Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Man_City_Loyal]

So is the Etihad. Put the Chelsea game on at 17.30 under the lights (when it should have been for a 1st v 2nd battle) and it would have been a lot louder. Still, the tv broadcast managed to make it sound like a library but that's not how it was in the ground.

oh i agree but also it seemed to be ok for the away fans as they were in good voice

 

[stan bowles]

People also forgetting it was a huge game and tightly poised throughout. I was a bag of nerves as I imagine most people were.

Singing helps me overcome any nerves during tight games - different horses... I guess

 

[stan bowles]

oh i agree but also it seemed to be ok for the away fans as they were in good voice

That's true - haven't seen or been to a 12.30 ko where the atmosphere is loud (that's any team, not just us). Alcohol probably helps away fans' noise in that regard.

 

[Mike N]

Singing helps me overcome any nerves during tight games - different horses... I guess

Im the same. I make a lot of noise at the game, some singing, some shouting. I feel better for getting it out. If I’m watching on tv I hardly make a sound and have much more nervous.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Every single home ground in the country, bar absolutely none, have poor atmospheres at home. By the same token every club 'can' create a top atmosphere in one off games we are by no means the worst nor the best at this sometimes we can be ridiculously loud sometimes we can be shite.

12.30 kick off on a Saturday is never ever going to help, 3000 away fans have been on the piss for 4 hours whereas 2 hours before the game most of us lot were running round at our kids football desperately trying to throw a bacon butty down our necks before setting off to the game.

This season our away atmospheres have been great and our home ones nowhere near the worst, for anyone waffling on about the famous Anfield atmosphere you definitely didnt visit there in October (or most of our other recent visits) because they were absolutely shite and as much as they're loathe to admit it playing us at home is the game that has most bearing on how their season is going to go.

Spot-on. Anfield is great for the big matches but poor most of the time (like most of the PL). The loudest grounds I have been in recently were at Spurs, West Ham (for the League Cup game), even Brentford and Swindon! I think Villa Park is better than Anfield most of the time. In the 70s Anfield was fantastic. These days it is nothing special and there is nothing worse than their contrived and plastic version of YNWA at the start of each match. It was better when they used to sing it spontaneously and I know a dyed-in-the wool LFC season-ticket holder who agrees with me about that.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Spurs new £1 billion stadium, and the 17,500 capacity standing South stand behind the goal certainly hasn't bettered the old White Hart Lane atmosphere. And it hasn't helped to create more home chants other than, "Come on you Spurs", "Oh when the Spurs go marching in" and "Yids."(repeat) It has stopped City from scoring at the new White Hart Lane, though. ;-)

That's true but I thought their new ground was bloody noisy for our opening game this season. It was rocking.

 

[Octavian]

Singing helps me overcome any nerves during tight games - different horses... I guess

I sit there like a bag of nerves almost shaking and swearing at everything under my breath. The only time I made a lot of noise was bollocking that hopeless linesman in the south/Colin bell corner.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

That's true - haven't seen or been to a 12.30 ko where the atmosphere is loud (that's any team, not just us). Alcohol probably helps away fans' noise in that regard.

yeah I reckon that's a good suggestion

 

[Gingers Dad]

Yes but they will do if it's the right song and it's loud enough and they hear others picking it up. It's basic crowd psychology. If we had all the singers together more songs would spread. It's as simple as that.

I agree but singers always end up next to the opposition fans. It happens at all grounds. Even at Newcastle they end up singing up in the gods because that's where the away fans are. We'll only ever have one singing section if there are only fans on one side of the away fans.

 

[M18CTID]

oh i agree but also it seemed to be ok for the away fans as they were in good voice

Same as the corresponding fixture back in September really. 12.30 kick-off and Chelsea fans struggled to get a foothold on the atmosphere, but City fans were in good voice all game. I'd say the home fans were better overall on Saturday than the Chelsea fans were at the Bridge in September but I think that was as much to do with us going in front than anything else.