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Sh88ter

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Dear everybody,

I am from Denmark (pardon my poor english) and was lucky to win a danish fantasy manager game and thereby winning a Champions League journey for me and my friends with everything payed for. I have picked Manchester City - Sevilla as the game I would like to see since I'm a hugh City-fan. I'm looking very much forward to it!

But I also study journalism back in Denmark and i have been asigned to make an article regarding my trip. Here, I have decided to write about the atmosphere on the stadium wednesday night but also focusing on the impact of the many tourists who come and watch Manchester City's games. Therefore, I would like to ask you all some questions about if you have experienced any difference in the atmosphere over the last years (or decades). But I know I can't ask you in this tread, but I don't have permission to make my own thread, so if you could help me out I would appreciate it very much :-)

Best regards,
Mathias Lindholm from Denmark
 
Thanks for the help! My questions to you guys is as following:

1. How do you experience the atmosphere at Etihad Stadium?
2. Do you feel any difference between today's atmosphere and the atmosphere before Manchester City became a top english team with many star players (2011)?
3. Is there anything you would like to change about todays atmosphere if you could? If so, what?

That's my questions, but please be free to just speak freely about the subject if you prefer :-)
 
I hope you and your friends enjoy your trip over here.

The atmosphere at the Etihad has been a problem for various reasons although it can be good at times. CL games are a problem as the competition just doesn't excite City fans. You'll probably hear booing for the CL anthem as there's a lot of bad feeling from last season when UEFA refused to compensate City & Bayern fans for the money they'd paid to go to Moscow and lost. However, the best atmosphere we had in the stadium was for a Europa League quarter final against Hamburg when the tickets were cheap, the stadium was packed and wevhad to overcome a first leg deficit, which we just failed to do.

Another problem was that before this season, the two main singing groups were separated by away fans and the acoustics weren't great. This season they've opened the new third tier, moved the two main singing groups a bit closer together and improved the acoustics. So it's better than it was.

I don't think that it's significantly better now than it used to be apart from games like the one against QPR in 2012, when the noise was deafening. Obviously we win more games and score more goals, which helps. Our 1894 Group also make a big effort to improve the atmosphere and you'll see them in the South Stand.

What would help? Cheaper tickets and standing areas.
 
Sh88ter said:
Thanks for the help! My questions to you guys is as following:

1. How do you experience the atmosphere at Etihad Stadium?

it varies game by game for big games like the chelsea game this season it was amazing. the 1894 block are making a difference

2. Do you feel any difference between today's atmosphere and the atmosphere before Manchester City became a top english team with many star players (2011)?

maybe, but near enough every ground in the country is struggling for atmosphere, with ticket prices, no standing having a big effect

3. Is there anything you would like to change about todays atmosphere if you could? If so, what?

cheaper ticket prices to get working class people back

That's my questions, but please be free to just speak freely about the subject if you prefer :-)

in my opinion tourists are only having an effect in champions league games, we have retained our core fans base mainly locals for prem and cup games.
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Sh88ter said:
Thanks for the help! My questions to you guys is as following:

1. How do you experience the atmosphere at Etihad Stadium?
2. Do you feel any difference between today's atmosphere and the atmosphere before Manchester City became a top english team with many star players (2011)?
3. Is there anything you would like to change about todays atmosphere if you could? If so, what?

That's my questions, but please be free to just speak freely about the subject if you prefer :-)
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1) The atmosphere at the Etihad is fairly typical of Premier League clubs. Our stadiums are fairly 'sanitised' and much of the extreme atmosphere of football matches (when hooliganism was a problem) has disappeared. It's much safer and pleasant now, but lacks the intensity it used to have.

2) Manchester City has a varied history, and we have enjoyed great success in the past (as well as some troubled times). The atmosphere has risen and fallen many times throughout our history, but overall we've been one of the best supported clubs over our entire history (in terms of physical attendance figures). Before becoming a top English team once again, we had experienced over 40 years of underachievement, causing our fan base to adopt a 'gallows humour' (an English terms for a dark sense of humour - where we often expected things to go wrong!). Slowly, we have changed into a fan base that has more self belief - which has changed the atmosphere in the stadium.

