Filbo v kp

Filbo for atmosphere but fuck me the east stand and North stand were shite.

We had no choice but to move. They could have done so much better than the identikit bowl we have now.

Having said that we have had one hell of a journey in the new stadium with massive highs and fallen to the lowest point on the history. Except for the football for the past 3 seasons it is not boring following this basket case of a club.
 
Filbo was a tip and the club had to move
Regarding the atmosphere Filbo was better but not great
However the make up of the fans has changed the Kop end at Filbo was mainly
youths and very few women and kids
The KP is the opposite and the club is determined to make it family orientated
which has destroyed the atmosphere
The KP could be good but it will never get there under the present owners
 
Filbo was an embarrassment compared with most other grounds even back in the 60s. I enjoyed many great games there but that was in spite of the stadium not because of it.

The KP is fine and can be expanded if necessary. Unlike Filbo where terraced houses built in about 1900 couldn't apparently be demolished and have outlasted the old stadium which was mostly built later.
 
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Things I remember about Filbert Street:

Turning the corner of Raw Dykes Road and seeing the tele camera lorries.
A 'souvenir' kiosk on the corner of the old main stand that sold silk scarves and away programmes and that was it!
The 'new' bar/lounge that was built on to the old main stand
Turning the corner on to the concourse at the back of the kop and seeing queues of lads as far as the eye could see.
Lads hanging out of the bog windows, shouting down at those in the queues
Queues of kids with scarves, badges and doc martens
Coppers on every turnstiles searching everyone and 'nicking' loads of stuff off em
35p entrance fees
Shilton, Whitworth, Rofe, Earle, Munro, Cross, Weller, Sammels, Worthington, Birchenall, Glover
Singing about players esp Frankie Wortho
Nearly losing to Leatherhead
Carrying Alan Young off on a stretcher during the Shrewsbury game. (yes I was in St Johns Ambulance then)
Steve Lynex swimming
An empty Pen 3 to keep fans apart
Wooden boards over the pit where the balloon was stored away
3x Arsenal v Sheff Weds cup replays
Empty terraces and attendances of 10k
Executive seats on the half way line in the East stand
Taking your life in your own hands trying to get out of the kop and safely down the stairs
Beating Cambridge 5-0 in the play offs
3-3 against Arsenal
That last game against Spuds

Things I remember about the KP
Hulme missing a penalty to, ultimately, send us down
mac on the pitch
Schmeichal, Simpson, Fuchs, Morgan, Huth, Drinkwater, Kante, Albrighton, Vardy, Okozaki, Mahrez
Winning the league
Beating Sevilla
Jamie Vardys last game
err............

i think I preferred Filbert Street.
 
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Filbert Street for sure.
It felt like a place the opposition didn’t want to come to.
It wasn’t welcoming.
It wasn’t pretty but it was home and it was unique in its way.

KPS is just another soulless bowl with poor acoustics and is bland and lacking in character.
It’s not really home. It was never properly paid for when it was built and the existence of the fucker (combined with Peter Taylor wasting millions on abject shite) nearly destroyed the club.
 
You've got to be at least 28 years old, to remember stepping foot in Filbert Street.
Most of the youngest of our fans that remember the place, will be in their 30s.
I'm still drawn to Filbert Street and it has my heart, but KP has been the venue of glory, so it is forgiven.
 
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Filbert a shithole but some of those rip roaring nights with full houses you could'nt
ask for a better place.
Had the been able to modernise by buying houses on the popular side may well have been different

But the KP acoustics are shit, noise goes to the air the ground its surfaces are great, same as it is easier at the admission(if only the powers that be left it alone)

But the mud baths of Filbo still echo in my mind as do the terraces before the kops break-up into pens that was soul destroying
But the atmosphere was brilliant as the KP seems souless
 
wints said:
Things I remember about Filbert Street:

Turning the corner of Raw Dykes Road and seeing the tele camera lorries.
A 'souvenir' kiosk on the corner of the old main stand that sold silk scarves and away programmes and that was it!
The 'new' bar/lounge that was built on to the old main stand
Turning the corner on to the concourse at the back of the kop and seeing queues of lads as far as the eye could see.
Lads hanging out of the bog windows, shouting down at those in the queues
Queues of kids with scarves, badges and doc martens
Coppers on every turnstiles searching everyone and 'nicking' loads of stuff off em
35p entrance fees
Shilton, Whitworth, Rofe, Earle, Munro, Cross, Weller, Sammels, Worthington, Birchenall, Glover
Singing about players esp Frankie Wortho
Nearly losing to Leatherhead
Carrying Alan Young off on a stretcher during the Shrewsbury game. (yes I was in St Johns Ambulance then)
Steve Lynex swimming
An empty Pen 3 to keep fans apart
Wooden boards over the pit where the balloon was stored away
3x Arsenal v Sheff Weds cup replays
Empty terraces and attendances of 10k
Executive seats on the half way line in the East stand
Taking your life in your own hands trying to get out of the kop and safely down the stairs
Beating Cambridge 5-0 in the play offs
3-3 against Arsenal
That last game against Spuds

Things I remember about the KP
Hulme missing a penalty to, ultimately, send us down
mac on the pitch
Schmeichal, Simpson, Fuchs, Morgan, Huth, Drinkwater, Kante, Albrighton, Vardy, Okozaki, Mahrez
Winning the league
Beating Sevilla
Jamie Vardys last game
err............

i think I preferred Filbert Street.
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Ah, silk scarves! lost all mine except bizarrely I still have a green Leicestershire cricket one dating back to the halcyon years under Illingworth.
 
