Atmosphere at the KP

[SemperEadem]

40 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

If people want to get involved for Brighton on a weekday in the third round of the League cup, I think it's fair to say they'd be up for it on a Saturday evening in the League against Liverpool.

What I would say was on that is there is an element of truth but loads of those there that night were younger lads who either can’t or wont pay the membership and don’t have season tickets. League game match day prices price them out.

They were super enthusiastic.

[coolcol]

Unfortunately, Sky football has priced out a lot of the working class males who traditionally provided a lot of the match atmosphere.

 

When we have cheap tickets available on General sale e.g. Watford (Cup), Brighton (League Cup), this type of fan who does not normally go, are able to go (especially in the Union FS area) and create a great din.

Edited 22 January 2022 by coolcol

[iancognito]

12 hours ago, Jackubu said:

The chants with slightly more words generally end up taking off at an away game anyway, circa 'Under the lights' and the Dusty song. All it takes is persistence from those at the matches and, as alluded to by others here, if Man Utd or Liverpool sang something similar we'd be queueing up to ask "why don't leicester have good songs"

 

As for the woman who says she's never heard WYS at a Leicester game, I'd probably recommend a hearing specialist. Maybe not sang loud every game but "never" is astonishing. 

Yeah maybe but I just think it's over complicating it. Sing the tune and just stick Maddison in the chase the sun bit. The lyrics aren't needed to give it impact, and the less lyrics the more chance it has of taking off. Aside from the Vichai song, you won't get significant numbers bothering to join in with it because they don't know the song and just get the clappers out to beat along to it. Trust me, I've been in H for a couple of seasons and I see it every game, decent chants drowned out by the slapping of cardboard.

 

[smallpauldj]

7 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

It's Pantera 'Puck Off, and it was written for the purpose

Well bugger me so it is, i only heard it once watching a game a week or so ago and thought it sounded like creeping death. It does sound amazing tho! 

[Bourbon Fox]

16 hours ago, smallpauldj said:

Well bugger me so it is, i only heard it once watching a game a week or so ago and thought it sounded like creeping death. It does sound amazing tho! 

Apparently when they won the Stanley Cup there was a party at Vinnie Paul's house.

 

One of the Stars players tried to throw the cup from the balcony into the pool. He missed, and the NHL had to have the cup repaired.

[Notting your mums forest]

Around 20yrs ago I moved abroad, but I’ve always considered myself a leicester lad and have always followed the club through both the good and bad times, of which I am sure we can all agree there have been plenty over the years.

 

The first time I went to Filbert street was in the 1990-91 season and I was hooked from the first time I went. After that first match, I regularly went to see the Foxes play and always admired our atmosphere. Albeit, this was Filbert street and in the Division 1 (championship) years. I went the to walkers stadium a lot when it first opened as well and again thought our atmosphere was ok.

 

Anyway to cut to the chase, during the covid lockdown I moved back to Leicester after 20yrs away. A combination of family ties and wanting to bring up my boys as loyal LCFC fans (ensuring they wouldn’t fall foul to becoming your bog-standard boring plastic glory hunting ‘out of towner’ Man Utd or Liverpool fans - always important to back your local team).

 

We have been members for the past few years, but it is our intention to get season tickets as soon as we can/have built up enough points. This season we’ve been to all home games and a couple of away days and we have purposely taken the opportunity to move around the stadium sitting in different sections for each game to help build up an idea for where we would ideally like to permanently sit should we be lucky enough to get season tickets.

 

On this Foxes Forum, I hear a lot of negativity regards our atmosphere. Of course this is completely subjective and down to personal opinion, however, I personally don’t think it is fair to label our entire stadium atmosphere as terrible. I agree some sections are definitely awful and completely bereft of an atmosphere, but on the contrary some sections are actually very good.

 

Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I am not a fan of the clappers every game. Maybe once or twice a season? The goal music is ok, but I do feel it takes away from the fan celebrations which can be deafeningly impressive without the need for stadium music. However, I do love the pre-match films of our classic goals, the video clips of the fox walking around the king power stadium and big Wes holding aloft the PL trophy. Still sends shivers down my spine every home game.

 

Over the course of the season I have sat in the family stand, kop, L1, SK1, east stand, west stand, actually most home sections of the ground. Truth be told the quality of the atmosphere varies massively from section to section! 

 

My intentions are not to criticise any sections or offend anyone here, after all we’re all LCFC fans and I understand that my opinion may differ to others. 

