Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

Last season, we finished strongly in terms of atmosphere. Wolves and Bournemouth fans were gushing on social media about how great we were. That needs to be carried over into this season.
i was there last season at wolves and bournemouth, travelled all the way from the netherlands and sat in ssl3 both games, my voice at the end of those days was gone. traveled to the etihad saturday again thinking im going to be singing 90 minutes again with fellow blues but i couldn’t have been more wrong… we were good the first 20 minutes but after that nobody sang or chanted anymore… i tried so many times, SO MANY TIMES to start the istanbul chant or boys in blue chant but every time i did, nobody joined in and i was stood there looking like a muppet. The only time in the 2nd half we sang was when john stones dove in for that ball at around the 58th minute, and even then it took like a minute before i started the johnny johnny stones chant. i was seriously baffed, hows a guy from the netherlands going to outsing proper blues from manchester?????
 
i was there last season at wolves and bournemouth, travelled all the way from the netherlands and sat in ssl3 both games, my voice at the end of those days was gone. traveled to the etihad saturday again thinking im going to be singing 90 minutes again with fellow blues but i couldn’t have been more wrong… we were good the first 20 minutes but after that nobody sang or chanted anymore… i tried so many times, SO MANY TIMES to start the istanbul chant or boys in blue chant but every time i did, nobody joined in and i was stood there looking like a muppet. The only time in the 2nd half we sang was when john stones dove in for that ball at around the 58th minute, and even then it took like a minute before i started the johnny johnny stones chant. i was seriously baffed, hows a guy from the netherlands going to outsing proper blues from manchester?????

Try SSL1 or blocks 111 and 110.

They are the singing sections.
 
I still travel to the Etihad for games but having said that we haven't booked any for this season yet. There doesn't seem to be the enthusiasm from our little group yet. It's along way to travel to be sat around tourist or for a shit atmosphere. Perhaps we are part of the problem been going for decades and are now not bothered because its not the same anymore. We haven't even talked about going this season. Perhaps last season has put us of with not being able to get seats together.
Shed loads of tours before the game, loads of tourist around the place, I dont really like it anymore I feel its not my City anymore.

We are all of to Brighton next week and can't wait. We perfer away games. Away days are hard to get but we always seem to manage to get Brighton !.

Perhaps its to do with being away games and we are more guaranteed to be surrounded by 100% City fans. Away games tend to more like the old days minus the trouble. The beer tends to follow and a good sing song.

I have no idea when we are going to attend any home matches this season. Personally I'm not bothered if my lad gets tickets I'll go. I have always enjoyed the day as a whole a win is great but its whole day experience.
Sadly getting up to Manchester is now a nightmare with roadworks. A shit atmosphere, getting away from the ground. Perhaps an just getting old !
Are you not a tourist then ?
 
And then you go to a Ducth game and the stadiums and the atmospheres are rocking.

Fair play to you mate, but I’d save my €500.
my local team has drums and everything, when we’re losing 4-0 everybody is singing as loud as they can and the drums get banged as hard as ever. U may have seen NAC breda at norwich doing the Links rechts dance that was when we were down, heres a clip of us doing that dance:

I hear what ur saying but sadly city has got my heart and i want to keep supporting them i was there at wolves and bournemouth last 2 home games and ive seen what we’re capable of IF EVERYONE GETS THEIR SHIT TOGETHER. We dont just support city when we’re winning!!!
 
