Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

.db. said:
I’m a pisshead who goes out to the pub on a Saturday matchday from breakfast time and end up getting home in the early hours of the morning after going back to pubs, gigs or clubs after going to the game… yet I’ve never bothered with a beer at half time, I don’t see the point, I’d never risk missing a second of the game due to queueing for a pint.
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I guessed you were a stoic 20 pinter. I also like a beer but have never understood the half time drinker. Ridiculous queue to then down a pint of pisch and need another pisch before the end of the game.
I was in 9320 yesterday and ordered a pint for half time. They messed the order up and it wasn't Grolsch, sacrilege.
It's no different before a game is it, My planning is such that I always have time for a leisurely session before the game, but in my seat plenty of time to get the teams etc.
Anyway Forest next week and I need to research the earliest opening bar in Nottingham.
 
jrb said:
I think people have to accept our support’s match day routine has changed. Regardless of the reasons, watching the whole match for 90 minutes, including injury time, is no longer as important as it used to be.
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I would say that our fanbase has been like this for a long time and it’s not something we have changed or are changing into.

For me, it’s a leftover from when we were shit. When every minute of every game didn’t matter because we weren’t in the hunt for trophies for over three decades.

When we were shit, arriving late, leaving on 36 minutes to get a few pints in, coming back for the second half on 53 minutes because they were supping those pints and leaving the match early was alright because people wouldn’t ever really miss anything big. Derby Day, or if we were in a key relegation 6-pointer with a few games to go, were often the only games that mattered. Half the time we were in mid-table so only Derby Day mattered all season.

It was a culture within our fanbase from when we were a bit small-time as a club. And that small-time culture still frustratingly persists with the fanbase and has even seen the younger lot these days take on that leftover culture.

However, we’ve been a top side for long enough now that this should be a fan culture assigned to the bin. Every game matters. When we’ve seen how titles have been won on Goal Difference, we have experience of knowing that every goal and every minute matters.

I think it’s time to grow into being a fanbase of a big club now, it’s overdue.
 
asahartford1 said:
I guessed you were a stoic 20 pinter. I also like a beer but have never understood the half time drinker. Ridiculous queue to then down a pint of pisch and need another pisch before the end of the game.
I was in 9320 yesterday and ordered a pint for half time. They messed the order up and it wasn't Grolsch, sacrilege.
It's no different before a game is it, My planning is such that I always have time for a leisurely session before the game, but in my seat plenty of time to get the teams etc.
Anyway Forest next week and I need to research the earliest opening bar in Nottingham.
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Indeed. I’m not averse to waking up for a piss in the early hours of Sunday mornings with my jeans and one shoe still on as I’d passed out before I managed to get undressed properly… but I’ve never bothered with a half time pint.
 
.db. said:
Indeed. I’m not averse to waking up for a piss in the early hours of Sunday mornings with my jeans and one shoe still on as I’d passed out before I managed to get undressed properly… but I’ve never bothered with a half time pint.
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I bet you need to check the score -:)
 
asahartford1 said:
I guessed you were a stoic 20 pinter. I also like a beer but have never understood the half time drinker. Ridiculous queue to then down a pint of pisch and need another pisch before the end of the game.
I was in 9320 yesterday and ordered a pint for half time. They messed the order up and it wasn't Grolsch, sacrilege.
It's no different before a game is it, My planning is such that I always have time for a leisurely session before the game, but in my seat plenty of time to get the teams etc.
Anyway Forest next week and I need to research the earliest opening bar in Nottingham.
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Whichever it is, @Chappie and Mitch will already be there.
 
Fwiw me and my lad sit in 232 (now 132) and he's had enough of no one singing at our end of the ground. We go to aways and he loves it, he never stops singing and he asked yesterday if we can relocate to ss0 next season. He's only 11 but he's had enough of people just sitting in silence around us.
 
I don’t go to home games anymore because I moved away. However I was always a half time pint type of person, me, my old man and my uncles would take turns each match who would get them in. I’d see old mates on the concourse who I only ever saw at the football so enjoyed a chit chat with them too. Often I’d miss the start of the second half. It’s not a City thing either, living in London, some of my Arsenal mates for example do exactly the same thing.
 
Penworthamblue said:
Fwiw me and my lad sit in 232 (now 132) and he's had enough of no one singing at our end of the ground. We go to aways and he loves it, he never stops singing and he asked yesterday if we can relocate to ss0 next season. He's only 11 but he's had enough of people just sitting in silence around us.
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It’s the duty of every good Blue parent to teach their kids to sing as loud as they can at the match.
 
You can’t help compare Villa Park tonight at full time to yesterday afternoon, an evening game on a Sunday night the night before work starts.
 
Just watching the darts… any table that isn’t singing is met with the rest of the arena chanting ‘boring boring table’ at them.

If, at Chelsea at home, SSL0 aren’t singing from the off, I’ll try and get ‘boring boring South Stand’ going round the ground.
 
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