It keeps slipping my mind, but I suppose it’s remiss of me not to mention it at all. A week tomorrow Leicester City will visit the City Ground to contest the 2nd round of the Carling Cup following us limping past Chester in the first round on penalties. After a muted response around the Forest community it’s interesting to see Forest have reduced the tickets, and Mark Arthur attempted to stir up a bit of interest by saying:
“Having renewed our rivlary with Derby in the Brian Clough Trophy game in pre-season, it’s great to be able to do the same with Leicester.
We hope the attractive ticket prices will encourage people to come along and offer their support to Colin Calderwood and his players as we look to book a place in the third round of the Carling Cup.
We’re looking to attract a bumper crowd to generate a big atmosphere and make it an occasion to remember.”
Hmm. I think not, Mark. You really haven’t got your finger on the fan’s pulses lately, have you? As if the contrived and staged family fun day extravaganza at Pride Park wasn’t misguided enough – are you seriously suggesting that anybody has any feeling other then “Meh!” about Leicester City. Sure, they don’t like us very much, and I dare say if you had to choose “like” or “dislike” as a Forest fan talking about them, you’d choose “dislike”, but that’s about it.
On the flipside, the fixture seems to have captured the imaginations of the Foxes fans, who can scent an opportunity of a first City Ground win since 1972 – and let’s face it, it’s not an unrealistic aspiration for them. So if the fact it’s a competition we shouldn’t be taking too seriously, against a team who we don’t consider rivals, for £16, and that it’s likely to become a festival of leering blue-and-white clad neanderthals is hardly motivation enough for me to definitely commit to attending. Sorry Mark.
21 August, 2007 at 9:26 am |
If last night’s reserve game was anything to go by, we should at least be competitive. Maybe he should play the reserve team, they seem a lot more productive going forward. At least the ‘kids’ can score. Does anybody know anything about this Yannick Salem trialist? Google didn’t produce much apart from him scoring a couple of times for some dutch team. I guess no news will mean he hasn’t made an impression. Leicester fans would like to think we are big rivals, you cannot deny them wanting to be involved in the rivalry thing somehow. It’s not like Hinkley Town (if there even is such a team) could ever give them a run for their money. Uuuuu Reedddsss!!!!!!
21 August, 2007 at 9:26 am |
Sorry NFFC, I disagree. Although hate is a strong word, I certainly have a stronger dislike of the bin robbers than the sheep, for the very simple reasons that:
a) We have played Festa more often in the recent past
b) I have not forgotten about their rather creative use of administration to write off their debts at a time when Forest, and many other clubs, were selling players and struggling to avoid going to the wall
Yes, I know it was a different team in charge of the club in those days, but it still rankles. Oh yeah, and every time we play them, they always seem to foul and time waste – seems as though they would be right at home in League One…
21 August, 2007 at 10:05 am |
we’re not that bothered about playing a non league team like the tree huggers either…
21 August, 2007 at 10:07 am |
Hate Lesster more than the sheep and always have done.
21 August, 2007 at 10:19 am |
I don’t admire them for their admin antics, that’s true – nor their time wasting and cheating – but I could say the same for many other teams, so it just doesn’t ‘do it’ for me.
Oh aye, Fox – 4,000 odd anticipated ticket sales, hotels booked in Nottingham, talk of ‘the roof being blown off’ if you win? I think you’re in the minority, mate!
21 August, 2007 at 11:33 am |
I definitely don’t like Leicester and I hate Derby, Wolves and Sheffield Utd more than I have ever hated them. In fact, its hilarious how apathetic we are towards Leicester, as their fans are so desperate for someone to hate them. We hate Derby, Derby hate us, Coventry have their West Midlands rivals, the fact is Fox that Leicester are a non-event in football, a rugby town.
21 August, 2007 at 11:53 am |
I’ve got 3 Leicester fans at work and they are positively salivating at the prospect of playing us.
Me, yes i’m going to the game and desperately want to win, however if it goes pear-shaped and we lose well hey-ho, thats life.
Don’t give a toss about the city (it’s as bad as sheffield), the people, or the football club.
The main thing that bothers me about them is that they cheated their way to the new stadium and league safety.
