well done to the couple of hundred kids in the south stand 3 last night singing and shouting seemed to enjoy it get them in get them hooked
Not liking, sorry, hating(!) drums at football games is not being an atmosphere snob.
Every single time some set of Euro away fans have come to the Etihad with a drum, or any time I watch a CL game on tele on the nights when City aren’t playing or any time I watch Palace when they’re at home... within five minutes I’m fucking sick to death of hearing the drum.
And it’s not only the incessant smashing fuck out of it that nearly all of them do, it’s the dreadful monotonous boring chanting they do with no words that just drone on and on and on to it “ooooaaaah wooooaaahhh der der der oooaahh wwwoah woah laaa laaa an na na der der wwoaaah”.
And to top it off that stupid US high school cheer leader choreographed clapping they all do where they start with their arms really wide and clap above their head.
I hate it!
When Atalanta came a few months ago they were a breath of fresh air for a set of Euro fans. They sounded brilliant! They had no drum!
They ruined themselves with a drum where we played them away. But they were great at our place.
I feel very very passionately about being anti-percussion at football games. Me and my group of mates can’t stand them.
I know we don’t have all those shit “woah woah” songs with no words but I think I’d we had a drum it wouldn’t be long until they appeared.
I’m all for banners, flags, displays (although I think they sometimes kill the atmosphere as the players come out because people are concentrating on holding things up rather than making noise), smoke bombs, flares, standing up, the Poznań, the Yaya/Kolo... and obviously singing our traditional songs... but we do not need to be just another copycat cheesy Euro bollocks fanbase with no imagination, stooping down to having a drum.
It’s the one thing English fans still have over those Europop Ultras. Yes they are much more consistently louder than English fans, but whenever any set of drumless English fans turn up with a proper atmosphere, we have the best atmospheres in football! There’s no distinguishing between any of them, from Portugal to Russia, they’re all the same - same drum beats, same songs with no words, they’re fucking boring. Yes silence is also boring but when we switch it on, we are great!
We've just got to keep trying to get a bigger singing section away from the away fans in an area where the noise will spread around the stadium well and encourage the rest of the stadium to sing more.
And we’ve got to get the club to stop increasing ticket prices. The amount of fans who’ve left our fanbase because of this sole reason must be huge. I know well over two dozen fans who’ve stopped going due to price increases over the years. A few gave up after Pearce and a few have died (not from being FOCs before you wonder how old I am, one of the lads was 24 when he died) but the rest have been priced out or the continual price increases means they drop out of the Cup Schemes.
A drum isn’t the answer. It’s enough to stop many fans going if we turned into a drum fanbase.
Not liking, sorry, hating(!) drums at football games is not being an atmosphere snob.
Every single time some set of Euro away fans have come to the Etihad with a drum, or any time I watch a CL game on tele on the nights when City aren’t playing or any time I watch Palace when they’re at home... within five minutes I’m fucking sick to death of hearing the drum.
And it’s not only the incessant smashing fuck out of it that nearly all of them do, it’s the dreadful monotonous boring chanting they do with no words that just drone on and on and on to it “ooooaaaah wooooaaahhh der der der oooaahh wwwoah woah laaa laaa an na na der der wwoaaah”.
And to top it off that stupid US high school cheer leader choreographed clapping they all do where they start with their arms really wide and clap above their head.
I hate it!
When Atalanta came a few months ago they were a breath of fresh air for a set of Euro fans. They sounded brilliant! They had no drum!
They ruined themselves with a drum where we played them away. But they were great at our place.
I feel very very passionately about being anti-percussion at football games. Me and my group of mates can’t stand them.
I know we don’t have all those shit “woah woah” songs with no words but I think I’d we had a drum it wouldn’t be long until they appeared.
I’m all for banners, flags, displays (although I think they sometimes kill the atmosphere as the players come out because people are concentrating on holding things up rather than making noise), smoke bombs, flares, standing up, the Poznań, the Yaya/Kolo... and obviously singing our traditional songs... but we do not need to be just another copycat cheesy Euro bollocks fanbase with no imagination, stooping down to having a drum.
It’s the one thing English fans still have over those Europop Ultras. Yes they are much more consistently louder than English fans, but whenever any set of drumless English fans turn up with a proper atmosphere, we have the best atmospheres in football! There’s no distinguishing between any of them, from Portugal to Russia, they’re all the same - same drum beats, same songs with no words, they’re fucking boring. Yes silence is also boring but when we switch it on, we are great!
We've just got to keep trying to get a bigger singing section away from the away fans in an area where the noise will spread around the stadium well and encourage the rest of the stadium to sing more.
And we’ve got to get the club to stop increasing ticket prices. The amount of fans who’ve left our fanbase because of this sole reason must be huge. I know well over two dozen fans who’ve stopped going due to price increases over the years. A few gave up after Pearce and a few have died (not from being FOCs before you wonder how old I am, one of the lads was 24 when he died) but the rest have been priced out or the continual price increases means they drop out of the Cup Schemes.
A drum isn’t the answer. It’s enough to stop many fans going if we turned into a drum fanbase.
Agreed PC, smalltime and fuckin' cringe worthy! But you know music after a goal on the horizon mate. I really think they think it would add to our contrived 'matchday experience'. American style razzmatazz bollocks of cheesy music complimented by pom-pom waving cheerleaders after a goal is scored.Oh, and no music after goals neither!
Fuck the band. They had no onions for the hotdogs Saturday. Four pound fuckin' fifty for a hotdog with no onions!No one mentioned the band inside the ground this time
Moan moan moan
All seater stadiums were the death knell for atmosphere over here, aside from odd games. If you wanted a piss up, a fight, a sing song you went in the kippax. To a lesser extent small mobs camped out in the north stand and platt lane. Generally the elderly, posh, corporates and boring farts went in the main stand and the rest of the seats. People knew where they stood....or sat, no one whined and moaned if you got out of order in the kippax as it was expected it might get a bit rough in there. Now everyone is mixed in all stands together. Lads, kids, older people, women and just general boring fuckers, that is why the atmosphere is dissipated.
Palace, Sheffield United and Villa are pretty loud but for the latter two it's a bit of a novelty being back in the premier league. A couple of seasons when it wears off their atmosphere may fade.