Prestwich_Blue said:
The South Stand is the new Stretford End/Kop - a tourist attraction so you can have the "authentic" Manchester City experience.
Im more of a lurker on here and know that PB and IP are pretty level headed most of the time so dont take this as aimed at you two personally, just general observations of the board that I occasionally feel the need to post :)
To me the SS is just the place they moved me to when they buried Home. All this slagging off is pretty fucking pathetic in my humble opinion, blah blah this stand blah blah that stand. I'll sing when I want to sing, not because some jumped up keyboard warriors question my support, not because I sit in the south and feel the need to protect/enhance the "reputation" of the south stand with other Blues but because I want to cheer or lift the team or a player. Too many people trying to make statements about how good they are as fans rather than just supporting the team.
Equally I try my best not to engage in slagging matches with those people because at the end of the day they have City's best interests at heart, even though most of the time the way they express themselves is exactly the way jumped up keyboard warriors do. Sick of hearing about how we need to get back to the legendary noise levels the Kippax used to generate, it was so loud you could hear it in Japan you know! Same goes for the old North Stand where I was moved from. Sick of all this bullshit about how we need a singing section or to move the away fans to get everyone together and a whole host of other shit that is bollocks.
Funny thing is despite the myth's about the Kippax and North Stand Maine Road used to literally rock when everyone got together, the banter between the stands was all in good fun as we were all Blues at the end of the day. On here it seems like there are proper divisions with the way people slag each other off, people should wind their neck in and think about what they say before getting so personal. Sometimes its loud, sometimes its quiet, it goes through spells that can be short or long periods, Ive always found the atmosphere is better when the weather is half decent and the game means something but there will obviously be exceptions.
The loudest Ive ever heard City was against Wigan in the Div 2 play off semi's. If you werent there I feel sorry for you. That was atmosphere, Hamburg was a wet fart compared. The Umbro stand from that night on its own would outsing the whole CoMS, equally for a lot of the time Maine Road is how CoMS is now*, a minority making the noise with others chipping in when they want but back then there wasnt this need to slag fellow fans off.
*With the exception that we didnt sing fucking rag songs!
