Atmosphere today

heightmassive

Not bad at all. Credit where credits due.

'You're just a a shit Barcelona'

Arsenal contribution 'we wan the league in Manchesta' and 'your support is fackin shit' as they left in droves. Crazy Gooners.

twas a good day.

Neo_Mufc

Twas a good day but sorry the atmosphere wasn't good at all. Crowd never got singing at all in the first half and even when we were 1 nil up we didn't do anything. Second half was an improvement but it wasn't a good atmosphere compared to other games.

heightmassive

Well compared to Barcelona in 1984 it wasn't great but compared to the usual drivel that is a home match I thought it was alright.

Tumbling-Dice

Class.

Tumbling-Dice

I asked this in an another thread.

Did we really play the Hovis ad theme at half time, Dvorak's New World Symphony ?

mungy

funny the "you're just a shit Barcelona"

apart from that I thought the crack was poor today. Arses where as pathetic as usual.

Sylar

Liked the one more year chant to VDS.

Lester Freamon

"Shall we sing a song for you?" from the Arses. Ironically the only song they had all night...

T2000

We wasn't too bad in the K stand (lower tier) considering that arsenal had 7000 supporters above and to the side of us. We was loud compared to other cup games when there was that amount of away fans.
I went into Sam platts before the game aswell and I've got to say what a fantastic time people had. Singing, jumping and having a top day. I loved it. Us reds know how to make a weekend!

Neo_Mufc

They did outsing us first 20mins and probably the last 10mins as well, other from that they were pretty quiet once the first goal went in.

Bread

My gooner mate who was there today is saying they outsung us all game, i was in upper stret but i genuinley couldnt hear them at all!

was singing mostly all game round me.

bergen

My brother, who's not a fan (or hasn't been until today) was at the game. He was escorting a young boy to the game from iceland that has some kind of muscular and neurological dystrophy and is now deaf, has only 3% vision and is confined to a weelchair. He's an avid fan and this was his first time at Old Trafford (and almost definitely his last – he's regressing fast and only a matter of time until his vital systems shut down). He got to meet some of the players and described the experience as amazing.

Don't know why I wanted to share that with you. Just amazing how something as trivial as football can enrich the live of an unfortunate kid.

T2000

Thanks for sharing that. I never know what to say when I hear things like this but I will tell you it always moves me. I'm glad that he loved it and had the chance to see such a game and meet the players.

Bread

Bar the background story that is brilliant, Nice that he got to go and meet his heroes.

ecantona7

This. Thanks for sharing that.

B Cantona

The power of football to do good. Horrible that his life will be so short, but a fantastic experience today. Fair play to your brother too, I always have the upmost respect for those who have the patience and compasion to do such things

bergen

Thanks. Yeah, my brother is quite the buy, but that kid is amazing.. He's 15, the only way to communicate with him is to write stuff in huge type on a high contrast computer screen... And my brother actually helps him play Championship Manager that way. My brother writes on the screen in big type what's happening, and the kid commands him to do substitutions and formation changes and who to sell and who to buy And up until a few months ago, when he had a bit more motor function in his hands, he kicked my brother's ass in FIFA on PS3 all the time.. with 3% vision. (granted my brother isn't really good but still!)

mufcwarm92

The Arsenal fans were the quietest cup allocation I've ever seen at OT. With that many away fans it is usually those fans that dominate the atmosphere, but today we outsung them for considerable periods. For a usual OT game that isn't against one of Liverpool and City, it was a good atmosphere. Bear in mind I sit in ST2, fairly high up, where the atmosphere is usually really impressive, meaning you can't always hear what the atmosphere in the rest of the stadium is like.

Also, Arsenal really do have a terrible selection of songs, half of them don't even fucking fit in to the tunes. The 'Samir Na-se-ri' (tune of baby give it up) one is just pathetic.

Starkie_1

Thanks for sharing that mate, brilliant for the kid and utmost respect for what your brother does to help.

Just hope the young lad has an enjoyable a life as he possibly can before times run out.

Bread

Anyone who watched on tele, could you hear either set of fans much?

Sylar

At the beginning could hear "arsenal, arsenal, arsenal" a few times. They tried the "evra, you're a cant" but that lasted like 2 seconds. And the "nasri" song. But that was all in the first 20 or so minutes.

And of course the "shall we sing a song for you" from them lot which happened around the 30 minute mark when you couldnt really either either fans for a few minutes before (that must be the dumbest chant ever).

After that, united fans were heard, but they were louder in the second half.

Bread

My mate is saying he thought it was quiter than the Emirates most games and that Arsenal fans were singing all game, Can't say I heard them and i was there!

