Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

[EastMidlandsBlue]

It was decent for the FA Cup win there a couple of years ago when Ake scored.

Shite normally though, agreed.

It's probably not fair to directly compare our regular league away ends with that one FA cup game where there were 9,000 blues there.

Only time in the league we've been somewhat alright was when Haaland scored 2 to pretty much secure the title.

 

[Greenandblue]

Better put on a tin hat....but old Trafford still looked pretty full when Unit*d were looking for a 94th minute winner today. Let's be honest, and not defensive, what would the Ethiad have been like in similar circumstances, and why?

We should have a 50k seater full of fans that care, and stay, not a 61k seater with thousands of half interested bluffers, or people for whom the game is an inconvenience.
Sorry, but I'm so sick of making and hearing excuses, the weather, the kick off time, the transport, the opposition. The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

I've spent a lot of time on here defending our support, you buy your ticket, you leave when you want. But when I see other clubs, with half the team we have, and they're finishing games to a nearly full house, willing them on to success, or acknowledging a good performance, and we see the half deserted shit show we witness every week, I get disillusioned.

I might be just pissed off at throwing away a winnable title this year, but the fuckers regularly walking out on 80 minutes regardless of circumstances, are a major problem in our support.
We'd be better off without them. Confession, I don't live in Manchester, and only go a few times a year, so major respect to those getting out and travelling to games to support the team, but I really don't understand or like our endemic early leaving culture. I'd rather miss my flight home than walk out on 80 minutes with the game in the balance.
It's been done to death, it's probably never gonna change, but it's gradually eating away at our soul. A very substantial chunk of our support don't hugely care, not enough to fight til the end. It wasn't always like this, but it's really bad at the moment.

No doubt I'll get defensive vitriol for this, but that's part of the issue, many who constantly deny the problem, and it is a problem, denying or defending it is just tolerating it. I can't even image what it'll be like when we're diluted by another 7,000 next year.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

We’re living off our recent success and the players that delivered that success. The current players, bar one of two exceptions, haven’t delivered anything so far, so there’s no need to chant their names.

It doesn't have to be about the current players per se

COME ON CITY
COME ON CITY

WE LOVE YOU CITY
WE DO

They're far more motivational (at 2-1 and Tottenham coming back into the game) than singing about somebody who left 12 years ago

Even the traditional City Viking chant seems to have disappeared

 

[east2]

It was strangely muted. Lots of concourse singing though.

Got behind the team 1st half, spirits high on the concourse at ht.
2nd half capitulation killed the mood dead!
Oh and I fuckin hate the ‘Jihadi John’ song

 

[Legalamb777]

Better put on a tin hat....but old Trafford still looked pretty full when Unit*d were looking for a 94th minute winner today. Let's be honest, and not defensive, what would the Ethiad have been like in similar circumstances, and why?

We should have a 50k seater full of fans that care, and stay, not a 61k seater with thousands of half interested bluffers, or people for whom the game is an inconvenience.
Sorry, but I'm so sick of making and hearing excuses, the weather, the kick off time, the transport, the opposition. The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

I've spent a lot of time on here defending our support, you buy your ticket, you leave when you want. But when I see other clubs, with half the team we have, and they're finishing games to a nearly full house, willing them on to success, or acknowledging a good performance, and we see the half deserted shit show we witness every week, I get disillusioned.

I might be just pissed off at throwing away a winnable title this year, but the fuckers regularly walking out on 80 minutes regardless of circumstances, are a major problem in our support.
We'd be better off without them. Confession, I don't live in Manchester, and only go a few times a year, so major respect to those getting out and travelling to games to support the team, but I really don't understand or like our endemic early leaving culture. I'd rather miss my flight home than walk out on 80 minutes with the game in the balance.
It's been done to death, it's probably never gonna change, but it's gradually eating away at our soul. A very substantial chunk of our support don't hugely care, not enough to fight til the end. It wasn't always like this, but it's really bad at the moment.

No doubt I'll get defensive vitriol for this, but that's part of the issue, many who constantly deny the problem, and it is a problem, denying or defending it is just tolerating it. I can't even image what it'll be like when we're diluted by another 7,000 next year.

What a fantastic but sadly depressing post @Greenandblue i 100% agree with you…..basically your comment is how i feel but am not as skillfull as you to put across.
Get ready for the haters,but you are on my wavelength pal….

 

[citymad]

Better put on a tin hat....but old Trafford still looked pretty full when Unit*d were looking for a 94th minute winner today. Let's be honest, and not defensive, what would the Ethiad have been like in similar circumstances, and why?

We should have a 50k seater full of fans that care, and stay, not a 61k seater with thousands of half interested bluffers, or people for whom the game is an inconvenience.
Sorry, but I'm so sick of making and hearing excuses, the weather, the kick off time, the transport, the opposition. The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

I've spent a lot of time on here defending our support, you buy your ticket, you leave when you want. But when I see other clubs, with half the team we have, and they're finishing games to a nearly full house, willing them on to success, or acknowledging a good performance, and we see the half deserted shit show we witness every week, I get disillusioned.

