Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[Deleted member 77198]

Stop clapping about Empty Seats, Edin Dzeko and Vincent Kompany straight from the kick off then. That killed the Brighton game.

Spot on!

Sing the City songs, you know that club we support, and fuck these clap along songs or player chants off that nobody joins in with around the stadium at the start of games or at 0-0 or at points in the game when the team need a lift and the opposition is on top… and our atmosphere would improve ten fold.

Where the fuck have these songs disappeared to?:

City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
We Love You City
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
Oh When The Blues Go Marching In
…plus many many more

We must sing the word City or the word Manchester or words Man City or Manchester City less than any other set of fans sing their club names in the country.

 

[supercity88]

Spot on!

Sing the City songs, you know that club we support, and fuck these clap along songs or player chants off that nobody joins in with around the stadium at the start of games or at 0-0 or at points in the game when the team need a lift and the opposition is on top… and our atmosphere would improve ten fold.

Where the fuck have these songs disappeared to?:

City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
We Love You City
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
Oh When The Blues Go Marching In
…plus many many more

We must sing the word City or the word Manchester or words Man City or Manchester City less than any other set of fans sing their club names in the country.

Exactly, and the videos you post show how easy good we can be. I don't think it's as complicated as people make out. Get a proper singing section in the NS, you'll naturally have some who wants to be by the away fans and give them some stick but you'll have a proper end to channel noise around the ground. Plenty of clubs have their singing areas away from the away supporters and it works just fine, it's about supporting the team, not giving the away fans shite, they'll get that naturally.

Before big games - derbies, Liverpool, CL knockouts I'd love to see us do a proper sing along to Blue Moon - a slow full version of the song. The current version is sped up and shite, but when it goes to the quicker clap along part it just loses its impact I think. Blue Moon sounds good when we all do it and it goes around the ground, we never do the quicker part because it's nonsense so the club should sack it off. If we did the full song before big games it would be amazing. I'm pretty sure most know the words to the full song and if they don't they'd soon remember them.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Spot on!

Sing the City songs, you know that club we support, and fuck these clap along songs or player chants off that nobody joins in with around the stadium at the start of games or at 0-0 or at points in the game when the team need a lift and the opposition is on top… and our atmosphere would improve ten fold.

Where the fuck have these songs disappeared to?:

City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
We Love You City
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
Oh When The Blues Go Marching In
…plus many many more

We must sing the word City or the word Manchester or words Man City or Manchester City less than any other set of fans sing their club names in the country.

A poster from 1894 group admitted last week on here they were trying to focus on the songs “with a good beat”. In other words the ones nobody joins in with. No disrespect to them but that means they’ve become part of the problem and not the solution.

 

[blue44]

A poster from 1894 group admitted last week on here they were trying to focus on the songs “with a good beat”. In other words the ones nobody joins in with. No disrespect to them but that means they’ve become part of the problem and not the solution.

Its just not gonna happen is it, I'v told my 15 year old we were the best fans in the league and respected by most and yet now,the success and the flat , boring , drab match day experience.
We're so ironic,
when crap = one of the best verbal support.
now successful = deathly silence and it appears to me,almost indifference.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Its just not gonna happen is it, I'v told my 15 year old we were the best fans in the league and respected by most and yet now,the success and the flat , boring , drab match day experience.
We're so ironic,
when crap = one of the best verbal support.
now successful = deathly silence and it appears to me,almost indifference.

To me it’s a big factor in the club’s expansion. Kids want to be part of an atmosphere and feel a club identity. I was more interested in the Kippax than the game when I was a lad. Kids come for the first time at a champions league group game or a Fa cup tie and it’s boring for them.

There’s nothing wrong with our fans. It’s the stadium and the little, seperated singing areas that’s the problem. The ground needs one voice, not two little ones going clap clap clap clap fucking clap from the first minute.

When we do get a good atmosphere in the big games the songs usually start at the back of the north stand or the south stand upper and are ALWAYS the slow, stand up, hands in the air anthems.

 

[blue44]

To me it’s a big factor in the club’s expansion. Kids want to be part of an atmosphere and feel a club identity. I was more interested in the Kippax than the game when I was a lad. Kids come for the first time at a champions league group game or a Fa cup tie and it’s boring for them.

There’s nothing wrong with our fans. It’s the stadium and the little, seperated singing areas that’s the problem. The ground needs one voice, not two little ones going clap clap clap clap fucking clap from the first minute.

When we do get a good atmosphere in the big games the songs usually start at the back of the north stand or the south stand upper and are ALWAYS the slow, stand up, hands in the air anthems.

I don't know what it is these days.
summert is missing for most games and you know it too.
the passion,people not gettin pissed up,the genteel atmosphere,people leaving early,it has always happened but not on the scale it is now,people just don't seem as arsed.

On a side,i bought 3 tickets for my sister for the chelsea carabao cup game,her,my nephew,they go to about 10 games a season on average,and they're bringing along a friend of my nephews,16 year old,loves City but never been before,I'll keep an eye on him and how he reacts,his opinion of a matchday etc

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I don't know what it is these days.
summert is missing for most games and you know it too.
the passion,people not gettin pissed up,the genteel atmosphere,people leaving early,it has always happened but not on the scale it is now,people just don't seem as arsed.

On a side,i bought 3 tickets for my sister for the chelsea carabao cup game,her,my nephew,they go to about 10 games a season on average,and they're bringing along a friend of my nephews,16 year old,loves City but never been before,I'll keep an eye on him and how he reacts,his opinion of a matchday etc

I actually think that since we came back from lockdowns, and especially at the end of last season and the start of this one, our atmospheres for Prem games at the Etihad have generally been better than they were in the years before the lockdowns.