 

In my experience I find whilst the west stand offers great pitch side views, our atmosphere is disappointingly poor in these sections. A lot of hospitality and higher priced seating perhaps? I suppose the thought of the ‘prawn sandwich hospitality brigade’ and a bouncing atmosphere kind of contradict one another. 

 

Family stand kind of does what it says on the tin. A really important part of the stadium that helps encourage the next generation. Atmosphere not bouncing, but ok for families and not too raucous or threatening at anytime.

 

I’ve found P & P1 sections to be average. A mixture of some quiet fans watching the game, families and some singers who enjoy banter with the away sides. But I often find that P & P1 get completely drowned out by the away sides due to the sections not having enough of a singing presence.

 

I don’t want to upset anyone who calls the SK4/C2 corner their home, but I really didn’t like it there. Very quiet and not much singing or banter at all. The stadium operations observatory would often bang on the windows telling people to calm down if any spectators got a little too passionate, which just kills any atmosphere.

 

I always love sitting in the SK1/G1 corner. The atmosphere is always good, loud and entertaining. Good variety of old LCFC chants and some new ones too constantly getting belted out. Not keen on the additional security presence, nor do I understand why they are there with no away fans in that part of the stadium?

 

As above, L1 is much the same too. Very loud and a lot of chants throughout. Although the main difference from SK1 is that you have the away fans element, which adds an extra spice if you like that sort of thing.

 

Really didn’t like the sections in between SK1/G1 to L1 in the east stand though. The J & H sections have always been very quiet and the fans don’t sing in great numbers, which breaks the link between our stadiums 2 loudest sections SK1 and L1. Bit of an atmospheric vacuum and not great fun if you want to go to a football match and expect spectators to sing in large numbers.

 

When we expand the east stand perhaps the club should have a think about what to do with this issue? I assume the east stand will be hospitality driven seating and much like the west stand, so L1 fans will likely be forced to move? My proposal would be to install rail seating to the entire Kop and combine SK1 (UFS) and L1. That way we could generate enough atmosphere in the kop whilst keeping the quieter sections of the stadium happy as well.

 

All in I have enjoyed the SK1/G1 corner the most. The atmosphere there is always loud and personally I feel UFS do a great job 👏. I’d just love to see the UFS section expand and surely there is enough appetite from fans to increase this singing section here? I haven’t seen anything from LCFC yet regards safe standing, but I’d like to think the owners are looking into it as part of the upcoming stadium redevelopment.

 

In summary, the subject of our stadium  atmosphere and to argue whether it is poor really depends on where you sit in the ground. Even Anfield and Celtic Park, two of the UK’s loudest football stadiums, suffer from the same issue as we do at the king power stadium. 

 

Let’s get some rail seats and encourage our singing sections to grow. Perhaps a re-think/re-jig of certain sections may help as well in encouraging like-minded fans to sit together. 

 

We need the Kop to be as loud as it was back at Filbert Street and rail seats will certainly go a long way to improving our match day experience and ensure the king power is our 12th man and not a nice place for away teams to come and play football.

[goody2028]

4 minutes ago, Notting your mums forest said:

Around 20yrs ago I moved abroad, but I’ve always considered myself a leicester lad and have always followed the club through both the good and bad times, of which I am sure we can all agree there have been plenty over the years.

 

The first time I went to Filbert street was in the 1990-91 season and I was hooked from the first time I went. After that first match, I regularly went to see the Foxes play and always admired our atmosphere. Albeit, this was Filbert street and in the Division 1 (championship) years. I went the to walkers stadium a lot when it first opened as well and again thought our atmosphere was ok.

 

Anyway to cut to the chase, during the covid lockdown I moved back to Leicester after 20yrs away. A combination of family ties and wanting to bring up my boys as loyal LCFC fans (ensuring they wouldn’t fall foul to becoming your bog-standard boring plastic glory hunting ‘out of towner’ Man Utd or Liverpool fans - always important to back your local team).

 

We have been members for the past few years, but it is our intention to get season tickets as soon as we can/have built up enough points. This season we’ve been to all home games and a couple of away days and we have purposely taken the opportunity to move around the stadium sitting in different sections for each game to help build up an idea for where we would ideally like to permanently sit should we be lucky enough to get season tickets.

 

On this Foxes Forum, I hear a lot of negativity regards our atmosphere. Of course this is completely subjective and down to personal opinion, however, I personally don’t think it is fair to label our entire stadium atmosphere as terrible. I agree some sections are definitely awful and completely bereft of an atmosphere, but on the contrary some sections are actually very good.

