Every singing section in every stadium in the world is every stadium’s front-man for atmosphere. They are who the rest of every stadium in the world looks to to lead the atmosphere.I agree. Sometimes I don’t understand the chants coming from the south stand. We go 1-0 up and I often hear the Dzeko song. Rarely ever hear the songs people will join in with. Hey Jude for example.
no doubt I will get criticised, but as you say they lead the ground. Song choice has a big impact on that
I love the idea that the real City fans have only ever seen one CL home game in their entire lives because we've only had one semi final where fans were in the ground.Middle class fanbase waiting to be entertained. That’s the Champions’ League group stages and early knockout rounds. Eventually these half n half scalf-wearing foreign wankers get binned off by the ‘loyal’ City fans for the latter stages.
The fact of the matter is that an extremely large number of City fans just do not get exited about the Champions League (stupid title).
Now the Premier League is a different matter, the atmosphere against our nearest and not so dearest a week or two back was exceptional.
The bad thing about this thread mate, is that I think the contributors to this thread are all singers who are all frustrated with the atmosphere but the people we need to read this stuff aren’t the ones on this thread.If only the people who come on here moaning about the atmosphere sang up last night, it would have created a better atmosphere than we actually got.
There was a pissed up French, AC Milan fan, sat behind me in 209 who thought it was funny that I sang on my own. To his credit he joined in with a few chants / songs.
Don’t expect our atmosphere to be any better at the weekend unless you sing our songs. I reckon most of the people who complain about the atmosphere only get behind the lads if we are 2 goals up with 5 minutes to play.
But it’s excuse after excuse.Quite hard to get excited about last nights game to be honest, it was tedious as fuck.
Some good points as always. Disagree about Empty seats at home though - that's a chant that can be maintained and can get loads of fans joining in. Not sure about the reference to a full stadium either - shall we only sing it when there are empty seats?!!Every singing section in every stadium in the world is every stadium’s front-man for atmosphere. They are who the rest of every stadium in the world looks to to lead the atmosphere.
But I don’t think a lot of people in our singing section understand that, and some don’t care and are just there for a sing and a laugh within their own little section and aren’t bothered about the rest of the ground. That’s up to them as well, it’s not like they’re under contract to make sure the whole stadium is singing. But it will always be the case in every stadium that the singing section leads the atmosphere.
All the quick burst-y clap-along awayday chants might sound good in the singing section, but they never catch on around the stadium. “Edin Džeko”, “Empty Seats At Home” (when we’re at home in a full stadium?), and a number of others, have never caught on around the stadium, and they certainly won’t in a tense 0-0.
At 0-0, even any sort of individual player songs are never going to catch on around the stadium… we have to get the CITY songs going more, and we need to get a load of new ones! Positive, uplifting, CITY songs.
Not songs about players, not songs about United or Scousers, not songs taking the piss out of ourselves, not the quick burst-y clap-along awayday chants… all those kind of songs are great to have in the back catalogue but should just be extra songs to add to a City set list for when we’re 4-0 up to add to our core City chants. But they’ve become the singing section’s core chants.
City songs have always been the songs that have caught on around the stadium, but we sing fewer and fewer of them all the time. Some have completely disappeared from our set list.
Hey Jude
City, We’re From Manchester
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
Oh When The Blues Go Marching In
Even “We Live You City” is seldom sung (compared to Edin Dzeko!)
And many many more…
There are a number of them that we haven’t sung for so long that it’s take a few months of reintroducing them before the stadium gets used to singing them again. When they should be the core songs of the set list every week!
And we should be adding to these with new City chants n’all.
One thing I’ve never understood is that we are the one and only Centurions in English football history, yet we haven’t got a single song about it. Surely even something simple like “Centurions Centurions ole ole ole” (to the “Championes” chant) is something we should have been proudly belting out for the last four years?!
The atmosphere wasn't great but I've heard plenty worse on CL nights. Also, and it's probably an acoustics issue, but I could hardly hear their fans at all in block 115.I was in SS3 and I thought the lads further up than us made a good fist of trying to get it going. Definitely think the game dulled the crowd. I was next to their fans and there was some decent arguments going on between the two sets of fans, coupled with cigs being flicked, drinks thrown etc. There were patches of singing by City fans
Not forgetting, “you can’t sing a song with Edin Dzeko’s name on it”.But it’s excuse after excuse.
Early in the season it was because a game kicked off at 12:30 on a Saturday afternoon so the atmosphere was shit.
Another was because it was a night match near Christmas and the traffic was bad so the atmosphere was shit.
Another was because we won 5-0 and it was easy so the atmosphere was shit.
Another was because it was a tense 0-0 so the atmosphere was shit.
Another was because we went 4-0 up very quickly so for the rest of the game the atmosphere was shit, and couldn’t raise it again because the opposition scored 3 quick goals and it made us nervous.
Another was because it was freezing so the atmosphere was shit.
Now it’s because the game was tedious so the atmosphere was shit.
These tense 0-0s are when the team need us most. It’s not about how entertained we are.