Atmosphere - 2023/24

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GaudinoMotors said:
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.
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I had Belgian fans infront of me unhappy of Grealish playing and kept chanting Doku Doku Doku.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
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.
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Franny didn’t have a ‘belly’, he was barrel chested, which the statue shows. It is a good likeness to Franny as a youngster.
 
The CL home games have been relatively cheap, so anyone who wants to go, can get get a ticket without too much effort.

However, for whatever reason, a lot of the PL regulars don't bother, and it didn't help last night that it was also freezing, and we'd already qualified.

I'm not sure how that helps the atmosphere, but then again, I'm 100% convinced that given the same circumstances, it wouldn't have been any better at the swamp or Anfield.
 
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Man_City_Loyal said:
I had Belgian fans infront of me unhappy of Grealish playing and kept chanting Doku Doku Doku.
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I'm not a regular matchgoer but I did put the hard yards in bitd and am thankful that I got to experience the 70's/80's.
Went last night and, other than the lad who kindly sorted me a ticket (he's an old school blue from Weston-super-Mare), I spoke to 3people, first a Canadian on the spiral pre-game, he came over for the Liverpool game and last night's, was flying back today, Toronto supporters club member and a true blue.
After the game I walked into town and went in Wetherspoons for a pint, chatted with a Swansea fan who travelled up for their game at Leeds tonight, said he fancied taking in another game to make the trip better for him and his lad, considered Burton v Portsmouth and Port Vale v Derby, noticed we were playing and rang the club, got tickets no problem, so although not a blue he's a proper football lad.

Lastly, got off the train at Heald Green and a young woman who'd missed the Gatley stop was stuck and had no idea how to get home, she's from Chile, has come here to study English and only arrived 2 weeks ago, she and all her family back home are blues and this was her first game. Anyway I sorted her a taxi and waited til it came.

Bit of a ramble but that probably sums up where we are at as a club due to the success, worldwide appeal and everyone wants to get the matchday experience, fuck knows what they would've made of Maine Rd in the 70's, doubt any of them would've wanted to come back, well maybe the Swansea lad, he knew the score.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Thousands of free school tickets last night.....the away section in level 3 was rammed with them.

Loads of cheap tickets were available mate....try getting one if you can off here
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My sister used to go to all CL games and cup games as she could always get tickets for the family. She could get all 3 tickets on her membership card. This year she would have had to buy 3 memberships at not inconsiderable cost so she has binned it off. They then give tickets away to kids etc. bonkers.
 
nw42 said:
I'm not a regular matchgoer but I did put the hard yards in bitd and am thankful that I got to experience the 70's/80's.
Went last night and, other than the lad who kindly sorted me a ticket (he's an old school blue from Weston-super-Mare), I spoke to 3people, first a Canadian on the spiral pre-game, he came over for the Liverpool game and last night's, was flying back today, Toronto supporters club member and a true blue.
After the game I walked into town and went in Wetherspoons for a pint, chatted with a Swansea fan who travelled up for their game at Leeds tonight, said he fancied taking in another game to make the trip better for him and his lad, considered Burton v Portsmouth and Port Vale v Derby, noticed we were playing and rang the club, got tickets no problem, so although not a blue he's a proper football lad.

Lastly, got off the train at Heald Green and a young woman who'd missed the Gatley stop was stuck and had no idea how to get home, she's from Chile, has come here to study English and only arrived 2 weeks ago, she and all her family back home are blues and this was her first game. Anyway I sorted her a taxi and waited til it came.

Bit of a ramble but that probably sums up where we are at as a club due to the success, worldwide appeal and everyone wants to get the matchday experience, fuck knows what they would've made of Maine Rd in the 70's, doubt any of them would've wanted to come back, well maybe the Swansea lad, he knew the score.
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Quite a fascinating post, that shows how things are changing.

Maybe we long-serving City fans haven't quite grasped how the club is developing. Success breeds interest, and that's just how it is. The world is much smaller these days and people who support football seem to be increasingly international in their outcome. Those of us who grew up within sight of the Maine Road floodlights will increasingly be a minority.
 
Manchester33 said:
Last night was horrific, but not sure what people expect. The game didn't have too much on the line. The group stages of the champions league are quite boring for us because we always qualify easily.

I was in my usual seat and honestly, I recognised 2 people on the rows around me. No regulars there. Let's not blame the tourists because if it wasn't for them the stadium would have been empty!!

