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@albakos has just made it possible to embed tweets on here.I love watching fan reactions from the stadium. There's a few of this goal out there but I can't embed them because they're not on youtube.
@albakos has just made it possible to embed tweets on here.I love watching fan reactions from the stadium. There's a few of this goal out there but I can't embed them because they're not on youtube.
Can you post Vines now?
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terrible idea, just let the fans stand up, that would change everything.I sit in the North Bank lower and a drum would really piss me off.
How funny you mention videos from that club.Getting some crazy lads with megaphones would do the job. They can organise the singing, they can sync the singing (often a problem a problem with North Bank on one chant, Clock End with another).
And of course, all "singers" should be located together.
I'm quite sure it's similar in Germany; there must be some organiser too; Dortmund etc.
Example from Denmark:
And a better example, go to 8 min plus:
And a even better one:
I think you'd be surprised. I speak from experience as i've been to the said stadiums from above. There's maybe 200-300 "hardcore" fans standing at the middle who sings their lungs out, and that's enough to make the rest sing as well.Hate myself for saying it, but easily the worst PL atmosphere one can experience is at the Emirates. It wont change any bit if you just put somebody with a megaphone in front - I am sorry to say it, but on a bad night the Emirates' goers get on the team's back quicker than Usain Bolt finishes sprints. You just can not make the majority of these people support Arsenal as passionately as the people do with their respective team in the videos above. Getting to such level of support takes years and years, it does not happen within the snap-of-a-finger. As someone who has been season-ticket holder for years and is passionate supporter of a club (my local club, supporting it since I was 5, way before I knew about Arsenal) where the ultras are mental, I know how hard it is to build on and consistenly reach such level of support among the fans.
The modern game is pricing passionate people away. The casual fans are no longer supporters, they are customers. They dont feel the need to get behind the team.
Few hundred is a laughable number, really. You'll have the rest (including day trippers) moaning - sit down, stop shouting, etc. You will never ever have a proper support out of a sector with people who constantly boo or bash the team. Have a quick look on the ArsenalFanTV, how many of these guys do you think are up to it?I think you'd be surprised. I speak from experience as i've been to the said stadiums from above. There's maybe 200-300 "hardcore" fans standing at the middle who sings their lungs out, and that's enough to make the rest sing as well.
So i genuinly think that a few megaphones and a few hundred dedicated supportes who know Arsenal's chants could do wonders. It spreads.