Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

Sebi said:
I‘m from Germany, and I don't like german fan culture. The reason is that it's not related to the game itself. In England, the atmosphere depends on the moment in the game, which I like much more, but of course that's a matter of taste.

I think they didn‘t even celebrate their goal? Singing all time, but don‘t watching the match? I like more emotions, they are better in england, i prefer it.
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Good post sir
 
.db. said:
Certainly in terms of being intimidating and giving visiting fans shit. Not like our tannoy announcer always says, ‘please welcome our visitors *whoever it is on the day* onto the pitch’… no chance mate, they’re Scouse/Cockney/Brummy/Geordie/Rag/German/French cunts and can all get fucked!
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I for one 100% concur…KUDOS .db.:
 
citymad said:
I still can’t get over the amount of fans who miss the end of the first half a beginning of the second half. The disinterest from some of our fans in watching the team seems to be getting worse these days which is a shame because we’re starting to play some really great football this season only have the greatest striker on the planet.
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Years of winning nothing sent 90% of us to drink
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The Dortmund fans were shit. They didn’t back the team. They just sung to themselves and didn’t watch the match. Pathetic to see.
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This is an ABSOLUTE spot on take on what I watched and UNFORTUNATELY heard this evening,that wasn’t ATMOSPHERE from the Dortmund fans…it was a fucking none stop dirge of fucking mind numbing nothingness….no ingenuity or GENUINE passion……oh and that drum,the cunts getting clubbed if I’m in his twatting vicinity.
 
Yes the German fans spent more time focusing on wether they are jumping, scarf waving or clapping in sync than whatever was going on the pitch - but they did make a big noise and I’m sure their players noticed it.

That Yellow Wall I saw went we played them away is something to behold - whatever you think about the orchestration of it all (which is a little strange in my book):

But we were utterly shite. I know - the traffic, the cost of being in all three cup schemes, the tourists (though I agree with others that there are less - and away too), the acoustics, the south stand being split, the singing ‘section’ moving all over the place, etc, etc, etc….

But we have to do better - seriously - I am the only ‘singer’ at the front of CBL3 and have been since I took my seat the day the Etihad opened. I know we are the FOC section - but most don’t even bother to get up when we score.

I have surrendered to the silence now, and as I sit with some folks who sat with me from Maine Road days - I’m not going to move - and I also love the view - almost dead in the halfway line.

So the only games I really look forward to these days are away games - although even then, at Monaco we couldn’t get a single chant/song going.

I am also sure the fucking stupid laser light show for the tourists doesn't help…right that’s enough grumpiness for one night (after all we did win!!)
 
.db. said:
Spot on!

Tonight was the epitome why the South Stand has run its course as the singing end.
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Do you honestly think NSL2 is going to be any different or better than South stand, Level 1?

It isn't.

It's not about 3000 safe standing seats, it's about like minded fans and singers getting together in large enough numbers to make a difference to the atmosphere inside the Etihad

The safe standing section on NSL2 will just be like the safe standing section on SSL1 filled with fans who want to sing and want to create an atmosphere, fans who will join in with the singing every now and again, and fans who have no or little interest in singing. On top of that, unlike SSL1, there will be GA and GA+ seating in front and to the sides of the safe standing sections, alongside hotel balconies at the back of the safe standing singing section. The fan makeup on NSL1 will be general fans, football tourists, day trippers, people staying at the hotel taking the match in as a weekend trip to MCR, hospitality, etc.

Yes, there will be singing and support on NSL2, but it will be exactly like SSL1, sporadic, not continuous.

Last night

I've read elsewhere that the singers who were standing at the front of SSL2 last night were told to sit down by the fans who were sat down behind them.

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jrb said:
Last night

I've read elsewhere that the singers who were standing at the front of SSL2 last night were told to sit down by the fans who were sat down behind them.

Not my picture.

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That's because for some reason they decided to move to the front of 315 without any kind of consultation with the fans who already regularly sit in 315, or consideration for what that area is usually like.

It's not a standing area. For league games it's pretty much full of existing and long standing (therefore on the older side shall we say) season ticket holders, although for CL games it's probably 50/50 how many are there and how many aren't.

