Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

[Platt Lane 59]

Totally agree.
It's no more exciting than going to the cinema

Agree, "Escape to Victory" is far more exciting...

 

[give it to gordon]

Totally agree.
It's no more exciting than going to the cinema

And people dont leave the cinema early so you arent standing up sitting down for the last 10 minutes !

 

[JGL07]

And people dont leave the cinema early so you arent standing up sitting down for the last 10 minutes !

They always used to in the 1960s.. People would often arrive half way through a film and stay up to the point of arrival in the next screening.

 

[Oyster28catcher]

First two rows of 011 are pure Halloween. Like a morgue. Can't hear much but the gentle click of pretend camera shutters on phones

 

[half & half derby scarf]

Sounded loud on TV today. "Anthony Taylor it's all about you" coming through loud and clear.

 

[.db.]

Good in the first half when the stadium was doing its collective nut at Anthony Taylor.

Flat as fuck second half again though. First chant of the second half was ‘One Ricky Hatton’ on 74mins.

Who’s the ref next week? Let’s hope he does something shit every five minutes to keep us chanting all game!

 

[M18CTID]

Not the best but miles better than the Everton game the other week.

“You can stick your fucking cherries up your arse……sideways!”

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

Awful, gets a bit worse year on year. Feel really sorry for those trying to get something going coz it feels like they’re flogging a dead horse. And as for the church mice supporters association in the North stand, maybe the vow of silence you took at some point needs revoking. What a load of wet weekenders we’ve become.

 

[Groke]

Hmmmm - ^ not sure where you went - decent atmosphere today triggered by the red **** officials

 

[Ethan23]

Was there today in my season ticket in 111.

I think we're in a strange situation where weve not quite got the underdog mentality of a fanbase that is realisticly chasing an unlikely title. We still find ourselves to be in a situation where we feel we should be beating most teams fairly comfortably at home. We need poor refereeing or something contentious to get us going.

For me personally ive accepted Its Arsenals title. If we can secure top 4 and have a real good run at the cup competitions then its been a good season!

 

[.db.]

Hated how empty the stadium was in the last five minutes.

Leaving a game early in tens of thousands is the sign of a fanbase disgusted with the team’s performance. Yet that was our best performance of the season.

Also, the players and Pep are making a point of doing a lap of honour after the game to thank the fans, yet there may only have been 7k or so left when they did it yesterday. I bet they’re wondering why they’re bothering.

 

[uwerosler28]

Was weird pre kick off, there seemed to be a few songs building but then both sets of players went to the centre circle looking like it was going to be a minutes silence or something , even the big screens went black although bizarrely blue moon was still played but to no reaction and then they all just ran off as if the plan had changed, the whole stadium seemed confused and was silent after that.

 

[uwerosler28]

Awful, gets a bit worse year on year. Feel really sorry for those trying to get something going coz it feels like they’re flogging a dead horse. And as for the church mice supporters association in the North stand, maybe the vow of silence you took at some point needs revoking. What a load of wet weekenders we’ve become.

You mean the family stand that is full of kids? seems a odd choice to single out for a lack of noise?

 

[James2401125]

Was weird pre kick off, there seemed to be a few songs building but then both sets of players went to the centre circle looking like it was going to be a minutes silence or something , even the big screens went black although bizarrely blue moon was still played but to no reaction and then they all just ran off as if the plan had changed, the whole stadium seemed confused and was silent after that.

I can only presume the players thought it was for remembrance as other clubs have done there's this week.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

You mean the family stand that is full of kids? seems a odd choice to single out for a lack of noise?

I agree with your point, as most of the ground is silent not just the North Stand.

However to say it's still a family stand full of kids is well wide of the mark these days, the demographic is no different from anywhere else in the ground

 

[Leeky]

Bloke in the second tier family stand shouts random shite (not me) throughout matches. Yesterday he was calling out the singing section to make some noise.

Before the match was a bit confusing as I wasn’t expecting minute silence, think the players were expecting, probably Taylor fucking things up. Even the music stopped playing or delayed.

Taylor songs fantastic and was obvious he heard, as he gave us absolutely nothing after.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Hated how empty the stadium was in the last five minutes.

Leaving a game early in tens of thousands is the sign of a fanbase disgusted with the team’s performance. Yet that was our best performance of the season.

Also, the players and Pep are making a point of doing a lap of honour after the game to thank the fans, yet there may only have been 7k or so left when they did it yesterday. I bet they’re wondering why they’re bothering.

More like 5k

 

[Axel Freed]

Sounded loud on TV today. "Anthony Taylor it's all about you" coming through loud and clear.

What a terribly sanitised chant, symptomatic of the lack of hostility in football atmospheres nowadays. Counterproductive too, I’m sure that **** got a buzz out of hearing thousands of people sing his name

What happened to the “referee’s a wanker”

 

[Axel Freed]

Maybe it’s been posted already (might have even done it myself, haven’t bothered checking), but for me a big part of the problem (at a lot of grounds) is the limit on away fan numbers.

Every big game I can recall (atmosphere wise) was when there was big noisy away followings. Certainly at Maine Rd you knew whether the atmosphere would be good when you started to see how full the Platt lane end would be (when it was for away fans).

There are obviously exceptions for important games when the result itself makes it like a final, but I much preferred having big away followings (and being part of a big away following).

Yeah I can remember fantastic atmospheres at Maine Road in Div 2 when Newcastle and Sheff Wed must have brought over 10,000 fans with them.

More fans incidentally than Newcastle were getting at home a couple of years prior to that.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

Doesn’t help when large chunks of the second tier in three stands have decided that their half time brew and biscuits are more important than watching the game. Until they sort the transport away from the stadium and a quicker way to exit the stadium from the third tiers then thousands will continue to leave from 80 mins onwards.

As for the singing section does it actually exist any longer. South stand bottom tier also empties from 80th minute.