Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

NJMCFC184 said:
I think it says alot that no one at club has ever asked fans like myself why we don't go CL games. I binned it off 12 years ago, only went Dortmund as my son won 2 tickets at school.
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They havent asked because they are not only not bothered, they are glad.
Dont want the likes of you blocking a seat for a tourist

Fact
 
jrb said:
They didn't do the same song all night. Lol! There's been some absolute bullshit posted about their support on this thread. I just think some of you are very bitter about a whole stadium of City fans being outsing by 1500 Leverkusen fans.

I was stood in 212 next to the Leverkusen fans. They had a good variety of chants that I could hear clearly.

If you are posting about City fans, you are correct. "Come on City...., "The best team in the land..., and "We've got Guardiola... That was it.
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literally sounded the same from where I was sat. But if you say it was different fair enough.
 
jrb said:
Next time we play a German team at home in the CL, bring some ear plugs. That way you won't hear the drum, and it won't ruin the match for you.
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I was thinking that last night, but that was because of the two stewards stood right behind me talking shit all game, which was just as distracting.
 
jrb said:
As opposed to total and utter silence.

Given the choice, out of those two scenarios, I know which one I would have.

How can it be monotonous when it's different chants?

You mean the drumming was monotonous?

Different chants can't be monotonous.

Neither can singing for 90 minutes as City sometimes do at away games, which everyone raves about on this thread. ' Fantastic away support today'. 'We did stop singing for 90 minutes'. 'We've got one of the best away supports in the PL'.

They even starting singing in English to the City fans, taking the piss, during the fire drill with 5 minutes to go.
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Why would it ever just be a choice between those two options?

If it were a choice between our home game atmospheres against Napoli and Liverpool, and either the Euro bank geek guff or our silence last night and against Dortmund, I’d choose our Napoli and Liverpool atmospheres without hesitation.
 
.db. said:
Why would it ever just be a choice between those two options?

If it were a choice between our home game atmospheres against Napoli and Liverpool, and either the Euro bank geek guff or our silence last night and against Dortmund, I’d choose our Napoli and Liverpool atmospheres without hesitation.
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I know I'm like a stuck record but there's a link between the drums and our home atmosphere.

The away fans with a drum sing incessantly and the three singing groups in the south stand can't hear each other. Each tries to get a couple of things going at the beginning but the songs don't spread beyond the few hundred who are singing. They get subdued and the rest of the stadium follows suit. And then the atmosphere becomes dead unless something urgent happens.

Crowd phychology is powerful. People will sing much more when people around them are doing it. The first few minutes set the tone and in these games, and FA Cups games, there's no leadership for the 90% of the stadium in the other three secotions, to follow. This isn't the fault of the fans in the vocal areas, it's the fact that there aren't enough of them together to get anything going, and having no roof to bounce off makes that worse.

At the Napoli and Liverpool games most loud songs started when both 111 and the south stand sang together and the song spread quickly both ways, or when a proper City anthem started under the roof at both the south and north ends.
 
.db. said:
Why would it ever just be a choice between those two options?

If it were a choice between our home game atmospheres against Napoli and Liverpool, and either the Euro bank geek guff or our silence last night and against Dortmund, I’d choose our Napoli and Liverpool atmospheres without hesitation.
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You can count the decent atmospheres at the Etihad on one hand every season.

United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and maybe the later stages of the CL. And that’s if City are winning those games. If City are losing those games the atmospheres are flat, subdued and tense.

I didn’t pick this video on purpose. It popped up on my Facebook page.

No Ultra drum. No roof to amplify the sound. Hundreds of Atalanta fans all stood and singing together. Yes, there is a Capo in the middle of them leading the chanting. Similar, but to a much lesser extent to a person at the back of SSL1 leading the chanting.

People often complain on this thread about different chants starting off on different parts of SSL1, and why can’t we all sing the same chants together at the same time. The Atalanta fans all sing the same chants together. They all join in together. Because they all know what they are about to sing.

People might not like the thought of being told what to sing by a Capo, but I’ve joined in with 1000’s of chants at MR and the Etihad, started by other fans, and it hasn’t ever bothered me one bit. I doubt it bothers most singers. In fact, I’ve started chants off myself that have gone all around the Etihad. :-)

This is possibly your worst nightmare as a football fan and a singer, if you are a singer?

(Unfortunately I don’t know how to post Facebook videos directly on BM. If you can arsed, click on the X top right, then on the speaker symbol bottom right, restart the video from the beginning as it will start automatically, and listen to the Atlanta fans chanting.That support and noise goes on throughout the game.

 
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Man_City_Loyal said:
literally sounded the same from where I was sat. But if you say it was different fair enough.
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The chants didn’t sound the same, There was a variety of different chants, fast, slow, long, short, clapping, jumping up and down, with and without the drum, and even chants in English, bantering the City fans as they left the Etihad en-masse close to full-time.
 
jrb said:
The chants didn’t sound the same, There was a variety of different chants, fast, slow, long, short, clapping, jumping up and down, with and without the drum, and even chants in English, bantering the City fans as they left the Etihad en-masse close to full-time.
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I seen the bantering at the end, seemed the only difference from where I sat.

Like i said, you sat closer so you seen more of it. Not here to argue :-)
 
jrb said:
You can count the decent atmospheres at the Etihad on one hand every season.

United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and maybe the later stages of the CL. And that’s if City are winning those games. If City are losing those games the atmospheres are flat, subdued and tense.

I didn’t pick this video on purpose. It popped up on my Facebook page.

No Ultra drum. No roof to amplify the sound. Hundreds of Atalanta fans all stood and singing together. Yes, there is a Capo in the middle of them leading the chanting. Similar, but to a much lesser extent to a person at the back of SSL1 leading the chanting.

People often complain on this thread about different chants starting off on different parts of SSL1, and why can’t we all sing the same chants together at the same time. The Atalanta fans all sing the same chants together. They all join in together. Because they all know what they are about to sing.

People might not like the thought of being told what to sing by a Capo, but I’ve joined in with 1000’s of chants at MR and the Etihad, started by other fans, and it hasn’t ever bothered me one bit. I doubt it bothers most singers. In fact, I’ve started chants off myself that have gone all around the Etihad. :-)

This is possibly your worst nightmare as a football fan and a singer, if you are a singer?

(Unfortunately I don’t know how to post Facebook videos directly on BM. If you can arsed, click on the X top right, then on the speaker symbol bottom right, restart the video from the beginning as it will start automatically, and listen to the Atlanta fans chanting.That support and noise goes on throughout the game.

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€27 (€22 for U-16’s) for the Curva Nord and Curva Sud for the game with Fiorentina this weekend.
€18 (€10 for U-16’s) for the cup game with Genoa the Wednesday after.

Sadly, we’ll never see those prices and, consequently, rarely get a similar atmosphere.
 
Football, just like the country, has changed drastically since the 60's, 70's and 80's. Going to a football match is, to many, a night out, an event, a chance to get a souvenir (half and half) scarf. I go to virtually every Etihad game and without the "tourists" the ground would be half full for most cup games. Many people now go to a match to be entertained not to take part themselves. Of course we want the best of all worlds, world class talent to watch at rock bottom working class prices but that world has gone, probably forever.
 
philiph20 said:
It'd be interesting to know what percentage of season ticket holders don't attend champions league games, 50%?
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Certainly this season far less season ticket holders around me than previous seasons but a lot of young ones in the family stand who clearly loved the opportunity to see some of our players.They were no harm and gave it a go at singing City City City when the rest of the ground including me was sat in silence.The question your asking would be interesting though.
 
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