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| |  Posted 01/10/2006 16:58:14 | |
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| For me, the Kippax was the heart of City. I mean the old terrraced kippax. It was a couldron of noise and intimidating to away teams and fans. I spent many happy years singing my heart out there. When they demolished it to build the all seater kippax it lost that passion. Maine Road for the last few years was not the place it had been. Footballs changed, and not necessarily for the better. I loved standing on terraces and I would sooner do it again than sit in a stand in relative comfort. So for me, COMs now is not that different from Maine Road when we left it.
I do agree that the loss of any focal area in the stadium is part of the problem. The singing is too spread out, doesn't get picked up by everyone around and fizzles out. When the teams doing badly, the old Kippax used to rally them. It's different now. Arsenal and Liverpool will discover this. Liverpool will go out of their way to recreate the Kop and perhaps they will succeed, for a while at least. We didn't do this and we suffer because of it.
Not sure what we can do about it though. I guess the idea of a singing area (naff as it sounds) might really help to build the atmosphere. The singers will ultimately drift close to the away fans. That's how it always works and that's how it's working at the COMs. Give it a few years and we might have built up a concetrated area of vocal support that is able to pick up the noise.
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