Etihad atmosphere

Only atmosphere was booing the ref.

And please city don't you dare put clappers in the family stand again. I won't be back after 33 years.
 
The stewards at our place are the utter pits especially the showsec wankers! Some young tosser after trying and failing to stop about 8 lads pushing in on the queue to the SS pounced on me, easy target on my own, for putting a small can onto the floor as I couldn't see a bin anywhere. His condescending attitude got me riled and I gave him some back which he didn't like. I told him if he did his job properly and stopped queue jumpers I would have been in the ground and not arguing with him. He kept calling me mate in a sarcastic way and I told him I wasn't his mate. I had walked past him and about to go in when he came back and was in my face.'' Are you ok, are you ok, are you sure???'' by now really aggressive. He then said, '' It means nothing for me to pull you out of the queue for...get this......having the wrong attitude to attend the game.....I can stop you going in.'' End of the argument now because the smug bastard knows I don't want to miss the match, Oh for five minutes with him behind the old kippax!!
 
M147WN said:
Well the atmosphere today was dog shit!
What's up with people? Today was a big game against title rivals but only small pockets of fans singing sporadically.
Most of the time complete silence bar folks chatting to each other about what happened in the pub Friday night.
In SS 315 around 30 minutes in to the first half 4 stewards with more looking on and with 2 cops waiting, eject 2 blokes in their late 50's/early 60's because they sang "hello, hello, Chelsea rent boys" a couple of times in response to Chelsea's "your support is fucking shit!"
Removing these 2 men took about 5 minutes with 4 stewards stood in front of people in the middle of the row causing everyone else to stand just to see the game! These fellas were previously getting behind the team (as was I stood behind them, a couple of seats to the right).
They weren't abusive or under the influence, they were just singing "we're not really here", Bluemoon etc. and generally supporting the team and were no problem at all!
The whole thing was heavy handed, ill conceived and totally unnecessary!
No wonder were not creating any atmosphere if this is what's going to happen!
After 42 years of standing on the Kippax, then seats in the north stand at Maine Road, SS level 2 and now SS level 3 plus many years of following the team the length and breath of the country and overseas I've never known such poor atmosphere or treatment of supporters!
Not sure if this will be my final season as a season ticket holder? Will be giving it serious consideration in the next few months!
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Fucking showsec wankers, a guy taking seat numbers and the bit next to the aways being hassled all the time.

314/315 is the new 109/110 battleground. I'm a few rows back from the incident at some stage it's going to kick off and they'll be vids of them pushing some old fella over again.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Fucking showsec wankers, a guy taking seat numbers and the bit next to the aways being hassled all the time.

314/315 is the new 109/110 battleground. I'm a few rows back from the incident at some stage it's going to kick off and they'll be vids of them pushing some old fella over again.
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Something has to be done about these brain dead bully boys! They are not proper football stewards and I know a few rags amongst them, so there are bound to be more. I am sending Lisa Eaton a complaint later about my 'Match day experience' with one jumped up C***t today and I urge others to do the same.
 
I'm sure Peps as frustrated as anyone with the atmosphere. It's not helping the team playing at home in front of fans who have no passion for their team.
 
Pep was trying to get the crowd going 2nd half waving his arms up and down.

Unfortuanely he was aiming it at the wrong place with the seats next to the dugout. Those people wouldn't sing if they won 1 million for doing so.

I feel that Pep and the players aren't happy with the atmosphere, I presume he thought it would be a brilliant atmosphere against a title rival, sadly not.
 
Did I imagine it or did Pep turn to the Colin Bell and start sarcastically clapping when the mass exodus started when Hazard got the 3rd goal.

In terms of atmosphere, it was embarrassing. But not as embarrassing as the number of empty seats.
 
Im always mystified that when you hear the couple of thousand City fans at away games that they're as vocal as any fans at spurring their team on. So where are they when we're at home? It doesn't make sense. We do have very poor home support. They even put in singing sections this season but it's still not working. And it will only get worse as the club are only interested in getting the tourists in like at the rags place and in scouseland. Having a meal, buying a T-shirt, buying a half & half scarf etc etc......not us true fans who've followed the club all our lives. Simply because we don't spend enough on match day. I us to sit in the East Stand Level 2 paying £850 per season for 19 league games. Then all the extras for all the cup games. But they built the Aguero Bar and upped my season ticket to £1,750!! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask, the robbing ****s. So I gave up my ticket in protest, not that they'll care and I do miss going watching my team. So it's Ramsbottom Utd for me on a Saturday afternoon now. Grass roots football support is being destroyed by the suits.
 
garyCTID said:
Im always mystified that when you hear the couple of thousand City fans at away games that they're as vocal as any fans at spurring their team on. So where are they when we're at home? It doesn't make sense. We do have very poor home support. They even put in singing sections this season but it's still not working. And it will only get worse as the club are only interested in getting the tourists in like at the rags place and in scouseland. Having a meal, buying a T-shirt, buying a half & half scarf etc etc......not us true fans who've followed the club all our lives. Simply because we don't spend enough on match day. I us to sit in the East Stand Level 2 paying £850 per season for 19 league games. Then all the extras for all the cup games. But they built the Aguero Bar and upped my season ticket to £1,750!! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask, the robbing ****s. So I gave up my ticket in protest, not that they'll care and I do miss going watching my team. So it's Ramsbottom Utd for me on a Saturday afternoon now. Grass roots football support is being destroyed by the suits.
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garyCTID said:
Im always mystified that when you hear the couple of thousand City fans at away games that they're as vocal as any fans at spurring their team on. So where are they when we're at home? It doesn't make sense. We do have very poor home support. They even put in singing sections this season but it's still not working. And it will only get worse as the club are only interested in getting the tourists in like at the rags place and in scouseland. Having a meal, buying a T-shirt, buying a half & half scarf etc etc......not us true fans who've followed the club all our lives. Simply because we don't spend enough on match day. I us to sit in the East Stand Level 2 paying £850 per season for 19 league games. Then all the extras for all the cup games. But they built the Aguero Bar and upped my season ticket to £1,750!! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask, the robbing ****s. So I gave up my ticket in protest, not that they'll care and I do miss going watching my team. So it's Ramsbottom Utd for me on a Saturday afternoon now. Grass roots football support is being destroyed by the suits.
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Can't agree more I've not enjoyed watching City since Pellegrini's first season, the whole thing leaves me cold and after 37 years and around a thousand games I'm seriously thinking about knocking it all on the head. I could be become a ground hopper or something, if you'd said to me 10 years ago I would be so disillusioned and jaded with all things City I'd have laughed myself silly, I've seen plenty of shite over the years so why would I feel the way I do?.i can't explain but I only attend our if 'duty' these days.
 
