Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Manchester33]

That was much better than the past few home games. Evening/night games always are. It's a travesty when we have to KO at 12:30.

 

[willipp]

I thought it was the best atmosphere in while last night, it helped it was Leeds but I've kind of found that midweek league games tend to have a better atmosphere

I didn't think the Leeds fans were particularly loud, but they did look like they had just stepped out of 1973

Only time i heard them was at the end of the game and 7-0 down.

 

[knuckles]

Thought our fans were amazing last night, BT only had the mic turned up in front of the leeds fans but all you could hear was our Blues singing away, awesome to hear it throughout the game. I bet there are some sore throats and headaches this morning!!!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Der Der Der winning at the library.

Great up in SS3 helped by having half a dozen in town pre- game.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Der Der Der winning at the library.

Great up in SS3 helped by having half a dozen in town pre- game.

Stuck record time.

If noise comes from SS3 it spreads quickly both down and sideways, creating what we had last night: the same song being sung everywhere most of the time.

The cheapest and easiest sticking plaster fix for atmosphere problems would be relocating 1894 to the back of that stand. 50-100 lads at the back under the roof is all it takes to get a stand going much of the time.

 

[Ducado]

Just had a read of their main forum, (Leeds) they have brought the myth that they are the best and loudest fans in the world plus all the usual jibes

 

[Octavian]

That was how many tickets were sold, the club announced about the same number on Saturday too.

I reckon there were about 43-44,000 on Saturday, and about 48-49,000 last night.

I think you’re a little low on those, maybe 45-46k Saturday and 50k last night.

Although I wasn’t in the ground myself last night but saw a good few images.

 

[M18CTID]

Just had a read of their main forum, (Leeds) they have brought the myth that they are the best and loudest fans in the world plus all the usual jibes

I don't get some of the hype about them. Sure, they're louder than Fulham or Bournemouth and games between City and Leeds always have an edge as there's loads of history between the fans going back decades but they're a one club city who recently went 6 and a half seasons without selling out a single game at Elland Road. Granted, they tend to travel everywhere in decent numbers and on a good day they can be loud as fuck but so can any other fanbase. And any other fanbase can sing like fuck out of defiance when they're 7 goals down ('Boro away in 2008 being a prime example), but that's the last 2 visits to ours now that I felt they weren't as good vocally as they keep proclaiming to be, and that pervious visit was an FA Cup tie where they got 6000 tickets. Now being in 115, I accept that I don't always get a good overview of what the away fans are doing in the top 2 tiers as the noise doesn't tend to travel too well down to where we are but I can safely say that the Leeds fans in the lower tier were getting battered vocally by City fans on both sides of the segregation line. As someone else pointed out, for all the talk of our atmosphere being shit there seem to be an awful lot of instances of visiting fans getting wound up by City fans singing and taking the piss on either side of the divide.

 

[Corky]

I don't agree. Attendance is tickets sold. I don't care what the crowd is anyway. Top of the league.

You do care along with the very insecure mob who liked it clearly.

It is no shame if 10% of fans, or more, who bought tickets, don't turn up under current circumstances.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Poznan in the family stand ......good to see

 

[Gingers Dad]

Just had a read of their main forum, (Leeds) they have brought the myth that they are the best and loudest fans in the world plus all the usual jibes

Remember both Liverpool and Everton fans believing the myth that we've got no fans and they could just take over the home end. They had a few (and I mean very few) in our seats same as Leeds did last night but they soon found out they had to sit quietly or get fcked off.
Leeds have got a good following but they shouldn't believe the shit the media put out about the Emptyhad. Our support was great last night

 

[mancityvstoke]

All the police vans blocking between Leeds and City outside after.......what happened to that portable metal fence they used to have?

 

[bennyboy]

Everything about Leeds is a myth.
Their fans,their style of attacking football and their manager.
The only loudest they have is the booing of the players taking the knee by an away support.

 

[blue ranger]

I think they were. We were 3 up against Arsenal earlier this season and loads left. Even at 7-0 thy were there until the end singing.

They were but half of them had left.

 

[maurizio]

Enjoyed being at the game last night. I thought the atmosphere was great. Particularly at the beginning, we kinda dozed off in the middle. Ground looked fairly full as well, which is particularly good considering covid and all that.

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Just had a read of their main forum, (Leeds) they have brought the myth that they are the best and loudest fans in the world plus all the usual jibes

Just have a look at their home attendances in the 1980s. Don’t even get close to 20k. Some as low as 12k.
WWYWYWS -having a laugh there lads

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Would add " Marching on Together " to my list of club songs better than YNWA

 

[WestGorton]

You do care along with the very insecure mob who liked it clearly.

It is no shame if 10% of fans, or more, who bought tickets, don't turn up under current circumstances.

Eh?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Remember both Liverpool and Everton fans believing the myth that we've got no fans and they could just take over the home end. They had a few (and I mean very few) in our seats same as Leeds did last night but they soon found out they had to sit quietly or get fcked off.
Leeds have got a good following but they shouldn't believe the shit the media put out about the Emptyhad. Our support was great last night

Just to be clear I like Leeds well enough. I went on their forum this morning and 99% of comments were about how much better we were than them and nothing else.

But yesterday before the game on a non-football Facebook page i'm on, some illiterate moron was going on about how City couldn't sell tickets and Leeds would fill our ground for us. Whilst I find this "we've got more fans than you" stuff incredibly infantile and pathetic for anyone over the age of 13 I couldn't help but to the trouble of comparing attendances. In the last 50 years literally the only time that Leeds had higher attendances than us was the few years before we moved to the Etihad when our capacity was lower than theirs and we were in the lower divisions whilst they challenged for the league. And even then it was marginal.

Even when they last won the league we got higher attendances and we were rubbish. That shut the daft twat up.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just have a look at their home attendances in the 1980s. Don’t even get close to 20k. Some as low as 12k.
WWYWYWS -having a laugh there lads

I forgot they sung "Where were you when we were shit". Average attendances when both clubs were in the second division in the early 80s:

83-84 Leeds 15,173 City 26,694
84-85 Leeds 15,504 City 24,220