 

Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I am not a fan of the clappers every game. Maybe once or twice a season? The goal music is ok, but I do feel it takes away from the fan celebrations which can be deafeningly impressive without the need for stadium music. However, I do love the pre-match films of our classic goals, the video clips of the fox walking around the king power stadium and big Wes holding aloft the PL trophy. Still sends shivers down my spine every home game.

 

Over the course of the season I have sat in the family stand, kop, L1, SK1, east stand, west stand, actually most home sections of the ground. Truth be told the quality of the atmosphere varies massively from section to section! 

 

My intentions are not to criticise any sections or offend anyone here, after all we’re all LCFC fans and I understand that my opinion may differ to others. 

 

In my experience I find whilst the west stand offers great pitch side views, our atmosphere is disappointingly poor in these sections. A lot of hospitality and higher priced seating perhaps? I suppose the thought of the ‘prawn sandwich hospitality brigade’ and a bouncing atmosphere kind of contradict one another. 

 

Family stand kind of does what it says on the tin. A really important part of the stadium that helps encourage the next generation. Atmosphere not bouncing, but ok for families and not too raucous or threatening at anytime.

 

I’ve found P & P1 sections to be average. A mixture of some quiet fans watching the game, families and some singers who enjoy banter with the away sides. But I often find that P & P1 get completely drowned out by the away sides due to the sections not having enough of a singing presence.

 

I don’t want to upset anyone who calls the SK4/C2 corner their home, but I really didn’t like it there. Very quiet and not much singing or banter at all. The stadium operations observatory would often bang on the windows telling people to calm down if any spectators got a little too passionate, which just kills any atmosphere.

 

I always love sitting in the SK1/G1 corner. The atmosphere is always good, loud and entertaining. Good variety of old LCFC chants and some new ones too constantly getting belted out. Not keen on the additional security presence, nor do I understand why they are there with no away fans in that part of the stadium?

 

As above, L1 is much the same too. Very loud and a lot of chants throughout. Although the main difference from SK1 is that you have the away fans element, which adds an extra spice if you like that sort of thing.

 

Really didn’t like the sections in between SK1/G1 to L1 in the east stand though. The J & H sections have always been very quiet and the fans don’t sing in great numbers, which breaks the link between our stadiums 2 loudest sections SK1 and L1. Bit of an atmospheric vacuum and not great fun if you want to go to a football match and expect spectators to sing in large numbers.

 

When we expand the east stand perhaps the club should have a think about what to do with this issue? I assume the east stand will be hospitality driven seating and much like the west stand, so L1 fans will likely be forced to move? My proposal would be to install rail seating to the entire Kop and combine SK1 (UFS) and L1. That way we could generate enough atmosphere in the kop whilst keeping the quieter sections of the stadium happy as well.

 

All in I have enjoyed the SK1/G1 corner the most. The atmosphere there is always loud and personally I feel UFS do a great job 👏. I’d just love to see the UFS section expand and surely there is enough appetite from fans to increase this singing section here? I haven’t seen anything from LCFC yet regards safe standing, but I’d like to think the owners are looking into it as part of the upcoming stadium redevelopment.

 

In summary, the subject of our stadium  atmosphere and to argue whether it is poor really depends on where you sit in the ground. Even Anfield and Celtic Park, two of the UK’s loudest football stadiums, suffer from the same issue as we do at the king power stadium. 

 

Let’s get some rail seats and encourage our singing sections to grow. Perhaps a re-think/re-jig of certain sections may help as well in encouraging like-minded fans to sit together. 

 

We need the Kop to be as loud as it was back at Filbert Street and rail seats will certainly go a long way to improving our match day experience and ensure the king power is our 12th man and not a nice place for away teams to come and play football.

Would have to agree. I’ve been in the G1 corner for around 8 years now and every time I sit anywhere else the atmosphere is usually shite. 
The whole of the kop being safe standing needs to happen, hopefully they do that when they extend 🤞

[RoanClawson]

I was a big fan of singing sections at Brighton and Watford, if we could just sort that type of thing for every game, with safe standing in the kop and the goal music binned then our atmosphere would improve no end

[NasPb]

Most cringeworthy thing are those fans that sing a long to our horrible match tune when we score

[SemperEadem]

6 hours ago, RoanClawson said:

I was a big fan of singing sections at Brighton and Watford, if we could just sort that type of thing for every game, with safe standing in the kop and the goal music binned then our atmosphere would improve no end

The club are the block with that.

 

Writing to them expressing your thoughts may seem futile but imo once they whack that huge stand up its over for anything like that.

[K1FOX]

If the club don’t use the expansion as an opportunity for rail seating and a rejig to make the kop a kop we are finished. Realistically only way we can get them to do that if they are refusing is protesting. 