I might be just pissed off at throwing away a winnable title this year, but the fuckers regularly walking out on 80 minutes regardless of circumstances, are a major problem in our support.
We'd be better off without them. Confession, I don't live in Manchester, and only go a few times a year, so major respect to those getting out and travelling to games to support the team, but I really don't understand or like our endemic early leaving culture. I'd rather miss my flight home than walk out on 80 minutes with the game in the balance.
It's been done to death, it's probably never gonna change, but it's gradually eating away at our soul. A very substantial chunk of our support don't hugely care, not enough to fight til the end. It wasn't always like this, but it's really bad at the moment.

No doubt I'll get defensive vitriol for this, but that's part of the issue, many who constantly deny the problem, and it is a problem, denying or defending it is just tolerating it. I can't even image what it'll be like when we're diluted by another 7,000 next year.

Great rant. Not sure what the owners thinking was to expand the stadium. We don't have enough support to fill the stadium as it is. Fans are walking out on the team more and more these days now so not sure where the new fans will be coming from. The stadium will look terrible on 90 mins when the new stand opens up. Our home fan base is on a decline sadly.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

It's probably not fair to directly compare our regular league away ends with that one FA cup game where there were 9,000 blues there.

Fair point that mate, forgot it was an invasion that night! I was still pissed when I wrote that

 

[Bluemart]

Fucking weird atmosphere at spurs today. Concourse kicking off but hardly a peep for most of the game in the stadium. Wtf?

Totally agree, said that to my son

 

[NJMCFC184]

That away end was wank

 

[mcfc315]

It was strangely muted. Lots of concourse singing though.

same every week, fans more arsed about having a pint in the concourse for half the game instead of getting behind the team in the ground

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

same every week, fans more arsed about having a pint in the concourse for half the game instead of getting behind the team in the ground

home and away that is!

you know its a shit atmosphere when we start resinging about Dzeko and others

 

[SWPISHOME]

The majority of our fans have lost the fire in our bellies, I'm sure individual supporters have their own reasons whether it's being bored, VAR, we've won everything, Same style football, football in general ect...

Home and away is absolutely dire, so many people staying in the concourse and missing the first 10/15 mins of games, then going back to the concourse at the 35th minute and coming back in the 55th and then leaving on 80 minutes...It's fucking mad.

Nobody seems to give a shit anymore. Players look like they feel the same on the pitch being bored shitless.

 

[LEXSTARproject]

Better put on a tin hat....but old Trafford still looked pretty full when Unit*d were looking for a 94th minute winner today. Let's be honest, and not defensive, what would the Ethiad have been like in similar circumstances, and why?

We should have a 50k seater full of fans that care, and stay, not a 61k seater with thousands of half interested bluffers, or people for whom the game is an inconvenience.
Sorry, but I'm so sick of making and hearing excuses, the weather, the kick off time, the transport, the opposition. The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

I've spent a lot of time on here defending our support, you buy your ticket, you leave when you want. But when I see other clubs, with half the team we have, and they're finishing games to a nearly full house, willing them on to success, or acknowledging a good performance, and we see the half deserted shit show we witness every week, I get disillusioned.

I might be just pissed off at throwing away a winnable title this year, but the fuckers regularly walking out on 80 minutes regardless of circumstances, are a major problem in our support.
We'd be better off without them. Confession, I don't live in Manchester, and only go a few times a year, so major respect to those getting out and travelling to games to support the team, but I really don't understand or like our endemic early leaving culture. I'd rather miss my flight home than walk out on 80 minutes with the game in the balance.
It's been done to death, it's probably never gonna change, but it's gradually eating away at our soul. A very substantial chunk of our support don't hugely care, not enough to fight til the end. It wasn't always like this, but it's really bad at the moment.

No doubt I'll get defensive vitriol for this, but that's part of the issue, many who constantly deny the problem, and it is a problem, denying or defending it is just tolerating it. I can't even image what it'll be like when we're diluted by another 7,000 next year.

Well said, you are spot on. Imagine if a lot of fans had done this they done that during 93.20, they would have missed the last two goals

You have to ask why fans are leaving at 80 minutes. Is the main reason for people leaving transport issues that the club refuse to address, or something else

There is something wrong with the club. Our Chairman is not at the club all the time, so up to the execs underneath him to run the club

The new North Stand is going to be a white elephant of a stand if the club does not sort out ticketing

We have to look at some facts regarding your post

We have been the most successful club over the last ten years, but our stadium has never been full

Just look at the optics, the club and its management team are putting out over the last year alone

From crazy ticketing decisions to attacking disabled fans.

Who at the club do we have to speak to NO ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Scaring Europe to Death]

I think there's another intangible factor, whereby despite all the fantastic success, our recent football has been incredibly dull.

Not an issue if we're still winning, but there's a sense that football is morphing into something far more physical, based on speed and set piece aggression, whilst City are overloaded with small, left footed lightweights

What I'd have given for a Nigel de Jong tackle yesterday that would have lifted our spirits and improved the atmosphere

De Jong wouldn't have let Dalot's challenge on Doku go unpunished either.

