Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

What was great about Sunday was not just the sheer variety of songs that were sung in the first half, old classics, totally new ones, defiant ones - but the fact we all sang with one voice at the outset. That completely set the vibe for the first half. The booing of the PL anthem is clearly here to stay now, I’m hoping it becomes the build up to a mass singalong of Viking/Not Really Here/Blue Moon at the opening of every home game. Once that’s done everything in the first half will flow from that - the gallows humour, the togetherness. We cannot lose that ‘us against the world’ mentality. We have no friends out there. The narrative has moved now from ‘emptyhad, no fans, soulless’ to ‘cheats’, ‘belligerent’, ‘paranoid’. Out of all the sticks we could be beaten with, I like belligerent and paranoid. That feeling is our best chance in a long, long time of blowing away the complacency that had crept in to home games.
 
PDBLUEMOON said:
I’m in the south stand mate and my voice has gone! Second half there was a massive dip, but to honest I genuinely think everyone was just cabbaged. Been a long week. Early leavers has been going on since 1894, personally I don’t get it. You set your stall out for match day and that’s what it is match day and on the piss, well for me anyway :) they’re from the start and they’re till the end. Players were brilliant today, but not one of them came over to the south stand to say cheers, they all did one. Would it have it hurt to walk over to the south stand and clap…. Basically everyone is bollocked from the players, staff, fans. So I’m not having a go. Let’s just put it to bed. 3 points, come Wednesday we could be top of the league. Great end to a shitty week. CTID
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South stand was rocking whole game mate, did us proud. Same couldn’t be said for us in the lower east but it’s been like that this season. Been a strange one.

It don’t bother me with people leaving early, up to them, but a good few were on their toes at just gone 80 minutes.
 
Jazzyblue said:
What was great about Sunday was not just the sheer variety of songs that were sung in the first half, old classics, totally new ones, defiant ones - but the fact we all sang with one voice at the outset. That completely set the vibe for the first half. The booing of the PL anthem is clearly here to stay now, I’m hoping it becomes the build up to a mass singalong of Viking/Not Really Here/Blue Moon at the opening of every home game. Once that’s done everything in the first half will flow from that - the gallows humour, the togetherness. We cannot lose that ‘us against the world’ mentality. We have no friends out there. The narrative has moved now from ‘emptyhad, no fans, soulless’ to ‘cheats’, ‘belligerent’, ‘paranoid’. Out of all the sticks we could be beaten with, I like belligerent and paranoid. That feeling is our best chance in a long, long time of blowing away the complacency that had crept in to home games.
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Good post mate. All season I've tried to make that point that the first couple of minutes sets the tone for the rest of the match in lots of games. There are thousands of people in the stadium who will sing if others around them sing but won't stand up and be the only one in their block singing. It's simple human nature. It's why I get grumpy about certain songs being sung at certain times - straight after kickoff in particular. If the first couple of songs don't take off around the stadium then fewer songs will take off after that.
 
one song at once, sing songs longer not just 10 seconds, sing songs fans know the words to, turn up in seats when players come out to welcome them..... cracked it.

but still leave on 78 mins, no point or chance of that changing :)
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I honestly don’t like that. It’s like some choreographed performance or summat. It’s just not…English, or Mancunian, I suppose. That jumping up and down stuff looks a bit stupid to me. Like when you get a whole end wearing the same t shirt or something. It makes you look like sheep.
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I've never seen sheep wearing T shirts.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Good post mate. All season I've tried to make that point that the first couple of minutes sets the tone for the rest of the match in lots of games. There are thousands of people in the stadium who will sing if others around them sing but won't stand up and be the only one in their block singing. It's simple human nature. It's why I get grumpy about certain songs being sung at certain times - straight after kickoff in particular. If the first couple of songs don't take off around the stadium then fewer songs will take off after that.
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I hear you, Dave. 'Follow' for example - I like it, but if you sit outside the SS and join in with it, and I do, you'll be one of a few, it just doesn't take across the ground in the same way WNRH or Viking can. Viking and WNRH are easy, proud and uniquely City. We have so many League away games now hopefully everyone will be well up for it by the time it gets to Newcastle, despite the daft kick off time.
 
Jazzyblue said:
I hear you, Dave. 'Follow' for example - I like it, but if you sit outside the SS and join in with it, and I do, you'll be one of a few, it just doesn't take across the ground in the same way WNRH or Viking can. Viking and WNRH are easy, proud and uniquely City. We have so many League away games now hopefully everyone will be well up for it by the time it gets to Newcastle, despite the daft kick off time.
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We have other songs like that two you have mentioned above.

City til I die
We love you city

If we can get those two songs going properly again the rest of the ground will join in. Easy to sing and synonymous with city
 
That backfired for PSG last night. The pre-match display.




The display at Milan.



I wonder if City have got a stadium display planned?

Personally think it’s too early in the competition for a stadium display.

Quarters and/or semi-final is enough
 
mancityvstoke said:
CITY CITY

The best team in the land and all the world.

Apparently since 1976
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Yep from the theme tune to the Kirk Douglas film The Vikings
Absolutely unique to City
@Gary James went into its history in quite mad detail at his City film show a few years ago. Trawling through old copies of the Radio times and cross referencing its broadcast against away fixtures
 
MrCheeseGrater said:
They shouldn't open the exit gates until 90 minutes to stop early leavers. People are really taking the piss now, leaving on 70/75 minutes.
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oh do fucking give it a rest

people are free to do what they want

i stay to the end but i am getting more and more tempted to start leaving at 75 minutes just to piss you off
might even start encouraging others to do the same
 
pirate said:
oh do fucking give it a rest

people are free to do what they want

i stay to the end but i am getting more and more tempted to start leaving at 75 minutes just to piss you off
might even start encouraging others to do the same
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If you take young kids to the match, they start getting a bit twitchy around the sixty minute mark. I have had to bribe them with sweets, let them play games on my phone. But I always stay to the end and clap the players off. Even when a cheeky bastard steward was asking me to make my way out. Suppose they want to go home as well. People who literally drive right up to the ground, I don't get them at all. Abandon the car on a grass verge or up on a pavement. I park at a tram stop, and get the tram in and out no problems at all. Home in 45 mins.
 
pirate said:
oh do fucking give it a rest

people are free to do what they want

i stay to the end but i am getting more and more tempted to start leaving at 75 minutes just to piss you off
might even start encouraging others to do the same
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Doesn’t piss us off, just dismays the players and Pep.

When we’ve stayed behind the team to the end this season, the team and Pep have shown their appreciation and done a lap around the pitch to thank the fans.

On Sunday, they looked around the ground, gave a bit of a clap in the centre circle and fucked off. Pep just went straight down the tunnel.

After the week the club had, I thought that was a very poor showing at the end of the game from our fans.
 
Was quite excited to see Arsenal's "Ultras" today as my Arsenal mate ensured me that they've really improved the atmosphere. Turns out theres only about 20 people in this group, we couldn't hear them singing even though they're right next to the away end. But you could hear the bastard drum, did my fucking head in.

My point is today was the biggest deterrent ever to not try and start an Ultra movement at City. I would say Arsenal's Atmosphere is lightyears ahead of where it was, but I really don't think this group of 20 kids is the reason for that like a lot of Arsenal fans would have you believe. It was most telling when the whole ground erupted into "we've got super mick arteta", and the Ultra lot just kept singing their own Allez allez allez song by themselves, which meant the loud drum was also out of time with the rest of the ground.

I always admire the passion of european ultras and definitely think there are certain aspects from them which we could take to improve things, but if we just try and copy them we'll end up looking stupid like arsenal do.
 
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