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[Football] Best support from away fans at the Amex
- Thread starter Simster
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You get this choreographed singing in a lot of countries, definitely in places like Germany, Japan and even Norway where they have a specially built ‘cage’ for the guy with the megaphone to stand in. It does sound a bit false, the spontaneous reaction to the match is much more genuine and gets a bit lost. On the other hand they did make a good noise last night, tbf.
Passion for what? Following a dude with a megaphone. They might as well go and stand in a car park and do it, about the same relevance to the game of football.
Dave the hatosaurus
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Palace?
I agree with you 100%.
But your (and other) comments made me think about the sort of comments my dad used to make about my LP collection (which, back then, was pretty anodyne) in the 70s:
"what's all that racket? Bloody jungle music. And call it music? It's just a noise. Thump, thump, thump. And you can't make out a word their singing. And call it singing?" etc.
Mind you he did sit through all 4 sides of Irish Tour 74 once, and nodded in approval at the end.
Dave the hatosaurus
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100% this. Impressive as they were at the start to me it is all a bit meaningless when there is no interaction between what is going on on the pitch and the reaction in the stands. I wonder if their players draw any inspiration from it at all as it seems to be all about the ultras themselves in a huge "look at me" sort of way. I did notice when their team hit the post in the second half that they just carried on with whatever dirge they were half way through meaning no oooh that was close and come on again lads lets get behind them. Finally if people get carried away by the continual "yellow submarine" chant let us not forget our own efforts with the Enoch Mwepu chant at Brentford and the continual "great escape" during that match when we went down to 9 men very early. To me they were just as passionate maybe even more so.
Their ding a ling a ling song to the sound of yellow submarine had me giggling most of the night...Haven't a clue what it means and maybe I don't want to know...but they get points for that. And their sign that said "Tout Pour Toi" took me nearly til the goal to work out what it said!!
Tout Pour L'OM it was. All for the Olympique Marseille
Having been to the Marseille away match and last night I agree. It seems to be nothing about the football on the pitch at all and instead about their "tribe". Most of them wouldn't have been able to see half the match with the flares, smoke and flags in the way.
WestYorkshireSeagull
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- Dec 28, 2021
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No no, they were heavily searched.
The Stewards Office is currently in possession of 1,791 aluminium flasks, 600 bags of A3 size, and 140 umbrellas that looked "too pointy for my liking".
One steward, asking a Marseille Ultra in balaclava... "What do you call this??" upon seeing a military-grade smoke grenade, was met with "c'est mon hand warmerrr".
"Oh, right you are, on you go"
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I thought they were great. Combined with us lot it was the best Amex atmosphere I've heard in a fair while.
Baldseagull
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half the support behind the massive flags would not have seen much either.
Probably bragging about the day he crippled Beram KayalBest support last night except for this turd
Joey Barton spotted in the away end at the Amex Stadium
It comes after Barton has sparked controversy in recent days over misogynistic comments he made about women working in men's football.www.dailymail.co.uk
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Ok for a novelty section. Wouldn't want to be in there or near it tbf other than a one off, which I'm sure would be fun. Once. Then quickly tiresome. It's a communal bonding section and that's about the sum of it. Not knocking it as I'm sure they love it and while the Amex, like all English crowds, can be too quiet, too library-like, too often I much prefer the spontaneous chants, the humour, the sudden anger at a foul. Even love the odd ooh it's a corner and ahhh you're shite keeper chants still. I remember a game at the Amex, early days, small cup crowd, evening game and some Spanish visitors infront of me found the keeper chant and the Who?! shouts by the crowd at the substitutions hilarious. That's the English game and hope it stays that way.
Even worse in the away ends at Bundesliga games - flags, banners, tall fences. May explain why the chanting has nothing to do with what’s happening on the pitch.
This.
The volume is impressive but it leaves me really cold, as it doesn't react in any way to the football. I'm guessing this is because it's all orchestrated by a fella who isn't watching the game and so not in tune with the ebb and flow.
The dynamics are completely flat - I actually think it's kinda shit, in a way. There's no feeling of building momentum, no "GO OOOONNNN!!!" when a player is through on goal. No reaction whatsoever to their own players efforts.
If you were a player of theirs, would you really find it inspiring when you know that nothing you do will in any way influence it?
I'm biased obviously but I far prefer the English crowd noises/reactions etc.
