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Pistanator
YES! Lived in Leicester my whole life and currently extremely proud.
Have to admit I've never really been a football fan but started to pay attention when they went into the premiership. Never realised how huge this was until I went traveling. When I'd get asked where I was from, I'd simply say "just over a hour north of London" and since the premiership I've just said "Leicester City".
The current mood in the city is absolutely electric. Leicester have needed something like this for so so long, to the extent the council have even prepared land very close to the stadium and main shopping areas to cope with the tourism! It's a real shame they built on the Velodrome, this is roughly 1/2 mile from the King Power stadium and about the same from the rugby ground.
Fun fact:
I used to work in a designer clothing store in Leicester and the footballers used to come in. I had absolutely no idea who any of them were, they used to receive a large sportsman discount, a few of them had to tell me who they were...
Fact no.2:
I got invited to an evening at King Power just before Christmas, I was sat on a table with Steve Walsh, Robbie Savage, Alan Shearer and Chris from Kasabian.
...I had to ask Chris who the other chaps were.