Pioneering football agent Jon Holmes watched Don Revie's Leeds as a student, while his best-known client Gary Lineker played for Everton when his goals at the 1986 World Cup changed their lives.
But there will be no split loyalties in Sunday's relegation battle finale. Holmes is known to friends as Mr Leicester City for good reason.
'I went to my first game aged seven and have done everything at the club since,' he says. 'Fan, stadium announcer, programme editor, chairman.
'A football club is nothing without its heritage. I get offended if I walk round town and see kids in Man United or Chelsea shirts.