Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

Thought it was a decent crowd number wise but lack of singing was maybe due to folk not being in their normal seating areas
 
GortonBlue62 said:
In club football he has no next move.

No other club would give him the funds or complete control he enjoys at City. The entire project has been about getting him and keeping him.

I hope he delivers the Champions League before he goes, that's why he's here.
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He has already said his next move could be a break ,then an international team .
Maybe it could be spain when luis enrique calls it a day after the world cup finals ?
 
dublinblue12 said:
When did klopp say that?
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www.dailymail.co.uk

Was Klopp right to criticise fans for leaving Anfield early?

Jurgen Klopp was critical of those Liverpool fans who left Anfield early during Sunday's 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace. Was he right to call them outor does he not understand the lengths they go to?
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

In general, though, one of the things Klopp did was build an atmosphere at Anfield. He's spoken about that draw where they did the cringe bow at the Kop as being a deliberate tactic to cure "the depression" at the club. On loads of occasions in those early seasons he was signalling to the crowd to be more energetic or whatever. He asked the fans to turn up for smaller games, asked them not to leave early etc etc
 
Mcfc_Tom said:
Spurs sold out their Conference league qualifier. Sick of this dead rubber nonsense. Literally only fans who have excuses about “online tickets” or working “late shifts” or “no money” etc etc. So nobody in Liverpool or any other city has that problem do they? End of the day I think some of our fans are pretty arrogant towards the whole thing. Remember how rocking the place was when we beat Spurs (crouch OG) to get champions league. Then when we actually do and play Napoli (the first CL game in our history) we got 38,000… End of the day our fans weirdly prefer watching Fulham or Norwich or Southampton than Leipzig or Shakhtar or Roma. Wierd mentally we have as a fan base
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That isn't correct. The attendance was 44,026 which was pretty much a sell-out.

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I think we had more than that last night. There's no way it was 38k, but I'll wait for official confirmation of the attendance.... that's with no away fans too!
 
MarsLlama said:
Is he really calling out fans though? To me he was just sounding frustrated that his world-class team isn't getting the full stadiums it frankly deserves. I don't doubt he understands perfectly well that lots of fans have to prioritise, let's not forget this is a guy who's proud of his roots as a working class family. It's not like the same doesn't apply to every club. He probably feels like we should still be able to find 55k people to come even if some of the regulars have to prioritise the PSG game etc.

This planned stadium extension does worry me. I know it's partly motivated by desire to host a CL final but we could be looking at thousands of empty seats for a lot of league games.
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MarsLlama said:
Is he really calling out fans though? To me he was just sounding frustrated that his world-class team isn't getting the full stadiums it frankly deserves. I don't doubt he understands perfectly well that lots of fans have to prioritise, let's not forget this is a guy who's proud of his roots as a working class family. It's not like the same doesn't apply to every club. He probably feels like we should still be able to find 55k people to come even if some of the regulars have to prioritise the PSG game etc.

This planned stadium extension does worry me. I know it's partly motivated by desire to host a CL final but we could be looking at thousands of empty seats for a lot of league games.
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If I didnt have a season ticket, I dont think I would attend many games at all, especially with having kids. The Arsenal game tickets were up to 80 quid, kids in excess of 40 quid, for a family, 90 minutes of football could literally use all your months disposable income, that's all on top of having to buy memberships. Because we have smaller numbers than Liverpool and Utd we need the same people to return more often, that isn't helped by absolutely rinsing them every time they visit. Liverpool charge kids 9 quid, we happily charge in excess of 40. Surely there are loads of youngsters in Manchester who would love a ticket, why not lower the age of youngsters on their own to 11 and charge them an affordable ticket.
 
I don’t know what’s worse, multimillionaires calling out working people, in the place that invented working class no less, or fellow football supporters chipping away for shits and giggles despite being in the same boat.
The media can get fucked too. Human rights, oil, slave labour, local fans in a provincial city that is not overly wealthy, it’s all great click bait when you have no moral compass.
Get in cunts corner the lot.
 