ceebeefox said:
Ah, silk scarves! lost all mine except bizarrely I still have a green Leicestershire cricket one dating back to the halcyon years under Illingworth.
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Still got mine although the printing has totally faded. You can just make out the ‘Leicester City’ on one side, and the little foxes heads on the other. Still got the added embellishments though, a ‘keep the faith Leicester’ soul badge, a shirt badge from a time when replica shirts were a distant dream, a Burton on Trent town badge (where I’m from) and a new (at the time) round blazer badge. All handed down to my boys/grandsons
 
Filbo. The smell of doughnuts, learning to stand in front of the barriers in the kop, not behind them. The smell of burning material as someone’s Oxford bags went up in flames after a fag end/banger deposited in the turn ups. Half bricks/ coins etc being hurled over from the away fans. Not being able to feel my toes in the double decker as we got dicked 6-2 with cuddly Kenny Burns getting a hattrick.
Frankie’s keepy uppys in front of the kop.
Leicester 5-2 against Sunderland Stan Collymore hattrick when, for the first time ever, I thought we could mix it with the big boys.
Walkers. Third division football, All the trophies, Boccelli, having the best owners. The helicopter. Having the worst owners.
After careful consideration,
Walkers.
 
Apart from the
Cambridge Play Off Game
Arsenal 3-3
Sunderland 4-2? Collymore Game
Spurs 2-1 Final Game

I honestly cant remember to many other games where the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

Most of my lifetime at Filbo was a misery of mid table, relegation battles, Until MON but even then I don't think the atmosphere was ever that good.
 
The three most standout games I recall were the amazing atmospheres from 3 completely different circumstances.....

Leicester 5 Shrewsbury 2 1982
F.A.Cup Quarter Final.
Can there ever be a game that had such a high level of excitement combined with the unrelenting drama that unfolded.

Leicester 0 Burnley 0 !!!! 1983
Unremarkable scoreline and an unremarkable game.
The atmosphere though was intense
I am not sure if it was the first season with 3 PTS for a win but I do recall us being 12 PTs behind 3rd placed Fulham in the promotion .
When Ian Wilson scored a crucial winner away at Craven Cottage, the gap was significantly reduced ( 6 pointer )
Going into the final game at home to relegation threatened Burnley we were in 3rd on goal difference ( pre play offs, top 3 promoted).
So match Fulham's result at Derby and we were up.
Really nervous stuff and little did we know when we celebrated at the end that Fulham would protest because their game finished a few minutes early after a Baseball Ground pitch invasion.

Leicester 1 Oxford 0.... 1991

Tony James went into Leicester folklore when he scored the only goal on the final day .
City staring Division 3 for the first time in history ( pre hollow head ) needed to better West Broms result away at Bristol Rovers.
The tension and pure relief when we had to wait for the Baggies game to finish was pure heart attack material.
It was the pre mobile phone days when a number of people would blurt out info from their little transistor radios. Often there was confusion as to what was truth and what was fake.

Purely on nostalgia it would be Filbo for me.
 
Filbert Street for me purely from nostalgia. First ever game in August 1963 v Brum, 3-0 win and hooked for life. Can still hear Telstar over the tinny speakers, smell the tobacco wafting across and see the royal blue shirts & white shorts standing out beneath the old floodlight pylons.
 
rob said:
Filbert Street for me purely from nostalgia. First ever game in August 1963 v Brum, 3-0 win and hooked for life. Can still hear Telstar over the tinny speakers, smell the tobacco wafting across and see the royal blue shirts & white shorts standing out beneath the old floodlight pylons.
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Up to date with their record choices then? Telstar was a hit the year before.

I was thinking that the old brass band was still in place but I do remember Glad All Over being played over the tannoy just a few months later.
 
OldFox said:
Up to date with their record choices then? Telstar was a hit the year before.

I was thinking that the old brass band was still in place but I do remember Glad All Over being played over the tannoy just a few months later.
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Telstar was first ever record I ever bought I was only about 7 or 8, six shillings and eight pence ha’penny! Took me weeks to save up for it!
Regarding the records played at Filbo my cousin who worked for Kembles in wigston used to supply them, I think in the 70s onwards wasn’t the guy who played them called Mal ? Dark haired guy he also used to be the DJ at Granny’s
 
Brauny said:
Leicester 1 Oxford 0.... 1991

Tony James went into Leicester folklore when he scored the only goal on the final day .
City staring Division 3 for the first time in history ( pre hollow head ) needed to better West Broms result away at Bristol Rovers.
The tension and pure relief when we had to wait for the Baggies game to finish was pure heart attack material.
It was the pre mobile phone days when a number of people would blurt out info from their little transistor radios. Often there was confusion as to what was truth and what was fake.

Purely on nostalgia it would be Filbo for me.
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As far as I remember (although I was only 13) sat on the wall by the corner flag in the family stand the atmosphere was dead.
The only noise was the explosion of the fans hearing the Baggies result.
 
Nickj said:
Telstar was first ever record I ever bought I was only about 7 or 8, six shillings and eight pence ha’penny! Took me weeks to save up for it!
Regarding the records played at Filbo my cousin who worked for Kembles in wigston used to supply them, I think in the 70s onwards wasn’t the guy who played them called Mal ? Dark haired guy he also used to be the DJ at Granny’s
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Twas Mel Pace me duck. I never had the pleasure of a night at the legendary Grannys: way before my Leicester days.
 
courtslcfc said:
As far as I remember (although I was only 13) sat on the wall by the corner flag in the family stand the atmosphere was dead.
The only noise was the explosion of the fans hearing the Baggies result.
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It certainly wasn't dead, nervous tension yes.
 
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