For context, in the other thread you are referring to, it is mentioned that a pensioner could not see the game due to the standers in front of them, and after asking them to sit down were met with a less than friendly response. That's not a group of fans trying to make the experience for those around them better, it comes across as a group of lads doing what they want to do and saying "fuck everyone else". It's bound to cause friction.
 
citymad said:
I still can’t get over the amount of fans who miss the end of the first half a beginning of the second half. The disinterest from some of our fans in watching the team seems to be getting worse these days which is a shame because we’re starting to play some really great football this season only have the greatest striker on the planet.
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I’ve always thought that the large number of fans who leave the first half early and come back to the second half late is a culture within our support that has hungover and sustained from when we were shit. Where each match isn’t really that important unless it’s the Derby or a game near the end of the season where we need a win to stay up. The game was often bobbins so it didn’t matter if they missed 10mins either side of HT, the half time beers were more important.

When we played Liverpool in the 2016 EFL Cup final, loads of our fans missed Fernandinho putting us 1-0 up on 49mins and a few around me who came back a few minutes later didn't know we’d scored and only realised when they randomly looked at the scoreboard on about 55mins.
You watch the Scouse cunts on Sunday, I always notice that they’re all back in their seats and singing for the start of the second half. One year they caught us cold and Mane scored in the first minute of the second half, with loads of our fans not seeing it.

Also, I always think that leaving early en mass at the end of the game like we do is what a support does when it’s disgusted with the team’s performance and they’re showing their disdain for the team. Another culture within our support where I bet half those who leave early just do it out of habit.

After the two late goals against Burnley, I reckoned up how many goals those who leave on 80minutes every week have missed since the takeover in 2008… add that to the two we’ve scored after 80mins since, and they’ve missed a staggering 348 City goals!
 
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citymad said:
I still can’t get over the amount of fans who miss the end of the first half a beginning of the second half. The disinterest from some of our fans in watching the team seems to be getting worse these days which is a shame because we’re starting to play some really great football this season only have the greatest striker on the planet.
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Not to mention how annoying it is when people finally do return to their seats meaning others on the row have to stand up to let them pass and so block the view of those behind.
 
jrb said:
I've read elsewhere that the singers who were standing at the front of SSL2 last night were told to sit down by the fans who were sat down behind them.

Not my picture.

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I’ve said elsewhere, I think it was a good idea, but I don’t think it was advertised properly, especially by the club. Most people had no idea there would be a singing section at the front.

If you’re going to do it at the front, the entire block would have to stand really. Plenty of people were trying to join in though at times
 
uwerosler28 said:
It did create an atmosphere it was fucking brilliant and many times better than our silence
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Stood in 011 the game started with a good atmosphere, mostly created by the Dortmund supporters, however, unfortunately it became a wall of white noise!
A dirge of choreographed nonsense orchestrated by a drum and megaphone, that had zero engagement with our fans in close proximity, and what was happening on the pitch, barely reacting to their solitary goal, so much I initially thought it was offside. Credit to section 010 & 011 singers that kept songs going throughout the game.
 
east2 said:
Stood in 011 the game started with a good atmosphere, mostly created by the Dortmund supporters, however, unfortunately it became a wall of white noise!
A dirge of choreographed nonsense orchestrated by a drum and megaphone, that had zero engagement with our fans in close proximity, and what was happening on the pitch, barely reacting to their solitary goal, so much I initially thought it was offside. Credit to section 010 & 011 singers that kept songs going throughout the game.
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As much as I agree with many on here saying it's like white noise and almost detached from the game (not reacting to a goal is weird, i agree), if the away fans out-sing the home fans and make the home fans eventually just give in, then that is a big win for their fans. I know on the pitch they still lost.

I dont know what the answer is but surely there was enough good footy on the pitch for us lot to get behind last night? it wasnt like a 6-0 stroll that folks claim is bad for atmosphere too....

Many on here love 10 minute long chants like 'Follow you everywhere' and other ones, but rail against the noise some european visitors make, bit hypocritical. We've got to make more noise, collectively.
 
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