To help hold a decent atmosphere, like it or not you need someone to lead the fans!

Someone at the front with a loud speaker at front of standing section would make a good start
 
BlueMoonday said:
Yes - agree you can criticise the atmosphere, I've no issue with that.

The empty seat obsession from the media isn't criticism, it is poverty shaming.

Majority of our fan base our mostly working class and based in Greater Manchester. People are either working or the added group stages are too much financially.

Unlike the dippers and Yoonited, we don't have a Northern Ireland contingent to make up for the drop in numbers.
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*waves
Although costs etc to travel for a mid-week match from Belfast arent exactly attractive.....and tbh, whilst the few CL games i have travelled for have been decent matches the pre and post game just isnt worth the grief/hassle......

Day or half day off work....flight over....check in hotel....match....hotel....day or half day off work....

Thats a mid-week melt!!
 
MadchesterCity said:
To help hold a decent atmosphere, like it or not you need someone to lead the fans!

Someone at the front with a loud speaker at front of standing section would make a good start
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We need Shane Ritchie then , how much does he charge an hour for his services? lol!
 
vicblueman said:
Think the atmosphere is like being in a church or library at times .
Do the fans get behind the team like utd ,liverpool ,celtic & rangers fans do for home games , to be honest i don't think they do, city fans can be reserved at times for average games.
Think pepe is getting a tiny bit cheesed off with it & the empty seats will decide his next career move eventually .
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Totally wank comment. How many of those other clubs games have you been to ? None I’m guessing. Atmosphere at rags and dippers games is shite 9 times out of 10 and I’m not sure Celtic park or Ibrox are absolutely bouncing when they’re battering semi pro level teams week after week.

Really poor from you as a City fan to just regurgitate shite you’ve read on social media as if it were true.
 
vicblueman said:
Think the atmosphere is like being in a church or library at times .
Do the fans get behind the team like utd ,liverpool ,celtic & rangers fans do for home games , to be honest i don't think they do, city fans can be reserved at times for average games.
Think pepe is getting a tiny bit cheesed off with it & the empty seats will decide his next career move eventually .
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Not sure i agree with this, the atmosphere is dead at the swamp and anfield for the average! as bad as ours!
 
We can't win, if we sell out then we're full of plastics, if there's empty seats then we're not big enough.

Nothing worse than attendance banter, something that's only ever used when we're doing well on the pitch.

Is anyone surprised it was down last night?

The north has been battered by the pandemic, more so than the south, wages have dropped more so than the south. Our match going fan base is mainly local and they're the same people that have been knocked for 6 with the pandemic. We've only had 10 years to really build our global fan base.

Add to all that the game last night was fairly meaningless, any result last night and we still have 5 more games to change the outcome. The group stages are shite. Then it's a midweek game, shit transport access, late getting home, work and school tomorrow.

We've done all this to death, until things are done to rectify all of this then it'll be the same every year.
 
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Manchester33 said:
That isn't correct. The attendance was 44,026 which was pretty much a sell-out.

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I think we had more than that last night. There's no way it was 38k, but I'll wait for official confirmation of the attendance.... that's with no away fans too!
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Yep, spot on. Incidentally, United’s first ever CL group game against Gothenburg drew a crowd of around 34,000 - 10,000 less than ours versus Napoli.
 
Club has systematically destroyed the atmosphere, culture and enjoyment of attending the Etihad over the past decade.

Treating fans like shit at every turn and then they turn round begging for the day tripper to show up and they'd rather go and watch Ronaldo anyway because those people are shallow and brand conscious.

Reap what you sow. The fans were treated like shit this summer so the club can go fuck itself. It deserves the ridicule it gets.
 
Manchester33 said:
That isn't correct. The attendance was 44,026 which was pretty much a sell-out.

Source

I think we had more than that last night. There's no way it was 38k, but I'll wait for official confirmation of the attendance.... that's with no away fans too!
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From my seat in east stand lower it looked pretty full to me , certainly way above thirty eight thousand
 
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