[ashfosse]

can't be any worse today than it was first half against spurs. Here's hoping

[Lako42]

55 minutes ago, ashfosse said:

can't be any worse today than it was first half against spurs. Here's hoping

I'd prepare yourself 

[Out Foxed]

have we ever found out why the club a. insist on goal music and b. don't push when you're smiling pre (musical) bugle 

 

is it some weirdo behind the scenes, something sinister or nothing at all. clappers are good for old people but create a lot of waste, i agree on limited use for them. 

[MS0204]

17 hours ago, Notting your mums forest said:

Around 20yrs ago I moved abroad, but I’ve always considered myself a leicester lad and have always followed the club through both the good and bad times, of which I am sure we can all agree there have been plenty over the years.

 

The first time I went to Filbert street was in the 1990-91 season and I was hooked from the first time I went. After that first match, I regularly went to see the Foxes play and always admired our atmosphere. Albeit, this was Filbert street and in the Division 1 (championship) years. I went the to walkers stadium a lot when it first opened as well and again thought our atmosphere was ok.

 

Anyway to cut to the chase, during the covid lockdown I moved back to Leicester after 20yrs away. A combination of family ties and wanting to bring up my boys as loyal LCFC fans (ensuring they wouldn’t fall foul to becoming your bog-standard boring plastic glory hunting ‘out of towner’ Man Utd or Liverpool fans - always important to back your local team).

 

We have been members for the past few years, but it is our intention to get season tickets as soon as we can/have built up enough points. This season we’ve been to all home games and a couple of away days and we have purposely taken the opportunity to move around the stadium sitting in different sections for each game to help build up an idea for where we would ideally like to permanently sit should we be lucky enough to get season tickets.

 

On this Foxes Forum, I hear a lot of negativity regards our atmosphere. Of course this is completely subjective and down to personal opinion, however, I personally don’t think it is fair to label our entire stadium atmosphere as terrible. I agree some sections are definitely awful and completely bereft of an atmosphere, but on the contrary some sections are actually very good.

 

Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I am not a fan of the clappers every game. Maybe once or twice a season? The goal music is ok, but I do feel it takes away from the fan celebrations which can be deafeningly impressive without the need for stadium music. However, I do love the pre-match films of our classic goals, the video clips of the fox walking around the king power stadium and big Wes holding aloft the PL trophy. Still sends shivers down my spine every home game.

 

Over the course of the season I have sat in the family stand, kop, L1, SK1, east stand, west stand, actually most home sections of the ground. Truth be told the quality of the atmosphere varies massively from section to section! 

 

My intentions are not to criticise any sections or offend anyone here, after all we’re all LCFC fans and I understand that my opinion may differ to others. 

 

In my experience I find whilst the west stand offers great pitch side views, our atmosphere is disappointingly poor in these sections. A lot of hospitality and higher priced seating perhaps? I suppose the thought of the ‘prawn sandwich hospitality brigade’ and a bouncing atmosphere kind of contradict one another. 

 

Family stand kind of does what it says on the tin. A really important part of the stadium that helps encourage the next generation. Atmosphere not bouncing, but ok for families and not too raucous or threatening at anytime.

 

I’ve found P & P1 sections to be average. A mixture of some quiet fans watching the game, families and some singers who enjoy banter with the away sides. But I often find that P & P1 get completely drowned out by the away sides due to the sections not having enough of a singing presence.

 

I don’t want to upset anyone who calls the SK4/C2 corner their home, but I really didn’t like it there. Very quiet and not much singing or banter at all. The stadium operations observatory would often bang on the windows telling people to calm down if any spectators got a little too passionate, which just kills any atmosphere.

 

I always love sitting in the SK1/G1 corner. The atmosphere is always good, loud and entertaining. Good variety of old LCFC chants and some new ones too constantly getting belted out. Not keen on the additional security presence, nor do I understand why they are there with no away fans in that part of the stadium?

 

As above, L1 is much the same too. Very loud and a lot of chants throughout. Although the main difference from SK1 is that you have the away fans element, which adds an extra spice if you like that sort of thing.

 

Really didn’t like the sections in between SK1/G1 to L1 in the east stand though. The J & H sections have always been very quiet and the fans don’t sing in great numbers, which breaks the link between our stadiums 2 loudest sections SK1 and L1. Bit of an atmospheric vacuum and not great fun if you want to go to a football match and expect spectators to sing in large numbers.

