It's the glib line trotted out again and again by unctuous club chairmen and under-fire managers: Fans are the lifeblood of football. Without them, the game is nothing.
But just because something's a cliche, doesn't mean it's untrue.
Players are bought and sold. Managers are snared and sacked. Owners come and go. Even grounds change. The one constant in the story of a football club is the fans.
Oh, and the local paper.
The Mercury was already 10 years old when a group of worshippers from Leicester's Emmanuel Church squeezed in to a garden shed off Fosse Road in the spring of 1884 to talk about forming a new football team.
Ever since we've had photographers, the paper has been sending snapper...