What makes you most proud to be a Leicester City fan?

That it feels like a real club and community, rather than a corporate monolith. For now, at least. I'm sure lots of people feel the same way about their team, but whether it's down to the fact this is our golden age, or whether it's something unique about the ownership right now, there is some kind of genuine connection that runs through the club, players (for the most part), and fans.

I also think a lot of our recent success feels like what football fans are supposed to enjoy. Underdog stories, cup runs, European tours. For a lot of fanbases, the enjoyment part seems a bit secondary, whereas we have really leaned into having fun with those things. Obviously it helps that we've been winning but it feels like there's something a bit more real about the whole thing.

James Knight

It would be easy to say the way the club has transformed and reinvented itself in my lifetime, achieving the impossible dreams and hopefully inspiring a different set of clubs to dream that same dream. Those feelings are incomparable and have given us all some incredible days and memories. But they’re probably not what I’d file solely under the definition of proud.

Proud comes back to the less football orientated things. The way that, despite how we often disagree on everything within our fanbase, we do come together as a family when it counts. No top flight English club can really claim to have a pure soul in today’s football world - every club is a business ultimately - but it feels like we are closer to the good side than others around us. There’s still a beating heart in there.

From the way that those at the top do care about the community, the initiatives over the years from the Srivaddhanaprabha family to donate to the local hospital, things like Alan Birchenall’s ever final yearly charity runs, or the love shown in Vichai’s memorial garden. The little, more personal touches. They’re what make me proud to be a Leicester fan.

Helen Nutter

My dad was never really into football. He was a rugby man: Tigers and New Parks RFC on a Saturday afternoon. My first proper introduction to the round ball came from my uncle and cousins: Manchester United fans. But my cousin was also a good footballer himself; he played in the City youth side with Emile Heskey. So my earliest proper memory of watching the game was on a small TV in my auntie's garden, when he was a ball boy at Wembley for the 1993 play-off defeat against Swindon.

I can remember the excitement - not just on that little Glenfield patio, but in the city. Massive pull-outs in the Mercury, blue-and-white bunting hanging from garden gates. There was even a song (which, after finding it buried on YouTube, I can confirm has not aged well). But it was the community, joining together to celebrate (or not, in that eventual case), which had me hooked.

23 years later, the Premier League win brought that all back, and amplified it by a thousand times. It reminded me of exactly why I fell in love with the game.

As a Leicester fan you come to realise that winning isn't everything. You also realise that it is only after being at your lowest ebb can you truly appreciate how blessed you are when you do see success. I'd never have got that as a Manchester United fan.

Ryan Hubbard

I've always been immensely proud to support Leicester City, whether we have been lifting trophies or struggling in the third tier. My father is a big Leicester fan and my family are all from the area, so it's a badge of honour to support your local club and where you have grown up and I've made some lifelong friends along the way too.

I've been fortunate enough to see us at both our zenith and our lowest ebb in my 25 years of following the club and whether it is the calamitous pre-season tours in La Manga or the tragedy of our beloved Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's death there really is never a dull moment.

Seeing the club develop over the past eight years under the ownership of King Power since our return to the Premier League really has been mind-boggling. For a club of our stature to not only win the top flight to subsequently play in the Champions League, qualify for the Europa League and then play in the Stadio Olimpico against AS Roma truly is astonishing.

Add to that finally lifting our FA Cup curse and two 5th place finishes (which ended up being a disappointment) shows how far the expectations from the fan base has come due to the ownership model, management and staff and a supremely talented group of players. I think I'm right in saying in my lifetime we have been the sixth most successful club in terms of trophies, which is a fantastic achievement given the resources some of the behemoths have.

I think we have managed to achieve the above with that community club spirit still intact and I'd say outside the so-called 'big six' we are a model club for the other 85 clubs to aspire to. While a lot of fans were pleased for us in 2015/16, I think secretly there is a bit of jealousy in how we've managed to bypass a lot of so-called big clubs over what we have managed to achieve in such a short space of time.

Jordan Halford

Fairly soon after we were taken over by King Power, there was a game at Nottingham Forest where their fans sang “You’re not English any more”.

It was never really clear to me whether they were singing about the takeover or the ethnic makeup of Leicester as a city. But either way, I remember feeling proud and reassured that our fanbase would never sing something like that in the numbers they did.

And maybe pride shouldn’t come down to winning but the Premier League and the FA Cup triumphs have had an effect. Growing up, it nagged away at me that the club had never won anything really meaningful. Now I’m just relieved it wasn’t something that happened to my club in black and white before I came along - I was there to see it all.

David Bevan

Having been born and raised in Leicester, the club feels like an intrinsic part of my identity.

I fell in love with Leicester City through its summer community courses when I was 7 years old, and it's felt that way to me ever since: a community.

LCFC has connected me to some brilliant people, both personally and professionally, that I almost certainly otherwise would never have met.

The juxtaposition of being surrounded by complete strangers and yet feeling totally at home is something I'll always treasure; an environment of acceptance and belonging that transcends societal barriers. That's the thing that probably makes me most proud to be a Leicester fan.

Charlie Carmichael

It’s got to be the family feel of the club. I think that’s a very rare thing within football at the moment. Leicester City is a unique club connected with the players and fanbase through the greatest of successes and the most devastating of losses. When going to games, especially over recent years, you feel that connection and it makes you proud to be a part of it.

For fans who have been on the journey to winning the Premier League, it’s been a special experience and being part of that gives you a real pride in supporting your club.

After the success, it’s the mourning all fans went through that brought us closer together. Vichai’s legacy will always live on through the supporters and that connection to the club is what makes me proudest to be a Leicester fan.

Jack Johnson

It will always be that sense of belonging and local pride; the same as every other fan in truth, but I love the idea that we've all gone through the same stuff.

Each of our lives are intrinsically linked to Leicester City, whether it's using the club as some sort of marker for major events or extending our social networks. That's a special thing.

Oh, and winning the Premier League didn't hurt either.

Joe Brewin