than we showed.

People talk about perspective, but if we got relegated for the sake of one or two points it would be the Burnley game that did it. More realistically, if we failed to get into Europe for the sake of one or two points it would be the Burnley game that did it. That is why I was so angry.

How can it be that many thousands of supporters at the game understood that a two goal lead would give us the three points because there is always that chance a last minute equaliser can happen from a set piece. Why do our players not seem to understand that?

I think the team know full-well we can be a danger to any opposition defense - I felt we could score at any time against Burnley, but the commitment to do that was missing. Instead we tried to 'lazy' our way through the match, hoping for a 2-1 victory. Not good enough, and without doubt this seems to be a persistant failing from Nigel.

Of course any side can fail to beat inferior opposition from time to time, but Leicester make a habit of it, and we all know it.

[JIMMYWILLIS]

I wonder if booing is now the only way to express dissatisfaction to the players. In days gone by you might regularly see the players in the pub, shops or street or even further back they'd be working alongside some fans. They are now (generalisation alert) living lives so far removed from the man in the street the only place you can get a message to them is at the stadium. Nobody minds when fans go over the top with praise yet expressing dissatisfaction is unacceptable??

[davieG]

Sounds like tales of the old Music Halls / Vaudeville. Shame throwing things is banned a dose of rotten fruit lobbed at them would really relieve the frustrations. 

[davieG]

I wonder if booing is now the only way to express dissatisfaction to the players. In days gone by you might regularly see the players in the pub, shops or street or even further back they'd be working alongside some fans. They are now (generalisation alert) living lives so far removed from the man in the street the only place you can get a message to them is at the stadium. Nobody minds when fans go over the top with praise yet expressing dissatisfaction is unacceptable??

I think there was a lot more respect for players back then after all most had day jobs and were paid peanuts so expectations were much less.

[C-man]

This is bo!!ocks

Go on then, enlighten me as to why it's bollocks?

[Bamba's Babes]

I wonder if booing is now the only way to express dissatisfaction to the players. In days gone by you might regularly see the players in the pub, shops or street or even further back they'd be working alongside some fans. They are now (generalisation alert) living lives so far removed from the man in the street the only place you can get a message to them is at the stadium. Nobody minds when fans go over the top with praise yet expressing dissatisfaction is unacceptable??

 

Good point.

[Vlad the Fox]

I stand on the other side of the door booing the postman when he delivers bills.

[Dickov22]

Good question, I'm still disappointed in the performance and of course the result. I don't feel anger anymore, as I did at the time. The honest answer is, I don't know, in a rational state of mind - no; whilst at the football - who knows.

I understand that, hence why I don't boo at the end of every loss, just those I feel like I have been let down.

Get a grip. Leicester didn't let anyone down on Saturday. We were just crap in the second half, and our goalie decided to provide Wallace an open goal to score in. There was no lack of effort at all. You clearly don't know the game if you really think the players weren't trying on Saturday.

[Jakemoore]

I was in sk1 Row LL on Saturday, I didn't hear any boos. I was pretty pissed off at full time though

[theessexfox]

What actually makes people boo anyway?

It can't just be the football, I've seen disappointed and devastated fans at Sunday league games and they don't boo.

Can't really be the money either? If you go to the cinema and see a crap film or feel let down at a restaurant you don't stand there booing the screen or the chef on completion.

When you think about it it's actually quite bizarre human behaviour.

To be fair I've never gone mental after a brilliant scene or done the Poznan after a good piece of steak either 

 

But yeah booing is futile and pretty ridiculous when we're sitting 12th in the Premier League after a draw following 10 years absence. 

[Oxfordfox83]

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I think the team know full-well we can be a danger to any opposition defense - I felt we could score at any time against Burnley, but the commitment to do that was missing. Instead we tried to 'lazy' our way through the match, hoping for a 2-1 victory. Not good enough, and without doubt this seems to be a persistant failing from Nigel.

Of course any side can fail to beat inferior opposition from time to time, but Leicester make a habit of it, and we all know it.

Persistent failing: Nigel Pearson. Don't follow mate, sorry. He's only 'persistently' improved the team and got us promoted.

Making a habit of failing to beat inferior opposition: Well, last year Burnley were the top opposition we played, we only 'habitually' lost to Brighton in a league where all the teams are inferior to those we play this year. We beat Stoke and drew with Burnley, and lost to a Palace team set up to hit us a certain way. They were tactically superior and more effective on the day.

I agree we all would have been happier with a 2-goal cushion at Burnley, but what is this nonsense about typical Nigel and habitually failing against inferior teams? Utter drivel!

[Guest MattP]

To be fair I've never gone mental after a brilliant scene or done the Poznan after a good piece of steak either 

 

But yeah booing is futile and pretty ridiculous when we're sitting 12th in the Premier League after a draw following 10 years absence. 

 

I actually once jumped into the fountain in Trafalgar Square after being served up a wonderful Sirloin.

 

I do agree with you though.

[Gubbins]

Not sure why people are bringing up perspective and 'the bigger picture' here. Surely a person's reaction at the end of a match (with the odd exception) is based on what they've just seen. What's gone on prior to that largely doesn't come in to it. If we were rock bottom after 10 games but then beat Chelsea nobody's going to use the bigger picture and boo them off are they?

[MrSpaM]

Can safely say in my 6-7 years of having a season ticket I've never once booed the squad at full time, and we've been through some right **** in the past six years. Don't see the point at all.

[JIMMYWILLIS]

Can safely say in my 6-7 years of having a season ticket

Plastic ...

[blue army 1988]

I can see why people boo. They want to tell the players that it was a piss poor performance.

[Fox92]

Paying money for a ticket shouldnt turn you into a fool. Its an argument that for me has never held water.

There isnt a single player on the face of the planet that when asked if hearing boos has a negative effect, doesnt answer yes. If you're passionate about your team and want to support them, dont boo. Just dont do anything. As a grown man, is this really the only way frustration can be expressed?

 

Yes? We can't go into the dressing room at full time and tell the players it was a bad performance; the only chance fans have of showing their feelings is at full time. 

[Oxfordfox83]

I can see why people boo. They want to tell the players that it was a piss poor performance.

A) why? Do you think they were slapping themselves on the back before that?

B) it was a nervy, and definitely disappointing finish. But we were all over them first half, and unthreatened for 40 mins in the second. If you think that was piss poor, be grateful you never watched us under Sven/Sousa/Levein.

[Nalis]

I stand on the other side of the door booing the postman when he delivers bills.

He's not doing anything popular but he's still doing his job.

The Postman is the Dean Hammond of modern life.

[blue army 1988]

A) why? Do you think they were slapping themselves on the back before that?

B) it was a nervy, and definitely disappointing finish. But we were all over them first half, and unthreatened for 40 mins in the second. If you think that was piss poor, be grateful you never watched us under Sven/Sousa/Levein.

A) No i dont think they were slapping themselves on the back before that. If i do something wrong at work people complain. I no ive done somemthing wrong and feel an idiot or whatever for doing it but a customer wouldnt say oh well i bet he feels bad. No they stick a complaint in.

People boo because they cant stick a complaint in or tell the players that it was poor.

B) I was there with my season ticket when we were under Sven/Sousa and Levein and all before our relegation to league 1 so i no about a piss poor performance or two.

A championship team who have the majority of their key players out injured and who cant score for toffee shouldnt be a nervy match. We should have won comfortably. Yet i know leicester city dosnt do "should win comfortably".