Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

everyone chill out. back in the 80s turnouts for games were shit if the fans weren’t into it.

we need more low gates so these businesses realise they cant continue to charge absurd prices. mid week is shit for most people, the idea of going to a game a pain the arse trying to get to manchester especially since driving and parking is a complete nightmare. and you get there and alcohol is banned from the stadium for because some european sports association decided it so.

proud to be a picky city fan rather than a flag waving liverpool or united lunatic
 
We need a song for Pep on Saturday. We're not really here PEP! O,r "Can you hear us in the dugout?"
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Second half, as you allude to, it was all “here’s to you Vincent Kompany” at 100 mph...
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I don't have much desire to criticize fans who are there trying to do their bit, but why can't our fan base hold a basic beat. Every song feels like people just did a massive line of speed and they're allowed another one when they get to the end.
 
citymad said:
Fucking hell, we have some right morons following us. Sick of ungrateful entitled fans.

Or maybe its just a case of long term rags on here finally revealing themselves.
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Yep you got me.

How dare I prefer one manager to another. Pep is a prick, regardless of how successful he is. Probably what makes him a winner. Mancini was a prick too, but he was our prick. Pep is Barca's prick
 
Silva Citizen said:
I’m an old in, I remember the best of atmospheres at Maine Road when we were good and when we were shit. Not once at Maine Road can I remember a quiet atmosphere at a night cup match, not once can I remember a derby match without Atmosphere or one where United out sang us at home. Then came the League Cup Semi Final of 2020 ( pre covid) …. Worst atmosphere I’ve ever encountered
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I remember cup ties at Maine Road in the 80s and 90s when there were less than 10k there and the atmosphere was shit
 
WestGorton said:
I really enjoyed the match and thought it was a good crowd. Mobile ticketing is very difficult for many older supporters. Not everyone is a IT lover either.
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This all day , i am "older generation" and usaully attend ten to fifteen home games a season health permitting , but i am not into modern technology or mobiles or the internet , and have very very basic knowledge of IT , to me it is a neccesary evil , so after 55 years as a match going supporter i will now rely on watching from my armchair.
Will miss like hell watching live football games , but i dont want to walk up to a turnstile and refused admission because i havent got the right app or info on my mobile ,it s a hundred mile round trip for home games , so i will get my live football fix watching my grandson U-16's on a Sunday.
 
It was a good turnout and the atmosphere has been the best for a few seasons in the home games so far, in my opinion.

As for Pep, nice to see you make a beeline for the tunnel at Spurs and Leicester. No thanks to the thousands of us who spend the bulk of our hard earned cash going all over the place to see you and your players, stay til the end and sing our lungs out whatever the result.

I posted on here the other week that the boss and players would be livid if they knew the truth. Fans on hold for 4 hours and not being able to access a product they've already paid for. They're in a bubble of their own and so ill-informed it's untrue. It's why I try not to get too attached to the staff and players, they come and go and not many of them actually love the club. Being a City fan is about the experience with other fans and mates, and the laughs on the away trips especially. We will be around a lot longer than the likes of Pep Guardiola and his cronies.

I will miss his football and the top drawer players who will no doubt follow him out the door, but I won't miss the man. World class coach, but classless person and serial backstabber.
 
It doesn’t really matter if tickets are £20 or even £10, once people have paid through the nose for season tickets or upwards of £50 for a PL match they’re going to struggle to justify spending anymore on a Champions League fixture that most people can find a way of watching on TV for free.

The added complications of mobile ticketing, tickets not being available on the day, pathetic customer service, poor transport links, ever later kicks offs and a global pandemic which is still killing 150 people a day makes it a miracle that there’s anyone in attendance.
 
Gingers Dad said:
I remember cup ties at Maine Road in the 80s and 90s when there were less than 10k there and the atmosphere was shit
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This never happened, just like newcastle never had 10k crowds either, the maine road myth lives on heavily on here, probably amongst those who never went.

Don't get me wrong, there were some great atmospheres, but there were as many dire ones, nothing has changed in reality.
 
If, like me, you couldn’t imagine missing a home game (and you’d have been there tonight be it champions league or LDV Trophy) or you were attending because you were given a freebie to UEFA’s “premier” cup offerings, it matters not one fucking jot.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I f did. If you didn’t go, fuck it, who am I to care. I went; you didn’t. At Chelsea I won’t be there; others will. Some go, some don’t. I’ve done 83 English league grounds with City; but only 3 new ones in last ten years, could have done a few more, but it didn’t fall right. Am I arsed? Nope, weren’t the right matches at thx right time.
‘Twas ever thus
 
It’s stings a bit when Pep calls for fans to term up because deep down we’d all like to see the ground full. But that’s really up to his mates in the boardroom.

If he said the atmosphere is shit and are fans are half arsed and self entitled he might have a point. A 9 goal thriller is met with a ripple of applause from the 50% of our fans who could be arsed to stay until the end.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I don't have much desire to criticize fans who are there trying to do their bit, but why can't our fan base hold a basic beat. Every song feels like people just did a massive line of speed and they're allowed another one when they get to the end.
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Clapping is the death of most football songs. We were the first team in world football to sing “City Till In Die” which you now here versions of all around the world. When it started in the 90s it was a brilliant song, heartfelt, and then when you started to sing the chorus the second time everyone slowed down the first line and it came out loud and proud. Not unlike the old FA Cup classic “we’re on the March with John Bond’s Army”.

within about a year or so I remember noticing that other clubs were singing this song but our fans had started clapping along with it and singing it faster; therefore killing its power.

Like you I don’t want to turn into a music critic or song policeman over what is ultimately a bunch of blokes shouting. And also I only join in if I’m excited or nervous and others around me are singing, so I’m a hypocrite too. But sitting diametrically opposite both singing ends, in a quiet area of the ground, gives you insight. I will always maintain our ground is full of people like me: occasional singers who will join in the right song if others around them are too.
 
cleavers said:
This never happened, just like newcastle never had 10k crowds either, the maine road myth lives on heavily on here, probably amongst those who never went.

Don't get me wrong, there were some great atmospheres, but there were as many dire ones, nothing has changed in reality.
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Newcastle had one league crowd of 10000 in 1991 prior to Keegan. It was one match but did happen. Lowest I remember at City was 17 k ish Millwall midweek in the 80s. Many stayed away due to hooliganism threat that night.
 
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