Sadly, your view isn’t appreciated by some of the come day, go day so called ‘fan’ we have inherited.
Your balanced opinion, of which I share wholeheartedly, isn’t valued by a new generation of ‘fans’.
They want success, success and more success.They won’t tolerate top 4 mediocrity. LOL, as if top 4 is mediocre.
If not.
Sack Pep, he’s washed up.
Sell the players. Too old. Not good enough. Not world class. Not of our standard. Etc, etc, etc.
The world has gone bloody barmy.
I share your sentiment, let’s get right behind them, but we’re a dying breed.
Football/Society is changing.
And not for the better.
I’ll get lambasted I’m sure for being a ‘happy clapper’, a ‘Maine Roader’and you know what, I don’t mind one bit.
I still get the same buzz out of seeing that green grass, the same feeling as the first time I walked in the Kippax. The same feeling seeing that sky blue shirt.
Those new ‘fans’ won’t know that feeling, won’t know the euphoria of a 5-1 win against Charlton to get back into ‘the big time’
The hysteria of the 5-1 massacre against those lot.
But I will.
I’ve been there, seen it, bought the t-shirt and completed it in Istanbul.
They will never, ever, have the same feelings as me at winning a semi final in the FA Cup, being mentally, physically and emotionally drained just to get through to a FA Cup Final by beating our neighbours.
They won’t have the exhilaration of 93:20 when every single breath in my body had gone, literally gone, then crying, laughing and screaming because we had done it. We’d done it, and I was there with my best mate, my daughter and my son. Life was quite probably completed that day.
They come on here, slag us oldies off for living in the past, well I’m more than happy for the City past that I have experienced because it’s been part of my life. I didn’t need to share it on social media for likes, I lived it, loved it and bought the pink later to remember it.
Sorry for the drivel but reading some of the nonsense on here drives you to it.
Roll on Brighton.
CTID
I get where you are coming from, but there are different expectations from some younger fans who have only ever known success. How can those youngsters have the same perspective. Expectations between the older and younger fans are different, it’s just how it is. All the calling out of players and moaning about performances happened at Maine Road as well.
 
same mate, traveled all the way from the netherlands for this game, apparently i was the only one singing and chanting in the 2nd half on my own, i genuinely couldn’t get the fans going with me, i tried the istanbul chant maybe 14 times… every time i did the spurs fan heard me and chanted their own to drown out my noise…. i was sat so close to them, they shushed us so many times, i genuinely felt embarrassed and im 500 euros poorer…
The truth is the Etihad atmosphere is up and down. You get matches like that, whether you’re in South Stand upper or lower, it can be very frustrating, and those areas aren’t even tourists. It’s just regular Blues who choose not to get involved.
 
mate I’ll be real with u, i was sat in 314 yesterday, and im from holland but support city so im technically from “abroad” but dont confuse me with people that dont sing and chant cause i support with all my heart and i was genuinely baffed yesterday at how awful rhe support was from the SSL3 genuinely baffed. I was the only one who sang in the 2nd half and i felt like a complete doughnut because nobody around me sang with me to get our players going. Everybody was sitting down and not chanting. Mate believe me when i tell ya those people looked and sounded as manc as big steve does… so i genuinely dont want to hear its just fans from abroad, although yeah they definitely dont bring any atmosphere, there is still a bigger thing going on with. Hows the south stand supposed to be where our noise comes from but nobody was up for it??????
I believe it mate, but it's a continuous thing now with how City have fucked over the guys that go every week and try to build atmosphere. There has to be some kind of cohesion, you've probably seen how they do it in Holland in the stadiums there...even the bigger clubs. Here it's just a corporate money grab for all the big clubs, not just City. They go on about the famous Anfield atmosphere (it's a bit of a myth tbh) but they've at least not fucked too much with the Kop.
 
is it? i thought whole of the south stand was the singing section?
No.
Just SSL1 and blocks 111 and 110.
Try and get into blocks 115 and 116, SSL1, that’s where most of the chants start off.
If you’ve got a derby ticket, SSL3 will be alright, as long as United don't score first.
 
That picture just sums up how the fan base have changed. It’s the type of crowd that the top bosses here aren’t arsed about as long as they’ve spent their cash. Well they better hope we keep being successful because they’ll be long gone when we’re not. Then they’ll want the loyal fans to come back
 
When Trent scored in was in front of South stand.
When spurs scored it was in front of the family stand , where you get alsorts there.
So I wouldn't get too worked up about those photos
Agreed. If Haaland scored and celebrated in the bottom right corner at Anfield, there'd be loads of cameras out..less so at the Kop end. It is shite to see, but the 2 areas of our ground are very different.
 
That picture just sums up how the fan base have changed. It’s the type of crowd that the top bosses here aren’t arsed about as long as they’ve spent their cash. Well they better hope we keep being successful because they’ll be long gone when we’re not. Then they’ll want the loyal fans to come back
Utter bollocks we have thousands & thousands of local fans who don't sing, fuck all to do with tourists.
 

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