M1 Derby Attendees

Every chance they’ll make it a ‘bubble match’ at their place.

 

Only time I’ve seen us play them was the Boothroyd draw at home in ‘06... Remember naff all about it other than it being a bit nastier than usual but not heavily (Could very very well be wrong on that front though)

 

Hillingdon borough now play in ruislip.. Gone up in the world.. Struggling to survive though

 

YES it will my friend.. fortunately for those muppets

 

1st.one I attended 68/69 season,I was called out at halftime with a message that my 3rd. son was about to be born at Watford general.so I missed the 2nd. half with the players fighting and we had 2 sent off.have been to quite a few more home and away.One in late 90,s away my son had his nose broken,lots of other memories too many to mention.

 

That was such a dull game. They did move the game to an early kick off, banned pubs from opening in the centre and escorted the L***n fans in with a large police presence. Which probably help to kill any kind of atmosphere.

 

Yeah it was pretty sterile. Scum had half the Vicarage Road end and the other half was empty. As the east stand was derelict the two sets of fans were about 50 metres away from each other at the closest.

 

Just been to two. The league cup game in the early 2000s and then the home game in our promotion season under Boothroyd.

Never seen a set of fans celebrate a 1-1 draw so much in the latter game. The league cup game was just ridiculous, events prior completely overshadowed the fact that we lost.

 

This would have been 'The One' that started the toxicity of it all.

 

I've never found anything that disproves this:
https://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/30-Clubs/2944-herts-rule-beds

 

Malky had a last minute goal disallowed in that game if memory serves me well, may have livened up the journey home a bit. Otherwise it didn't feel like a derby at all really.

 

Why is ‘enjoy Wycombe away’ a diss? Especially coming from a West Ham fan who presumably sits and watches dull football in a crap stadium. I loved it when we were in League 1, seeing us play at Hereford, Stockport, Cheltenham etc. Places that looked different and clubs that weren’t the same old dull as dishwater teams like Reading or Hull. I very much count Leicester as a dull as dishwater club now by the way.

I guess that’s a fairly typical attitude of the modern football fan though. Selfies and a £10 pint of flat lager over piling into the back of a car that a mate has borrowed and trying to find somewhere to abandon it near a pub vaguely in the same postcode as the ground you’re trying to get to.

 

I was just interested in the number of posters on here who had never been to a derby.

FWIW, after reading the, admittedly small number of, pwoper nawty posts and seeing we're a multinational team of players, coaching staff and owners: I'd like to see both teams in a month make a major gesture to begin the process to get rid of the toxicity for once of for all. Though that seems to be unlikely with the c19 measures in place.

 

Talking of which who are Leicester's greatest rivals? I assume Forest and Derby despise each other more than they despise you lot, Coventry are playing even further away from their base and probably regard Birmingham as their greatest rivals, who in turn despise Villa. It seems like a gate-crash rivalry.

Down in these parts Watford and Luton hate each other but I understand there are other rivalries with QPR and Brentford to a much lesser extent (I've never considered the latter as a rival), but then there's Wycombe who are somewhere between us and Reading who don't really have a rival but I understand they have a long-standing grudge with Colchester over promotion from the Conference in the early 90s. Plus we have Stevenage, the only other league team in this county, who just don't like Luton, which sits well with us but then are they gate-crashing a rivalry?

 

It’s a weird one with us, we don’t have a main rival. I think it depends which part of the county you’re from. Round where I live you meet more Forest fans. Leicester don’t like Forest and it is a derby but it’s not a mutual hatred, they care far more about the sheep. We’ve barely crossed paths with Forest really. We were up and down in the 80’s and 90’s and then they went down just as we had a run in the Prem under O’Neill. In terms of a mutual rivalry it’s probably Derby, especially because we beat them in the playoffs in ‘94.

There’s always loads of trouble when we play Coventry but that’s just idiots wanting to meet at a train station and fight for some reason. I like people from Cov.

 

Just for information, Reading's traditional rivals are actually Aldershot, dating back to a time when they played each other regularly in the lower divisions. Of course in more recent decades their paths markedly diverged. They also have milder rivalries with both Oxford and Swindon who, in turn, are the main rivals of each other.

 

They've stolen our title...

They won Championship Family Club of the Year (somehow)

So instead of the M1 Derby... It is the Family Club Derby?

 

Most Reading fans I know class Oxford as their rival

 

They steal a lot of things to be fair

 

Reading and Oxford have only been in the same division for 12 seasons, mostly in the 80s and 90s, so current fans may well look back on those as the reason for a rivalry. However that between Reading and Aldershot goes back much further to Div 3 South days in the 1930s when Aldershot joined the league and they were in the same division for 25 years in total before their demise in the early 90s.

 

Are there any mixed Watford/Wycombe areas?

 

Aylesbury? Seen both shirts there on the occasional trip. Absolute toilet that place (not Luton bad though).

 

Why do Chelsea fans sing about ‘Leicester’ in “we all follow the Chelsea, over land and sea (and Leicester)”?

 

I follow Aldershot and they definitely class Woking as their main rival. You hear the occasional Reading song but there’s such a gulf between the two sides that that rivalry has all but gone.

 

That was a very common song in the 70s. Most clubs’ fans sang it. Back then it went:
“We ‘ate Nottingham Forest, we ‘ate Liverpool too (and Leicester!),
We ‘ate Man United, but <insert team name> we love you!”
So the Leicester bit was just an extra fun chant with two syllables that fitted. The ‘over land and sea’ version came later with fans other than Chelsea singing it and the ‘Leicester’ bit endured. I’m not sure if anyone other than Chelsea sing it now.

 

I heard it’s something to do with signs saying ‘Leicester & The North’ when you head north on the M1 out of London. Willis’s response is probably correct though.

 

I live in Aylesbury. Greece has spoilt you Robert!

 

Aylesbury has quite a few of both and Oxford as well. Places like Amersham are also Watford/Wycombe mix. Wycombe have only been a league club for 25 years ish so didn't get the locals in any numbers before that, typical non league then, I'm support this league club but go down to Wycombe to watch a game as they are local.

 

From a chelsea fanzine-dates back to 79-Hooligan related

We also lost at home on that boxing day to L*t*n-last minute winner-our first meeting in over 7 years then

https://chelseafancast.com/2018/03/over-land-and-sea-and-leicester-a-story-of-our-rivalry-with-the-foxes/#:~:text=The rivalry began a long,on to win the game.

 

Whoops. The swimming pool is quite good in Aylesbury, does that make it ok?

 

Ahhh, but where is the line between North and South? That is the question.

 

In the middle. That is the answer.

 

You sure about that?

 

I can't find an original photo of the sign (that must have been quite close to B'wood), that one of the bands behind the "Canterbury Sound" took their name from: