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Post by Olgrligm on Dec 17, 2014 16:52:37 GMT
I was thinking about this the other day. Wenger isn't exactly Mr Popular at White Hart Lane or Old Trafford, and Birmingham supporters 'did the Wenger' years before we did, but he has never resorted to making snarky comments about Tottenham supporters or hiding in his dugout all game. In fact, at Old Trafford he quite routinely makes a bit of a spectacle of himself without seeming too concerned about the response of the home supporters. In fact, if Wenger was sent to the stands at Stoke, I imagine he'd get a bit worse than this display of genteel indifference:  You also don't get him saying things like this after a visit to any other ground in the country: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17883439On top of that, you can throw in Man City (we won't mention their manager on that day) crumpling under the hostility after Delap got sent off (indeed, shortly after he was appointed Hughes said something about how he's experienced the atmosphere spilling out of the stands and affecting the opposition before - I wonder what he was talking about!), Tottenham's manager saying he'd never experienced anything like the atmosphere last season, Danny Rose getting so wound up that he had to be substituted, John Terry feeling the need to run up to the away end at Stamford Bridge slapping his captain's armband, Cristiano Ronaldo taking ten minutes out of a game at Old Trafford to gesture at and complain about our supporters and probably a hundred other things that I've forgotten. So are we the most abusive and intimidating lot in the league? |
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Post by Billybigbollox on Dec 17, 2014 16:57:11 GMT
No. And anyone who says so is a fucking mothers cunt who wants a fucking kick in the nads. :-)
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Post by mrpickles on Dec 17, 2014 17:40:11 GMT
Definitely When we feel hard done by (rightly or wrongly) we are a fucking evil bunch of bastards who don't listen to reason and don't give a shit who we offend. The only draw back is, we don't do it every week  |
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Post by 2004 on Dec 17, 2014 17:50:59 GMT
Only against Arsenal
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Post by scfcjoshh on Dec 17, 2014 18:43:20 GMT
There was also this moment.
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Post by enuntio on Dec 17, 2014 19:06:42 GMT
Wenger said "every face in the crowd can be isolated" I'm sure they can Mr R Sole-Vanker. BUT what about the players on the pitch? The swearing and the insults to their fellow pro's. We are a rugby side and we are more disiplined on the pitch than the whinging toe rags that you manage. Start on the pitch. Get players sin binned. Then move to the terraces and maybe mass ejections, see what this does to the beautiful game
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Post by enuntio on Dec 17, 2014 19:10:29 GMT
There was also this moment. This was classic :-) |
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Post by skip on Dec 17, 2014 19:12:06 GMT
God I hate Wenger. The man is a fraud.
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Post by jimigoodwinsbeard on Dec 17, 2014 19:59:56 GMT
The barracking of Danny Rose last season was top-notch. I think once you step over that touchline then you are fair game. As long as it doesnt boil over to running on the pitch a la QPR goalie or racist chants then no issue for me....oh, and if a player gives it back, then fair play as well.
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Post by stokiejoe on Dec 17, 2014 20:08:28 GMT
Hope so, if not we must try harder.
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Post by stokemanusa on Dec 17, 2014 20:08:43 GMT
It's because were probably the least gloryhunting fans around, coupled with the brit and it's predecessor always being known as a tough place to get points. Added with, the fans knowing the game in and out (everyone is into the game) and we call out refs and our players on their shit just as much as theirs. I never get the same sense at a big club side, half the tits are on their twitter accounts during the match.  |
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Post by Ayupshag on Dec 17, 2014 20:14:32 GMT
Ashley Cole was always good for a bit of banter. To be fair to him he did lap it up though
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Post by basingstokie on Dec 17, 2014 20:46:14 GMT
There is always a risk that some players feed on the abuse, but if you get a slightly weaker character then they can become quite intimidated by constant booing and (non racist, homophobic etc) abuse
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Post by lawrieleslie on Dec 17, 2014 21:01:32 GMT
There should be a notice in the visiting team dressing room.....
"Welcome to Britannia Stadium home of Stoke City Football Club and their psycho fans. Be afraid, be very afraid.... you are about to be verbally decimated."
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Post by JoeinOz on Dec 17, 2014 21:04:04 GMT
Back in the yonks ago I found elland Road to be the most intimidating away ground. More than Millwall or WHU.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 21:07:29 GMT
Joe,
West Ham was pretty bad in the 70's too.
GD
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Post by march4 on Dec 17, 2014 21:30:09 GMT
We destroyed Robinho's career in England.
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Post by geoff321 on Dec 17, 2014 21:34:25 GMT
There's not much competition, the Everton ground for instance on Monday was eerily quiet.
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Post by Fenparkpotter on Dec 18, 2014 13:11:49 GMT
Hodgson when he was Fulham manager said something about how the fans at the Brit appeal so loudly for every decision, he'd never heard owt like it..
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Post by metalhead on Dec 18, 2014 13:51:55 GMT
I certainly hope so.
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Post by Roy Cropper on Dec 18, 2014 19:31:03 GMT
My uni mate 'reckons me and my pals have much louder voices than anyone he's heard, perhaps we're all just talking to each other.
Seriously though, I've never heard anything like that Man City game when Delap got sent off. Give me that sheer noise over any of that orchestrated European shit any day of the week. And the cheer to lift the players around the 80 minute mark was spine tingling.
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Post by robboleek on Dec 18, 2014 19:51:03 GMT
There should be a notice in the visiting team dressing room..... "Welcome to Britannia Stadium home of Stoke City Football Club and their psycho fans. Be afraid, be very afraid.... you are about to be verbally decimated." The phrase verbally decimated you have to love that haha !! Strong work |
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Post by turtlefox on Dec 18, 2014 20:24:11 GMT
We're like an old man sitting in his front room at the moment. The kids outside keep knocking the ball over the hedge and find a way of getting it back. After about an hour of this behaviour ,the old man loses his rag and comes running out of the house shaking his fist shouting " get down your own end".
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Post by crapslinger on Dec 18, 2014 22:15:05 GMT
There should be a notice in the visiting team dressing room..... "Welcome to Britannia Stadium home of Stoke City Football Club and their psycho fans. Be afraid, be very afraid.... you are about to be verbally decimated." The phrase verbally decimated you have to love that haha !! Strong work
Love it, I used to work with people from all around the country who used to travel to Stoke for training etc, most used to comment on the aggressive nature of the locals, lucky for them they never saw us when we were proper wound up, we are Stoke that is the way we have been moulded over the years.
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Post by elystokie on Dec 19, 2014 10:31:29 GMT
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Post by leicspotter on Dec 19, 2014 16:17:11 GMT
I think footie fans all over will look for a "weakness" in the opposition and try to exploit it...maybe we are just better at it than most!  |
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Post by lancer on Dec 19, 2014 16:25:39 GMT
No. And anyone who says so is a fucking mothers cunt who wants a fucking kick in the nads. :-) And that's putting it mildly.  |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Dec 19, 2014 17:41:23 GMT
There should be a notice in the visiting team dressing room..... "Welcome to Britannia Stadium home of Stoke City Football Club and their psycho fans." Should leave it at this, and have it on an arch over Stanley Matthews Way. |
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Post by bazzaboy666 on Dec 22, 2014 21:22:47 GMT
Tonight is a prime example of how shit the atmosphere is
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