Atmosphere 2024/25

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Tifo plans for the North stand.(again)

I'd like to see a City fan stick their head through one of those 3 banners.

Credit to Disco Steve for the added 115 logo.

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franksinatra said:
I’ve always agreed with you about singing the classic songs. It’s the one guaranteed way to drag people into singing who may not normally participate.

Spurs with there slowed down version of ‘oh when the Spurs’ is a perfect example. Everyone knows it, it’s slow, naturally song loud and nothing offensive or left field that it would exclude your random Joe from joining in.

Contrast that with the Edin Dzeko chant which is just an atmosphere killer. We have got a few cracking chants like ‘Best team in the land’, Blue Moon, (heralding a win), Johnny Stones, oh Kevin De Bruyne etc which drag people in, but we don’t sing them enough.
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Chants with ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ used to be the main ones everyone joined in with. And we used to have loads of them with those words in:

Oh City We Love You
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
Blue Moon
I said Blue Moon
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City (Hey Jude)
City City, The Best Team In The Land And All The World
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
You are my City, my only City
Oh when the Blues go marching in
We are City from Maine Road
Come on City
City-City-City-City
Who are we? Blue Army
City, We’re On The Piss Again
We’re City, We’re Barmy, We’re Off Our Fucking Heads
Oh Manchester, Is Wonderful
Singing The Blues
…plus many many more

Blue Moon, Hey Jude and The Best Team In The Land And All The World used to be the three chants that felt like everyone in the stadium used to join in with. Hey Jude is never sung during a game anymore and barely anyone even joins in with it as the team come out, Brentford put us to shame with that now yet that’s been our chant since the 60s. City Til I Die is another one that we made up in the 90s, that’s our chant, and it’s not been sung in the stadium for about 15, maybe 20 years.

We bark Blue Moon out these days rather than sing it. If you ever watch the 2000 Blackburn away promotion game back, have a listen to how tuneful we used to sing it.

My Father used to tell me that decades ago we used to chant Ciiity Ciiity Ciiiity Ciiiity Ciiity over and over (a bit like the start of TBTITLAATW, but in a slightly lower key, or how we chant City-City-City now but much longer notes) and it used to be deafening as it was easy to join in with.

Now it’s all player chants. Which are great and all that, but not as good as singing about City, especially at 0-0 or we’re losing and the team needs a lift, or the player is not on the pitch. In any of those situations I’ve noticed that most people don’t bother joining in with player chants.

You never hear the Eurovision Ultras singing player chants, they solely sing their team names.

At Anfield and Wembley, Liverpool fans solely sing their anthems.
They never sing niche songs or new songs, they are solely left for away games, Boss Nights and pubs.

Liverpool always seem to outnoise us at Wembley (and Leicester) because everyone knows the words to the songs they sing. It’s why they always had the best atmosphere for big games at Anfield (somewhat dying a bit these days).

Look at a big Leeds game - they sing the same half a dozen songs about Leeds all game.

Look at all our best atmospheres over the last decade, most of the time it isn’t even singing that makes the atmosphere good, it’s everyone being involved in the game, but when songs do start, it’s always the classics/anthems that most join in with.

And anthems don’t have to be old songs. We can make up new anthems, but they will always be ones that have ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ in the song.
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
Chants with ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ used to be the main ones everyone joined in with. And we used to have loads of them with those words in:

Oh City We Love You
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
Blue Moon
I said Blue Moon
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City (Hey Jude)
City City, The Best Team In The Land And All The World
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
You are my City, my only City
Oh when the Blues go marching in
We are City from Maine Road
Come on City
City-City-City-City
Who are we? Blue Army
City, We’re On The Piss Again
We’re City, We’re Barmy, We’re Off Our Fucking Heads
Oh Manchester, Is Wonderful
Singing The Blues
…plus many many more

Blue Moon, Hey Jude and The Best Team In The Land And All The World used to be the three chants that felt like everyone in the stadium used to join in with. Hey Jude is never sung during a game anymore and barely anyone even joins in with it as the team come out, Brentford put us to shame with that now yet that’s been our chant since the 60s. City Til I Die is another one that we made up in the 90s, that’s our chant, and it’s not been sung in the stadium for about 15, maybe 20 years.

