We really do have the best fans in the world.

[oddfellows]

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Great thread attempt, but shit content. Still out in Porto, still singing, still loud and proud. City have owned Porto. The Riverside bouncing for two days. Even after defeat yesterday. Chelsea fans wouldn't know a party if it twatted them on the head.

Phenomenal support out here. More hoops jumped through than a fairground monkey just to get here.

So we couldn't be heard on the TV. So fucking what?

Fuck off.

Back to the Sangria.

Spot on. Got back to Manchester this am. Shit result but an unbelievable trip and our supporters have done us proud again.

 

[M18CTID]

So with that logic in mind how do 90% of away supports at the Etihad manage to massively out sing the home fans when presumably they’ve seen the team sheet and their team has struggled early on ?

Because that’s what away fans tend to do, especially if they’re huge underdogs in a game. I don’t want to make excuses but cup finals can be different atmosphere wise. Chelsea didn’t have the weight of expectation that we did and their fans fed off them not being favourites. It’s generally recognised that United have a very good vocal away support but they’ve often struggled to generate a great atmosphere at cup finals. My boss - a United fan - was at the FA Cup final in 2016 and although United won, he said Palace bossed the atmosphere that day.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

I was mocking your hate speech, which you have done a lot to be fair.

Examples ?

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Get that bus out Butler ;)

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Because that’s what away fans tend to do, especially if they’re huge underdogs in a game. I don’t want to make excuses but cup finals can be different atmosphere wise. Chelsea didn’t have the weight of expectation that we did and their fans fed off them not being favourites. It’s generally recognised that United have a very good vocal away support but they’ve often struggled to generate a great atmosphere at cup finals. My boss - a United fan - was at the FA Cup final in 2016 and although United won, he said Palace bossed the atmosphere that day.

You can dress it up how you want but it’s a truism that the younger you are the more boisterous and passionate you are generally speaking. Anyone who’s ever moaned about the atmosphere at our games knows that it’s down to too many oldies and on occasion too many corporates.

 

[Blue Theatre]

The atmosphere was great during the day - in the streets, round the fanzone, etc ... and for most of the pre-match.
The team news definitely felt like a blow, and led to lots of head-shaking in our end.

Then once the game started, I know this sounds defeatist but it had the feel quite early on that it wasn't going to be our day.

I agree in theory that the fans should drive the team not vice versa, but we're only human & if City had been winning & Chelsea blowing their big chance, I'm sure the noise would have been the other way round.

 

[M18CTID]

You can dress it up how you want but it’s a truism that the younger you are the more boisterous and passionate you are generally speaking. Anyone who’s ever moaned about the atmosphere at our games knows that it’s down to too many oldies and on occasion too many corporates.

Yes, the young ones do often inject a lot of life into it but I’m 51 and I’ve started more chants than many fans half my age so it’s not an exact science. Also seen plenty of our fans - both young and old - bang up for it on the concourse at away games but then mysteriously lose their ability to sing once the game kicks off, then suddenly regain it again on the concourse at half time.

 

[worsleyweb]

No we don't. Our fans in the stadium were shite, let's be honest.

were you there?

 

[west didsblue]

Where I was sat barely heard a peep from Chelsea until they scored. If it was different on TV it was down to where they had the mikes.