Comments on: MAN CITY – Best Fans in the Premier League?

By: Davies

Davies — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:03:56 +0000

“from living in Newcastle for four years I think I have not come across a worse set of fans! They only turn up when their team is doing well”

We played last season in the championship and still pulled in more fans than most premier league sides. Good analysis mate. Glad you didn’t waste your time in Newcastle.

By: CHED EVANS IS MY HERO!!!

CHED EVANS IS MY HERO!!! — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:55:57 +0000

I’ll comment in full at a later date as im in a hurry now, but what about another club….Pompey?x

By: It's Grim Oop North

It's Grim Oop North — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:43:17 +0000

I can’t remember who told me, but someone once had a theory of “New Stadium Syndrome”, whereby all the fans who used to sit/stand together, (on the Kippax for instance), are dispersed when the club moves to a new stadium.

It may take years for the type of fans who love to sing and shout (and get in a bit of a barney with the opposition fans on occasion), to regroup, which is why the atmosphere in new stadiums isn’t a patch on what it was in the old stadiums.

Seems to have a ring of truth about it to me.

By: m beany

m beany — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:25:00 +0000

In terms of shear dogeared-ness and durability I would say we’re up there but the atmosphere at home games is diabolical. I sit in the East stand level 3 overlooking the away fans and I’ve lost count of the amount of times people have looked at me like an alien for singing, i’ve been told to sit down after celebrating a goal and I’ve also heard a hell of a lot of negativity about our own players which doesn’t help things. My view is that years and years of mediocrity have turned us into the most cynical and lazy group of fans in the league. You can feel it throughout the game and that will have an effect on the players on the pitch.

By: Plattsy

Plattsy — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:20:09 +0000

I did appreciate the opening comment Sven, thankyou!

Cambridge is unbelievably busy but great fun… So far at least! I’ve got cricket trials at fenners this sunday which will be really interesting (and probably really scary!), and I’ve got back into playing football, which is cool… Did you get into the commentating thing you were telling me about in the end?

As regards the blog, I’m not sure if we are the best fans in the league really. The best set of fans I’ve ever seen at a city home match was newcastle 2 or 3 years ago – it was mid-winter and they were jumping around with their tops off even though it was a boring 0 – 0! What about one of the other london teams like west ham? Their fans are traditionally… shall we say known for their rowdiness?