Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Deleted member 77198]

Their South stand is no different to our South stand, then.

How about we compare their KOP and our North stand?(Family stand)

Bar we are Leeds, marching all together, we are the champions of, and waving scarfs around, what other chants do they have?

Leeds have always had decent support. I’ll admit that. They are a one club city, so everybody, young, middle aged, and old supports Leeds United. They also have a large support across Yorkshire. They will always have a young and vocal support. They are exactly like Newcastle United in that sense. But like plenty of new clubs and their fans to the PL, it’s a novelty at first, until they start getting beat, then the novelty of the PL begins to ware off. Leeds United are a PL club in size, history, and in name, and they deserve to stay in the PL if they can?

Leeds sing songs about Leeds and barely any about their players. Their song list is quite small, but they do sing all game.

This is where it does my head in when our singing section sings songs the rest of the Etihad don’t even know, sing the classics and the atmosphere will be better. Watch the game back from Saturday… every time the classics were sung you can hear the whole ground join in; every time you hear Edin Džeko or Empty Seats at Home it sounds like a murmur in the corner.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

As I said, they’d made a collective effort to raise it a few years back and did very well, but I haven’t watched them much this season to see if it’s carried on… obviously it hasn’t. But they did have the best regular good atmospheres for a few years before Covid happened.

 

[M18CTID]

As I said, they’d made a collective effort to raise it a few years back and did very well, but I haven’t watched them much this season to see if it’s carried on… obviously it hasn’t. But they did have the best regular good atmospheres for a few years before Covid happened.

I'm not sure there's that much of a correlation between Klopp coming out with that criticism of Liverpool fans early in his reign and the uptick in atmosphere over the next few seasons. I'd wager that Liverpool improving on the pitch year on year, culminating in the title winning season, had as much to do with the improvement in atmosphere as anything else. Now that they've regressed a little, there's also been a drop-off in atmosphere which backs up what many say about English club atmospheres - a lot of it is governed by how well the team is playing at the time. I made reference to Huddersfield in an earlier post and how fantastic their fans were in their first PL season in 2017/18. That was the season we went there and won late on after going behind at half time, and our away support was a comfortable second best to their home support that day. The following season we went there and won when Huddersfield were rock bottom of the league, and their fans were markedly much quieter that day compared to the previous season, so much so that the City fans basically had the run of the stadium atmosphere-wise.

 

[Bill]

Considering were tearing the league up. Our atmosphere home and away this year has been shocking. We have become spoilt and our fan base has to be the oldest in the league. Apart from in the south stand and the singing stand everyone looks over 50

i'm 67 and up to recent years i would sing my heart out , home and away . so your theory is bollocks.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Considering were tearing the league up. Our atmosphere home and away this year has been shocking. We have become spoilt and our fan base has to be the oldest in the league. Apart from in the south stand and the singing stand everyone looks over 50

I think our away atmosphere has been the best it’s been for about ten years, this season.

Spurs away aside, it was fantastic at Leicester and Villa especially but also Watford Chelsea Liverpool United…

 

[Oldham Exile]

Leeds sing songs about Leeds and barely any about their players. Their song list is quite small, but they do sing all game.

This is where it does my head in when our singing section sings songs the rest of the Etihad don’t even know, sing the classics and the atmosphere will be better. Watch the game back from Saturday… every time the classics were sung you can hear the whole ground join in; every time you hear Edin Džeko or Empty Seats at Home it sounds like a murmur in the corner.

I struggle to understand why the CITY fans at away matches are among the most vocal and passionate - and yet, at home............

I guess perhaps they are dispersed around the Etihad - but if the singing section was made up mainly of the fans that go to away games then surely the atmosphere would be better

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Considering were tearing the league up. Our atmosphere home and away this year has been shocking. We have become spoilt and our fan base has to be the oldest in the league. Apart from in the south stand and the singing stand everyone looks over 50

2nd post and its about the atmosphere.

Smells fishy

 

[Groke]

Considering were tearing the league up. Our atmosphere home and away this year has been shocking. We have become spoilt and our fan base has to be the oldest in the league. Apart from in the south stand and the singing stand everyone looks over 50

ha ha - away it's as good as anyone

 

[trevorriley]

It would help the noise increase if in the SS there wasnt the tier 2 corporate seats, it splits up a connection between level one & two. Although the SS looks a great design, atmosphere wise it hasnt helped. Like JRB said with one end at leeds, gives more chance for songs to spread and 3000 sing rather than 500.

It is good that we sing about players, we sing more player songs and our own mocking than we do club anthems. I would prefer a mix, but you need the long standing club anthems so that fans know the words and can join in. Whilst the Diaz song is good, it mumbles a bit when sung at home, perhaps will pick up a bit further down the lines. It is a shame about the bernardo song, that picked up good pace but nobody knows what to sing at the end now.

as much as we are fed up of zabba song and edin song, they do pick up well and carry on. Shame that "sterling won the double" was only a one season song, that was very loud and easy to sing.

two of most memorable away games for me where the home ends have been good where Hull city a few seasons back and wolves before covid.

i think with us city fans we dont want an organised singing section, they dont want a drum but would bang on steel plates at the back of stands, if its nil nil and boring we go quiet, for long periods of the game the bar & a drink is more important. But when it gets rocking ( example leeds / leicester / PSG at home ) there are not many nosier places around and its better than an away day.

 

[Octavian]

Considering were tearing the league up. Our atmosphere home and away this year has been shocking. We have become spoilt and our fan base has to be the oldest in the league. Apart from in the south stand and the singing stand everyone looks over 50

Absolute rubbish about the away part. We’ve now got one of the best reputations away from home for our support. I’ve said this before on here but it’s now common that when we get emptihad jibes online it’s caveated with “yeah but to be fair their away fans are class”.

I’ve seen Newcastle, Brighton, West Ham, Spurs all say we had the best away following at theirs this season.