Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[Jazzyblue]

Almost as bad as our 'Haaland, Haaland' one. There's some great efforts on his thread and I'm particularly fond of the Billy Ocean one. Hopefully one of those gets a bit of momentum.

Not a massive fan of Blue Moon to be honest as it's too short to be an anthem and a bit monotonous. It can sound impressive at first but after repeating the same verse a few times it soon peters out.

Agree though, our chants are usually a lot more creative than most. I'm particularly partial to the ones that incorporate a bit of humour like the Balotelli one.

Some decent ones introduced this season like 'follow', 'best defence in Europe' and 'everywhere' by the Mac. Sound great at away games and beginning get traction at home.

Have to disagree with you on Blue Moon, Edgy...I love the sentiment. I just think we sing it too fast.

 

[blue_paul]

Anfield, after the initial YWNWA, is the quietest set of fans I’ve come across.

They’re good on big European nights, that can’t be denied. Thing is…you could say the same for most clubs that get to the latter stages of European competition.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Even when the atmosphere is OK with Red clubs they have hardly any songs. Take 'Arsenal, Arsenal' - zero effort and in a London accent it sounds like they're celebrating our Erling these days.

That arsenal chant is the most jarring thing going haha.

I will say though that these simple chants are the very best for getting the whole stadium involved.

Take Jonny Stones and Ohh Kevin De Bruyne. Both so unbelievably simple, but both create an absolute racket when sung

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Forget Anfield. The Etihad is the hardest place to get a result in world football right now. The stats prove that.

And when us fans are on our game it's near enough impossible to get anything.

Wednesday we play another top side, and we're going to show what power the Etihad Factor has

 

[Axel Freed]

That arsenal chant is the most jarring thing going haha.

I will say though that these simple chants are the very best for getting the whole stadium involved.

Take Jonny Stones and Ohh Kevin De Bruyne. Both so unbelievably simple, but both create an absolute racket when sung

Yep less is definitely more.

I’ll tell you what still irks me to this day - the Zaba situation.

We had a perfectly good song which everyone knew the words to and joined in with Doo doo doo Pablo Zabaleta and then all the daft selfie video kids invented this silly overlong over wordy sweary Zaba chant which even name checks rags and which most of the ground still don’t know the words to.

It was an absolute crime that at his farewell game we just got a muffled version of that nonsense from the singing end rather than the whole ground belting out the original and better chant

 

[BringBackSwales]

Have to disagree with you on Blue Moon, Edgy...I love the sentiment. I just think we sing it too fast.

The Haaland one is fine, as easy as they come and gets sung loudly, especially at away matches. Nothing to dislike

 

[Fordyboy46]

It has to be the best ever this Wednesday night, no excuses why it shouldn't be unless the tourists take over for the night

 

[Edghill OG]

Have to disagree with you on Blue Moon, Edgy...I love the sentiment. I just think we sing it too fast.

I'd probably prefer it if we sang at least one of the other verses as well. Agree that Blue Moon (& many others) are sang too quickly. Don't think we can be blamed for the Blue Moon speed though when the club blast out the 200mph version just before kick-off.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Yep less is definitely more.

I’ll tell you what still irks me to this day - the Zaba situation.

We had a perfectly good song which everyone knew the words to and joined in with Doo doo doo Pablo Zabaleta and then all the daft selfie video kids invented this silly overlong over wordy sweary Zaba chant which even name checks rags and which most of the ground still don’t know the words to.

It was an absolute crime that at his farewell game we just got a muffled version of that nonsense from the singing end rather than the whole ground belting out the original and better chant

We'll probs have to agree to disagree on this one cause I bloody love the Pablo Zabaleta song.

The one that still winds me up is that we stopped singing "oh oh edin dzeko" for some song about Gerard slipping and Suarez Crying

 

[Edghill OG]

The Hasland one is fine, as easy as they come and gets sung loudly, especially at away matches. Nothing to dislike

It's ok after he's just scored (which he does with great frequency to be fair). During the game itself though there's lots of creative ones on his chant thread that would be much better suited during open play.