Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

M18CTID said:
“Even yesterday, at 43 minutes the lower tier was emptying in a rush for the concourse. Hundreds missed Haaland`s wonderful headed goal. Many also missed City`s third goal.”

Seriously, what makes you think that won’t happen in the North Stand? You’re completely and utterly deluded if you think everyone is going to stay in their seats until half-time. In fact, I’d argue that it could be even worse in the North Stand, given the GA+ seats in there. I can see there being one big fuck-off empty gap in that section for the first 10 minutes of the second half of most games.

As for Liverpool fans being louder at the start of the match, well whoopsie fucking woo. Lunchtime kick-offs nearly always benefit the away fans more, regardless of whether they have 3000 or 8000 there. If that had been a teatime or 8pm kick-off then far more of our fans would’ve been bang up for it from the start. In any case, the fickleness of Liverpool’s fans shone through soon enough once we went ahead. Such good fans that they were fucking off in their hundreds and then thousands literally minutes into the second half.
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The atmosphere was great for an early kick-off. Of course not as good as 5.30pm though.
 
NJMCFC184 said:
Will anyone step up and set this group up? Theyve had long enough now.
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I think that's part of the problem unfortunately. It's become us and them.

There are logical and emotional reasons on both parts. The sad truth is I suspect there will be plenty who would quite like NS as a singing section to be a flop. Equally I suspect there are plenty who will continue to criticise SS for being a bit of a poor effort more often than not. Most won't admit it though.

What we need is people to drop their guard and support each other as much as possible. No NS Vs SS. We can still make it decent. It won't be as good as it could have been which is a shame but the club and fan groups have their positions, so we need to work as a collective. Everyone benefits if we can make the best of what we've got.

I thought the last hour of yesterday was ok. No better but not bad. As others and the scousers demonstrated yesterday. Put loads of people together who want to sing and there will be noise you won't compete with, guess we still have away days for that though eh.
 
jrb said:
Note the smiling City fan when he opens the curtains in the Medlock Hotel room on the TV. ;-)

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I bet a fair few missed the Haaland goals live ... haha never mind hey? They'd much rather get a pint than watch the team and cheer them off.

I'm not sure taking the TV away would make any difference.
 
citymad said:
I bet a fair few missed the Haaland goals live ... haha never mind hey? They'd much rather get a pint than watch the team and cheer them off.

I'm not sure taking the TV away would make any difference.
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I have always said our concourse support is one of the best.
Near to beer and other home comforts , sniff-:)
 
arcademik70 said:
I think that's part of the problem unfortunately. It's become us and them.

There are logical and emotional reasons on both parts. The sad truth is I suspect there will be plenty who would quite like NS as a singing section to be a flop. Equally I suspect there are plenty who will continue to criticise SS for being a bit of a poor effort more often than not. Most won't admit it though.

What we need is people to drop their guard and support each other as much as possible. No NS Vs SS. We can still make it decent. It won't be as good as it could have been which is a shame but the club and fan groups have their positions, so we need to work as a collective. Everyone benefits if we can make the best of what we've got.

I thought the last hour of yesterday was ok. No better but not bad. As others and the scousers demonstrated yesterday. Put loads of people together who want to sing and there will be noise you won't compete with, guess we still have away days for that though eh.
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1894 said they'd help anyone wanting to move, nothing stopping others stepping up, seems too easy on here just to blame 1894, I like standing next to away fans and when asked i said no to moving, we have plenty of others who could lead the way in NS.
 
jrb said:
Off the top of my head there are only 3 clubs in the PL that have proper singers at each end of their grounds.

United. The Stretford end and the K-stand.
Leeds. The North stand(Kippax) and the South stand.
Newcastle. The Leazes end and the Gallowgate end.
Other clubs are questionable.

City will have 2 proper singing ends, and a singing section/corner, the new NSL2, SSL1, and Kippax corner. No other PL club will have something similar. We have to make that a positive and an advantage to us and to the team next season.
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SS3 as well
 
citymad said:
I bet a fair few missed the Haaland goals live ... haha never mind hey? They'd much rather get a pint than watch the team and cheer them off.

I'm not sure taking the TV away would make any difference.
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We're all different. I've missed City goals when I've had to go to the toilet. I appreciate that's different to going for a drink early. I doubt there aren’t many, if any City fans, who have seen every City goal during every the match.
 
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Well, there already is a thread set up for it. Maybe the club have dismantled loads of fans' ideas of being home end by adding all the corporate sections into it.