More importantly, I see a movement towards replacing CC with Neil Warnock. NO NO NO. If you’re talking hate……..
21 August, 2007 at 1:24 pm |
Glad to see you tree huggers have already resigned to losing! call yourself footy fans? lmao
21 August, 2007 at 1:46 pm |
I’m not resigned to anything, I just don’t really care very much – it would be nice to win, but not particularly exciting, it would be a shame to lose, but not particularly heartbreaking.
That’s all there is to it, really. I would expect us to lose, but then I’m a pessimist!
21 August, 2007 at 1:55 pm |
The ticket office tell us that there are more than 20k tickets already sold so there will be a big crowd and a good atmosphere. On a previous visit, their fans complained about some of our fans racist chanting and I really hope that the minority do not repeat that behaviour this time around.
On team matters, it seems that Felix was the main man in defeating the foxes reserves – hitting the woodwork 3 times. I know he had a run out against Chester but given our lack of creativity and goals, perhaps it is time to give him more of a chance to impress?
21 August, 2007 at 1:58 pm |
Just another game, nothing more nothing less
The Foxes just delude themselves by thinking we give a stuff about them.
21 August, 2007 at 1:59 pm |
Certainly with you on hoping none of the racist nonsense gets heard, you really would think that kind of attitude would be stamped out by now wouldn’t you?
Wouldn’t mind Felix getting a run out – perhaps we should just play the reserves – they seem happier finding the onion bag than the first team do!!
21 August, 2007 at 2:10 pm |
Like most folk, don’t really care if we lose next week, the most important thing is to start scoring goals in the league, and get a good run going. My only problem with playing the foxes, is that my wife is a Leicester fan, so probably a good job I’m 8000 miles away in the Falklands at the moment to escape her gloating if we lose!
21 August, 2007 at 3:16 pm |
I havn’t got anything against Leicester City.
But I’ll still go
21 August, 2007 at 4:22 pm |
As a Forest fan living the wrong side of the Leics / Notts border this game does wet the appetite if only for the prospect of being able to wander down Barrow High Street with a conspicuous Evening Post / Football Post under my arm and watch the neanderthals respond with suitable expletives.
However the apathy we have towards Leicester does actually annoy them more than anything else. Just another game against a small (minded) club.
I notice they have sold out their allocation – wow! How sad they are getting excited about a visit to a struggling Division One side who are yet to even score a goal this season!
Yawn!
21 August, 2007 at 7:18 pm |
not a big game some forest fans say about leicester in the cup yea we have sold all our tickets and we always do for local gamesand i bet you sel out to after all the only other big game you lot have got is leeds other than that its yeovil 5.2 ha ha and your big derby game is northampton hope you enjoy league 1 .
21 August, 2007 at 7:33 pm |
Thanks for the cash, chaps – 5,300 is a good effort, we took that many to Pride Park for a friendly, mind. Maybe you’ll finally put that 30-odd year ghost to bed – it’s certainly the best chance you’ve probably had in all that time.
And perhaps our big derby game is restricted to Northampton this season – but at you don’t ever have one where your vitriol is reciprocated, even Coventry can’t be arsed to hate you
21 August, 2007 at 8:14 pm |
well at least u have the 3rd best ground in the east midlands maybe the best when you merge with notts county you might as well as you are both skint and we do have a team that hate us chelsea much beter than you cov or the sheep hateing us and robin hood came from yorkshire
21 August, 2007 at 8:31 pm |
Ah, bless you. You’re trying so hard! I like our ground, if you like your soulless, atmosphereless mecchano identikit stadium better, or Derby’s for that matter, then that’s your choice.
We’re not skint at all, and not really interested in merging with Notts – nor they with us. As for Chelsea hating you, yes, I’m sure Chelsea fans utter curses against Leicester last thing before going to sleep!
And you’re probably right about Robin Hood – who really cares? He’s just a man in tights – I imagine he got them from Leicester, that’s what you used to be famous for, isn’t it?
21 August, 2007 at 8:36 pm |
Eden – you are a twat. I live London and am surrounded by Chelsea fans. They only sing the song because Leicester as a place is a shithole, they couldn’t give a monkies about your football club… No one does.
