Forest away

[Arriba Los Zorros]

5 minutes ago, Jobyfox said:

This “rivalry” debate always re-emerges when we play Derby or Forest.

 

In my experience I’ve never known a Leicester fan as desperate to create a rivalry with Forest as a Forest fan is to tell us that: “we’re not their rivals”. That’s because the whole Forest/Derby thing is an important part of their identity. I don’t know whether it’s so important to Forest/Derby because it makes them feel relevant and a reminder of better times, but the reality is that it’s incredibly small fry. You don’t often hear a Liverpool fan say Everton aren’t their rivals or a Man Utd fan say that Man City aren’t theirs. That’s despite the fact that Liverpool and Man Utd reserve the biggest rivalry for each other.

 

This game will be hugely significant to many of us, like me, who work with quite a few Forest fans. To us a game against Forest, Derby and Coventry all have a bit of extra interest and spice. Even Villa games do these days. There is room for many rivalries and, really, they are only defined by the personal interest of those fans who engage with them more. You don’t get any more points for winning.

 

The Forest game will come and go and people will enjoy it a little bit more than many other games. But they’ll quickly go back to hardly getting a mention on this forum and we’ll go back to hardly getting a mention on theirs. I’m not sure you’d be able to say the same about their obsessional interest in Derby as both clubs continual to wallow in their own past glories - seemingly unaware of their continual irrelevance to all, but each other 

We're not their rivals though

[BenTheFox]

Before Clough turned up at Forest and started being successful there, Forest considered us and Notts County to be their main rivals and not Derby. 

 

What I do find quite strange is how a relatively significant number among our support reject Coventry as a rival when they are very vocal about how much they hate us. Also, if you were to drive from our ground to Cov's you'd get there far quicker than you would if you were to drive to Forest. 

 

I've never been that fussed about Derby. It's maybe an age thing as I was too young to remember the games in the 90s. I do however take a huge amount of pride in being top dogs in our part of the country. 

[CyprusFox]

57 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

OK, so Northampton Town could be classed as local. 

 

Same relevance. 

 

There is literally no rivalry with Forest.

 

Why are people making out there is?

Don't know how long you've been supporting city fella, or if you even do. I've been watching Leicester home and away for over 50 years and even when I was in my teens, the one game that none of us ever wanted to miss was Forest away. Can't wait for this one. "No rivalry", you're having a fuching laugh. COYB 🦊

[Supergray22]

As a primary school kid at the time when forest won the first division I remember with horror when certain kids started parading round the school playground singing forest songs. This was in Groby mind. I remember a few black eyes resulting and broken friendships. I’ll always think of them as rivals. 

[MattFox]

11 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Before Clough turned up at Forest and started being successful there, Forest considered us and Notts County to be their main rivals and not Derby. 

 

What I do find quite strange is how a relatively significant number among our support reject Coventry as a rival when they are very vocal about how much they hate us. Also, if you were to drive from our ground to Cov's you'd get there far quicker than you would if you were to drive to Forest. 

 

I've never been that fussed about Derby. It's maybe an age thing as I was too young to remember the games in the 90s. I do however take a huge amount of pride in being top dogs in our part of the country. 

East/West Midlands thing isn’t it.

 

Nottingham as a city is much more similar to Leicester historically and culturally than Cov 

 

We aren’t in Birmingham’s orbit like Cov is too

[Chiltern Fox]

2 hours ago, ElusiveEd said:

Did anyone hear the fans singing as the BBC were interviewing Grabban?

 

We're coming for you

We're coming for you

You cheating b8stards

We're coming for you

 

Presuming they are banging on about FFP? 

I heard it. Fookers. 

[OntarioFox]

40 minutes ago, Yes N'Didi said:

Who gave you the exclusive rights to determine what games fans should or shouldn’t look forwards to?

 

We are not forests main rivals, of course we aren’t, but their fans will be bang up for this one as well.

 

Stop telling people they shouldn’t look forward to this and if you’re not bothered, don’t invest in it. 