We bark Blue Moon out these days rather than sing it. If you ever watch the 2000 Blackburn away promotion game back, have a listen to how tuneful we used to sing it.

My Father used to tell me that decades ago we used to chant Ciiity Ciiity Ciiiity Ciiiity Ciiity over and over (a bit like the start of TBTITLAATW, but in a slightly lower key, or how we chant City-City-City now but much longer notes) and it used to be deafening as it was easy to join in with.

Now it’s all player chants. Which are great and all that, but not as good as singing about City, especially at 0-0 or we’re losing and the team needs a lift, or the player is not on the pitch. In any of those situations I’ve noticed that most people don’t bother joining in with player chants.

You never hear the Eurovision Ultras singing player chants, they solely sing their team names.

At Anfield and Wembley, Liverpool fans solely sing their anthems.
They never sing niche songs or new songs, they are solely left for away games, Boss Nights and pubs.

Liverpool always seem to outnoise us at Wembley (and Leicester) because everyone knows the words to the songs they sing. It’s why they always had the best atmosphere for big games at Anfield (somewhat dying a bit these days).

Look at a big Leeds game - they sing the same half a dozen songs about Leeds all game.

Look at all our best atmospheres over the last decade, most of the time it isn’t even singing that makes the atmosphere good, it’s everyone being involved in the game, but when songs do start, it’s always the classics/anthems that most join in with.

And anthems don’t have to be old songs. We can make up new anthems, but they will always be ones that have ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ in the song.
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Great post mate. Sometimes when I hear a new song I actually think "that will damage the atmosphere for a few months". The current one that applies to is "You'll never win four in a row". It gets attempted 20 times per game and just doesn't go around the stadium at hiome. I'd also add the anthems don't have clapping.

What sums it up for me is that every time we go a goal down (pretty opften these days) we break into "We never win at home and we never win away" at 100 mph when clearly it would be more appropriate to try to raise the players with a communal Come on City or Blue Moon...

I'm not blaming the fans for this. I'm blaming the roof.
 
There's often a lot of talk and theorising on this forum. Practical tests are the best way to gain an insight into what will work and what won't.

1894 have organised a section at the back of SSL3 against Leicester. We currently have around 50 seats reserved (which can increase if the demand is there). The aim is to see if we can get the atmosphere going from higher up in the stadium.

We will focus on more classic/simple songs (Bluemoon, CTWD, WNRH, Come on City etc) and see what impact a group of 50 people, who are committed to singing and generating noise can have (especially when combined with the existing singers in 314/315).

If you'd like to join the section for this one game and help us out, please click this link and fill in the form: https://forms.office.com/e/xSL3njfwi0

Worst case scenario, we sing and try our best, and no-one joins in. But at least if you join you can say you've tried! The only person you can ensure contributes to a rocking Etihad atmosphere is yourself!
 
We’ve become far too successful to sing a lot of the the songs we used to sing back in the days when we were yo-yoing up and down the divisions.

Who remembers Na na na na na na na na na na na na City’s going up ( Give it up - KC and The Sunshine Band ) or Come on come on come on come on come on come on City, we’re going up, we’re going up ( Kharma Chameleon - Culture Club ) - used to love them 2 sung both home and away.

Can’t sing em anymore though cos we are permanently up.
 