 

When we expand the east stand perhaps the club should have a think about what to do with this issue? I assume the east stand will be hospitality driven seating and much like the west stand, so L1 fans will likely be forced to move? My proposal would be to install rail seating to the entire Kop and combine SK1 (UFS) and L1. That way we could generate enough atmosphere in the kop whilst keeping the quieter sections of the stadium happy as well.

 

All in I have enjoyed the SK1/G1 corner the most. The atmosphere there is always loud and personally I feel UFS do a great job 👏. I’d just love to see the UFS section expand and surely there is enough appetite from fans to increase this singing section here? I haven’t seen anything from LCFC yet regards safe standing, but I’d like to think the owners are looking into it as part of the upcoming stadium redevelopment.

 

In summary, the subject of our stadium  atmosphere and to argue whether it is poor really depends on where you sit in the ground. Even Anfield and Celtic Park, two of the UK’s loudest football stadiums, suffer from the same issue as we do at the king power stadium. 

 

Let’s get some rail seats and encourage our singing sections to grow. Perhaps a re-think/re-jig of certain sections may help as well in encouraging like-minded fans to sit together. 

 

We need the Kop to be as loud as it was back at Filbert Street and rail seats will certainly go a long way to improving our match day experience and ensure the king power is our 12th man and not a nice place for away teams to come and play football.

absolutely agree.. I’ve sat in various sections but it’s one of my favourites SK1 as they try their best to get the atmosphere going. I often find that if a new song is created then it needs to be catchy and decent rather than the normal single liners. 

 

Is it a case of some just trying to listen out for the words, not hearing them properly and thinking it’s a bit much. I was trying to listen out for the Maddison one the other night, got a couple of lines and came home where someone had posted the words. Just needs a bit of research. And now I’ve found out the words to Waka waka I’ve been singing it all weekend.. Keep up the good work, get rid of the clappers and I’m sure it will improve.. 

[RonnieTodger]

2 hours ago, ashfosse said:

can't be any worse today than it was first half against spurs. Here's hoping

It’s 10x worse  

[st albans fox]

It’s flat     No surprise 

 When I came to my seat it felt like going back to the scene of an accident after suffering PTSD (apologies if you think that’s trivialising that condition) 

[Lako42]

Congratulations lads in sk1 for singing some really classless shite about clough being fat and dead. 

 

Spare the outrage when forest do the same about our late chairman. 

 

Bellends

[RonnieTodger]

It’s beyond woeful. I understand the circumstance of another shit performance, but does nobody consider that the players may need a lift sometimes? Everybody seems to wait to be entertained and only support them once we’ve created a chance. 
 

Getting outsung by 20 spotty Brighton fans when we were 1-0 up is something else 

[BroughtonFox]

38 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Congratulations lads in sk1 for singing some really classless shite about clough being fat and dead. 

 

Spare the outrage when forest do the same about our late chairman. 

 

Bellends

Will be aimed at UFS again no doubt, yet didn’t get involved 

Edited 23 January 2022 by BroughtonFox

[Lako42]

37 minutes ago, BroughtonFox said:

Will be aimed at UFS again no doubt, yet didn’t get involved 

Don't think it was. Was started by the mouthy ****er to the side of then 

[Incognito]

1 hour ago, Lako42 said:

Congratulations lads in sk1 for singing some really classless shite about clough being fat and dead. 

 

Spare the outrage when forest do the same about our late chairman. 

 

Bellends

Got an airing in L1 too.

 

I go in L1 as I like an atmosphere but it's largely dead in there the last couple of seasons. And when there is singing, it's largely crass stuff like the above.

 

I'd love to see 10 mins of the Daka chant, with everyone going full beans, clapping and that. Won't happen though.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, RonnieTodger said:

It’s beyond woeful. I understand the circumstance of another shit performance, but does nobody consider that the players may need a lift sometimes? Everybody seems to wait to be entertained and only support them once we’ve created a chance. 
 

Getting outsung by 20 spotty Brighton fans when we were 1-0 up is something else 

What's left to say at this stage? The conversation has gone round and round and the solution has been presented to the club on a plate.

 

Won't get better unless the club push the button and get something sorted with the expansion. 

 

[RonnieTodger]

5 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

What's left to say at this stage? The conversation has gone round and round and the solution has been presented to the club on a plate.

 

Won't get better unless the club push the button and get something sorted with the expansion. 

 

Completely agree mate. It’s obvious what’s needed, but it’s still so frustrating on match day. 
 

This malaise has been going on since 2017.

[GlennyFox55]

We’re absolutely nose diving each season in terms of atmosphere, club has to start listening and introduce sections for fans that want to get to get an atmosphere going.

 

Home games feel like an absolute chore at the moment.