bayern blade said:
ballinio said:
Bang on , theres noise and then theres atmosphere,its all about them, the actual game is incidental & not that important. Shite is right
With respect speaking as someone who has been to hundreds of games in Germany that's bollocks. Of course the vast majority of fans react to what is going on on the pitch.
I must admit I prefer the atmospheres generated in Italian or Spanish system which does seem directly in response to what is happening on the pitch and includes the full emotions of human behaviour dependent upon the performance
The first time I went to a German game I was awe struck by the organisation and layout but then, having visited a few other stadiums, it all felt pretty much the same. Hamburg, Frankfurt, Schalke the grounds were very similar although Bremen was more like returning to a traditional English ground.
Incidentally although German fans are rightly lauded for the noise they make, the grounds I visited there was one singing end and the rest of the ground was deathly silence similar to english grounds