The club may need to do a questionnaire
 
jrb said:
We're all different. I've missed City goals when I've had to go to the toilet. I appreciate that's different to going for a drink early. I doubt there are many, if any City fans, who have seen every City goal during every the match.
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One I missed that really annoyed me was at QPR when I desperately needed a wee and a roar from above told me we had scored. Who was it, I asked a jubilant new arrival to the facilities? Heath, he said. And I knew I’d missed an experience that might never be repeated
 
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jrb said:
Off the top of my head there are only 3 clubs in the PL that have proper singers at each end of their grounds.

United. The Stretford end and the K-stand.
Leeds. The North stand(Kippax) and the South stand.
Newcastle. The Leazes end and the Gallowgate end.
Other clubs are questionable.

City will have 2 proper singing ends, and a singing section/corner, the new NSL2, SSL1, and Kippax corner. No other PL club will have something similar. We have to make that a positive and an advantage to us and to the team next season.
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Leeds? Kippax?? Surely not, didn't they used to call it their Spion Kop..?
 
NJMCFC184 said:
1894 said they'd help anyone wanting to move, nothing stopping others stepping up, seems too easy on here just to blame 1894, I like standing next to away fans and when asked i said no to moving, we have plenty of others who could lead the way in NS.
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Totally agree. I completely get people wanting to keep their seat, you get attached to it. It's your spot and that's part of the experience so I don't understand criticism of anyone not wanting to move. People don't have to care about making the stadium atmosphere better, they should be entitled to just make their own experience better.

And you're right, anyone could step up to organise something else. From personal experience I can't stand criticism of people who volunteer to try and make things better. But another fan group fragments things even more. Holistically I suspect it almost needs a branch under the banner of 1894 if there's any chance of it being effective, but you're back to asking people to step up.....and we're back to where we started. Just a shame there needs to "sides" in this opportunity, collectively we can still make the best of it.

I think I'm more disappointed in the club though. People can't commit to anything or get behind anything if we don't have the details. Anyway, enough from me, peace and harmony eh.
 
Going back to prematch “anthems” couldn’t @1894mancity persuade City to give Don’t Look Back in Anger a try? I know not everybody loves Oasis but everyone (including the tourists) know the words, it’s a Manc anthem by a band of City fans and it lasts more than 15 secs before a shit clappy version. I really think 50000 singing that at k.o. would be spine tingling. Hey Jude has had its day and half the prem sing it.
 
shnaghaicityfish said:
Going back to prematch “anthems” couldn’t @1894mancity persuade City to give Don’t Look Back in Anger a try? I know not everybody loves Oasis but everyone (including the tourists) know the words, it’s a Manc anthem by a band of City fans and it lasts more than 15 secs before a shit clappy version. I really think 50000 singing that at k.o. would be spine tingling. Hey Jude has had its day and half the prem sing it.
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The hey Jude after we beat the rags one nil in 2012 will take some beating
 
shnaghaicityfish said:
Going back to prematch “anthems” couldn’t @1894mancity persuade City to give Don’t Look Back in Anger a try? I know not everybody loves Oasis but everyone (including the tourists) know the words, it’s a Manc anthem by a band of City fans and it lasts more than 15 secs before a shit clappy version. I really think 50000 singing that at k.o. would be spine tingling. Hey Jude has had its day and half the prem sing it.
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Agree totally. Can’t understand why it’s not happened already !!!
 
shnaghaicityfish said:
Going back to prematch “anthems” couldn’t @1894mancity persuade City to give Don’t Look Back in Anger a try? I know not everybody loves Oasis but everyone (including the tourists) know the words, it’s a Manc anthem by a band of City fans and it lasts more than 15 secs before a shit clappy version. I really think 50000 singing that at k.o. would be spine tingling. Hey Jude has had its day and half the prem sing it.
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What do the lyrics mean? What connection do the lyrics have to this football club or to going out and playing a football match? Who’s Sally? What is she waiting for? What are we not looking ‘back in anger’ at? What is not looking back on anger got to do with a football match?

We’ve never sung it as a set of fans (Villa have though), it’s not got inspirational or pertinent lyrics, it’s not saying anything we can get behind… it’s just one of my favourite bands most commercial and meaningless songs.

Now, if you said to me The Hollies ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’… then you’d be talking!



… The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where, who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
… So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there
… For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
… If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
… It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share?
… And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
… He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

Lyrics that football fans can get behind. The lyrics are pertinent to going out and performing for each other, standing shoulder to shoulder with our brothers as fans in the stands and the same for the players on the pitch to face the adversity in front of us.

We’ll always be there for each other, as brothers!

I’d argue that song is up there with Joy Division ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ as the greatest Manchester song.
 
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