Match Atmosphere

[LFEE]

Done 3 games this week and in order I’d say Arsenal > Man Utd > Dortmund…

 

As much as people moan about SJP I definitely enjoy home games more than aways these days when in the past it was always the other way in the 90’s/00’s.

 

Too much is read into it all mind. Goals and/or a great performance go a long way.

 

On a personal note I started probably our biggest chant tonight (Pogo if you love the Toon) in response to the Yellow Wall ?

[TheBrownBottle]

‘People being drunk’ may be the worst excuse for a shit atmosphere I’ve heard yet.

 

There are a lot of social ills caused by public drunkenness, but one positive is that it tends to make for lairy and loud away ends.

 

Every time the camera panned to the away end it seemed to be full of half-and-half scarfers and passivity.   They didn’t look pissed-up to me. 
 

Someone else mentioned Feyenoord in 2002 above - I was there, and me and the lads I was with started pretty early that morning in Amsterdam and were well served by the time we got to Rotterdam for the match - and so was most of the away end.  I don’t remember that being a ‘half and half scarf’ experience - that away end was crackers (in a good way).  Singing AYE AYE LIPPI LIPPI AYE

[TheBrownBottle]

5 hours ago, jack j said:

Anyone else cringe when they see social media posts along the lines of

"Love this, we've waited so long for it, what an experience, we'll be back"

 

Small time

It is pretty FA Cup 3rd round day patter tbh.  I love European football being back, but this feels completely normal to me - I missed its absence rather owt else.  We’re not plucky underdogs. 

[TheGuv]

If I’ve ever been on a two or three day bender for a Stag do, a European away trip or what have you. I tend to be hanging to fuck by the morning of the second day. By late morning/afternoon, after two or theee beers I’m like “I can’t do this. This is grim”. By mid afternoon and evening you’re bouncing off the walls again ten pints deep. Singing, dancing, messing about etc. 
 

I’d love to know how some manage to get worse and worse as the day goes on drinking. Must be a shit experience if that happens to you every time you go on a sesh. Or it’s just a made up excuse for shit support. 

[OCOCOL]

36 minutes ago, TheGuv said:

If I’ve ever been on a two or three day bender for a Stag do, a European away trip or what have you. I tend to be hanging to fuck by the morning of the second day. By late morning/afternoon, after two or theee beers I’m like “I can’t do this. This is grim”. By mid afternoon and evening you’re bouncing off the walls again ten pints deep. Singing, dancing, messing about etc. 
 

I’d love to know how some manage to get worse and worse as the day goes on drinking. Must be a shit experience if that happens to you every time you go on a sesh. Or it’s just a made up excuse for shit support. 

I bet the atmosphere in Dortmund away from the ground was better than in - not entirely a new thing it was in Bruges in November 2012. 

[AJ9]

4 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

‘People being drunk’ may be the worst excuse for a shit atmosphere I’ve heard yet.

 

There are a lot of social ills caused by public drunkenness, but one positive is that it tends to make for lairy and loud away ends.

 

Every time the camera panned to the away end it seemed to be full of half-and-half scarfers and passivity.   They didn’t look pissed-up to me. 
 

Someone else mentioned Feyenoord in 2002 above - I was there, and me and the lads I was with started pretty early that morning in Amsterdam and were well served by the time we got to Rotterdam for the match - and so was most of the away end.  I don’t remember that being a ‘half and half scarf’ experience - that away end was crackers (in a good way).  Singing AYE AYE LIPPI LIPPI AYE

Can’t comment on the scarf nonces but regarding the drink. Last time I was in Germany drinking, I obviously thought I could drink loads of Steins and smoke and be fine. Ended up hurling in the bogs and almost face planting a urinal. I think a lot of people misjudge drinking on the continent/on holiday. Remember my mate living in Brussels when Scotland came to play saying it was a really poor atmosphere from Scotland, but also noting how many were in an absolute state around the city. So drinking doesn’t necessarily = loud. You wanna feel zesty not fuckfaced.

[NUFC91]

The club must be given away more tickets than they letting on or more fans selling on...

 

Few of my mates who are loud and vocal had to go in home end as they tried to get into ground at kick off but stewarts said too full.

 

Looking forward to Paris when less touts tickets be flying about.

 

 

Edited November 8, 2023 by NUFC91

[danny]

Correct me if im wrong but how much noise can 3000 make in a full 80000 seater, or have i missed the point

 

[TheGuv]

32 minutes ago, OCOCOL said:

I bet the atmosphere in Dortmund away from the ground was better than in - not entirely a new thing it was in Bruges in November 2012. 

