Atmosphere - 2023/24

[GaudinoMotors]

These "tourists" get a raw deal - if anything they are the ones that are excited, happy, appreciative and that cheer and clap. I'm afraid it's us old World weary, cynical, hard to please Mancs that sit there and demand to be entertained.
It's a Manc psyche thing - an ugly industrial, grafting City, in the shadow of the Pennines (and the weather they bring).
Concerts in the City are similar (barring the odd exception), we're reserved - "go on then, entertain us"- until the big hit finale when we find some enthusiasm .
No point beating ourselves up - it's our socialisation over many decades - we're not simpletons cheering at everything unreservedly like the Scousers (although the Anfield atmosphere is a myth 70% of the time) and Geordies.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

It was sang at least once ......not very loud admittedly

That’s reassuring mate. I was glad to join in with, “Super City from Maine Road”

 

[mancityvstoke]

That’s reassuring mate. I was glad to join in with, “Super City from Maine Road”

with the new statue I did try a summerbee chant....just got strange looks.

Getting old, I meant FOC sorry.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Relative to the magnitude of the game, it was a better atmosphere than Saturday.

Fact is its a game where we needed a draw at worst and in reality avoiding a 3 goal defeat would have been fine against a side we seem to play every year who we smashed 7 past less than 12 months ago.

It's just the result of the best team on the planet used to winning getting theough a mundane CL group format that's badly in need of a refresh.

 

[manclad]

These "tourists" get a raw deal - if anything they are the ones that are excited, happy, appreciative and that cheer and clap. I'm afraid it's us old World weary, cynical, hard to please Mancs that sit there and demand to be entertained.
It's a Manc psyche thing - an ugly industrial, grafting City, in the shadow of the Pennines (and the weather they bring).
Concerts in the City are similar (barring the odd exception), we're reserved - "go on then, entertain us"- until the big hit finale when we find some enthusiasm .
No point beating ourselves up - it's our socialisation over many decades - we're not simpletons cheering at everything unreservedly like the Scousers (although the Anfield atmosphere is a myth 70% of the time) and Geordies.

Great post pal.
Sums up the Manchester psyche / character to a tee.
Gritty ,hard working,hard playing people who were raised in the first industrialized City in the world.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

with the new statue I did try a summerbee chant....just got strange looks.

Getting old, I meant FOC sorry.

Went to the statue after the game mate. Great tribute. Bit of artistic licence Franny having no belly but a great tribute all the same.

I’m expecting a good atmosphere on Sunday.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Honestly, it's neither here nor there for me, I quite like the idea of visiting Rome for the weekend to watch a game. Part of the Super League proposal was weekend games, but there's only so many weekends in a year. Either you reduce games and the league or just shunt league games to mid-week which just moves around the problem from a match going perspective.

ahh fair, very true.

And always prefer weekend games

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

They play European games at the weekend in Rugby because they have the window for it - there are no Union games midweek.
I'd think moving PL games to midweek to accommodate European games at weekend would piss lots of supporters off

never said move PL games :-)

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

These "tourists" get a raw deal - if anything they are the ones that are excited, happy, appreciative and that cheer and clap. I'm afraid it's us old World weary, cynical, hard to please Mancs that sit there and demand to be entertained.
It's a Manc psyche thing - an ugly industrial, grafting City, in the shadow of the Pennines (and the weather they bring).
Concerts in the City are similar (barring the odd exception), we're reserved - "go on then, entertain us"- until the big hit finale when we find some enthusiasm .
No point beating ourselves up - it's our socialisation over many decades - we're not simpletons cheering at everything unreservedly like the Scousers (although the Anfield atmosphere is a myth 70% of the time) and Geordies.

I had Belgian fans infront of me unhappy of Grealish playing and kept chanting Doku Doku Doku.

 

[levets]

Went to the statue after the game mate. Great tribute. Bit of artistic licence Franny having no belly but a great tribute all the same.

I’m expecting a good atmosphere on Sunday.

Franny didn’t have a ‘belly’, he was barrel chested, which the statue shows. It is a good likeness to Franny as a youngster.