B Cantona

Sounded like a classic sing when you're winning atmosphere to me

Before the goal, most of the audible stuff was from Arsenal, mocking the quietness of our support

I never put too much stock in what we hear on TV though, they adjust the levels, and I think its pretty clear they have mics closer to the away fans at OT, because I've been to some games with a very good atmosphere where the away fans seemed quiet as, only to watch the highlights and get the exact opposite impression!

Neo_Mufc

Yesterday I was in the north stand lower right next to the east stand so I obviously could hear the Arsenal lot in full flow but from that bit of the stadium I could rarely hear much from the strerford end. Similarly I've sat many times at row 40 ST2 and you never hear anything from the away lot, only bits when our section isn't singing.

Edit: Awful songs especially for their away lot, I think they did the majority of their song book yesterday:

Greatest Team, Samir Nasir, Arshavin Not Adebayor ?,We love the arsenal, won the league in manchester and a couple other uninspiring chants.

Man-United

They also liked that Evra song quite much the gooners.

Robin

[QUOTE=Neo_Mufc;9428863]Yesterday I was in the north stand lower right next to the east stand so I obviously could hear the Arsenal lot in full flow but from that bit of the stadium I could rarely hear much from the strerford end. Similarly I've sat many times at row 40 ST2 and you never hear anything from the away lot, only bits when our section isn't singing.

When I had season tickets in the ST2 a few years ago the singing never stopped and could never hear the away fans, now sitting in the East next to the away fans, it's harder to hear the Stretty but you know they are giving it a go, it's just the size of the ground makes it harder, but not bad in the second half from the K stand boys.

Redrage

Well on telly all I could hear was Brown chant and Giggsy's chant.

MG

Arsenal go on and on about that as if it's the worst thing that's ever happened to us and really winds us up.

It's not like that wasn't 9 years ago, and we didn't win the league the next season, and like we haven't won the league 4 times since then, and the Champions League, and Arsenal have now gone nearly 6 of those 9 years trophyless since then.

McLovin

Which got owned pretty quickly by our 'Shall we win a cup for you?'

Stupid goons.

42 euros

I was in the ST1 and thought the atmosphere was pretty poor first half. Upper Stretty as always were trying but nobody else seemed bothered. There was a lot of 'older' people around yesterday who looked either too posh or too un-interested to make any contribution at all and even a quick round of applause after the goals was a major effort.
Second half got a lot better as the whole of OT focused on Edwin Edwin Van der Sar and generally got going.

Did notice two things about the Arse support yesterday that I thought was interesting and a pretty good example of the weakness of their support. One, in the second half the upper east stand which contained 80% of their 'supporters' just gave up. Obviously the hardcore away support was in the usual south-east corner and fair play they sang the whole game. Two, when Djourou was stretchered off after a serious injury almost the whole of OT applauded the lad off apart from the upper east stand - again very poor. Proves to me that L'Arse have a decent hardcore of 2 to 3,ooo and the rest are the plastic useless fans we always suspected they are and were probaly the ones phoning Radio5 after the game calling for Wenger to be sacked because he had spoiled their Saturday evening.

Moultz

im sure i heard on the tv United fans singing

"one more year, one more year, one more year.."

I may be hugely mistaken tho.

gaz1185

Sir A1ex

I thought in the past when away sides have had East T2, the normal away corner had our fans in it?

42 euros

Maximum allocation? They had a small section in the south stand too. Guess we can thank the FA for that one too (Crawley had the same areas) Can't remember if they had the corner for the CL semi as well?

77

I've a mate who's worked for Sky in the past and he said the sound people are constantly adjusting the levels the whole game being mindful of what the fans are singing. Things like the Wenger song (which I did hear briefly yesterday). Some fans get turned down more than others.

Denis' cuff

also, when you're in the middle of several thousand singing, even at a moderate volume, it's gonna sound a lot louder than something that's actually louder from a distant part of the ground.

AVARiCE

Another interesting tidbit about the sound is that it generally needs resynchronisation otherwise it'll sound terrible on TV. If you listened to a microphone in the East Stand and a microphone in the Stretty where we're singing the same song "simultaneously" it'll sound like there's a lot of lag. It's because sounds takes a bit of time to travel from one end of OT to the other. So yeah, this backs up what 77's saying because there are sound people constantly adjusting microphone levels and bias, etc. As a general rule, the half with the ball in it is the one that the microphones are dominant within.

Sunny Jim

class

Feeky_Magee

It was as quality as usual in ST2. Sound gets trapped badly by the roof though, as well as the tv altering the sound for some of the chants.

I reckon the people who mock the atmosphere in OT would be shocked if they spent a game in ST2.

Nice to hear the Wenger paedo song immediately drowned out by "United, United" straight away, although it did get going again at another stage. Could barely hear the away fans, but never really do from ST2 bar the odd one.

Feeky_Magee

Particularly rednev, who came out with this gem in the matchday thread, which I was just looking through. Seems to spend every match berating our home support... from his armchair.