Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

EastMidlandsBlue said:
Just Fantastic in Villerreal last night, best support at a European game for a long long time.

Also felt like the police weren't complete dicks for a change
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It was very loud, not sure how many were there? Almost makes me think Sky and BT turn our fans sound down, heaven forbid
 
jrb said:
You must have been deaf to the home support if you couldn’t hear them.

What a crock of shite!
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Unnecessarily aggressive, it was a genuine question. I watched it on TNT and could only really hear our fans for most of the game. If you were there and VR were loud then I bow to your superior knowledge, but still no need for insults.
 
shnaghaicityfish said:
Unnecessarily aggressive, it was a genuine question. I watched it on TNT and could only really hear our fans for most of the game. If you were there and VR were loud then I bow to your superior knowledge, but still no need for insults.
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I thought the same.

There was a drum being played very fast that none of their fans seemed to be singing along to and all you could hear was City fans.
 
shnaghaicityfish said:
could hear you lot loud and proud all game on tv but nothing from the home support? Were they really that quiet?
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I personally didn't hear much from them although when you're up in the gods its sometimes hard to tell. I often find in the away end at St James you can never actually hear the home fans singing unless the whole ground gets going, and this was similar.

Clearly Jrb feels strongly about their home support, but going off what most are saying they didn't offer much.

Although I will say Villarreal strikes me as more of a local family type club, and the fans of theirs I spoke to were all top blokes.
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
I personally didn't hear much from them although when you're up in the gods its sometimes hard to tell. I often find in the away end at St James you can never actually hear the home fans singing unless the whole ground gets going, and this was similar.

Clearly Jrb feels strongly about their home support, but going off what most are saying they didn't offer much.

Although I will say Villarreal strikes me as more of a local family type club, and the fans of theirs I spoke to were all top blokes.
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I think it depends on where you were in the away end. I was near the front to the right and while I totally agree that it was a cracking atmosphere in our end in the main, somewhat frustratingly not everyone near me was joining in. I say frustratingly because I could see it was much more raucous in most other parts of our end. If you were in the thick of that then you probably wouldn't have heard the home fans too much. They were pretty loud at times from my vantage point though. Their main singers were below us to the left and on a few occasions they did get the rest of the ground singing.
 
M18CTID said:
I think it depends on where you were in the away end. I was near the front to the right and while I totally agree that it was a cracking atmosphere in our end in the main, somewhat frustratingly not everyone near me was joining in. I say frustratingly because I could see it was much more raucous in most other parts of our end. If you were in the thick of that then you probably wouldn't have heard the home fans too much. They were pretty loud at times from my vantage point though. Their main singers were below us to the left and on a few occasions they did get the rest of the ground singing.
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That's correct, I was towards the back of the stand and it was very lively where I was. From my perspective I could mainly just hear a drum.

Maybe a full afternoon of 3 euro pints might be contributing to my impairment.
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
Just Fantastic in Villerreal last night, best support at a European game for a long long time.

Also felt like the police weren't complete dicks for a change
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Completely agree with this, pre game it was brilliant in them bars right outside the game, both sets of fans mixing in good spirits, the Police were friendly and helpful and inside the ground our support was fantastic throughout the game and at the end when we were kept in. Was a brilliant trip
 
Mike Brock said:
Completely agree with this, pre game it was brilliant in them bars right outside the game, both sets of fans mixing in good spirits, the Police were friendly and helpful and inside the ground our support was fantastic throughout the game and at the end when we were kept in. Was a brilliant trip
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Yep, one of the better European away days for sure. Good to see you on Tuesday mate
 
.db. said:
I thought this was a good post:

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There is no doubt, a large difference in football crowds now, compared to the quoted above 1970's.
Football for most top-level clubs' owners is now seen and marketed as an event, rather than a ritual.
It's not just long-serving City fans that are struggling to maintain a loyal, noisy support.
The newish Saturday 8pm evening kick off time, is another example of the Premier League kicking the match going football fan, in the nuts.
Perhaps the "Punk movement" alternative, is to attend non-League matches (definitely not FCUM though) ?
If you don't have a season ticket, I'm sure there's a community Non-League club near everyone, that could do with your support for a few games a season, if you are pissed off with the inevitable influx of tourists and bandwagon jumpers ?
 
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