I remember coming back from the ground after being marched by their police and was slightly gutted I missed the square in all honesty 

 

It looked mental 

[mondonewc]

I was in the home end and it was surreal, black and white everywhere, people singing Toon songs on the terraces, Dortmund fans didn't give a fuck, seemed to just think we were nuts lol. Half time we took over the place, was class. Away end seemed real quite in 2nd half, as mentioned heard there was a lot of bother and bunch of fighting, no fucking need. 

[Sima]

10 hours ago, PCW1983 said:

There’s loads of tickets changed hands today around the square. 
 

The home fans were ok, It got loader when they scored their second….that said, even the ok beats SJP most of the time. 
I really can’t reiterate how utter shite our support has been though, in my opinion from everything I’ve seen it’s because a large contingent are utterly spannered and a good deal of them are just dick heads…..if I never hear the Anthony Gordon song again, it’ll be to soon. 

Aye, on the train back to Dusseldorf Airport today.

 

The state of some of our fans last night man.  Absolutely mortal and by and large a fucking embarrassment. Some cunts could barely talk and were smashing glasses in restaurants.

 

Echo the sentiment around the Gordon song. It’s replaced the Bruno in the middle chant as horrendously over sung.

 

Our songbook is absolutely shite.

 

 

[Danh1]

18 minutes ago, danny said:

Correct me if im wrong but how much noise can 3000 make in a full 80000 seater, or have i missed the point

 

None if one bothers singing 

[Shadow Puppets]

I can only go by my own experience last night, but I was surrounded by paralytic drunken zombies. Literally, in the immediate vicinity, say in the 50-100 people around me, I’d say maybe 10% were sober enough to even talk and stand, let alone sing.

 

Probably the worst away end I’ve been in, to be honest.

[danny]

15 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

None if one bothers singing 

Thats fair, sounds like most of them were pissed days before and never stopped. I can understand celebrating being there but you atleast want the memorys, save it till after the match

[BlueStar]

I was pissed, squeezed between two fat blokes to the point I couldn't raise my arms and unable to see more than a bald head in front of me for the first half, so my contribution to the atmosphere was minimal, apologies. 

[TheBrownBottle]

58 minutes ago, AJ9 said:

Can’t comment on the scarf nonces but regarding the drink. Last time I was in Germany drinking, I obviously thought I could drink loads of Steins and smoke and be fine. Ended up hurling in the bogs and almost face planting a urinal. I think a lot of people misjudge drinking on the continent/on holiday. Remember my mate living in Brussels when Scotland came to play saying it was a really poor atmosphere from Scotland, but also noting how many were in an absolute state around the city. So drinking doesn’t necessarily = loud. You wanna feel zesty not fuckfaced.

Yeah, I agree.  As a (much) younger man I misjudged the strength of Belgian beer away to Lokeren in the InterToto.  I was eye-spinning drunk instead of giddy-singy-happy drunk.  It ruined it for me.

 

I’m a teetotaller these days, so none of it appeals  

[RS]

8 minutes ago, BlueStar said:

I was pissed, squeezed between two fat blokes to the point I couldn't raise my arms and unable to see more than a bald head in front of me for the first half, so my contribution to the atmosphere was minimal, apologies. 

You watched it on tv in the bedroom ?

[mighty__mag]

Found this a bit painful. 

[Fezzle]

On the overcrowding, i know of two lads that blagged their way in without even buying tickets never mind the wrong section. Must have known about 100 that travelled, barely 50% of them would have got a ticket through the correct channels so must be loads sold on. Also one mate sent a photo of him and his daughter in half and half scarfs

[J7]

21 minutes ago, mighty__mag said:

Found this a bit painful. 

I think I’m just going to go to the Louvre in Paris. 

[TheGuv]

Reports from a forum member on here that fans were turned away from getting into the ground by NUFC ticket hire staff. People going batshit crazy apparently 

[BlueStar]

1 hour ago, RS said:

You watched it on tv in the bedroom ?

 

 

 

[Wandy]

Just reading the comments on NUSC twitter and seems like there was real chaos in the terraced away end. Some of our younger folk getting a taster of football in the 1980s. Except without the great atmosphere in this instance.

[brummie]

Reading about fans who've hardly been to matches getting tickets for this match and the club organising it badly, the usual faces not being there, full of daytrippers etc

 

How is this happening?

 

How is the ticket allocation handled for your games in Europe? Ours is a fucking impossibility if you haven't been at almost every match since the year dot.

 

Although I guess you've been playing in grounds with larger allocations.

 

Here's ours by comparison, this was for Legia Warsaw:

 

 

[Dr.Spaceman]

We were on the far left hand side and could see people congregating down the front around the stewarts. The stew's did fuck all by the looks of it and looked to us like some people were effectively standing in no mans land behind several others. View of the game must have been terrible.