Leicester (N) - Community Shield | Post-Match Thread

paulchapo said:
Cheers it's okay I expected a fair few of those responses but I don't care. I think I've earned the right to say it, been all over with City since 68, been jumped, attacked, fought on the terraces, in streets and even on non football days when you bumped into opposition fans when out. Paid fortunes for tickets and made 600 mile round trips for home games for five years when I lived in Kent.

It would have been a small gesture and cost for the club for fans who knew it was going to be a second string team yet still forked out hard earned money and travelled 200 miles to support the team. Leicester did it ours didn't and it made us look cheapskates and was a bad decision by whover decided they couldn't be bothered.
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Agree with all of that Paul. Been going home and away since 1965 (home since 1965, aways since 1970), it looked fucking small time from inside the stadium, friendly game or not
 
bennyboy said:
Moaning about no flags.lol.
Moaning about no half and half scarfs next.
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You're just not getting it like the other "Wipe your fanny" merchants. It isn't that people wanted a flag, although I know kids do take them home and I've seen plenty of adults do so too, some even going through the stands after full time to collect more. First it's the image it portrays of the club. The Leicester end looked fantastic, flags everywhere when they came out, ours looked empty and devoid of atmosphere. Secondly for a club of our wealth it's a tiny gesture in cost but it helps generate some atmosphere and looks great when the team's come out. It's a souvenir for kids who may be attending their first Wembley game. One of the most poignant moments of the FA cup final against Watford was when their end en mass started waving their flags at I think it was 5-0 down at that point. It looked fantastic and showed they were right behind their team even getting hammered in a showpiece game viewed around the world. Everyone in our end applauded them.

Yes it's a fairly new thing. I can't remember when it first started, it certainly wasn't there in 1976 against Newcastle when we made and took our own flags and banners. I don't remember it in the two finals against Spurs in 1981 either, nor the Gillingham play off final in 1999.

For me on Saturday it would have been a small gesture of thanks for making the effort. After a tough 18 months for many and if you didn't get a ticket in the ballot for the Everton game, it was the first match fans could attend since the cursed pandemic. Leicester did it, we didn't and as a result scored an own goal.
 
Manchester33 said:
Am I the only one who thinks the plastic flags they give out at Wembley are completely naff anyway?

They're generic and don't make the end look good (in fact I'd say it makes it look worse because it's so orchestrated). It's better if fans hold their scarves or individual/personal flags rather than the mass-printed shite.

It's also awful for the environment when you get 90k unrecyclable, plastic flags that inevitably end up being burnt in a Malaysian landfill.

Buy your own flag and take it to every game with you if you want to improve the atmosphere (that's what I do lol).
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Was quite funny seeing 50 year old Leicester fans still clutching them at midnight in the pub then when heading home to the station yesterday.
 
A truth bomb off my Mrs on her first trip to Wembley. "Why don't they let you have a lid on your drink, but those Leicester fans have flags on sticks that could take somebody's eye out?" Haha welcome to the world of modern football.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Bollocks!
”Lack of flags ‘distracted’ from the atmosphere”??
Within what rights?? His right to free tat?!
GMAFB!

Fucking entitlement mentality run amok! Fuck knows what we did for “atmosphere” before cheap nylon flags became a “right”!!
Gonna need to order about 50,000 of them for 19 home games this year, not to mention about 5,000 for the 19 away games, just so we can generate some “undistracted atmosphere!”
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Plenty of us were there in the old days gobshite if you bothered to read posts properly. It's not about anyone wanting one, or crying because they didn't get one, it's the image it portrayed when the Leicester end looked great as the teams came out and ours looked like their pauper neighbours. I think it was an own goal by the club, you don't, stay in fucking Chicago mocking actual match going fans who as a result have more of a right to an opinion than you sipping your bud watching it in a downtown bar thousands of miles away Oh and I know you were here supporting us before you went there and pop over for the odd game when you can. As you say about flags, boo fucking hoo
 
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