As an East Midlander if Leicester are not promoted I would rather see our neighbours successful than going-nowhere teams from miles away.


Do you mean Coventry or Peterborough? Your not Derby's neighbours are you?

there's always one isn't there

I will stay here thanks, but do pop over and visit us now an again.

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East Midlands and Yorkshire?

Isn't that a bit of an eclectic mix?

"there's always one isn't there..." - Danger Fox

And it's always a sheep molester.

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I suppose the Ram has a point here.
Derby is about 30 miles from Leicester and Peterborough about 40.

With P'boro being a team on the up, however, and Derby a team on the way down it's much more likely we will be playing the former in the seasons ahead. So perhaps we should reassess who are our neighbours and rivals.

Try this guys
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leicester-till-I-die-Foxes-Forum-LCFC-Banter-Page/120758068004246

If Derby are to consider the team from the middle of nowhere as local surley we should include Sheff U,Barnsely & Doncaster as local?

why is leicester supports want to big up a rivalry. we don't care about you. go away.

You're right ZIGGER - why Leicester seem fans seem to want a bit of sledging/rivalry with Derby fans confounds me - I honestly do not instinctively consider them rivals/'the team to hate' at all - I feel more rivalry towards the Sheffield clubs (after THAT club on the dark side of the 52 of course)

the red dogs are our only true rivals. i do have a dislike for leeds which could be to do with cloughie or seat throwing at the bbg.

Oh yes - Leeds

Oh dear, bless, here comes the "we don't care about you" jibe, funny how we have to remind you of that when we have a forthcoming match.

Actually though I do agree with you, your rivalry is undoubtedly with Forest and for me ours is with chaventry - That said I have more passion for a game against either forest or derby than I do Cardiff or Burnley and I don't need you to answer the other way

but df you have come onto our board or tried to get us involved. banter around the time of a game is ok but apart from that - begood & go away.

It always makes me smile when fans of other clubs come on and say: “we’re not your rivals” as if it somehow makes them a bigger club. The very act actually reveals a small club mentality as there shouldn’t be any need to say it.

We all know that Forest and Derby consider their rivalry to be extremely important, but outside of those cities it’s just another game. It’s been a lower league game for a generation so why should anyone care.

Frankly we aspire to bigger and better things!

Err Zigger, this is on our board as well - So I'm going nowhere

What annoys me is that, whatever strength of feeling there is about respective rivalries, some sad sheep (and Forest fans) appear to be in denial of the fact tht Leicestershire is just as much part of the East Midlands as Notts and Derbys.

Just like the writer, I have a strong sense of a common local identity , and any denial of our region by younger contributors is just displaying ignorance.

Oh yes - Leeds!.

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Seriously though, a forum with those up norf seems, at the outset, a very good idea and I would want to see it. Sadly though, as has been demonstrated here, it would descend into a free-for-all in no time, with pot shots from 'our' side against Hull resurrecting the moves by Pearson, Fryatt and now Hobbs as ammunition.

"It always makes me smile when fans of other clubs come on and say: “we’re not your rivals” as if it somehow makes them a bigger club. "

Jobyfox!...it doesn't matter how big or small a club is, I see a rival as the team you play on the day, so if someone plays the team next door in the biggest game of their season, or the smallest nobody in the FA/League cups, for that day they are the rivals!..

The next door neighbor thing is when you have a drink with him next door and fall out over a pint of beer!.

It happens every night somewhere in most towns!.

LufcGermany,

I wasn't referring to local rivalries in general just the Derby and Forest one in particular.

Their rivalry, with each other, is very important (to them) and it's the fixture each of their fans wants to win more than any other. For us Leicester fans the situation is more complicated. The South West of Leicestershire really want to beat Coventry, the North and North East Forest and some in the North West, Derby.

There will always be some imbecile who supports Derby or Forest saying: "we don't care about you" in a manner which suggests that the Forest/Derby rivalry is something to which we should aspire. I can't think of a reason why it should be.

In a historical significance the Forest/Derby thing has only been prevalent since Clough and the seventies and eighties. It's the same reason that some Derby fans still hanker after a rivalry with Leeds United.

Beating Forest, Derby and Coventry means slightly more to me than beating other teams because I live in Leicestershire, work in Derby and sit opposite a Coventry fan. That is all.

ZIGGER ZAGGER

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And what pray is wrong with Leeds United? Surely we would be part of the Yorkshire 'debaters' on this good idea by the original poster.

Do you fear going up against us in honest debate?