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Maybe it's time we just accepted it. All give our tickets to our (grand)kids and let them see what they can do. I take my daughters (as you know) and they love a sing song. But I know there will be inhibition through standing with a parent. Multiply that by the thousands and you will get a huge degredation in atmosphere. But there's no way my kids can afford even child tickets regularly.
Theres a guy in my area in the Paxton who sings that alone, but he disappears around halftime most games. I think he tries to move to the South to look for a spare seat.
It's a big stadium. They don't have to stand next to you.
On Sunday I was looking from my seat up in the East upper to see if there were pockets in the west lower to sneak into. It could have saved 10-15 minutes getting home if i committed to it lol
It's Levys dream of making everything safe and family friendly. I wonder if he will get away with it, and tomorrows fans will be the kind that like that sort of thing. Like how people go to the cinema to enjoy a film with no tribalism? Kum By Yar football. I think football provides a outlet in peacetime for men to let off aggression. It's ironic that Baddiel constantly mentions the war and nazis, ignoring the fact that being cunts in a controlled manner is a very good way of averting the thing he fears most.
I'll be at Wealdstone this evening, it's almost always the 20ish olds who start the singing/chanting.
The biggest death knell to me is that you cant stand(or even sit) next to the group you travelled to the game with. If all my old lot go to a game the same day(Norwich ,before xmas the last time) we are in all four corners of the ground. Kids will never that sense of togetherness we had.Not in the prem anyway
I’m confused too mate - it’s happening more regularly these days! I thought you meant we played better football in the nineties and I jus can’t remember it (from mid nineties anyway).
I remember seeing a study published on speed of attack, several years ago when we weren't shit, that demonstrated the correlation between speed of attack and odds of scoring. At the time we were way on up there, 2nd or 3rd.
I'm afraid to say, this is the nail on the head as far as atmosphere goes. It matters not what the likes of me,Nutter-Naylor ,
WookieD etc. etc. think we add to the atmosphere. What it needs is hundreds of like minded young people to be able to stand together. Without it, the "South Stand White Wall of Noise" is never going to happen. And with £70 a pop tickets it's a non-starter. We would need an 18-25 price equivalent to that of a childs ticket in price for there to be any chance of it happening. And for the majority of the South Lower to be open (or maybe even exclusive to) that demographic. As we are all aware, football at the top level has changed.
It's not coming back.
I can't see a way to get the crowd noise and atmosphere that that stadium deserves.
If pinhead had any vision he would have ensured the south stand was along those lines and from a marketers perspective, it creates demand similar to Dortmund. The shine of the new ground is gone this season so he needs to think creatively and fast to sell tickets next season
