Anfield atmosphere...

[Armin_Tamzarian]

you did mate - made the hairs stand up and the eyes well

 

Mine too. It was a privelege to be in Anfield that night. An awesome deafening glorious night.

[Guest ritchie_50]

So the atmosphere's crap.

AND?

 

And it really is time to do something about it.

[Gray - YPC]

The point of this thread has been well and truly missed... there's plenty of others to discuss improving the atmosphere.

 

Let's just enjoy what is easily the greatest atmosphere of my life.

 

Absolutely incredible, and scenes and noise like no-one surely has heard before.

 

I would kill for a DVD which had no commentary, just the match and the crowd. And YNWA at the end? Fantastic!!

 

I remember walking out of the Oakie about 40 minutes before kick off and s***ting myself because I thought it had started the noise was that loud. I had to double check the time with the lads to make sure.

 

Then, with a cry of "This is it boys" we said our goodbyes to those who couldn't attend and off we went.

 

A night never to be repeated!!

[Scally Bob]

Yes it is s*** on the whole, especially home league games. Maybe the difference with the Juventus and Chelsea games was that you had to have been to the previous home games so not too many day trippers.

If you remember the farcical way tickets for the semi were sold you might think otherwise. Whoppers who'd only been twice queueing next to people with ten credits.

[allez les rouges]

The point of this thread has been well and truly missed... there's plenty of others to discuss improving the atmosphere.

 

Let's just enjoy what is easily the greatest atmosphere of my life.

 

Absolutely incredible, and scenes and noise like no-one surely has heard before.

 

I would kill for a DVD which had no commentary, just the match and the crowd. And YNWA at the end? Fantastic!!

 

I remember walking out of the Oakie about 40 minutes before kick off and s***ting myself because I thought it had started the noise was that loud. I had to double check the time with the lads to make sure.

 

Then, with a cry of "This is it boys" we said our goodbyes to those who couldn't attend and off we went.

 

A night never to be repeated!!

 

i was there and i agree with everything you said. i think about from time to time and i find myself with a silly grin and the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. i would be very surprised if the atmosphere is ever generated by any other stadium ever again. i would be very surprised if anfield could generate an atmosphere like that again. it was simply perefect, impossible to beat. i was at the final as well. the atmosphere inside anfield was better than istanbul, it will never be matched by anything ever again.

 

as for league games, its not as bad.

 

the s*** games are on a par with every other team in the league. the big games at anfield are better than anywhere else..

 

thats the way it always has been.

[timbos goals]

Was at Inter '65, Juventus/Honved/Celtic '66, Bruges comeback '76, St Etienne '77. Anfield has never sounded louder than last spring against Chelsea...ergo nor has anywhere else as a dozen or so hardened hacks testify in their pieces glorifying - rightly so - that unforgettable night.

[Jonesy]

you did mate - made the hairs stand up and the eyes well

 

 

I remember speaking to Mike in the upstairs bar of the oakie. He was looking all nervous and tabbing away like it was going out of fashion. He said to me "Are you nervous about tonight?" My reply was simple and straight to the point. I said "No we'll win 1-0 and the goal will be scored very early." He said "I don't fancy that ......having to hang on for the rest of the match."

 

I think I tried to remind him of in that car park of the Ataturk stadium.....but words wouldn't come out my mouth. By that time I was a cross between Rab C Nesbitt and Father Jack.......this is a pre match by the way.

[Mike]

I remember speaking to Mike in the upstairs bar of the oakie. He was looking all nervous and tabbing away like it was going out of fashion. He said to me "Are you nervous about tonight?" My reply was simple and straight to the point. I said "No we'll win 1-0 and the goal will be scored very early." He said "I don't fancy that ......having to hang on for the rest of the match."

 

I think I tried to remind him of in that car park of the Ataturk stadium.....but words wouldn't come out my mouth. By that time I was a cross between Rab C Nesbitt and Father Jack.......this is a pre match by the way.

 

i remember it mate, crystal clear and you were dead right...as was i!

i remember finishing my pint then heading off, saying, 'right then boys, this is it, here we go'.

 

imagine what it was like for the players in the dressing room...

[fyds]

I don't know how many will get the point of this, but here goes...Like a few on here, I've been going since the early sixties, when we regularly got around 55,000 when most of us stood. It was 10,000 people noisier than it is now - it got noisier when we started winning things regularly under Shanks. This kept up more or less most of the time for the next twenty or so years - and yes, the St Ettienne game was that special too...but there always were plenty of quiet days, days when the kop did more maoning than singing.