21 August, 2007 at 8:47 pm |
why would you be proud that anyone hates you and why would it make you even more so that its Chelsea? Eden you have the intelligence of the average Millwall fan!
if anything the footballing world has pity for the proud birthplace of emile heskey.
21 August, 2007 at 8:50 pm |
i like your ground too its something to laff at and i bet you get good atmosphere with only 100 away fans every week and why did they change the airport back to eme? and what were you famous for before doncaster (are you playing them this season?) claimed robin hood?
21 August, 2007 at 9:02 pm |
we got 11 millon for eskey whats the most have you got for a player?
21 August, 2007 at 9:02 pm |
Cor dear, you’re a credit to your kind, I’m sure – but I’m afraid I don’t feel it chivalrous to engage you in a battle of wits, when you have arrived unarmed
21 August, 2007 at 10:35 pm |
haha the biggest claim to fame is how much they ripped the scousers off. as forest fans we were quite pleased to see them robbed for once?
21 August, 2007 at 10:40 pm |
I’ll raise a glass to any ill that befalls Liverpool FC
21 August, 2007 at 11:24 pm |
the only way you will rip the scousers is if you meet them in the cup and up the prices as thats the only way you will be playing them for a few years and we were the birth place to gary lineker aswell as heskey. hows that jason lee doing ?
21 August, 2007 at 11:54 pm |
Jason Lee plays for Notts, he seems reasonably popular down there.. and wow, Lineker as well, what a treat!
22 August, 2007 at 12:29 am |
you can take our money, not got a problem with that, but we are loyal supporters! blue and true through thick and thin! and to beat you tree hugging f****t sh*tes £16 will be worth every penny! lcfc till i die!
22 August, 2007 at 12:33 am |
The nice thing about this fixture is if you win, you can gloat to each other and nobody will bother much about it, if you lose you’ll be gutted
I reiterate that I would fully expect a Championship side to be beating us at the moment, aside from injuries we’re playing pretty poorly even for the supposed calibre of players we do have – so as I say, if you don’t win, then you’ll probably have a few questions to ask of Martin Allen!
Just try to remember to leave the place nice and tidy when you bugger off after the game and we can get on with the league! I promise to me more interested should we meet in the league over the next couple of seasons.
22 August, 2007 at 12:34 am |
Leicester fans insult Forest even though we don’t care about them nor hold a strong hatred for them.
A little pathetic really.
tree hugger and proud of it
22 August, 2007 at 12:58 am |
yes we will win thanks, as most of you keep forecasting, i live and work with you incest inbreds so im going to rub the salt well and truly into your wounds! because the only come back i ever get is your “we won the cup in the 80`s” get a life you sad fucks your history! your were you belong you knife wielding gun toting scum bags of the east midlands! lcfc till i die (bang) get the picture?
22 August, 2007 at 7:05 am |
Yes Fox, we get the picture… We all do… Problem is, I’m too far away to recommend you a good doctor… What a shame
22 August, 2007 at 7:24 am |
Well done the leicester fans. You held your own there, didnt you. Reasoned and educated. You should be proud of yourselves.
Unfortunately, all your witty chat has done is to encourage pity, not hate. You see, I can’t hate someone who is so clearly disadvantaged. And you my young Leicester friends are most certainly that!
Still, never mind. Get this game out of the way and you can go back to scavenging the bins of Leicester for needles and glue! Whoops, stooped to your level.
Tally-ho!!
22 August, 2007 at 7:56 am |
If I was a Leicester fan, i’d take some English lessons before posting on this site again.
Honestly, look at all these posts, how are you supposed to take the piss out of Forest when you can’t even type properly (whats the most have you got? sel out?). And a full stop wouldn’t go amiss either boys, it’s a blog, not a txt msg..
Anyway, the main thing I have against Leicester is the way they’ve played at the City Ground recently. They always seem to bring dirty players and piss and moan at the ref. That said, I still hate Sheff Utd more than the Crisp Bowl dwellers..
22 August, 2007 at 1:09 pm |
hey forest fan whats it like to play in 1st round of the fa cup we never have and we would like to know?
22 August, 2007 at 1:15 pm |
It’s thoroughly exciting.
Some of our older fans could tell you what it’s like to win it too, if you like.
