You only have to read the first 2 pages of this thread to see that Forest and Derby fans seem to spend far more headspace thinking about Leicester than Leicester fans do about them and go on about how how much Leicester aren’t rivals to them way more than any Leicester fans ever talk about it being a rivalry. I’m 34 and don’t really consider it a big rivalry, as we’ve only really had the odd big game against Forest in my lifetime and no one cares if we sign players from them or our players go there, I mean Wes Morgan is an absolute legend at Leicester despite being a Forest fan who played over 400 times for them. Derby I don’t consider rivals at all, I don’t know any Leicester fan my age or younger who considers Derby a rival at all really. We had a few years in the Championship we were used to routinely smash them 4-0 but I don’t really remember any time where we were really competing with them at the same end of the table or there ever being any intense feeling in matches with them. I get Forest is a big game to those over 40, but I don’t know many people my age or younger who cares, it may have been a big game to Leicester fans in the past but I think it’s died out being the really a big game to most Leicester fans nowadays. Coventry are the biggest rivals to me but I don’t really consider it a bitter rivalry, we don’t really have a big rival team, there’s nothing wrong with that, don’t know why Forest and Derby fans are so obsessed with pointing that out and seem to be obsessed with telling us that way more than any of us care.
Thought the first half was fairly even although we should have gone into half time ahead but for that worldie from the Leicester keeper! 2nd half though, we were superb and a world ahead of them, especially the first 20 mins of the 2nd half when we put the game to bed. In a world of stats where possession, completed passes and x****ingG have become more important than goals, it was so nice to see us score from a route 1 lump upfield as well, admittedly we had a little help in getting it over the line. As Yatesy said afterwards, the only disappointment is that we haven't scored more in the end but today isn't for nit-picking, it's for enjoying a performance of real quality, 16 points on the board after 9 matches, 2nd best defensive record in the division and 5th in the table (for 20 hours or so at least). I've said it before but I will say it again, the progress under Nuno and his team is something else! As for Leicester, there were some positives from the first half, particularly the goal which was a real slick move. I think they lack real quality though and it feels that those moments will be few and far between and with that defence, clean sheets are not going to be easy to come by. It's a recipe for relegation and I've certainly not seen enough tonight to suggest that my prediction of the 3 promoted sides going straight back down will be anything but correct
Yeah Faes was ok against us too. Annoying. Well if Forest won at Liverpool and drew at Chelsea, there was a good chance they’d beat Leicester. Shame we didn’t have our shooting boots on when we visited. Kept swapping between this and Pompey- Weds. The gap in quality is incredible.
Absolutely superb result and looking at the league table is crazy at the moment. As for Leicester, tonight is a prime example of how fickle football fans can be. All week on social media I've seen them banging on about Fatawu, Ricardo and how Cooper isn't playing his best team. Now he plays them all and it's his fault they're not playing well. You couldn't make it up.
Where's that proper funny ****er that started this thread title? Might as well change it to Vardy vs Forest. Leicester are ****ing shite! Good to see Coops get the ovation he deserved from the Forest fans. Deserves more from the home support when their team is at Southampton levels of shit - Vardy excluded. Comfortable 2nd half where we were just levels above.
What a great night - very cathartic after the thumping there 2 seasons ago. I was actually quite impressed by Leicester first half - looked dangerous going forwards, if wobbly at the back. 2nd half they just collapsed in a worrying way though as soon as we started to press high up the pitch - 2 main characteristics of our struggles under Cooper were conceding goals on clusters & the inability to put together patterns of play under a press leading to us coughing up a host of easy chances to teams away from home - I think Leicester may suffer the same fate. My bet would be Cooper keeps Leicester up on that showing though - think that front 5 is enough to nudge them ahead of either Wolves or Palace.
that was basically Enzo's team bar 2 players playing the way Enzo played last season, they just played crap, Winks was well off it not much better than the form that saw him dropped for Bournemouth and Saints. Its hard to judge second half for us IMO as we shot ourselves in the foot so early we never gave ourselves a chance to get going, you can't gift any side in this league 2 goals let alone 3. I think the fact that neither De Cordova-Reid nor Edouard got on speaks volumes, we knew already Edouard was pretty much a panic loan signing as Daka was injured but BDCR seems like it was Cooper's choice I'm now beginning to wonder and I'd rather see Kasey McAteer or Will Alves on the bench over him
Thought Forest were excellent second half. The signings from the last couple of windows just fit so well.
