Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

I think it's just our culture. We don't want to go out of our comfort zone stand up and sing and clap as you will feel like a dick head. It feels better and easier to just sit or stand there with your arms crossed silent. If we had 20 thousand African or Argentinian fans in the ground instead of 20 thousand mancs it would be better atmosphere. Just the way we are. Your average city fan Dave who works the bins or roads or works in a factory all week doesn't want to sing and dance about at the football he just wants a pint and to sit there with his arms crossed feeling comfortable.
 
jrb said:
I agree. I keep on agreeing with people. :-) It’s Christmas!

Having 2 proper vocal ends NSL2, SSL1, including SSL3, and blocks 110 and 111 will hopefully make a huge difference to the atmosphere over time?

What the fans can do is to make sure bother ends sing with each other, bounce off each other, and have some friendly banter with each other. Singing to each other across the pitch, and joining in together with chants, rather than singing different chants all the time. It’s something the fans can organise and work on together over time.

Here’s a really shit example, so don’t have a go anyone. :-(

The North stand to the South stand during the match.

“We are the North, we are the North stand, we come from Manchester!”

The South stand chant back.

“we are the South stand, we are the South stand, we come from Manchester!”

It’s just a bit of banter between the stands and the fans, but it get’s both ends singing, and side lines the away fans as they listen to both ends of the Etihad chanting to each other.
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For the FOCs out there...

"Wythenshawe...."
"Langley..."
"Wythenshawe...."
"Langley..."
 
jrb said:
I agree. I keep on agreeing with people. :-) It’s Christmas!

Having 2 proper vocal ends NSL2, SSL1, including SSL3, and blocks 110 and 111 will hopefully make a huge difference to the atmosphere over time?

What the fans can do is to make sure bother ends sing with each other, bounce off each other, and have some friendly banter with each other. Singing to each other across the pitch, and joining in together with chants, rather than singing different chants all the time. It’s something the fans can organise and work on together over time.

Here’s a really shit example, so don’t have a go anyone. :-(

The North stand to the South stand during the match.

“We are the North, we are the North stand, we come from Manchester!”

The South stand chant back.

“we are the South stand, we are the South stand, we come from Manchester!”

It’s just a bit of banter between the stands and the fans, but it get’s both ends singing, and side lines the away fans as they listen to both ends of the Etihad chanting to each other.
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We had this for one season at Maine Road when the new North Stand was terraced. There was a rivalry with the Kippax and it was great,
 
Carter1990 said:
I think it's just our culture. We don't want to go out of our comfort zone stand up and sing and clap as you will feel like a dick head. It feels better and easier to just sit or stand there with your arms crossed silent. If we had 20 thousand African or Argentinian fans in the ground instead of 20 thousand mancs it would be better atmosphere. Just the way we are. Your average city fan Dave who works the bins or roads or works in a factory all week doesn't want to sing and dance about at the football he just wants a pint and to sit there with his arms crossed feeling comfortable.
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Even though we’ve attracted 10,000’s of new fans from across Manchester, the UK, Europe, and the World, our long-term match going fan base has got a lot older with many fans not going to the matches anymore or they have sadly passed away.

The spread of the hospitality areas around the Etihad to increase match day revenue has also had an impact on the atmosphere. When we first moved to the Etihad, and for many years after, before large parts of L2 become hospitality areas, L2 was much more boisterous and noisier.

I moved from MR to block 215, SSL2. Most of the fans in R Block, NS moved to block 215. We were a block away from the away fans. We always joined in with the singing, everybody knew each other, and it could get very ruckus, especially for the big matches. Now 215 is a hospitality block.
 
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jrb said:
The safe standing seats on SSL1 weren’t made any cheaper when safe standing was installed.

I honestly can’t see the club making the safe standing seats on NSL2 any cheaper than other parts of the ground, especially with normal seats directly under them. The club can’t make safe standing seats cheaper, and one row below going down 5000 seats, make those seats normal priced seats.
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Could do, the have tiered pricing in SSL3 season tickets depending on what row you're on. Mine on the front row is nearly doble that of the ones at the back (i think, maybe not quite that much but its significant) there is also a middle of the tier pricing
 
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Carter1990 said:
I think it's just our culture. We don't want to go out of our comfort zone stand up and sing and clap as you will feel like a dick head. It feels better and easier to just sit or stand there with your arms crossed silent. If we had 20 thousand African or Argentinian fans in the ground instead of 20 thousand mancs it would be better atmosphere. Just the way we are. Your average city fan Dave who works the bins or roads or works in a factory all week doesn't want to sing and dance about at the football he just wants a pint and to sit there with his arms crossed feeling comfortable.
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It wasn't a problem 20 years ago
 
Carter1990 said:
I think it's just our culture. We don't want to go out of our comfort zone stand up and sing and clap as you will feel like a dick head. It feels better and easier to just sit or stand there with your arms crossed silent. If we had 20 thousand African or Argentinian fans in the ground instead of 20 thousand mancs it would be better atmosphere. Just the way we are. Your average city fan Dave who works the bins or roads or works in a factory all week doesn't want to sing and dance about at the football he just wants a pint and to sit there with his arms crossed feeling comfortable.
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Don’t suppose he works the bins in Didsbury?!
 
wearethesouthstand said:
The main 1894 lads are always out early they are on the flags and up on 2nd tier doing drop downs or holding things in place from about a quarter of an hour before kick off. It’s not them coming out with 3 mins to kick off
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That's fine, appreciated.

I for one do not blame 1894, or any single group. But Flags don't make a noise.

It is for all us blues to have some responsibility to make the noise. The Culture has gone, to be part of something, the group or team feeling , it is all about the self nowadays.

