Atmosphere 2024/25

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pride in battle said:
And Twente had a larger away section than for a normal game...how ?
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Because premier league rules require the home team to give 10% of the capacity to away fans, unless the capacity is greater than 30,000, then they just give 3,000. So for premier league games the away allocation at OT is 3,000.

In the Uefa comps, Uefa requires the home team to give 5% of the capacity full stop. 5% of 75,000 is 3,750.

So for all UCL games, rags have to give an extra 750 away seats that they wouldn't have to give in Premier league games.
 
Greenandblue said:
Interesting article in the Athletic re the decline in Anfield atmosphere. Same issues, tickets too expensive, sales criteria, too many corporate areas, younger fans priced out or not qualifying. It's the Disnification of the Premier League, a game is an event, like a theme park, a treat for the kids, often attracting pretty dispassionate observers. City is the same, Arsenal and United are worse.
I love seeing new City fans coming to their first game, enthusiastic, thrilled be at the ground, and very welcome. But the EPL is a global attraction in a way that no other football league is, bar maybe Madrid and Barca. Lots of people at games are there to witness, not participate.
(Anfield is absolutely silent tonight BTW)

www.nytimes.com

We need to talk about the Anfield atmosphere

Anfield is associated with noise and passion but that's not always the case. We spoke to regulars for their views on the experience at games
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The atmosphere at Anfield has been dire for years. Their biggest games these days are City and United. The rest of the time it is like a graveyard. Anfield is a total myth. In the 7Os and 80s it was fantastic though. A very intimidating place to visit as an away fan.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The atmosphere at Anfield has been dire for years. Their biggest games these days are City and United. The rest of the time it is like a graveyard. Anfield is a total myth. In the 7Os and 80s it was fantastic though. A very intimidating place to visit as an away fan.
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Anfield has always had a great atmosphere for big games. The set up of their stadium, while it’s not the prettiest, is geared to create noise.

The atmosphere in the second half of our game there last season was excellent, and the first leg of the CL game we had there is one of the best atmospheres I’ve ever heard.

Outside their biggest games, it’s no better than any other ground though.
 
M23 Citizen said:
Anfield has always had a great atmosphere for big games. The set up of their stadium, while it’s not the prettiest, is geared to create noise.

The atmosphere in the second half of our game there last season was excellent, and the first leg of the CL game we had there is one of the best atmospheres I’ve ever heard.

Outside their biggest games, it’s no better than any other ground though.
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Agreed. The first time I went there with City was 1974. It really was a bear pit in those days. The level of violence was also off the scale with routine stabbings and slashings from their thugs. The trains were always bricked at Edge Hill before they got to Lime Street. Modern day fans really have no idea how bad Anfield was. Much worse than United away for starters.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Explain.

Dont understand.
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Years ago we tried an operation one end. Granted a good few years ago now, and it was fucking silent the whole game, with next to no away fans to drown us out. What many completely ignore is that the atmosphere is usually around the away fans. Move the away fans and that removes a large element of what gets many people going during the match.
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
In the Uefa comps, Uefa requires the home team to give 5% of the capacity full stop. 5% of 75,000 is 3,750.
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Side thought, based on Uefas rules, when our capacity increases to 62,000 we'll have to give the away fans 3,100, which is an extra 100 seats.

I know it's not many, but I wonder they'll find an extra 100 seats.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Agreed. The first time I went there with City was 1974. It really was a bear pit in those days. The level of violence was also off the scale with routine stabbings and slashings from their thugs. The trains were always bricked at Edge Hill before they got to Lime Street. Modern day fans really have no idea how bad Anfield was. Much worse than United away for starters.
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First time I went was in the 60’s and the atmosphere was unbelievable, the days of St. John and Roger Hunt, iirc. Don’t remember much violence though although the dippers invented train wrecking.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Agreed. The first time I went there with City was 1974. It really was a bear pit in those days. The level of violence was also off the scale with routine stabbings and slashings from their thugs. The trains were always bricked at Edge Hill before they got to Lime Street. Modern day fans really have no idea how bad Anfield was. Much worse than United away for starters.
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Have been to Anfield for 81semi and have never known a more violent nasty place. All Mancs blues and reds knew they were taking their lives in their hands going there from early 70s to late 90s. Stabbings and slashings were common the worse dippers had to fear in Manchester was a thumping and booting. However I was there in 1970 aged 13 with a 12 year old mate two huge dockers could see we were shitting ourselves in the Annie Rd. They let us stand in front of them by the wall and told us to cheer our team and they'd make sure nobody bothered us. Afterwards they walked back through Stanley Park with us and saw us back to the coach. This goes to show their are some really decent Liverpool fans and we were lucky enough to meet two. In this day and age people would question their motivation but they were just two really decent guys.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Have been to Anfield for 81semi and have never known a more violent nasty place. All Mancs blues and reds knew they were taking their lives in their hands going there from early 70s to late 90s. Stabbings and slashings were common the worse dippers had to fear in Manchester was a thumping and booting. However I was there in 1970 aged 13 with a 12 year old mate two huge dockers could see we were shitting ourselves in the Annie Rd. They let us stand in front of them by the wall and told us to cheer our team and they'd make sure nobody bothered us. Afterwards they walked back through Stanley Park with us and saw us back to the coach. This goes to show their are some really decent Liverpool fans and we were lucky enough to meet two. In this day and age people would question their motivation but they were just two really decent guys.
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The anny road end had no segregation and blues got picked off if wearing colours or got the old ..."got the time la". That chant too...."we are the anny the anny road end". C....nts

You say they only got twatted and booted at Maine Road? Not sure that's all they got....but no comment
 
We really need to stop beating ourselves up about the Etihad atmosphere, Old Trafford is an absolute morgue today, big game against Spurs, Sunday primetime slot, and it's silent. (Sweeter that they're being played off the park as well ..)
 
CC1 said:
The east stand is the old Kippax. We don’t want away fans in the lower tier so they would be shown on TV all match. If anything, they should be in a corner section of the 3rd tier of CB stand - so they can’t be seen or heard. All away fans are well hidden away at the swamp. We should take heed
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Or at St James park.
 
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I actually thought our away support was really decent yesterday, especially considering it was an early kick-off, don't know how it came across on the TV.

Newcastle fans were absolutely rubbish until they scored, then they had a bit of a sing song for 10 minutes at which point the silence resumed
 
Two things I noted watching the EFL show was that Elland Rd currently seems to have the best atmosphere in the country but loads of early leavers as lots of empty seats in Lowfields Rd stand near the end. Also always found Home Park Plymouth a soulless place but seems on fire at the moment. Like teams grounds have there good times and bad times ours is no worse than most.
 
117 M34 said:
Atmosphere from Newcastle fans yesterday was terrible until they scored.
Worse than the atmosphere we have for home games.
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True that, very strange and over the whole 90 minutes I never heard more than a couple of chants and could not really identify where their singing section was.

Not digging the Newcastle fans as they have great fans but it’s a country wide problem, just highlighting it’s not unique to us or we suffer more than most.
 
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