Leipzig fans were the worst European supporters I've seen at the Etihad.

The regulars around 115 were doing our best to get it going, but many there didn't know any words (or didn't want to get involved in singing).

Let's move on.... Sunday will be better.
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Well, that was because of this:

rblive.de

Einlassschikane bei Man City: 60 RB-Ultras betraten Stadion aus Protest nicht

Die Fans von RB Leipzig und die Security von Manchester City werden wohl keine Freunde mehr.
rblive.de rblive.de

Have to translate it.
 
Those moaning about the atmosphere last night and complaining its full of tourista are actually moaning about where we are at as a club.
Without the tourists last night thered have only been about 30,000. Then youd moan about that too.

Where are all the regular prem match goers? Still sulking with uefa and refusing to go?

Maybe grow up and enjoy these times
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Those moaning about the atmosphere last night and complaining its full of tourista are actually moaning about where we are at as a club.
Without the tourists last night thered have only been about 30,000. Then youd moan about that too.

Where are all the regular prem match goers? Still sulking with uefa and refusing to go?

Maybe grow up and enjoy these times
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30,000 is probably our core support. Me one of them.

First sign of relegation we'll be back to that
 
mancityvstoke said:
30,000 is probably our core support. Me one of them.

First sign of relegation we'll be back to that
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Me too. Ive always said when we won the league in 68 we average about 30k, when we were in div 3 we also averaged about 30k. So theres our core support!

Out of 5 of us who have had season tickets together for 30 years only 2 of us are in the champs league cup scheme. The other 3 basically cant be bothered, although they did a few years back.

So we can blame tourists all we want but we also have to look closer to home
 
I had a totally different experience last night and it was interesting. A mate I haven't seen for years had recently got back in touch. We grew up together in Benchill and it was him who persuaded me to go to my first ever game at Maine Road way back in 1968.

His mate was on holiday so I used his ticket to sit with him on level two in the East stand. Wow this was a totally different experience. White padded seats and sitting down all game! Chalk and cheese to my s/c in level one safe standing in the south stand. It made a pleasant change but not sure I'd like to do it all the time. It is a great view though.

The seat was at the goal near the family stand so we saw all the goals at our end. No idea what was going on in the family stand but it sounded like bedlam, thousands of kids screaming all the time. The south stand sounded quite loud from where I was and did their best to keep going on a poor performance and a bitterly cold night. Well done.

On our way out we cut through the family stand as it would avoid the closed off section outside. Some guy was going ballistic at what looked like four foreign tourist fans. The stewards were trying to calm it down but just as we passed them he launched into an attack. Anyone know what it was all about?

I realised just how many tourist fans we have now as we had to dodge loads of them taking pictures after the game as we made our way out.

All in all a decent atmosphere on a difficult night on the field.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
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.
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Good post. I think you've nailed it and why the atmosphere is up and down. Next generation of fans will be a lot different unless of course they’ve learned to be moody and stubborn from their dads and grandads..hope not!
 
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Bluesince1979 said:
Me too. Ive always said when we won the league in 68 we average about 30k, when we were in div 3 we also averaged about 30k. So theres our core support!

Out of 5 of us who have had season tickets together for 30 years only 2 of us are in the champs league cup scheme. The other 3 basically cant be bothered, although they did a few years back.

So we can blame tourists all we want but we also have to look closer to home
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I gave up on the CL Cup scheme some years back. Don’t particular like the competition and having to rely on Metrolink for night matches just made the decision easy.
 
To be fair to TNT, they did acknowledge it sold out and there looked to be a full house looking around the stadium too(can't remember them doing that before in a group game). I suspect there were quite a few tourists that left after a terrible first half which isn't great to see but what can the club really do about that?

The core support surely has to have grown alot since the relegation days though. Even before the takeover, it grew with the move to the COMS:
City-at-the-COMS-before-the-takeover.jpg

Not too shabby if you ask me. After all the success I'd say 40k might be conservative but who really knows how many would stick around and I suppose it depends on your definition of hard times.
 
Anyone discussing atmosphere can't have a proper conversation without mentioning the atmosphere killing loudspeaker system filling in every chance for the crowd to whip up a head of steam.

Most tourists are there for the experience, the ones sat around me were genuinely more interested in the way they were photographing or filming the match, I get the feeling that they couldn't care less who scores even.
 
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