Bring the Noise

The rags at home this season was great and now this game.

As good as anywhere in the country when it is like this.

I think tomorrow will be decent with the good support from Yorkshire and everyone still buzzing from Thursday.
 
Watched the whole game back last night and fucking hell, that was some atmosphere - better than I thought when I posted on here yesterday. It wasn’t just the chants. The cacophony of noise and booing of their players, etc, was incessant throughout. To keep it going virtually constantly for 95 minutes and for it to be coming from all parts of the ground is nigh on unprecedented in English football these days. To be fair, you can hear the Liverpool fans at a few points during the game but they just got drowned out on so many occasions and only really got on top of us for 2 or 3 minutes after they scored. Even then you can still hear us before we got the winning goal. Someone said earlier in this thread that one of their fans on RAWK reckons we were the loudest set of fans they’ve ever heard in terms of consistency over the full 90-odd minutes which coming from those deluded bitter ****s is high praise indeed. Anyone who was at that crucial game at Anfield in 2014 will know that they booed our players too and did quite a good job of it for a fair while but as soon as we pulled it back to 2-1 they simply gave up booing, and when we made it 2-2 you could hear a pin drop in their end with City fans dominating the atmosphere right up until Coutinho got the winner against the run of play, whereas they only dominated the atmosphere on Thursday night for a couple of minutes or so.
All too often I bemoan our fans for going into their shells when big games are poised on a knife edge but we bucked that trend totally the other night. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Hopefully we see some better atmospheres with more joining in at the more routine games from now on.
 
sheepskin_tearaway said:
Same. Thought I was going to have coronary when Sane;s shot was rolling across the line. My neck and shoulders are stiff as fuck.
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Me too. I'm in 110, and can't really see the north stand goal in any detail.
Sane's shot seemed to run along the line for hours till it hit the net on the other side.
 
It was Amazing! Im in 107 and never has the atmosphere been as good where I am. I do feel the booing really added to it, do we now boo every team that comes? It seemed to help with the overall hostile vibe
 
Amazing atmosphere, for once we were the underdog and that helped a lot, rather than be comfortable and think how many we are going to score that day.

I also liked the way the club thought that Liverpool fans should contribute to it as well by playing James - Sit Down at half time. I hope next time we go to Anfield they reciprocate our act of kindness by playing 'Seven Nation Army' so we can all sing about our best player in a big and important game.

Fuck wits.
 
Watched the whole 90 minutes back tonight and the intensity of the atmosphere was brilliant.

Not much singing to be honest. We’ve had anything like two dozen better singing atmosphere than that, easily.

Singing from us- a bit to start the game, a bit after the first goal and the most after our second goal.

Singing from them- you couldn’t hear them at the game and could only hear them singing the Firmino song after the goal watching it back and that was it.

But it was the intensity of the noise that was impressive. The boos, jeers, cheers for their possession and mistakes. The reaction to ref decisions, attacks, “go on”s, cheers for tackles etc. were all very good. Definitely the best for that since the 2012 title run-in derby.
 
I’m in holiday and watched the game on TV. It was clear from the start that the fans had come to play and the noise was immense, even through the TV. The booing of Liverpool combined with the singing for City was brilliant and really came through on NBCSN over here. However, to hear the crowd AFTER THE MATCH was fucking unbelievable! The rendition of Na Na Na (“Hey Jude”) took me back to being a little kid on a misty night in the Platt Lane End listening to the big lads and men raising the roof of the Kippax. Gives me goose bumps just thinking about it!!

And, glad to see the post game video from OUTSIDE the Etihad...and about half a mile or more from the stadium...has gone viral. That should put to rest any notion of there not being any atmosphere at City!

To all involved, nicely done lads and lasses. Wish I could have been there, but duty calls with family, but I was proud to hear you all. Absolutely brilliant!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I’m in holiday and watched the game on TV. It was clear from the start that the fans had come to play and the noise was immense, even through the TV. The booing of Liverpool combined with the singing for City was brilliant and really came through on NBCSN over here. However, to hear the crowd AFTER THE MATCH was fucking unbelievable! The rendition of Na Na Na (“Hey Jude”) took me back to being a little kid on a misty night in the Platt Lane End listening to the big lads and men raising the roof of the Kippax. Gives me goose bumps just thinking about it!!

