The atmosphere was great today I'm not sure what people want. I'm in SS level one and more people were singing than usual. It went a bit quiet at 2-0 as Norwich were just in damage limitation mode and we were happy to keep possession and be patient and probe for more goals.
I'm trying to think of any ground in this country where fans sing all game and I can't. Palace have that corner where they've created a kind of ultra section but that's about it.
We are usually so good these days that we watch the football and probably don't think we need to urge them on too much like we did when we weren't so good. It is what it is and like people leaving early will never change so people need to stop moaning. I didn't see that many going early either. I understand why some do that as well. If you're on public transport leaving a few minutes early can be the difference between catching an ongoing connection or being stuck usually in the cold and rain waiting an hour for your bus home. No fun I can assure you.
When you’re in the area that creates the atmosphere, it always sounds good when that area is particularly vocal.
SSL1 were good. Then 109-111 were good, with splashes of people dotted about here and there.
The rest of the ground was awful. And, as always, there aren’t enough people in 109-111 and SSL1 to make it sound like it’s a good atmosphere in the whole stadium. Just far too small those areas.
Having a good atmosphere at City sounds like having a good set of away fans in. Good in our small pockets of vocal fans that we have, but the general atmosphere of the Etihad Stadium is poor.
Yesterday, I’d describe the atmosphere across the stadium as ‘not bad’. 4/10
And atmosphere isn’t just about singing, certainly not singing all game. The atmosphere at Palace is poor, they’ve got a little corner where a few hundred band geeks sing all game but the other 95% in their ground are silent.
We had a great atmosphere against Liverpool in January 2019 where we hardly sang any songs all game. We sang at the start, sang after each goal, and sang at the end… but other than that we barely sang at all, but it was just an atmosphere where everyone in the ground was involved in the game.