3) Much depends on what you call 'today's atmosphere'. If you're referring to the Champions League, then many City fans have a low opinion of UEFA and haven't really enjoyed Champions League participation. If you mean 'the current era', then the atmosphere could be improved with more participation from families (chanting / flags etc). City is a 'nice' club with a nice stadium which attracts lots of families with children. As such it's not a very hostile atmosphere. I don't think we want to become genuine hostile, but we would like to create more 'awe' with our support.
 
Falastur said:
Doubt the mods would've allowed someone with no previous posts to post this on a wind-up, surely?
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It's a very English thing to spell "paid" as "payed". Other than that his English is too good to be anything other than a foreigner!!

I'll answer your question tomorrow but enjoy the trip.
 
He's 100% genuine and doesn't have to prove anything to any of you. Do you honestly think we'd put this up as a thread if we were in any way suspicious? So instead of being a bunch of ignorant tossers, and behaving like rags, how about you behave like proper blues and help him out.
 
To answer question three : The atmosphere for UEFA run European matches could be improved if they allowed alcohol to be served within the ground.
I find it confusing that the Champions League was/is sponsored by Amstel/Heineken yet our matches are dry!?!
 
Sh88ter said:
Thanks for the help! My questions to you guys is as following:

1. How do you experience the atmosphere at Etihad Stadium?
2. Do you feel any difference between today's atmosphere and the atmosphere before Manchester City became a top english team with many star players (2011)?
3. Is there anything you would like to change about todays atmosphere if you could? If so, what?

That's my questions, but please be free to just speak freely about the subject if you prefer :-)
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First of all, hope you and your friends have a safe and enjoyable trip!

1) The atmosphere in the stadium isn't as good as it could be, but there's various contributing factors to it, one is the acoustics of the stadium aren't great. Another is that people have now moved to the singing section, but don't seem to be up for actually singing. I'd also add that because we're such a good team, there's an expectancy by some of our fans to just turn up and we'll win, hence the lack of support.

2) The atmosphere hasn't been great since we've moved, again this can partially be attributed to the acoustics, coupled with the dire football we played under Pearce, but we have still produced some memorable atmospheres. Hamburg, Arsenal and Chelsea to name a few.

3) I'd just have more people singing, have the people who've relocated really get behind the side, I'd also love us to make the north stand a singing section, and move the family stand to one of the third tiers, or the lower Colin Bell stand.


Hope you have a good trip.
 
Sh88ter said:
Thanks for the help! My questions to you guys is as following:

1. How do you experience the atmosphere at Etihad Stadium?

By turning up to games normally buddy, something 90% of these arm chair fans on bluemoon know nothing about....

2. Do you feel any difference between today's atmosphere and the atmosphere before Manchester City became a top english team with many star players (2011)?

To follow the theme from question 1, yes, yes I do.... on Saturday I had to threaten a one armed gentlemen with a lisp Tony Angelino would be proud of, with a trip off the 3rd tier... It's not on, anyone who who has to endure "pawblo zawweleta, he is your fucking mam, he is an argenrtwinian, he's hawder then japp flan"... Is gonna flip

3. Is there anything you would like to change about todays atmosphere if you could? If so, what?

I've been a big advocate of getting Ida Corr on to the terraces to whip up the atmosphere, Rick wakeman and the gallaghers aren't what they once were!!!

That's my questions, but please be free to just speak freely about the subject if you prefer :-)
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Hello again,

Thank you so much for your answers! I enjoyed reading your comments and found them very interessting and also helpfull.

We had a wonderful trip and what a finish of that game. We were ecstatic! Simply a fantastic experience, I will definitely be going back there again:-) allthough I was suprised that many people left the game before the last goal. Too bad for them
 
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