To be fair, the Arsenal fans saw the irony in the mauled chant, they even stayed behind to applaud us for it. Unfortunately, it was a short lived support for our irony.
The politicians are never ever gonna vote for standing of any kind at an English Football stadium again after Hillsborough regardless of so called safe standing areas in the Bundesliga -from my recollection Germany hasn't suffered the trauma of losing the lives of ninety odd supporters at a football ground. As for atmosphere, its all aquestion of trying to get like minded supporters, who wish to sing, to group in one area of the stadium - how this comes about I'm not too sure. The East stand is too big and there are pockets of vocal types all over this side of the ground -unfortunately there are larger pockets of dead heads even on this side of the ground. I should know I sit in E7 and most around me are stuffed. In the days of BP and few season ticket holders - if you wanted to be vocal you just needed to pay on the day and plonk yourself in the part of the ground that generated the singing. One time Bunkers, other times Kempton. The fact that we have now to make a decision in advance in terms of where we want to sit in an all seater stadium, f*cks this option right up.
You think it's suicide inducingly bad at home when you live locally? Imagine travelling from Scotland for every game and only going to home games. I even managed to miss the midweek games and the game against Swansea on the opening day, and it was still less depressing than last season was.
Ill Ducky, Have you been spending quality time with a Dictionary and a Thesaurus to be able to come up with that statement? Or did you get someone to ghost write it for you??? I just can't see you being able to come up with all that on your own!!!
I'm just a very clever ducky. The only thing you can do is get on the internet (or get some mates together and hand out flyers on a matchday) and try get likeminded fans to found a supporters group who will stand together and show some passion. The thing where these things inevitably fall down is finding a leader to organize the group.
On the subject of gay footie fans,Did anyone else think our away strip was a bit dodgy this season ? White with yellow frills ! Still,i suppose it didn't stop us away record !