22 August, 2007 at 3:57 pm |
Oh dear. a dozen ‘witty’ Leicester posts trying to get us to bite. Fellas, you clearly struggle to understand English so I will spell it out in simple terms…
WE DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU
Okay, that wasn’t too difficult was it?
I have lived in and around Loughborough for over 25 years and as you know support between our two clubs is pretty evenly split here (the LCFC shop in the town centre didn’t last long did it?) And yet despite that, there is no banter, no rivalry, nothing!
Maybe you and Notts ought to try and get something going – you see they have the same problem – nobody cares about them either!
22 August, 2007 at 6:10 pm |
“your were you belong you knife wielding gun toting scum bags of the east midlands! ”
hold on?
“i live and work with you”
hahaha
27 August, 2007 at 12:00 am |
good result on saturday .the teams that go bust get all the luck you should try it
27 August, 2007 at 12:14 am |
You may have something there. I’d prefer to have the moral high ground, though.
27 August, 2007 at 1:57 am |
barrow interbred red get a life and grow up i used to like southampton as a child because kegan used to play for them then i grew up and followed leicester you are a sad bastard liveing in the past i bet you still put that 79.80 forest top on .get a gun and go and live in notts .sado
27 August, 2007 at 2:10 am |
and as for lcfc shop closeing it dont surrpise me at all you lot only shop at irish and top man for all i care notts can claim you its a crap town with sad twats like you.born and bred leicester and thats why im a city fan.so sado go and do one xx
27 August, 2007 at 2:43 am |
Bless you, did you used to have a bubble perm in honour of Keegan as well?
I must admit, you really are a fine advert for the virtues of being born and bred in Leicester, I’m sure it has helped some of the Forest fans reading this reappraise whatever misconceptions they might have had about the place!
You are a born entertainer!
28 August, 2007 at 9:51 pm |
shows just what sort of people you are a player who is in a bad way and all you can say is we cheat hope you are proud of yourselfs
28 August, 2007 at 10:02 pm |
I’d just like to say, and I’m sure all real Forest fans would agree, that I hope Clive Clarke gets well soon. Obviously a shame that the match was abandoned with us 1-0 up, but some things are more important.
28 August, 2007 at 10:29 pm |
Indeed, right decision calling off the game.
Eden, presume you didn’t attend then? If so, you’d have witnessed a fairly shameful reaction from some of your own fans too.
28 August, 2007 at 10:44 pm |
no but i herd the police charged into the away end for no reason
28 August, 2007 at 10:48 pm |
I was sat above the away end, I saw no such thing, so if it did happen it was after the abandonment had been announced.
I don’t quite follow why you’re continuing to try to get a rise here, I am pretty certain we are in agreement that the important matter here is that Clive Clarke makes a speedy and full recovery.
The match wasn’t that important anyway, but any game pales into insignificance compared to a human life.
28 August, 2007 at 10:56 pm |
yes we all hope clive clark is ok it is more important than the match tonite and the banter we give each other
29 August, 2007 at 12:59 am |
you sick forest fucks should be ashamed of yourselfs! a man nearly dies and you call us cheats? football fans your not!
29 August, 2007 at 9:15 am |
I must have missed where we called you a cheat. Get over yourself.
Plenty of Leicester fans booed the announcement too, mainly because I feel there was a general lack of awareness that was going on.
Those who did chant stuff like that should be rightly ashamed of themselves, as should you for your pathetic baiting on here.
11 September, 2007 at 2:37 pm |
CHAMPIONSHIP ! CHAMPIONSHIP!
11 September, 2007 at 4:31 pm |
yes, you are a championship side, who were losing 1-0 to a League 1 side.
Think about it
13 September, 2007 at 10:29 pm |
Not losing anymore! lol hope you enjoyed it whilst it lasted, tossers
13 September, 2007 at 11:12 pm |
Charmed.
14 September, 2007 at 8:57 pm |
Im sure you are!
19 September, 2007 at 10:46 pm |
we give you a 1.0 lead and we still won.and we aint that good at the moment.you lot think you are going up.you are gona stay where you are you are shit
19 September, 2007 at 10:54 pm |
Ah, the witless wonder returns – I presume you didn’t go to the game?
I should get back to your homework, lad!
