It's been a bad week for atmosphere don't get me wrong, but this past year or so we've seen some fantastic games for atmosphere. Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern, Liverpool(April)...We need to face it, generally speaking the 50 odd thousand people on any give day at the Etihad simply cannot be arsed singing, or they feel it inappropriate to sing or show any emotion apart from when we score. Expecting them to bother to turn up early to welcome our bus on mass will end in disappointment.
I am a lifelong blue who went to hundreds of games at Maine Road and have held a season ticket from day 1 at this stadium, the difference in the past 10 years or so is astonishing.
I'm not going to suggest the reasoning, as everyone will have their own theories (tourists, prawn sandwich eaters, tickets being too expensive for Joe Bloggs etc) What I can say though is most games at the Etihad, the majority of people in that stadium may as well be at home or down the pub watching as they add absolutely nothing to the proceedings. The insult to injury is the habitual late shows and early leaves (much discussed on here).
The players and manager (and footballers in general) have said many many times that the fans and the atmosphere they create can make all the difference to how the team get through games. Over the years this team and manager have given us everything and more and yet look at us now, probably quieter and less fanatical than we were in division 2.
We may have the best fans in all the land and all the world but sadly most of them aren't in that stadium.
Yes but it needs to be sung when we go 3-0 up and are celebrating, not straight after kick off or after we've gone a goal down. It isn't going around the stadium at the moment.“Champions again” is an instant classic, simultaneously celebrating our unprecedented success whilst mocking the rags / dippers.
It roused the team pretty well at OT
I actually think Sunday will look after itself and will be a good atmosphere.On Tuesday we tried to get:
Blue Moon going x2
We're not really here x3
We love you City x2
We never win at home x2
The first song we started was Blue Moon. We'll continue trying our best - but fans in all sections of the stadium need to step up - starting Sunday.
We've organised a few of these now and we usually get great numbers - thousands rather than hundreds.Expecting them to bother to turn up early to welcome our bus on mass will end in disappointment.
Banned anyone wearing half and half scarfs then?Pep Guardiola: “I encourage our fans to come to the stadium [against Tottenham on Sunday] because we will have fun!”
Shut up...It would also be great if the vocal fans could stop singing "Champions Again" and "Old Trafford is falling down" repeatedly at the wrong times and get back to the classics that rouse the stadium and team when they need it.
Agreed 100 %On Tuesday we tried to get:
Blue Moon going x2
We're not really here x3
We love you City x2
We never win at home x2
The first song we started was Blue Moon. We'll continue trying our best - but fans in all sections of the stadium need to step up - starting Sunday.
Why ?Banned anyone wearing half and half scarfs then?