Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

EastMidlandsBlue said:
Haha just had a read absolutely quality. I've noticed a fair few bantering us for the number of people wearing half and half scarves. They're really grasping now.
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Half and half scarves are shit but you see them at every game these days involving all clubs, especially the bigger clubs. Anyone digging us out for that is grasping at straws and a hypocrite as it's likely they follow a club where they're prevalent too.

There's a lot of ignorance about our support and atmosphere, especially around home games. We know it's not a seething mass every game and there's room for improvement, especially at league games when there's not much riding on it apart from 3 points, but every ground in the Premier League is like that. I was speaking to some Leeds fans in Krakow over the weekend and one was saying how much he likes watching our football and hopes we do the treble. However, there was a "But..." and that was that our fans are shite. I threw a few stats at him regarding their attendances between 2006 and Bielsa's arrival in 2018, and recalled when I was in Leeds for a night out in the summer of 2007 just after they'd been relegated to the third tier and coming across their souvenir shop in the city centre that had closed down. He wasn't keen on discussing any of that for some reason, and instead was going on about the number of fans with ipads and phones at our home games. I explained that while it's not great, this kind of thing is inevitable at any club that is successful and if he thinks our atmosphere is shit all over the ground then he should come in the South Stand for a match.
 
M18CTID said:
Half and half scarves are shit but you see them at every game these days involving all clubs, especially the bigger clubs. Anyone digging us out for that is grasping at straws and a hypocrite as it's likely they follow a club where they're prevalent too.

There's a lot of ignorance about our support and atmosphere, especially around home games. We know it's not a seething mass every game and there's room for improvement, especially at league games when there's not much riding on it apart from 3 points, but every ground in the Premier League is like that. I was speaking to some Leeds fans in Krakow over the weekend and one was saying how much he likes watching our football and hopes we do the treble. However, there was a "But..." and that was that our fans are shite. I threw a few stats at him regarding their attendances between 2006 and Bielsa's arrival in 2018, and recalled when I was in Leeds for a night out in the summer of 2007 just after they'd been relegated to the third tier and coming across their souvenir shop in the city centre that had closed down. He wasn't keen on discussing any of that for some reason, and instead was going on about the number of fans with ipads and phones at our home games. I explained that while it's not great, this kind of thing is inevitable at any club that is successful and if he thinks our atmosphere is shit all over the ground then he should come in the South Stand for a match.
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This is people not being able to accept that our atmosphere is actually pretty decent, and on our day there's not many better than us.

Anyone who said our atmosphere was shit after the arsenal game would have looked stupid, but they can't help themselves trying to find something else.

Over the past few weeks I've seen:

- We have too many half and half scarves
- Too many people filming at the game
- We apparently didn't have great "limbs" when we scored a penalty at Wembley
- We only sing right after we've scored

Everytime I see comments like this, I know we've must've had a pretty decent atmosphere cause they have to think of something else.
 
Got to admit something here, yes I get the half-and-half scarves are shit, my god who wants to wear a tatty cheapo scarves with rag dippers or gooners on it, that being said my lad was 12 at the time and his first European away game was at Dortmund last year, and we got one, it was a UCL official one with the game dates on it, he didn’t wear it, its a memento, something to remind him of a great day out.
 
TLDuk said:
Got to admit something here, yes I get the half-and-half scarves are shit, my god who wants to wear a tatty cheapo scarves with rag dippers or gooners on it, that being said my lad was 12 at the time and his first European away game was at Dortmund last year, and we got one, it was a UCL official one with the game dates on it, he didn’t wear it, its a memento, something to remind him of a great day out.
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With the UEFA logo on it? I hope you showered that night after touching that?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Personally, I think the myth about the Etihad and our atmosphere has been working in our favour for quite a while.

Teams such as Liverpool, United, Paris, Villa, Madrid and most recently Arsenal, have all looked like rabbits caught in the headlights when we are right up for it.
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I think the atmosphere has been great all season and on the big nights i have seldom seen better.
 
Worsleyweb said:
I think the atmosphere has been great all season and on the big nights i have seldom seen better.
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Even the newbie fans are emotionally invested. They like the Poznan, they vibe off the team, etc.

Half and half scarves and selfies aren't for me, but neither is Facebook and the world still turns.

When the team are doing special things, there is a special connection that always goes back to our siege mentality.

You come for us, you come for all of us.
 
Worsleyweb said:
I think the atmosphere has been great all season and on the big nights i have seldom seen better.
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Atmosphere was top in 2022 and even in games against average teams like Fulham and Brentford the fans stuck with the team to try and drive us on for the win and there were even hardly any early leavers for ages last year.

But after the World Cup the atmosphere was terrible. The Everton game, everyone fucked off from 75 minutes and there was still 27 minutes left until the game ended. Wolves, first half v Spurs,

Then we clicked into gear again once that stupid World Cup was out of our system and the news about the charges against us came out galvanised us and we’ve been top notch again in recent months.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Even the newbie fans are emotionally invested. They like the Poznan, they vibe off the team, etc.

Half and half scarves and selfies aren't for me, but neither is Facebook and the world still turns.

When the team are doing special things, there is a special connection that always goes back to our siege mentality.

You come for us, you come for all of us.
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The ones who are actually there for us, I like.

It’s the ones who aren’t, the ones with United superstore bags tucked under their coats, the ones falling over seats to film Messi Mbappe and cheer Mane warming up, the ones rooting for the opposition… they can get fucked!
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Atmosphere was top in 2022 and even in games against average teams like Fulham and Brentford the fans stuck with the team to try and drive us on for the win and there were even hardly any early leavers for ages last year.

But after the World Cup the atmosphere was terrible. The Everton game, everyone fucked off from 75 minutes and there was still 27 minutes left until the game ended. Wolves, first half v Spurs,

Then we clicked into gear again once that stupid World Cup was out of our system and the news about the charges against us came out galvanised us and we’ve been top notch again in recent months.
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I'll die on this hill that Fulham was one of the best atmospheres of the season and one of the best in recent years outside of the big league/knockout UCL games.

I also think those PL charges are the biggest factor in our resurgence in the last months of the season after a pretty terrible few months after the World Cup. They came at a time when the team was struggling, unrest in the dressing room and an atmosphere that was fizzling out following a great start to the season. That Villa game and the backs against the wall atmosphere in the first half set the tone for the rest of the season and we havent looked back since, the players or the fans.
 
Here we go again. ‘fans’ sat on their arses at home in front of TV calling out the fans in the stadium. Fucking laughable. I’m at the Stadium. The atmosphere is OK. It ain’t rocking like the Arsenal game. But that wasn’t exactly the greatest 45 minutes of football we have witnessed at the Etihad is it?
 
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