And, glad to see the post game video from OUTSIDE the Etihad...and about half a mile or more from the stadium...has gone viral. That should put to rest any notion of there not being any atmosphere at City!

To all involved, nicely done lads and lasses. Wish I could have been there, but duty calls with family, but I was proud to hear you all. Absolutely brilliant!
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I agree but WTF was anyone doing half a mile away from the ground when the team was still on the pitch FFS?
 
The atmosphere Thursday was the best I've witnessed since we moved stadium. Absolutely fantastic, well done to all who made it happen. Much has been made of lack of atmosphere on this forum and I've given my two penneth a few times as to why. Bad planning and arrangement of away fans in the middle of two singing areas, apathy, complacency, all seater stadia kills atmosphere, old school fans don't go anymore, those that do can't be bothered bla bla bla.

Feeble excuses blurted out fellow blues. I've always said the lack of atmosphere was down to us, and us only, no bullshit excuse needed. If we cannot be (collectively) bothered, then we only have ourselves to blame. 1894 group work tirelessly to pump up the singing but often the silence drowns their noise out. By that I mean the negative energy of apathy zaps all the positive energy and songs soon fade out before they catch on.

I've always said WE attending supporters should inspire the team to play over the TEAM playing well to inspire US to sing... Kompany pleaded for us to turn up and raise the roof and be "the twelfth man". We did and waned it badly enough and never let up all game! The noise and passion definitely inspired Vinny and the boys to keep going all game, I'm 100% convinced good atmosphere will get the team up to play well and give their absolute all and make the difference, and it most definitely did.

Even ratboy Neville commended our atmosphere was the best he's ever heard, high praise indeed!

But if I had my way, that voiciferous passion that was bottled up and released on Thursday would be commonplace, and not bottled up just for potential season defining games.

More of the same blues: )
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
The atmosphere Thursday was the best I've witnessed since we moved stadium. Absolutely fantastic, well done to all who made it happen. Much has been made of lack of atmosphere on this forum and I've given my two penneth a few times as to why. Bad planning and arrangement of away fans in the middle of two singing areas, apathy, complacency, all seater stadia kills atmosphere, old school fans don't go anymore, those that do can't be bothered bla bla bla.

Feeble excuses blurted out fellow blues. I've always said the lack of atmosphere was down to us, and us only, no bullshit excuse needed. If we cannot be (collectively) bothered, then we only have ourselves to blame. 1894 group work tirelessly to pump up the singing but often the silence drowns their noise out. By that I mean the negative energy of apathy zaps all the positive energy and songs soon fade out before they catch on.

I've always said WE attending supporters should inspire the team to play over the TEAM playing well to inspire US to sing... Kompany pleaded for us to turn up and raise the roof and be "the twelfth man". We did and waned it badly enough and never let up all game! The noise and passion definitely inspired Vinny and the boys to keep going all game, I'm 100% convinced good atmosphere will get the team up to play well and give their absolute all and make the difference, and it most definitely did.

Even ratboy Neville commended our atmosphere was the best he's ever heard, high praise indeed!

But if I had my way, that voiciferous passion that was bottled up and released on Thursday would be commonplace, and not bottled up just for potential season defining games.

More of the same blues: )
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It’s not a slight on the fans that attend, however, I can’t see it (Thursday’s level of support) becoming common place. The culture of support has changed over the years. It’s a combination and culmination of different factors (price of tickets, the tv companies, the lovely football, the moving around of seats, etc).

City fans are also blessed with great football on show. This creates a complaceny of sorts. As you alluded to, waiting to be entertained before the cheers start. This somewhat causes the silence or lack of an atmosphere.

A collective effort from different parties is needed to change the situation. Nonetheless, Thursday was absolutely amazing. Regardless of the fact that we all want a better atmosphere on most match days, I still believe City fans do better than a lot of fans with regards to turnout and atmosphere around the country.
 
Talking to some Rotherham fans on the tram after the game yesterday.
A few of them made the point that the City fans got to the ref and that was the main reason Vinny got a yellow and not a red.
I hadn't considered that but they may have a point.
We should put refs under pressure more often it may just give us the edge in some games.
Knock out stages of the CL could swing on such decisions.
 
It just shows the influence we can have on the team. The most intense performance under Pep was accompanied by the best atmosphere during the Pep era. That's not a coincidence.
 
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