You only have to look around you outside the ground before the match, the fans are made up of so many tourists. Cameras, half and half scarves and purely at the game for a premier league experience. Nothing wrong with it but there are so many and it seems to be at the expense of local support. But saying that, even local fans seem more interested in looking at their phones, going to the bar on 35 mins and getting back late. Football crowds I am afraid are becoming like rugby crowds.
 
garyCTID said:
Im always mystified that when you hear the couple of thousand City fans at away games that they're as vocal as any fans at spurring their team on. So where are they when we're at home? It doesn't make sense. We do have very poor home support. They even put in singing sections this season but it's still not working. And it will only get worse as the club are only interested in getting the tourists in like at the rags place and in scouseland. Having a meal, buying a T-shirt, buying a half & half scarf etc etc......not us true fans who've followed the club all our lives. Simply because we don't spend enough on match day. I us to sit in the East Stand Level 2 paying £850 per season for 19 league games. Then all the extras for all the cup games. But they built the Aguero Bar and upped my season ticket to £1,750!! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask, the robbing ****s. So I gave up my ticket in protest, not that they'll care and I do miss going watching my team. So it's Ramsbottom Utd for me on a Saturday afternoon now. Grass roots football support is being destroyed by the suits.
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It's become sanitised bollocks , some poor bloke was ejected today near the front of 315 for presumably refusing to sit down, police there as well for ffs.Its the reason that this could be my last season as a ST holder, there's just no fun anymore at the ground, the love is wearing off of going to the game - love City but not the match day experience.
 
typicalcity... said:
Pep was trying to get the crowd going 2nd half waving his arms up and down.

Unfortuanely he was aiming it at the wrong place with the seats next to the dugout. Those people wouldn't sing if they won 1 million for doing so.

I feel that Pep and the players aren't happy with the atmosphere, I presume he thought it would be a brilliant atmosphere against a title rival, sadly not.
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The atmosphere is what it is. People are getting complacent and expecting wins nowadays.

philiph20 said:
Can't agree more I've not enjoyed watching City since Pellegrini's first season, the whole thing leaves me cold and after 37 years and around a thousand games I'm seriously thinking about knocking it all on the head. I could be become a ground hopper or something, if you'd said to me 10 years ago I would be so disillusioned and jaded with all things City I'd have laughed myself silly, I've seen plenty of shite over the years so why would I feel the way I do?.i can't explain but I only attend our if 'duty' these days.
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Me too. I don't know why either but I don't care if I miss games any more. Watford at home on a Wednesday night after work is not appealing let's put it that way!
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
The atmosphere is what it is. People are getting complacent and expecting wins nowadays.



Me too. I don't know why either but I don't care if I miss games any more. Watford at home on a Wednesday night after work is not appealing let's put it that way!
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I blame Aguero in that game. We'll never see anything as good as that on a football pitch ever again.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
The atmosphere is what it is. People are getting complacent and expecting wins nowadays.



Me too. I don't know why either but I don't care if I miss games any more. Watford at home on a Wednesday night after work is not appealing let's put it that way!
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I have mentioned it before but when we were dog shit singing at the game was all we had to do to entertain ourselves.We took pride in being loyal and loud in spite of watching crap. Now everyone is too nervous, every game seems like a ''Must win game.'' Over zealous stewarding, new fans, people split up all over, singers mixed in with people on phones/tablets, talking bollocks about anything but the game. It is odd but the better we get the more I seem to enjoy the whole package less. Us humans are just strange I guess lol!
 
garyCTID said:
Im always mystified that when you hear the couple of thousand City fans at away games that they're as vocal as any fans at spurring their team on. So where are they when we're at home? It doesn't make sense. We do have very poor home support. They even put in singing sections this season but it's still not working. And it will only get worse as the club are only interested in getting the tourists in like at the rags place and in scouseland. Having a meal, buying a T-shirt, buying a half & half scarf etc etc......not us true fans who've followed the club all our lives. Simply because we don't spend enough on match day. I us to sit in the East Stand Level 2 paying £850 per season for 19 league games. Then all the extras for all the cup games. But they built the Aguero Bar and upped my season ticket to £1,750!! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask, the robbing ****s. So I gave up my ticket in protest, not that they'll care and I do miss going watching my team. So it's Ramsbottom Utd for me on a Saturday afternoon now. Grass roots football support is being destroyed by the suits.
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That's not just City mate, many home grounds have the same problem. You can always expect away fans to be noisy though

Need to get the safe standing going a bit
 
South Stand singing section its a total myth, bar the 1st game of last season this has been the biggest white elephant ever. All its done is given a chance for groups of mates to sit next to each other and they have the cheek to have ago at the other stands in the ground.
 
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