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For once the tourist next to me yesterday was actually a City fan (hurray! happy because it’s 50:50 whether they are or not, which is a shit situation) so I won’t moan too much about the tourists at yesterday’s game. He did get excited when we almost scored about eight times but he still didn’t sing or shout anything during the game.
It doesn’t half dilute the stands with people who haven’t got a clue about getting behind a team when we aren’t winning.
We do need more of it from us proper fans though.
All those of us who stayed and sang at the end of the game, if we’d done that with as much gusto at 0-0 0-1 or 0-2, maybe we’d have lifted the team?
Look at what happened against Sparta Praha - It was quite a boring and flat game on the pitch at 1-0 and it was a boring and flat game in the stands n’all. Then around the hour mark the Sparta fans started acting like cunts and the two singing sections either side of them started chanting and it raised the atmosphere around the stadium. The team (unaware of the aggro between the fans) got a lift from it and went on and played well and twatted them 5-0, probably thinking we were getting behind them.
A bit of that yesterday at 0-1 or 0-2 might have turned the game (of course, also might not have) but we didn’t bother until it went 0-3 by which stage the game was over.
Good effort at the end, it was still good to see and the players really did noticeably appreciate it after the final whistle, but we could do with belting it out more when the game’s in the balance.
It doesn’t half dilute the stands with people who haven’t got a clue about getting behind a team when we aren’t winning.
We do need more of it from us proper fans though.
All those of us who stayed and sang at the end of the game, if we’d done that with as much gusto at 0-0 0-1 or 0-2, maybe we’d have lifted the team?
Look at what happened against Sparta Praha - It was quite a boring and flat game on the pitch at 1-0 and it was a boring and flat game in the stands n’all. Then around the hour mark the Sparta fans started acting like cunts and the two singing sections either side of them started chanting and it raised the atmosphere around the stadium. The team (unaware of the aggro between the fans) got a lift from it and went on and played well and twatted them 5-0, probably thinking we were getting behind them.
A bit of that yesterday at 0-1 or 0-2 might have turned the game (of course, also might not have) but we didn’t bother until it went 0-3 by which stage the game was over.
Good effort at the end, it was still good to see and the players really did noticeably appreciate it after the final whistle, but we could do with belting it out more when the game’s in the balance.