He’s been next level since he got fit for us. Just a great pro, and so much nous to make a lot out of a little when the chances come. We’ll miss him hugely when he moves on. Awoniyi in contrast looks cooked to me - hope to be proven wrong but looks like he’s running through a swamp now.
How has Jota Silva got on? I'd been telling all my mates that we should sign him for about a year before he signed for you.
Yeah looks great honestly - fights for everything, so much energy. Scored one great goal in the cup v Newcastle but otherwise just had cameos in last 20m of games to help us run down the clock. Looks like a great buy - a lot of discussion on our boards about starting him instead of Elanga. That bit of character you need in a side I think.
I'd start him personally as Elanga has been off it this season so far. I think the summer speculation of Newcastle signing him has gone to his head.
Amazing that someone can use such a thread title and yet then get overly offended at me having a humorous (at least in my own mind which is all that counts) pop at Leicester. Disappointing really as they'd always come across as a decent poster before but I suppose this is what happens when you build up a rivalry so much in your own mind! Despite those moments in the first half, I'm sticking to my prediction that they go down with the other 2 promoted sides. You've nailed Cooper with his frailties and I think the difference between how it was with us and how it is with Leicester is that he had a much better set of players who dragged us over the line in that first season. I thought Winks was your best player in the 1st half. I think your midfield system caught us out a bit but one of the many differences between what we had with Cooper and what we have with Nuno is that Nuno clearly prepares the players for system changes and is able to implement them during matches. We changed things in the 2nd half, gained control of the midfield and Winks was taken out of the match because of it I knew you loved us really There was a brief moment in the 2nd half when Awoniyi showed a turn of pace and then muscled the ball off a Leicester player and I actually said that's the Awoniyi we used to have. But that seemed to sap all of his energy and he basically disappeared after that. It's sad because of what he has done for us over the last 2 seasons (when fit) but I still think a 2nd striker is our key business for January - just don't think it needs to be some of the £40 million strikers we were targeting in the summer I really like the look of this lad and I've definitely been calling for him to get a start over Elanga so we can see more of him over 90 mins. He's such a handful to play against and loves having the ball at his feet - the only real negative I have at the moment is his decision making, especially in overload situations. Been a couple of occasions when we have broke late on and he's held onto the ball just a second too long. It's probably something he could get away with in Portugal but needs a bit of work for the Premier League
Now over 55 years of supporting Leicester, home and frequently away from an early age and then every game once I was earning enough to support it, including numerous run ins with Forest. The banter, planning and building of excitement in the lead up to games and then all the emotions of match day. And now I’m being told by someone with no emotional attachment or investment in his club, zero comprehension of what I’m talking about above and probably only started “supporting” once he could watch on the telly, that a rivalry is in my head. I suppose this is just another sad example of what football has become, totally different type of supporters with little understanding about what went before. Oh and for the record I started the thread to get some banter going and I’d have no problem with it from some of your other supporters, but for the above stated reasons not you. Now jog on you silly plastic gimp.
I think you are one of the better posters on this forum alongside @ForestRob you both are more sensible with less ego than other posters, so will give you my thoughts here about the comment on the post. I looked at the post and was a bit surprised it came from yourself, its not fun been told you have some kind of obsession with another club when you dont, pretty much told another forest poster jumping into one of our threads in the championship last season with the same shite to bugger off because it annoyed me. Gloria made a good point, whenever this gets brought up its usually the opposite way round with the obsession.
I didn't realise people were so offended over such a thing, to be honest. We have faux rivalries with clubs all over the country that seem to have developed over the last few years (coincidentally timed with our bit of success) and I just find it all very funny. That's all it was supposed to be, a light-hearted jibe
My take on this rivalry or not debate. It's not much of a rivalry in my opinion, and that's reciprocated from both sides. I do think there's more Leicester fans that dislike us than the other way round though. I've previously worked in Leicester and spent years working with a lot of their fans and I honestly have had 99% nothing but friendly banter. Theres just not that bitter rivalry feeling I get with Derby fans. Just been in turkey for 2 weeks and watched both the palace win and the game the other night with a Leicester fan and he's the nicest bloke I know - gives a bit of banter but it's all jovial.
If we want to do a check on which of the clubs thinks it's a derby and which doesn't, we can just do a comparison of the pre-match tweets: x.com x.com Case closed