Instead we had Ait Nouri rolling around in agony (whilst Spurs were on the counter attack) before miraculously recovering

We're being outmuscled and bullied and it needs to change

 

[Saddleworth2]

The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

Never a truer word mate. This season will be our last. we can't commit to 10 games per season. We have done six so far but will struggle to complete the ten with the distance we have to travel and holidays. If I am completely honest, I enjoyed one of the six games - Bournemouth. The atmosphere has been dreadful, all our friends have gone, we are surrounded by attendees that are disengaged from the game and more interested in their phones. Frankly I can no longer justify the £300 it costs us to attend each game, particularly when it is no longer fun. So next season it will be TV only and City will have lost another long standing ticket holder. If that makes me a bad fan so be it.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Never a truer word mate. This season will be our last. we can't commit to 10 games per season. We have done six so far but will struggle to complete the ten with the distance we have to travel and holidays. If I am completely honest, I enjoyed one of the six games - Bournemouth. The atmosphere has been dreadful, all our friends have gone, we are surrounded by attendees that are disengaged from the game and more interested in their phones. Frankly I can no longer justify the £300 it costs us to attend each game, particularly when it is no longer fun. So next season it will be TV only and City will have lost another long standing ticket holder. If that makes me a bad fan so be it.

With the growing number of empty seats and a new stand about to be opened I think city will give that 10 game thing a knock on the head

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Yes it's a weird one, i get what you mean. I was at that Blackburn game too. Travelled down without a ticket and eventually got one from a tout for £100...in the Blackburn end behind the goal. Great day, celebrations on the pitch, in Manchester and Didsbury village after the game. Absolutely thousands there.
In our wilderness years we were so desperate for success and a visit to Wembley that we sold 46,000+ tickets for a third tier play off game against Gillingham and we could have easily sold more. We celebrated promotions like winning a trophy, i guess because back then for us it was.
That's what makes me laugh about all the thick moronic fans who now mock us as glory hunters etcetera. We've always been there, loud and proud.
While those days were fun ( In a way ) and the promotion days great and there was a great sense of "Fuck them all, we're City, we're still here" I wouldn't want to go back to being one of the also ran's just making up the numbers, but we have definitely lost something along the way.

When you remember Blackburn in 2000 surely their is a huge amount of hypocrisy when we bemoan away fans in home stands at the Etihad.
At the start of the following season WSC did a survey of fans of every club including the questions "what was the worse thing your club did last season", followed by" what was the best thing your club did last season. In response to the first question the Blackburn reply was " the ticketing, policing, and stewarding for the Man City match". In response to the second question the reply was losing that match.

 

[ercbkippax]

Better put on a tin hat....but old Trafford still looked pretty full when Unit*d were looking for a 94th minute winner today. Let's be honest, and not defensive, what would the Ethiad have been like in similar circumstances, and why?

We should have a 50k seater full of fans that care, and stay, not a 61k seater with thousands of half interested bluffers, or people for whom the game is an inconvenience.
Sorry, but I'm so sick of making and hearing excuses, the weather, the kick off time, the transport, the opposition. The thing we loved is changed, the people who loved it are broken by pricing, by dilution of the passionate fans around them, and by ticketing policies. All peventable, but that's the reality.

I've spent a lot of time on here defending our support, you buy your ticket, you leave when you want. But when I see other clubs, with half the team we have, and they're finishing games to a nearly full house, willing them on to success, or acknowledging a good performance, and we see the half deserted shit show we witness every week, I get disillusioned.

I might be just pissed off at throwing away a winnable title this year, but the fuckers regularly walking out on 80 minutes regardless of circumstances, are a major problem in our support.
We'd be better off without them. Confession, I don't live in Manchester, and only go a few times a year, so major respect to those getting out and travelling to games to support the team, but I really don't understand or like our endemic early leaving culture. I'd rather miss my flight home than walk out on 80 minutes with the game in the balance.
It's been done to death, it's probably never gonna change, but it's gradually eating away at our soul. A very substantial chunk of our support don't hugely care, not enough to fight til the end. It wasn't always like this, but it's really bad at the moment.

No doubt I'll get defensive vitriol for this, but that's part of the issue, many who constantly deny the problem, and it is a problem, denying or defending it is just tolerating it. I can't even image what it'll be like when we're diluted by another 7,000 next year.

Totally agree. Not that there aren’t any legitimate reasons for leaving early, but those that leave a game still in the balance just to get home 10 minutes earlier have no place in a football ground.

 

[ercbkippax]

I think the dwindling atmosphere at both home and away games is made much worse by the fact our songbook has gone to shit.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Totally agree. Not that there aren’t any legitimate reasons for leaving early, but those that leave a game still in the balance just to get home 10 minutes earlier have no place in a football ground.

There’s a good few there just taking it in as a tourist attraction and couldn’t care less who wins