There was a proper buzz around the stadium in the run-in last season. Liverpool Brighton Watford Newcastle and Villa home games plus Leeds and Wolves away were great atmospheres. And it spilt into this season with Bournemouth Palace Forest and the first hour against United all being top atmospheres.

They were games where the whole ground were more up for it with the ‘COME ON’s and ‘GO ON’s and ‘OOH’ and ‘AAH’s etc. We just struggle with getting songs going around the stadium even in our better atmospheres because so few around the ground join in with (or even know the words to) a lot of the songs started by the more vocal areas.

SSL3 booming out big songs two or three times helps massively as it gets the whole stadium going as they sing songs that everyone knows and like to sing.

But last Saturday we were back to pre-lockdowns shite again. And SSL3 were the quietest they’ve been all season.

Time for the Kippax Corner to step up soon n’all as I’ve not really noticed them since the Forest game this season. When they’re good they spread the atmosphere down ESL1 more. They were immense against Leeds at home last season!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

A poster from 1894 group admitted last week on here they were trying to focus on the songs “with a good beat”. In other words the ones nobody joins in with. No disrespect to them but that means they’ve become part of the problem and not the solution.

At Wembley in the semifinal last season, I decided to do a cheap one and get the free City bus and the cheapest £30 ticket on the very back row of the top tier.

I could see a group of City fans on the bottom tier clapping along to one of our clap-along songs but couldn’t hear them. The odd time something more anthemic like ‘the best team in the lad and all the world’ got going more fans joined in and I could hear them.

But up the other end Liverpool barely sung any clap-along songs and I could hear their fans all joining in with their more anthemic songs that all their fans know. The two clap-long ones they did sing, the Beatles one about Klopp and ‘oh I am a Liverpudlian’ were their quietest chants of the day.

Again in the Community Shield at Leicester, we had a group of fans who sang pretty much all game in our end, but they barely sung any songs that our full end joined in with. While Liverpool sang more sporadically, they were louder than us because they sang songs their whole end knew and they were less clap-along-y.

We’ve properly hammered United in the last two home derbies but instead of belting out stuff like this anthemic chant:

and others like it, that the whole stadium would join in with, our vocal area sings about ‘empty seats at home’ and ‘Gerrard slipped, Suarez cried’ (what are we singing that against United for?!) and the rest of the ground don’t join in.

SING OUR PROPER CITY SONGS!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I actually think that since we came back from lockdowns, and especially at the end of last season and the start of this one, our atmospheres for Prem games at the Etihad have generally been better than they were in the years before the lockdowns.

There was a proper buzz around the stadium in the run-in last season. Liverpool Brighton Watford Newcastle and Villa home games plus Leeds and Wolves away were great atmospheres. And it spilt into this season with Bournemouth Palace Forest and the first hour against United all being top atmospheres.

They were games where the whole ground were more up for it with the ‘COME ON’s and ‘GO ON’s and ‘OOH’ and ‘AAH’s etc. We just struggle with getting songs going around the stadium even in our better atmospheres because so few around the ground join in with (or even know the words to) a lot of the songs started by the more vocal areas.

SSL3 booming out big songs two or three times helps massively as it gets the whole stadium going as they sing songs that everyone knows and like to sing.

But last Saturday we were back to pre-lockdowns shite again. And SSL3 were the quietest they’ve been all season.

Time for the Kippax Corner to step up soon n’all as I’ve not really noticed them since the Forest game this season. When they’re good they spread the atmosphere down ESL1 more. They were immense against Leeds at home last season!

Your word “spread” is important. A song needs to “spread” within the first few seconds to catch on. Both singing areas cannot really spread songs both ways at once so they often just die. I know this sounds stupid but some sort of acoustic assistance so that the two singing areas (or 3 if you count the upper tier)could all hear each other would help massively.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

At Wembley in the semifinal last season, I decided to do a cheap one and get the free City bus and the cheapest £30 ticket on the very back row of the top tier.

I could see a group of City fans on the bottom tier clapping along to one of our clap-along songs but couldn’t hear them. The odd time something more anthemic like ‘the best team in the lad and all the world’ got going more fans joined in and I could hear them.

But up the other end Liverpool barely sung any clap-along songs and I could hear their fans all joining in with their more anthemic songs that all their fans know. The two clap-long ones they did sing, the Beatles one about Klopp and ‘oh I am a Liverpudlian’ were their quietest chants of the day.

Again in the Community Shield at Leicester, we had a group of fans who sang pretty much all game in our end, but they barely sung any songs that our full end joined in with. While Liverpool sang more sporadically, they were louder than us because they sang songs their whole end knew and they were less clap-along-y.

We’ve properly hammered United in the last two home derbies but instead of belting out stuff like this anthemic chant:

and others like it, that the whole stadium would join in with, our vocal area sings about ‘empty seats at home’ and ‘Gerrard slipped, Suarez cried’ (what are we singing that against United for?!) and the rest of the ground don’t join in.

SING OUR PROPER CITY SONGS!

I was at Wembley and it was shockingly bad. I was also at the charity shield and it was better because the small stadium meant the clapalongs could actually be heard by everyone else instead of drifting off from the front rows into nothing.

Singers should be under the roof, not at the front in modern stadiums. Does my head in that our fans don’t get that.