The amount of mental gymnastics going on to show he doesn't care, he almost sounds like a Forest fan to be honest. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

Nice draw. Can’t lose to them as they will forever tell us how they knocked us out as holders. Arsenal were shit today. Really poor. No urgency. Forest played the perfect lower league side game. 
 

Johnson and the RB looked decent. Their midfield looked pretty poor. Their defence was okish but will struggle with pace. 
 

We should win this with a professional performance. 

[OntarioFox]

23 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Nice draw. Can’t lose to them as they will forever tell us how they knocked us out as holders. Arsenal were shit today. Really poor. No urgency. Forest played the perfect lower league side game. 
 

Johnson and the RB looked decent. Their midfield looked pretty poor. Their defence was okish but will struggle with pace. 
 

We should win this with a professional performance. 

No way in a million our lads will go into this game with the same laissez-faire attitude Arsenal's did. Especially for the local young'uns who we are likely to see play again in the circumstances, this game will get them fired up I'm sure of it.

 

For those of you who don't spend much time in the north of the county, up in Charnwood and Loughborough where it seems half our academy graduates now come from, Forest are very much the 'main' rival. They'll be well up for it, especially feeding off what I'm sure will be a great away end.

 

It's a cup tie against an old adversary, a 20 mile trip, 15% allocation, why wouldn't we be excited? Taking nothing for granted of course, they've improved a lot over the course of the season and we'll be thin on the ground as we have been, but it has all the makings of a spicy one with (hopefully) both teams playing up to the occasion.

 

It's what the FA Cup is all about, to use a cliche.

Edited 9 January 2022 by OntarioFox

[FuriousFox46]

I genuinely pity Leicester fans who fall for this “we don’t care” bollocks.

 

Like others said, we’re not their biggest rivals but the “we don’t care” line is employed because Forest and Derby have an incurable superiority complex and can’t stand that their best days are well and truly gone.

 

There’s a mutual understanding that their cringey club of two is the only thing either of them have to cling on to any kind of relevance. Ffs, they even made up a pissing trophy.

[FuriousFox46]

34 minutes ago, MattFox said:

East/West Midlands thing isn’t it.

 

Nottingham as a city is much more similar to Leicester historically and culturally than Cov 

 

We aren’t in Birmingham’s orbit like Cov is too

Exactly.

 

I don’t really care about Coventry, I enjoy playing them because lots of our supporters and their supporters care and it adds to the occasion more than playing a club like Preston for example.

 

but Forest is the biggest rivalry

[josh_baskin]

Anyone who believes they consider us insignificant needs to look at the work some of my former colleagues  did on my locker at my Nottingham workplace after the 5-1 defeat we suffered from them in 2009.

 

 

 

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Edited 9 January 2022 by josh_baskin

[FuriousFox46]

Just now, josh_baskin said:

Anyone who believes they consider us insignificant need to look at the work they did to my locker at my Nottingham workplace after the 5-1 defeat we suffered from them in 2009.

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All you have to do is search “Leicester #NFFC” or “bin dippers #nffc” on Twitter.

 

Those minnows are literally creaming their drawers at this game 

[Stadt]

Thomas, Choudhury, KDH and Barnes all to start will make me a bit less nervous. The whole squad will be more fired up as a result, there won’t be any complacency. Imagine rocking up there under Puel? 

Edited 10 January 2022 by Stadt

[Scotch]

I've never really viewed Forest as a great rival but I'm from Scotland so I've never really been exposed to the rivalry. I don't think I've ever actually met a Forest fan, truth be told. 

 

That doesn't mean that I'm going to take that away or mock others who do view it as a rivalry and who have their own reasons for it. That's just ridiculous. 

 

Football rivalry is a funny thing. 

My hometown team is a team called Greenock Morton. Admittedly, I've never felt a great emotional connection to them. I went to almost every game one season as a teen when they almost went bust to ensure they survived, the whole town did but that's about it. However, even without any particular love for them, I still despise their local rivals St.Mirren. If there was any rationality or common sense in football, it wouldn't be half as fun. 

