Protests are fuelled by anger, but that may not be the most concerning emotion for Leicester City to deal with.
A few hundred City fans showed their unhappiness with the running of the club and the heights from which they’ve fallen when they marched on the King Power Stadium last month.
In showing that emotion, they showed that they cared. And they still cared enough to attend the game.
It would perhaps a greater concern for City if that anger was swallowed by apathy. If supporters fall out of love with the club to the extent they stop turning up, that is a bigger worry.
There have been a few small hints at that. This year’s average home attendance is marginally the lowest it has been in the Premier League since City first returned to the division in 2014. But the difference, for now, is negligible and there have been lots of awkward kick-off times this term.
But the game against Crystal Palace in January saw the attendance at the King Power Stadium drop below 30,000 for the first time in a Premier League match since 2014.
It was a midweek night game, and they are usually less well attended, but it’s still a small marker of a very slight loss of interest.
This weekend, City host Manchester United and anecdotally, there appears to be plenty of season-ticket holders, who haven’t seen a home league goal since early December, planning to sell their seats back to the club or not bother to turn up.
A 7pm kick-off on a Sunday night will be a significant factor in those kinds of decisions but if a fanbase is invested, they will turn up whenever, especially for a game against a big club and one that looks like being significant in how the season pans out.
It will be interesting to see if the chatter around supporters not turning up impacts the attendance this weekend.
Where there is statistical evidence is for the Manchester City away game at the start of April. The original allocation for travelling Leicester fans has been reduced from over 3,000 to 1,500 based on the forecasted attendance.
Then again, it is another midweek game. At the weekend, at Chelsea, City still took 3,000 fans.
At the moment, these are very small signs of a loss of enthusiasm. It’s not yet at the point where it’s a concerning trend.
If the apathy is significant, it will perhaps only be seen if the club drop into the Championship.
Perhaps because the overriding emotion was still one of anger, City’s average attendance remained above 31,000 in the Championship under Enzo Maresca, 6,000 more than what it was when City won the second tier under Nigel Pearson 10 years earlier.
Would it be the same if City go down again this time? It attendances did drop, that would be a far bigger concern for the club than a protest.
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