Was concerned by reports of police kettling Green Brigade fans and escorting Union Bears away from Celtic park in spite of both groups having tickets. WTF if this spreads to England it will involve the police joining with the clubs to sanitise football. Would have thought it counter productive anyway surely better to have opposing fans in stadiums, than free to wander round city's creating mayhem. Top level football is dieing as far as the ordinary passionate fan is concerned, beginning to understand Moston red socks motivation. Sad.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Chants with ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ used to be the main ones everyone joined in with. And we used to have loads of them with those words in:

Oh City We Love You
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
Blue Moon
I said Blue Moon
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City (Hey Jude)
City City, The Best Team In The Land And All The World
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
You are my City, my only City
Oh when the Blues go marching in
We are City from Maine Road
Come on City
City-City-City-City
Who are we? Blue Army
City, We’re On The Piss Again
We’re City, We’re Barmy, We’re Off Our Fucking Heads
Oh Manchester, Is Wonderful
Singing The Blues
…plus many many more

Blue Moon, Hey Jude and The Best Team In The Land And All The World used to be the three chants that felt like everyone in the stadium used to join in with. Hey Jude is never sung during a game anymore and barely anyone even joins in with it as the team come out, Brentford put us to shame with that now yet that’s been our chant since the 60s. City Til I Die is another one that we made up in the 90s, that’s our chant, and it’s not been sung in the stadium for about 15, maybe 20 years.

We bark Blue Moon out these days rather than sing it. If you ever watch the 2000 Blackburn away promotion game back, have a listen to how tuneful we used to sing it.

My Father used to tell me that decades ago we used to chant Ciiity Ciiity Ciiiity Ciiiity Ciiity over and over (a bit like the start of TBTITLAATW, but in a slightly lower key, or how we chant City-City-City now but much longer notes) and it used to be deafening as it was easy to join in with.

Now it’s all player chants. Which are great and all that, but not as good as singing about City, especially at 0-0 or we’re losing and the team needs a lift, or the player is not on the pitch. In any of those situations I’ve noticed that most people don’t bother joining in with player chants.

You never hear the Eurovision Ultras singing player chants, they solely sing their team names.

At Anfield and Wembley, Liverpool fans solely sing their anthems.
They never sing niche songs or new songs, they are solely left for away games, Boss Nights and pubs.

Liverpool always seem to outnoise us at Wembley (and Leicester) because everyone knows the words to the songs they sing. It’s why they always had the best atmosphere for big games at Anfield (somewhat dying a bit these days).

Look at a big Leeds game - they sing the same half a dozen songs about Leeds all game.

Look at all our best atmospheres over the last decade, most of the time it isn’t even singing that makes the atmosphere good, it’s everyone being involved in the game, but when songs do start, it’s always the classics/anthems that most join in with.

And anthems don’t have to be old songs. We can make up new anthems, but they will always be ones that have ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ in the song.
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‘City til I die’. I don’t understand why we stopped singing it. To me it’s more of an anthem than blue moon. It’s easy to sing and couldn’t be any more city related

The last time I can remember large numbers singing it was under mark Hughes.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Oh City We Love You
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
Blue Moon
I said Blue Moon
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City (Hey Jude)
City City, The Best Team In The Land And All The World
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
You are my City, my only City
Oh when the Blues go marching in
We are City from Maine Road
Come on City
City-City-City-City
Who are we? Blue Army
City, We’re On The Piss Again
We’re City, We’re Barmy, We’re Off Our Fucking Heads
Oh Manchester, Is Wonderful
Singing The Blues

…plus many many more
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mr t said:
We’ve become far too successful to sing a lot of the the songs we used to sing back in the days when we were yo-yoing up and down the divisions.

Who remembers Na na na na na na na na na na na na City’s going up ( Give it up - KC and The Sunshine Band ) or Come on come on come on come on come on come on City, we’re going up, we’re going up ( Kharma Chameleon - Culture Club ) - used to love them 2 sung both home and away.

Can’t sing em anymore though cos we are permanently up.
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That's from the 83-85 division 2 period when I first staretd going with my mates and to away matches. Great days to be a blue in retrospect, with big and noisy away followings taking over small towns.
 
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