[OntarioFox]

12 minutes ago, FuriousFox46 said:

Exactly.

 

I don’t really care about Coventry, I enjoy playing them because lots of our supporters and their supporters care and it adds to the occasion more than playing a club like Preston for example.

 

but Forest is the biggest rivalry

See, this is why i'm kind of disappointed to see Coventry pissing away their shot at the playoffs this season.

 

A 'proper' local Derby (not a Birmingham / Black Country club) is lacking in our annual calendar, and the thought of Coventry coming out of nowhere to be the one we play in the Prem, after so many years waiting for one of our 'traditional' East Midlands adversaries to pull their finger out and get promoted, would probably be too much for either of Forest or Derby to bear. 

 

EDIT - also crossed my mind just now, but Forest would get awfully lonely if Derby go down and Coventry come up. 

Edited 9 January 2022 by OntarioFox

[ian__marshall]

For anyone living in North Leicestershire this is a massive game. Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester are pretty much the same distance from where I grew up and Coventry was never even on my radar purely because I didn't know one Cov fan and I had to put up with the shaggers and a significant number of glory grabbing trees telling me each day how irrelevant we were as a club. The split of the fans who supported local teams was pretty even and largely dictated by family ties (hence me following Leicester) but anyone supporting any of the local teams could easily make legitimate claims as to why they supported said team. I do appreciate however that if you live/d in South/West of the county then Coventry would most likely be seen as our main rival and Forest and Derby might not feature. 

 

Do I see Forest as a genuine rival these days? No, we left them behind a long time ago. Would I classify this as a local derby? Most definitely. Am I excited about this game and potentially getting one over on the the reds I know? Absolutely.

[South Shire Fox]

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Edited 9 January 2022 by South Shire Fox

[K1FOX]

If I had the wings of an eagle if I had the eyes of a crow I’d fly over Nottingham forest and shit on the bastards below. Bring it on been a while for one of these

[ren]

They'll claim to not care about us, whilst they fill the stadium they were unable to vs Arsenal today.

[420Hashish]

I despise them, even though I've never seen them play. #LeicesterHivemind

[Foxxed]

There's a long history of rivalry. It doesn't matter they're not current rivals.

 

I hope the local lads play and are fired up.

[oadby.fox]

4 hours ago, ElusiveEd said:

Did anyone hear the fans singing as the BBC were interviewing Grabban?

 

We're coming for you

We're coming for you

You cheating b8stards

We're coming for you

 

Presuming they are banging on about FFP? 

... beightstards?

[HybridFox]

15 minutes ago, Scotch said:

Football rivalry is a funny thing. 

My hometown team is a team called Greenock Morton. Admittedly, I've never felt a great emotional connection to them. I went to almost every game one season as a teen when they almost went bust to ensure they survived, the whole town did but that's about it. However, even without any particular love for them, I still despise their local rivals St.Mirren. If there was any rationality or common sense in football, it wouldn't be half as fun. 

I can somewhat relate to this. Lot of my parents' side of the family are in Manchester and are all big United fans. So I've been to Old Trafford a fair few times when visiting when I was younger. And likewise we've taken them to Leicester City on occasions (mostly in the Championship!) when they've come here.

 

I enjoyed the style of football United played under Fergie at times but felt no emotional connection to the club. Yet for some reason I absolutely hate Liverpool and always have done. Have only started to dislike Spurs more in recent years I'd say

[Dan LCFC]

The absence and not playing them for years has done this a favour. It's good timing for it I'd say - not so long that the fire totally burns out but long enough that there's going to be some edge in it to get one over them.

 

The only way you'll see their true colours about how bothered they are about this game, sadly, is if they beat us.

 

We cannot bottle this though. They're no mugs recently and we shouldn't treat them lightly but we really should be winning it too. Would be absolutely sickening to go out as holders to a Championship Forest. We better deliver.