Atmosphere 2024/25

[M23 Citizen]

Bar the odd away following, away fans at the Etihad have been absolutely dreadful this season, so far.

United are normally pretty quiet at the Etihad compared to other away grounds they go to, but yesterday they were very quiet.

It’s been the same going back a number of years now with visiting fans.

Unless there’s a rowdy lot in the SSL3, the way they’re split actoss three levels in a thin strip makes them disjointed and depletes their atmosphere. If they are singing, it just sounds like a mish-mash of a few songs at once where SSL3 away fans will be singing one thing and SSL1 away fans singing something different. So there’s no mass voice from them (think of City when we go to Old Trafford, Palace or Leicester where we’re congregated together).

And in games like yesterday where our home section of SSL3 are making more noise than the away section of SSL3, away fans can’t make more noise than us.

I can’t remember the last set of away fans in the PL I was impressed with… maybe Forest in their first season back up in August 2022? Before them… Leeds were good when we hammered them 7-0 in 2021… before them, I can’t remember?

Since we’ve stopped allowing away fans in with drums in the CL, I don’t think there’s been a decent atmosphere from any of them. Feyenoord were probably the best there’s been since the instrument ban a few weeks ago. They reminded me of City away fans in the 90s.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

Don't you know that according to some the better atmosphere we fans create improves the teams performance and makes us win more. Honestly.

Home advantage is real and statistically significant in football and one key part of that is the crowd and atmosphere.

 

[Elliot houghton]

Bar the odd away following, away fans at the Etihad have been absolutely dreadful this season, so far.

United are normally pretty quiet at the Etihad compared to other away grounds they go to, but yesterday they were very quiet.

Not sure if it’s how our away stand is over 3 tiers that has an impact or they are just all shite if that’s the case it definitely makes us love our away support even more as nobody comes close to us from what we’ve seen at our place

 

[M23 Citizen]

I can't believe you can get nicked for a plane gesture! Half the time they do it themselves and have their phone recording waiting for someone to do it back. At full time they were all over at the barrier with their phones out saying all sorts hoping for reactions to record. Proper grasses

Most of the time, it’s just arms outstretched giving it ‘come on then’ and they grass you up to a steward for doing a plane gesture.

Some wronguns still do the plane gesture, don’t get me wrong, but imagine grassing them up for it anyway!

 

[Roachy]

Home advantage is real and statistically significant in football and one key part of that is the crowd and atmosphere.

Wasn't yesterday.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

I can’t remember the last set of away fans in the PL I was impressed with… maybe Forest in their first season back up in August 2022? Before them… Leeds were good when we hammered them 7-0 in 2021… before them, I can’t remember?

As much as I hate giving Leeds credit, because they blow enough smoke up their own arse, but their away support in May 2023 when we beat them 2-1 was superb, I don't think there's been anyone better since.

Newcastle were good in the FA Cup last year, but obviously that's down to the extended allocation you get, they've been pretty poor in the league the last few seasons.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Wasn't yesterday.

How do you know? For all you know if we'd been away from home we would've performed even worse!

I don't really get this stance you have that atmosphere doesn't affect the game, because that goes against all the stats and everything players and former players have said.

Go online and have a look at our head to head results with Liverpool for both home and away games over the last decade. See if you notice any pattern?

 

[Luddite_Blue]

Wasn't yesterday.

But over the course of history it is and so we (and it's the same for other teams) have a better record at home than away against the vast majority of opponents.

 

[Damocles]

Don't you know that according to some the better atmosphere we fans create improves the teams performance and makes us win more. Honestly.

It's one of the most evidentially proven concepts both in football academia and rough punditry.

I mean it's fairly common sense too. If you have 55,000 screaming your every touch then you will have more adrenaline and motivation than if it's completely quiet. Jock Stein used to make subs specifically to get the crowd up at times.

 

[Roachy]

It's one of the most evidentially proven concepts both in football academia and rough punditry.

I mean it's fairly common sense too. If you have 55,000 screaming your every touch then you will have more adrenaline and motivation than if it's completely quiet. Jock Stein used to make subs specifically to get the crowd up at times.

Aware of all this chief. The point is there's a few who are requesting us to get behind the team, which most of us do anyway, as if it's going to determine the result. If only it was that easy.