Atmosphere 2024/25

[East Level 2]

This business about the team needing the fans has been shown to be bollocks on many occasions.
At Wembley v Gillingham is a great example: We backed the team for 85 minutes and by the time Horlock pulled one back half our ever so loyal supporters has slunk off home and the rest were sitting in stunned silence. - Most still thought that goal was a consolation so the silence continued until Dickov scored.
Extra-time was mainly City fans due to relief, but we still couldn't manage a goal even though Gillingham must have been shagged mentally.
We had a fair number of good and loud turnouts as we sailed all the way to the third division, with hardly any positive response from the players.

 

[supercity88]

This business about the team needing the fans has been shown to be bollocks on many occasions.
At Wembley v Gillingham is a great example: We backed the team for 85 minutes and by the time Horlock pulled one back half our ever so loyal supporters has slunk off home and the rest were sitting in stunned silence. - Most still thought that goal was a consolation so the silence continued until Dickov scored.
Extra-time was mainly City fans due to relief, but we still couldn't manage a goal even though Gillingham must have been shagged mentally.
We had a fair number of good and loud turnouts as we sailed all the way to the third division, with hardly any positive response from the players.

English home support is pretty much the same wherever you go. A big game gets a bigger atmosphere and unless it's entertaining things can fizzle out quite quickly. With City we are better than most at supporting the team when things are going badly. If we are a couple of goals down we are more up for it than at 0-0 because we don't give up.

Anfield at St James get ridiculously over the top praise. A big game at City with something at stake and it's generally right up there. Liverpool home game, Arsenal home game, Real Madrid. All buzzing. I think there was a drop last year, but we probably had a general drop after the treble. It's been intense for fans too and maybe we need a kick up the arse to get things going again.

 

[Axel Freed]

Turn it on its head though. Weve only won one at klanfield, and that was without fans. The hostile atmosphere works wonders for them. Look what it did to players like Sterling, a 15 to 20 goal a season man in our system. Even a small percentage extra from a player who is really up for it can swing the game.

Raz was hit and miss wherever and whenever he played. Was the white hot cauldron like atmosphere at Turf Moor responsible for his infamous miss there ?

There’s a load of guff written and spoken in the media about the Anfield atmosphere largely by closet dippers - fair enough, let the clowns enjoy their little myth. It’s more annoying when blues buy into it and repeat it as if it’s true

 

[Gone for a Burton]

This business about the team needing the fans has been shown to be bollocks on many occasions.
At Wembley v Gillingham is a great example: We backed the team for 85 minutes and by the time Horlock pulled one back half our ever so loyal supporters has slunk off home and the rest were sitting in stunned silence. - Most still thought that goal was a consolation so the silence continued until Dickov scored.
Extra-time was mainly City fans due to relief, but we still couldn't manage a goal even though Gillingham must have been shagged mentally.
We had a fair number of good and loud turnouts as we sailed all the way to the third division, with hardly any positive response from the players.

Suicide is dangerous !!

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

i could be wrong, but I’ve got a feeling the ground might be full of Feyenoord fans, based on how many I saw in town yesterday and today.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

i could be wrong, but I’ve got a feeling the ground might be full of Feyenoord fans, based on how many I saw in town yesterday and today.

They’ll be dotted about all over the ground 100%. Doubt they will try to hide it either after being on the sauce all afternoon!

 

[Peely01]

They’ll be dotted about all over the ground 100%. Doubt they will try to hide it either after being on the sauce all afternoon!

No prisoners

 

[Matty M24blue]

As predicted stewards doing nothing leaving it to fans to drag them out. They’ll probably get rid of a few season ticket holders of the back of it.

Not the worst game for a neutral or atmosphere though.

 

[Tbilisi]

As predicted stewards doing nothing leaving it to fans to drag them out. They’ll probably get rid of a few season ticket holders of the back of it

Almost certainly, not a good policy atm but nothing City do with the fanbase is.

 

[mcfcbill91]

It was similar on Saturday. Numerous Spurs fans (two in front of me filming & laughing at us walking out at the end) and stewards more interested in arguing with City fans. Club have achieved their aim of gentrifying the ground with ridiculous price hikes - tonight swathes of empty seats at £37.50 a go when it would sell out at £25.