It is impossible to switch atmosphere on like a light bulb, it has to grow, and if people cannot get to their seats at 10 to 3, it's not happening. But that is just a part of it, there needs to be leaders, in the 70s,80s that was fine, not any more.

The singing , chanting , probably needs to be orchestrated to a degree, another element some feel they don't want .

Anyway , I didn't want you to think I was belittling 1894, it's a 50,000 people issue , not a hundred.
 
Carter1990 said:
I think it's just our culture. We don't want to go out of our comfort zone stand up and sing and clap as you will feel like a dick head. It feels better and easier to just sit or stand there with your arms crossed silent. If we had 20 thousand African or Argentinian fans in the ground instead of 20 thousand mancs it would be better atmosphere. Just the way we are. Your average city fan Dave who works the bins or roads or works in a factory all week doesn't want to sing and dance about at the football he just wants a pint and to sit there with his arms crossed feeling comfortable.
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Harsh ...... but true.

I feel self conscious stood up imaking a noise in the middle of 100s sat down.
Usually 1 or 2 say fuck it and join in, 9320 ultras.
 
With 1894 posting about members relocating to the new North Stand tier 2.

When meeting the club, would it not be a suggestion to ask them to change their ideas about Tier 1 in the North Stand and deliver what they advised in the planning document, which was a safe standing in Tier 1 right behind the goal?

As you may have seen in the recent victory against Real Madrid, the most vocal fans in Madrid are behind the goal

@Bert Swift @Didsbury Dave

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Back in the days of Greenall Whitley, the old bloke proclaiming THE END IS NIGH and Peter Swales' yearly boast of repairing the potholes in the Kippax Car Park, there used to be a older guy in a donkey jacket, who we never once spotted sober and throughout the late 70s and early 80s remained a Kippax legend for us posh kids from the shires.

Every week without fail, "Pissed up Pete" used to arrive roughly 10 minutes into each home game, (with a rubbery glass of Greenalls in each hand), before greeting each and every one of us with a massive hug, as though he'd just found some long lost mates.
He'd then launch into a spectacularly incoherent rant at the players before sitting down at Half Time and falling asleep, occasionally waking at around 70 minutes.

One day we were playing Norwich and and the game was drifting towards a dreary and featureless goalless draw.

Suddenly, our terrace hero lurched from his drunken unconscious slumber and boomed:

WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Even his real mates pretended they weren't with him, but Pete continued alone and defiant

WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Somebody buckled, and then another two or three
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Eventually the Kippax were one voice
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Our prayers were answered as Daley entered the game and within a few minutes Paul Power had opened the scoring at the Platt Lane End.
We were all ecstatic, but Pete just took it in his stride with a nonchalant wave

Of course, in an ideal world that would have been a huge turning point in Daley's career, but John Bond didn't like him, and I don't think he ever played for us again.

The ETIHAD needs a "Pissed up Pete", but I suspect he'd now be banned for falling asleep in his seat.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Back in the days of Greenall Whitley, the old bloke proclaiming THE END IS NIGH and Peter Swales' yearly boast of repairing the potholes in the Kippax Car Park, there used to be a older guy in a donkey jacket, who we never once spotted sober and throughout the late 70s and early 80s remained a Kippax legend for us posh kids from the shires.

Every week without fail, "Pissed up Pete" used to arrive roughly 10 minutes into each home game, (with a rubbery glass of Greenalls in each hand), before greeting each and every one of us with a massive hug, as though he'd just found some long lost mates.
He'd then launch into a spectacularly incoherent rant at the players before sitting down at Half Time and falling asleep, occasionally waking at around 70 minutes.

One day we were playing Norwich and and the game was drifting towards a dreary and featureless goalless draw.

Suddenly, our terrace hero lurched from his drunken unconscious slumber and boomed:

WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Even his real mates pretended they weren't with him, but Pete continued alone and defiant

WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Somebody buckled, and then another two or three
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Eventually the Kippax were one voice
WE WANT DALEY!
WE WANT DALEY!

Our prayers were answered as Daley entered the game and within a few minutes Paul Power had opened the scoring at the Platt Lane End.
We were all ecstatic, but Pete just took it in his stride with a nonchalant wave

Of course, in an ideal world that would have been a huge turning point in Daley's career, but John Bond didn't like him, and I don't think he ever played for us again.

The ETIHAD needs a "Pissed up Pete", but I suspect he'd now be banned for falling asleep in his seat.
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He'd never be allowed in these days!
 
I remember the days of Fergie Penis. Fun days on the terraces.

You’d never get in with it now unless it was deflated before you went in.

If you inflated it inside the ground stewards would be all over you, and you’d be ejected. ;-) (I didn’t want to use the other word) You’d probably get a ban from the club as well.

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jrb said:
I remember the days of Fergie Penis. Fun days on the terraces.

You’d never get in with it now unless it was deflated before you went in.

If you inflated it inside the ground stewards would be all over you, and you’d be ejected. ;-) (I didn’t want to use the other word) You’d probably get a ban from the club as well.

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Don't let Citizen Of Legoland see that Matron.
 
asahartford1 said:
That's fine, appreciated.

I for one do not blame 1894, or any single group. But Flags don't make a noise.

It is for all us blues to have some responsibility to make the noise. The Culture has gone, to be part of something, the group or team feeling , it is all about the self nowadays.

It is impossible to switch atmosphere on like a light bulb, it has to grow, and if people cannot get to their seats at 10 to 3, it's not happening. But that is just a part of it, there needs to be leaders, in the 70s,80s that was fine, not any more.

The singing , chanting , probably needs to be orchestrated to a degree, another element some feel they don't want .

Anyway , I didn't want you to think I was belittling 1894, it's a 50,000 people issue , not a hundred.
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They don’t make a noise but they can give you a voice
 
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