I thought it was time to run this thread, it has been coming for a while.
Leicester is I suppose my nearest club abd should have been the one that I supported. When I was very young (age 5, 6, 7 and 8) I was regularly taken to watch them by my Dad and uncle bu for some reason I always wanted them to lose. The local paper (Leicester Mercury) is probably one of the worst in the country and its football coverage was so biassed it was and is unbelievable and this could not warm me to them either.
So I went through school and working life taking consistent jibes as over my lifetime Leicester have generally beaten MY team in terms of league placement and it is only a few seasons where Norwich have been the dominant force and I had the upper hand.
But today, I reflect on what they have achieved under the sterardship of Ranieri and have to applaud them. Not just for what they have done but the way they have done it and they have done us smaller clubs proud. To be honest it will probably never happen again because for different reasons all of the 'big' 4 or 6 even have messed up and that surely cannot happen again. the one thing that surprised me was that their squad was not picked off during the December window as Southampton's had a few years ago. Again this was a case of the big beasts not wanting to invest in their managers who were going to exit this Summer.
There I have done it, but let me make this quite clear, I would never have changed a thing and given my time over again I would still have chosen to support Norwich City and take up my position in the old River End come rain or shine or indeed the away end where applicable at away games.
But this is Leicester's day (or weekend) and we should as football fans applaud their achievement.
Leicester is I suppose my nearest club abd should have been the one that I supported. When I was very young (age 5, 6, 7 and 8) I was regularly taken to watch them by my Dad and uncle bu for some reason I always wanted them to lose. The local paper (Leicester Mercury) is probably one of the worst in the country and its football coverage was so biassed it was and is unbelievable and this could not warm me to them either.
So I went through school and working life taking consistent jibes as over my lifetime Leicester have generally beaten MY team in terms of league placement and it is only a few seasons where Norwich have been the dominant force and I had the upper hand.
But today, I reflect on what they have achieved under the sterardship of Ranieri and have to applaud them. Not just for what they have done but the way they have done it and they have done us smaller clubs proud. To be honest it will probably never happen again because for different reasons all of the 'big' 4 or 6 even have messed up and that surely cannot happen again. the one thing that surprised me was that their squad was not picked off during the December window as Southampton's had a few years ago. Again this was a case of the big beasts not wanting to invest in their managers who were going to exit this Summer.
There I have done it, but let me make this quite clear, I would never have changed a thing and given my time over again I would still have chosen to support Norwich City and take up my position in the old River End come rain or shine or indeed the away end where applicable at away games.
But this is Leicester's day (or weekend) and we should as football fans applaud their achievement.
