Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

It's probably not a top priotity, however the music used in the stadium pre-match gets worse and worse every season. What is their instance on remixing every song to ever come out of Manchester?

Who's idea is it to put a techno house beat behind Joy Division? Who's idea is it to provide an EDM remix of Supersonic? It's just garbage. Every week, and especially every mid-week night match, my eyes must roll back so far out of my head they end up back at Maine Road. It's like the club saw the Sunderland documentary where the new CEO explains the ideas behind changing the walkout music, and thinking it was a good idea.

I know it sounds petty, but for the club make a big point about getting into the ground early, only to play such horrendous music right before kick off shows that they have no idea as to what will actually get fans singing...
 
Mickeyhoohaa said:
It's probably not a top priotity, however the music used in the stadium pre-match gets worse and worse every season. What is their instance on remixing every song to ever come out of Manchester?

Who's idea is it to put a techno house beat behind Joy Division? Who's idea is it to provide an EDM remix of Supersonic? It's just garbage. Every week, and especially every mid-week night match, my eyes must roll back so far out of my head they end up back at Maine Road. It's like the club saw the Sunderland documentary where the new CEO explains the ideas behind changing the walkout music, and thinking it was a good idea.

I know it sounds petty, but for the club make a big point about getting into the ground early, only to play such horrendous music right before kick off shows that they have no idea as to what will actually get fans singing...
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Would rather not have music at all. Just announce the team 10 minutes before KO and job done. The fans singing was always, and always will be, the best prelude to a match. Last night 2 young lads in front of us were filming different parts of the pitch on their mobile phones, then after 20 minutes they left. In the CB upper I saw people waving their mobile phones around with the lights for the entire match. It was like some dystopian version of attending a Football match.
As usual around 10-15 FOC's, me included tried to get chants going. The only one that showed any signs of spreading but then died out quickly was 'City tearing Geordies apart again.. repeat'. The empty seats seemed to add to the apathy. Such a stunning 1st half performance deserved more noise.
 
Mickeyhoohaa said:
It's probably not a top priotity, however the music used in the stadium pre-match gets worse and worse every season. What is their instance on remixing every song to ever come out of Manchester?

Who's idea is it to put a techno house beat behind Joy Division? Who's idea is it to provide an EDM remix of Supersonic? It's just garbage. Every week, and especially every mid-week night match, my eyes must roll back so far out of my head they end up back at Maine Road. It's like the club saw the Sunderland documentary where the new CEO explains the ideas behind changing the walkout music, and thinking it was a good idea.

I know it sounds petty, but for the club make a big point about getting into the ground early, only to play such horrendous music right before kick off shows that they have no idea as to what will actually get fans singing...
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The music before the game and after was absolutely horrendous. You couldn’t join in with and it didn’t make you feel anything either. Who on earth thought that was good?
 
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1. Pricing.
Yep, tonight is fine. Good price. But it’s not about tonight. It’s everything. More Champions League games to pay for. Cup finals and semis at Wembley are extortionate. Price hikes that require protests to prevent. Miserable time to follow a team financially.

2. Transferring YOUR ticket.
I’ve paid for it. But I can’t give it to whoever I want. Sometimes the system works. Sometimes it doesn’t. They charge people money (via membership) to receive a ticket. It’s gross. I can’t just give it away to someone who’s never been etc.

3. The Exchange.
The exchange is a good idea. You can’t go, so you give it to the club, and they pay you for it.
It’d be great, but the club are clearly desperate for people to use it (which is why they send about 50 texts a day encouraging you to) to mark the price up.

4. Minimum Game Requirements.
10 games isn’t a big deal. You probably should be going to 10 games if you’re a ST holder but it’s the precedent it sets. You’ve paid for it. You should be able to use it or not use it. I wouldn’t even mind if the predatory exchange wasn’t a thing.

