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Living in Aus for the last few years. Originally from Leicester Uk.
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Hey Garry, a nice article and well written. Let me explain what in my opinion a “real fan” is. A real fan is someone who has a season ticket year on year and follows their team through thick and thin (now I have to settle for waking up at 3am)… …notice I say TEAM not a single player, the board; or the manager. They watch their team and feel real despair when they are playing like a dire pub team. A real fan FEELS the gut-wrenching pain of facing relegation.
Romance and passion are not the same. Romance is holding hands with your loved one, on the deck of the Titanic as it sinks. Passion is ripping things up, shoving people out the way and hauling Ranieri out of the lifeboat so you and your loved one can get in it instead.
Passion and romance is the difference between a real fan and a…….romantic fan. I would quite happily and romantically watch any other team go down but I would not expect the fan of that club to feel the same and accuse him of losing his integrity in doing so.
The key thing to knowing whether you are a real fan or not is real fans do not follow football as a “vicarious extension of their own dreams”. A real fan is actually there, they are part of it, they own it, it’s real.
Everybody seems to have the knives out for Leicester this season and there’s a lot of tripe being written. So typical how we love our fairy stories and building up heroes so we can knock them down because we love a pantomime villain just as much.
To be frank, it was Pearson’s team Ranieri inherited. We found a run of form at the end of 14/15 that the players managed to keep going into the new season and won the league off the back of it. My opinion is that that was down to Claudio NOT changing anything and sticking with an already winning formula. When he did need to make changes he got his tactics wrong, didn’t prepare the players properly when making those changes, rumour has it, he did them only hours before kick off and expected them to perform.
He has earned the right to continue is just sentimentality at its best. Either way, there is no need to sob over it. He will be sunbathing in some beach in the Caribbean islands somewhere sucking on a Pina Colada from a straw and enjoying his compensation package.
Those people who still think Claudio deserves a job for life….. Imagine you knew a surgeon who carried off a “miracle” operation and saved your best friend from a terminal illness, oh how you would praise him! However, since then everyone who met him, even healthy people, or those who were just a bit sick…….died. Would you see him if you only had a cold? Would you show him loyalty after he’d saved your best friend ….or would you just see your local GP?
Leicester City 3 – Integrity 0