 

All that changed with Hillsborough. We had on the whole lost a few of the numbers anyway with alterations to the ground and changes in H&S legislation over the years, but now we had the added detrimental effect on crowd togetherness that was all seater stadia. As we were traditionally the noisiest and 'singyest' - we suffered more than most.

 

Of course, it has to be added that on top of this as ever, a new generation of fans were beginning to replace many of their fathers and grandfathers who stood and sang for Shankly and Paisley. This new generation had not had had the same traditions of success to sing about as their forebears. Whereas us older farts know we sing, win lose or draw - the younger kids, the children of ITV live and later Sky mostly grasp that you sing when you're winning - they were also the first generation for which the match - live football - was not the big weekend occassion that it was for us older fans - now they could all watch their fill from an armchair and their methodlogy of watching livbe football was conditioned by this. Not too many sing from their armchair.

 

That game against Chelsea was simply our biggest home game in 20 years - and it smelled of a success many of the fans there had not really known, apart from the brief ecstasy that was the treble year - most of the big games of which were played elsewhere. They still are not used to winning - yet. But they will be under Rafa, and the voice will return with most of the old swagger, despite the lower capacity and seats. The new stdium may improve that further - we'll see.

 

But for those of us old enough and honest enough - yes there were great days and nights of atmospheric singing - but equally, there were some not so memorable ones.

 

As the old homile goes:

'You know, things are not as great as they used to be'

'No - and you know what? Unlike these kids you and I know that things never were quite as great as they used to be!'

[Jeff guitar]

I don't know how many will get the point of this, but here goes...Like a few on here, I've been going since the early sixties, when we regularly got around 55,000 when most of us stood. It was 10,000 people noisier than it is now - it got noisier when we started winning things regularly under Shanks. This kept up more or less most of the time for the next twenty or so years - and yes, the St Ettienne game was that special too...but there always were plenty of quiet days, days when the kop did more maoning than singing.

 

All that changed with Hillsborough. We had on the whole lost a few of the numbers anyway with alterations to the ground and changes in H&S legislation over the years, but now we had the added detrimental effect on crowd togetherness that was all seater stadia. As we were traditionally the noisiest and 'singyest' - we suffered more than most.

 

Of course, it has to be added that on top of this as ever, a new generation of fans were beginning to replace many of their fathers and grandfathers who stood and sang for Shankly and Paisley. This new generation had not had had the same traditions of success to sing about as their forebears. Whereas us older farts know we sing, win lose or draw - the younger kids, the children of ITV live and later Sky mostly grasp that you sing when you're winning - they were also the first generation for which the match - live football - was not the big weekend occassion that it was for us older fans - now they could all watch their fill from an armchair and their methodlogy of watching livbe football was conditioned by this. Not too many sing from their armchair.

 

That game against Chelsea was simply our biggest home game in 20 years - and it smelled of a success many of the fans there had not really known, apart from the brief ecstasy that was the treble year - most of the big games of which were played elsewhere. They still are not used to winning - yet. But they will be under Rafa, and the voice will return with most of the old swagger, despite the lower capacity and seats. The new stdium may improve that further - we'll see.

 

But for those of us old enough and honest enough - yes there were great days and nights of atmospheric singing - but equally, there were some not so memorable ones.

 

As the old homile goes:

'You know, things are not as great as they used to be'

'No - and you know what? Unlike these kids you and I know that things never were quite as great as they used to be!'

 

Great post. Been going since the early 80's and can distinctly remember worse atmospheres at some matches against teams like Ipswich, leicester and Watford than some of the ones this season. One difference from the Standing kop era is when we go a goal down there definitley used to be more of a reaction from the fans into getting behind the team to help them get back into the game.

 

 

As for the Chelsea game - i hold that in as much esteem as the finals i've been to. We never got onto the fact that everyone was going in early and we arrived for our pre match lubrication at the usual time, but having drank half of it and the pub being nearly empty we left them and made our way to the ground, it was like a ghost town and the fact we had 4 watches all telling us we still had plenty of time till kick off, at the back of our minds we didn't believe them and ran towards the ground . You could hear the kop roaring all the way back to the george and it was Majestic.

[mattster]

What a great post, really enjoyed reading that, thanks.

[Gunga Din]

fyds, great post as always mate!

[SamBooka]

im an "OOT'er" if thats the gag, I love and cherish every game (thanks Jonesly) and theres no way im quiet, jesus, even my wife when I took her was screaming (gags to come....)

 

Soft touch maybe we are, think again....bollix