20 September, 2007 at 7:47 pm |
your team should get back to there homework they need it.
20 September, 2007 at 8:23 pm |
Enjoy the win, enjoy getting spanked by Villa, and we’ll carry on concentrating on the league, which is in dire need of attention, afterall!
20 September, 2007 at 9:01 pm |
i bet you have been thinking all day on how shit you are
20 September, 2007 at 9:15 pm |
Did you go to the game? Thought not.
20 September, 2007 at 10:45 pm |
no not wen ive 2 young kids ere 4 the nite
20 September, 2007 at 11:10 pm |
Thought not, pop back when you have a clue what you’re talking about then
There’s a good chap.
21 September, 2007 at 12:04 am |
…or not, as the case may be. And for heaven’s sake give those kids back to their parents – they have their spelling and grammar homework to do, even if you failed to complete yours.
21 September, 2007 at 12:45 am |
what clue have you got about football surrporting that load of shit.maybe i cant spell.but i ait daft like you to pay for the shit you watch.
21 September, 2007 at 8:44 am |
Leicester fans are good to laugh at aren’t they?
come on mate get real, you’ve come on to a Forest forum acting all big and clever, and you’ve been outsmarted time and time again.
just go back to forfoxsake
21 September, 2007 at 8:54 am |
Aye, I’m starting to quite like ‘em really
It’s his poor kids I feel sorry for!!
21 September, 2007 at 6:10 pm |
and i feel sorry for you lot .after all nottingham eme only lasts a year both your teams are in league 1 and 2 we beat you at football and 20 20 final at cricket last year your rugby team is shit robin hood came from doncaster.so answer this.what is nottingham good for?my answer is f..k all you sad over educated nobs.
21 September, 2007 at 6:28 pm |
You’re right, we don’t have a national space centre… I suppose one good thing that Nottingham has going for it is that you’re not in it!
21 September, 2007 at 6:54 pm |
there is always plenty of space in the shity ground when you play.and we are building a new speedway track.and we used to be good at that to.face it you are turning into a city with nothing going for it.a bit like coventry or northampton.no wonder milan put his money into leicester .
21 September, 2007 at 6:57 pm |
Seems odd you’ve been stalking a website about it for weeks then… do you not have ones about Les-dar?
I worked there for a while, about the best thing about it was being able to buy fruit and veg from Gary Lineker’s relatives, the novelty of which wore off after a while.
But still, enjoy your speedway… cheerio!
21 September, 2007 at 7:00 pm |
see you all again.maybe in cup again as you aint going up for a while 3.2(AND WE GAVE YOU A GOAL)at least my kids will grow up with good sports teams to watch.and yes i am a lot better of not liveing in notts.
21 September, 2007 at 7:01 pm |
They can move towns though, they’re stuck with the same father.
Ain’t life cruel?
All the best – enjoy the win, it clearly meant something more to you than any of us!
21 September, 2007 at 7:02 pm |
no i just like to gloat
21 September, 2007 at 7:03 pm |
at least mine wont get shot
21 September, 2007 at 7:05 pm |
How many comments is that? 20 odd before the gun crime nonsense is mentioned… you disappoint me, I thought your witlessness would reveal it’s full glory faster than that!
Still, I suppose you believe everything you read in the Sun.
21 September, 2007 at 7:19 pm |
i cant read my friend.your wit is very boring .dont give up your day job.
21 September, 2007 at 7:38 pm |
Bloody hell, is that pointless waste of tax payers money still posting on your site, nffc? I wonder if he is actually a closet Forest fan, he’s on here so often.
Foxy, do you post on any other sites, or is it just Forest you are so obviously jealous of? Is it our glorious history that irks you, or the fact that we are a well respected football team around the world. While you have no history at all and, well, Megson!
This time last month I had absolutely no feelings either way about Leicester. Couldn’t give a stuff about ‘em. They were just an irritating boil that surfaced once in a while.
But now I just feel pity. I’m sure not all Leicester fans are as disadvantaged as our friend here, and probably read his posts and cringe with embarrassment.
Night night!
21 September, 2007 at 11:21 pm |
Gloat Mr Fox? I suppose 1 win in 35 years of trying is a grand achievement, after all. I can see why you’re so proud.