Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[paulchapo]

There's a few iffy fuckers in this thread, my bullshit radar is going off the scale.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

Remember those email surveys City used to send out every week? Maybe they should send out another email asking why so many fans are leaving early. If nothing else it would at shed some light on why it’s happening.

If you leave early I imagine it would be to spend hours trawling through YouTube for (out of context) videos of European ultras to post to negatively compare City fans to or to study your own personal CCTV footage of Anfield to corroborate your comment that to a man everybody in anfield stays to the end of every game.

But it’s not true is it so why say it ?

 

[Elliot houghton]

Agreed. But some comments cross the line from having a justified moan to unnecessary and over the top abuse of our fans and his I think was one of those.

It's right though some of the stuff saying even though some may think its harsh

 

[jrb]

The guy you quoted is obviously talking nonsense but the Scousers can go and swivel. For games that don’t get their juices flowing there is no flatter atmosphere than Anfield in the Premier League. Rather than threads like this, they just pat each other on the back and discuss how wonderful they all are.

It was about staying until the end.

But if you want a players honest view of the atmosphere at Anfield.

The Scousers may blag an atmosphere at Anfield by 5 minutes of YNWA at the start of every match, and the atmosphere after a goal, but they keep on getting away with it.

Akanji.

"We came back in before the game and I talked to Riyad Mahrez as well. He was sitting right next to me. I was like, 'Is it always like this here? Everybody talks so highly of Anfield and I don’t really see it'.

"He just told me to wait until the game started and then when it did I was like a different atmosphere completely. Particularly in the second half when our goal was disallowed and they scored. It was really, really loud then."

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Truth is, the issue of fans leaving early isn't unique to City. It's commonplace at every English stadium. Watch any Premier League game and you see fans leaving early. Expensive tickets, thoughtless, changeable kick-off times, and commonplace transport difficulties have made the UK fan’s condition that much trickier.

Germany have cheap tickets and integrated transport systems as well as planned and organised things to help the atmosphere. This helps people feel part of something bigger and not just observers, as I think football fans here are. Klopp said this in 2015 which is something he’d never seen in Dortmund, due in no small part to the above.
"After the goal on 82 minutes, with 12 minutes to go, I saw many people leaving the stadium. I felt pretty alone at this moment"

Anfield in particular is a difficult stadium to get away from due to the non-existent public transport infrastructure surrounding the stadium. "It's normal for Liverpool fans to leave early because traffic and parking around Anfield is horrendous," explained the Telegraphs Merseyside correspondent Chris Bascombe. "And it is not a new thing: as far back as the 1970s Tommy Smith used to have a go at early leavers."

“At White Hart Lane, the London Overground train after final whistle is basically unusable. If you leave a couple of minutes before the whistle you’re saving yourself an hour wait for a train.“

There are numerous examples like these and they will continue unless huge changes to the structure of football are made which take account of fans. As this is unlikely to ever happen, early leavers will be more and more apparent.

 

[jrb]

If you leave early I imagine it would be to spend hours trawling through YouTube for (out of context) videos of European ultras to post to negatively compare City fans to or to study your own personal CCTV footage of Anfield to corroborate your comment that to a man everybody in anfield stays to the end of every game.

But it’s not true is it so why say it ?

Stop being silly. First paragraph.

I've crticised Liverpool's home support on here plenty of times.

But the fact is Liverpool fans do stay until full-time, especially the KOP.

So why not admit that and post the truth?

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

It's right though some of the stuff saying even though some may think its harsh

I disagree, the same unforgiving standards that some blues apply to our own support are not applied when comparing the behaviour of other fanbases

 

[Beaker]

It was about staying until the end.

But if you want a players honest view of the atmosphere at Anfield.

The Scousers may blag an atmosphere at Anfield by 5 minutes of YNWA at the start of every match, and the atmosphere after a goal, but they keep on getting away with it.

Akanji.

"We came back in before the game and I talked to Riyad Mahrez as well. He was sitting right next to me. I was like, 'Is it always like this here? Everybody talks so highly of Anfield and I don’t really see it'.

"He just told me to wait until the game started and then when it did I was like a different atmosphere completely. Particularly in the second half when our goal was disallowed and they scored. It was really, really loud then.

I grant you the early leavers are a joke at City.

Atmosphere wise last week was a game that, as I stated in my earlier post, got their juices flowing. I went to Anfield before we were a rival to them on numerous occasions and trust me it’s flat. You can hear where’s your famous atmosphere belted out from the away end regularly on the telly.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

Stop being silly. First paragraph.

I have crticised Liverpool's home support on here plenty of times.

But the fact is Liverpool fans do stay until full-time, especially the KOP.

So why not admit that and post the truth?

First paragraph, poor attempt at humour although with a kernel of truth in there I think particularly with regard to the context.

You categorically state in post 1067 that to paraphrase you, dippers “to a man stay until the final whistle and applaud the team off every home game”

That absolutely 100% nailed on isn’t true. Whenever I watch them on telly I catch sight of people leaving the stands towards the end of games. Why do you make such a point of insisting it is true when you’ve no way of knowing unless you’re there every home game. Why needlessly and mistakenly big up those feral scumbags ?

 

[jrb]

I grant you the early leavers are a joke at City.

Atmosphere wise last week was a game that, as I stated in my earlier post, got their juices flowing. I went to Anfield before we were a rival to them on numerous occasions and trust me it’s flat. You can hear where’s your famous atmosphere belted out from the away end regularly on the telly.

It is flat, you're right. I was at the match last week. Bar sporadic chanting, most of it coming from the KOP, it was only loud, and it was loud, when Salah scored. Our support at the Etihad in similar circumstances in big games is just as loud.