Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

Charlesfarsbar said:
It’s

obviously a problem if the most important person in the club feels the need to point it out in a post match interview that wasnt pressing the issue

the club should address it directly with the fans , start engaging with them instead of the manager calling them out

can someone who is on city matters disclose what is the clubs stance on poor atmosphere and early leavers

what do the players think about it?

what is the club doing about empty seats other than making the fans jump through hoops to transfer / sell their tickets
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Someone called Mark on a facebook group called solid Citizens is a city matters rep.

I presume he will be on here, but if not reach out to him via facebook?
 
mosssideblue said:
A couple of times now you have said his comments were "clearly planned" other than opinion, what have you to back that up?
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The man is the best football manager in the world for a reason, he plans everything, every single thing.

He brought the subject into a post match interview, he clearly planned it, for what reason, who knows!

But I do know, he has caused this club to have even more abuse aimed at it from one and all, you would have though we had lost last night in a empty , silent stadium.
 
Heidenreich said:
Let's be honest 10k city fans makes more noise then filled Camp Nou. Camp Nou is literally a graveyard
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As good as we are his style of football isn’t exactly one that inspires a great atmosphere either. Bayern (all German clubs) is different as they go through an orchestrated songbook every game
 
Keeper! said:
The man is the best football manager in the world for a reason, he plans everything, every single thing.

He brought the subject into a post match interview, he clearly planned it, for what reason, who knows!

But I do know, he has caused this club to have even more abuse aimed at it from one and all, you would have though we had lost last night in a empty , silent stadium.
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You simply don't know whether it was planned or not. Everything is not black and white.
 
BM96 said:
I don't mind the fanbase getting criticized when they deserve it even by the manager, but the timing of this really has me scratching my head.

I was not expecting this many in the ground after the pandemic so I was actually surprised by the amount turning up.
I went to Norwich looked like there was close to 50k there, surely he cant be complaining about that. Missed Arsenal but looked a good crowd on the tv maybe even a sell out?

I went last night, and have seen a few pictures of the crowd. if there is 38000 at that game taking away the 3000 away end that means there was 10,000 empty in the city end. that cant be right looked between 43-45000. Anyway the amount of blues there last night no way deserved a negative reaction from pep and now all the reaction to what was a great night is about not filling a stadium.

The biggest problem in all this is that were the only side that gets slagged for it. Chelsea holds 41000, there was 39000 there tuesday. United didnt have a full stadium against Leeds. No one cared BT comm saying its a packed old trafford when you could see the empties.
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What do we measure our atmosphere against, most English grounds are same. They are sanitised where the away fans create the sound usually (we did this at Leicester at weekend), this includes CLAnfield and old toilet where the press live in the past. Continental stadiums are usually better however a lot is orchestrated which we don’t want, or maybe we do now.
 
Whitefield Blue said:
The upshot is that you can be the greatest manager the world has ever seen and a tone deaf bellend at the same time. Who knew?

Actually we should all know because he’s got previous. Always referring to the rags ‘history’ when comparing them to us. Not just the rags actually, he did the same with Villa, Everton and others. All of it nothing but ammunition to our enemies.

Tone. Deaf.
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And another thing…

He doesn’t seem to realise that the fans are out there on social media every minute of every day going into bat for the club against swarms of enemies, countering the lies, standing up for them against not just idiot fanboys from other clubs but the mainstream media itself. And yet he still can’t help himself from all but getting into bed with them.

I’m actually angrier with him than I thought.
 
Pep can go anytime . He thinks he's doing us a favour by managing us. 40000 for a midweek game is respectable enough when you consider the group stages of this competition are for the most part a non event. Maybe if he didnt fuck up our chances of winning it when it comes to the business end every year he could talk.
Fuck him and his "History Clubs" and blowing smoke up the arses of the rags and Dippers.
The media throw enough shit at the club without him giving them another stick to beat us with.
 
B\connellblue said:
Pep can go anytime . He thinks he's doing us a favour by managing us. 40000 for a midweek game is respectable enough when you consider the group stages of this competition are for the most part a non event. Maybe if he didnt fuck up our chances of winning it when it comes to the business end every year he could talk.
Fuck him and his "History Clubs" and blowing smoke up the arses of the rags and Dippers.
The media throw enough shit at the club without him giving them another stick to beat us with.
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Lol.
 
Henri Regnault said:
Do we have a picture of the crowd? I saw one on a different forum and wasn't sure if it was legit. Stadium looked basically full in it. Was it more a case of a weak atmosphere due to the late-night game a lot of corporate presence? Were a lot of people leaving early? Baffled by Pep here tbh
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Not sure how to post pics but ignore the 38,000 attendance figure that seems to be doing the rounds. It was more like 45-46k in all honesty. There were probably only around 30-32k in the stadium at kick-off as thousands were still outside trying to get in and fans were still getting to their seats 15-20 minutes in. Once everyone was in, the much maligned North Stand was full from my vantage point in the South Stand. The only significant empties were obviously the away end (fair fucks to the Leipzig fans who did travel as their official club trip cost 1199 Euros!), CB3 (the last section to go on sale), and some hospitality areas. As a comparison to my guesstimate of 45-46k, we only got 40k v Lyon 3 years ago for the opening group game and that was with a much bigger away following.
The atmosphere wasn’t THAT bad. Nothing to massively write home about but it has been worse at CL games. As well as 114/115/116, 110/111 were on good form too but there were also chants starting from elsewhere in the ground.
I’ve noticed that early leavers tend to be more of an issue at league games than CL games so it was a little surprising to see so many leave early last night.
 
Grealish’s Shinpads said:
Was it you who made up the “now we’ve got Pep Guardiola and the blues are taking over” chant?

Shame it hasn’t been sung recently - class chant. Completely agree with the rest as well
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Yeah that was me. It was an okay chant, it didn’t catch on so it can’t have been that good haha. But I always try and make up something different and original, Rule #1 for me when making up football chants is that I never use a tune that’s been done before by other sets of fans (or ourselves)…

Ive made a similar one up about Foden, another Roses song, “She Bangs The Drums”

“Have you seen him have you heard
The way he plays there are no words
He’s our Foden he’s out Phiiiil

Have you seen how he can pass
He’ll score the first he’ll score the last
He’s our Foden he’s out Phiiil”

(I know I’ve contradicted myself there as I said we need more new City songs not player ones, but it scanned well one day when I was listening to the song)


But even away from new chants, we’ve got lots of old City chants that don’t get sung anymore. For example:
We All Follow Man City Over Land and Sea
City ‘til I Die
Hey Jude (I don’t recall a game in the last five years we’ve sung this away from it being played over the tannoy, and it was one of our big full stadium join-in songs for years).
 
I’d have guessed 45k but yep, it was ‘full’ everywhere. No chance it was 38k even with the 7 Leipzig fans
 
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