5. Ticketing Partners.
How can you honestly support a policy that essentially says, ‘we’re going to buddy up to these guys who are going to shaft you for tickets financially? It’s crooked and abhorrent.

6. Allocations.
Mysterious allocations for away games that seem to go missing in the post, but appear in various locations for hugely marked-up prices. Weird(!)

7. The club prioritises cash over full stadiums and atmosphere.
Pricing is *not* always the issue, but if you don’t see the connection between some of the things on this list and the fact that only 30-odd thousand turned up to a vital CL game last week, you’re very, very naive.
 
give it to gordon said:
People who criticise fans for not going piss me off.
Alot of us a fucking broke, Christmas just a few weeks ago.

Im please these people that criticise can afford to follow their team week in week out. Not all of us can afford to
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We became successful at the Advent of social media that has ultimately turned to poison. I wouldn't be surprised if half the comments are from bots.
 
This sums the ticketing policy up…
Yesterday lunchtime my mate Scal went to collect his 3 ‘paper’ tickets, one for himself and the other two for his son in law and grandson. (He has a season ticket on his phone, but insists for paper tickets for cup games for some reason)

Anyway, whilst he was collecting his tickets, at the window next to him were 5 middle aged men (East European but spoke good English) asking to purchase tickets for ‘tonight’s game’. The City employee asked if they were members or had purchase history prior to a specific date. They said they hadn’t but were wanting to see City live. The City rep said he couldn’t sell them tickets, but suggested they log on to an external ticketing site, my mate said it could have been ‘Ticketmaster’ but he may be wrong. I don’t think we use ticketmaster do we?

The issue here is City actively turned away the sale of 5 tickets plus the extra income that the men would have spent, they may have even secured 5 more regular fans? So, City’s ticketing policy prevents casual supporters as we all know, but fuck me, to suggest they access an online, external ticketing agency is mind blowingly fucking disgraceful. How widespread is this scenario and what would our ticketing manager think about it. No wonder people are pissed off with this draconian, restrictive and stupid ticketing policy.
 
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
The music before the game and after was absolutely horrendous. You couldn’t join in with and it didn’t make you feel anything either. Who on earth thought that was good?
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What the hell was that singing of Blue Moon by the young girl prior to the game. Totally out of sync with the occasion
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
The music before the game and after was absolutely horrendous. You couldn’t join in with and it didn’t make you feel anything either. Who on earth thought that was good?
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I think that's a very good way of putting it. No one will sing to it, it isn't emotive in a way that say a montage with a classical score would be, it's just slop for the sake of looking 'modern' and down with the kids, who ironically have no chance of going regularly anyway...
 
levets said:
What the hell was that singing of Blue Moon by the young girl prior to the game. Totally out of sync with the occasion
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Haha the shit the club force on us is so fucking cringeworthy at times.

Is it any wonder our support is dying on its knees when they put us through shit like that
 
There is a Light said:
Haha the shit the club force on us is so fucking cringeworthy at times.

Is it any wonder our support is dying on its knees when they put us through shit like that
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the poor girl ,but what the fuck , who are these people ,who think its what we want , sack them
 
I really do hate moaning. ;-)

Jesus, Lord above, who was that person singing Blue Moon live last night? They sounded like somebody who had sucked in…..

Inhaling helium causes a high-pitched, squeaky voice because sound travels nearly three times faster in helium than in air
.This increased speed alters the resonance of the vocal tract, amplifying higher-frequency harmonics and suppressing lower ones. While the vocal cords vibrate at the same rate, the gas change makes the voice sound like a cartoon character.

It sounded dreadful.

The whole OTT pre-match kick off spectacle was the akin to something you see in America, like the pre-match kick off to the Super Bowl.
 
levets said:
What the hell was that singing of Blue Moon by the young girl prior to the game. Totally out of sync with the occasion
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All I could hear was Eddie Howes Black and White army until they shamelessly cranked the volume up to drown the Geordies out.
 
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