Yep completely true!!

Ach du plastic fan

@@sharkymeldrew LOL explain plastic fan? i can say when i was a kid the only fotball we could see was from England and thats why i support Liverpool, when i got bigger i go too matches too see the club in my town and support them ofc and support Liverpool. Am i a plastic fan? noway, i shout,cry and jump same on both games i watch on TV. Good vidoe m8s, keep up the work!!! come to Stockholm and see one of our derbys, Djurgården, Hammarby or Solna aik.

@@larsmagnusson8580 u changed ur profile pic lad

European nights are the best,

Well said mate well said

That‘s very disrespectful to the ultra groups of the world. You can praise Anfield without bringing down the best fans worldwide.

@@Fiago I mean no disrespect, it's a difference. They want continual drums and set lists of songs - that's their choice, their culture. Liverpool culture is wit, imagination, improvisation. One of our best known crowd moments was when the crowd were chanting "Attack, attack, attack attack attack" but then a cat wandered onto the pitch. Without pause, the chant changed into "A cat, a cat, a cat a cat a cat". I don't think that would be possible if there was a constant soundtrack. It's a matter of opinion though - you pointed out that even in a huge match, packed with incident, there were moments of near silence; unthinkable for most German games. Pointing it out isn't an attack on Anfield fans, it's showing a difference. Football would be a duller game if every fanbase was the same.

The Ultra groups are a lot better than the premier league by a mile. English fans are a joke and money has took over the game now. We are becoming more like the yanks with it just being a business and 0 passion anymore from the fans. At least the Ultras are going out every match and enjoying the day of it and not just sat there until their team score a goal. That's the difference between ultras and English fans.

@@Fiago it’s not disrespectful at all lol

Will 100% do!

@@Fiago Top guy! Will be awaiting the vlog 👍🏽 Glad you enjoyed the first time experience 👊🏾

Fully agree with what you said, CL night and less tourists, more vocal fans in the crowd. Had some really great CL nights at Anfield and come out of there hardly able to talk.

I went to the inter game last year and the MC this year. I’d argue that second half has been better than most atmospheres ever. It was insane

@@Fiago yer its def the european night .. you see your hair floundering in that vid,,, you wont have any ears left on those nights 🤣😂

Wow amazing man 🔥

Hope Salah regains his form. The team need him.

Same man

I had a young Egyptian girl and her mum sat next to me last season when Mo broke away to score. The young girl was hyper-ventilating as Mo ran in on goal. I thought she would faint in her excitement. Great to see.

@@martinmcnulty8155 40+G/A for club and country this season

Loved it too!

It's dog shit

I saw the Liverpool v Ajax match this season. Had the same thoughts. Quiet at times but when some action happens, oh my god does it get loud. I think Liverpool fans react to situations in the game to help lift the team in that moment. The ajax ultras on the other hand were singing almost all game long regardless of what was happening. Don't know which is better, but I personally love the targeted style of chanting to situations, especially when bantering the opposition

Don’t come mate are locals need the tickets more than use ! Go to your local club man joke 😤

@@Jsambo chill out lad , we’ve got a massive fanbase, i know touts and tourist are killing the atmosphere but that’s the Clubs fault with their nfc and QRs.

Yeah!!

Just ask barca players who played in the 4-0 match

Overrated only sing when u wining mate admit it

@@masonclark9110 You're absolutely right because we were not 3-0 down against Barcelona were we?🙄

@@Fiago U need to be on the pitch to experience that

It changed a lot when stadiums went from standing to sitting but it is still an amazing crowd but mainly on a European night

I think a lot changed after COVID

Completely agree. Visiting fans who turn up and go away saying it’s a library are usually after games that are not a knife edge. As Liverpool are successful, most teams they play you are not in fear of losing and doesn’t mean so much but once there is a lot on the line or there’s a sense of injustice or wrong doing then that’s when you will see anfield come to life.

There are many other factors that have changed the atmosphere over the last 15 years in particular. It is generally an ageing crowd, especially in the Kop. Very few youngsters. The cost of the game and the difficulty getting tickets means that young groups of people cannot regularly stand together and create a regular atmosphere. The Scouse core has dwindled, and the main thing that has been lost at Anfield is the quick, witty retort to away fans because of it. It’s a dispirit crowd now with no ultimate direction. The club could make the atmosphere so much better by creating large sections of affordable season tickets for young local residents to form collectives and come up with new songs and traditions for the rest of the ground to follow, but it doesn’t benefit them financially - so they won’t.

I also dislike the constant drone of European games. Don’t get me started at fans with drums…

In some points you are right. But in my opinion the german way is better. In England, If the game is boring there isnt any noise. In Germany tho the fans support their team regardless of the score or how nice the game is. Also it is not true that germans dont react to a goal.

@@einfachso5185 It's a Spectrum, One direction is reactive, the other is pre active I would suggest that praise inspires players, it's all about that magic balance,

The German games are far superior when it comes to fans and noise. I stopped wasting time, with English games, after attending one.

@@einfachso5185 In Bundesliga most games are boring so the fans need to cheer or die of bordom, lol. In Eastern Europe the fans are crazy loud and on drugs, going crazy all game, but the football there is utter garbage. So yes, I prefer exiting games with less crazy fans.

@@sivaramlord9151 you’ve probably never attended one 😂 and if you did, you no longer watch English football because of 1 match😂 even though there are 92 teams in the pyramid😂 get a grip

Thanks mate!! You‘ll 100% make it eventually 🙌

Why don't you go

@@christhomas5353 because I live in Scotland and from where I am, to get to Liverpool it’s like a 8-9 hour drive. I do have extended Scouse family members there hence why I support Liverpool but we don’t really visit.

🙌

LOL! Did you arrange the tickets then Jurgen 🤣

Thanks bro!

Class!!

Glad you did!!

same at the etihad

real madrid disagree

the atmosphere in the dortmund game was one of the best i've experienced. I remember when it went 2-0 early, the crowd dropped a bit, for a few minutes, then they picke dup back up again, the team reacted, and it was absolutely bouncing from that point on, even when we conceded again. it was an insane atmosphere.

Probably the best summary so far yeah. On the other hand many people say that fans who only support when the team is doing well aren't real fans and I somehow also get that but you need the context here at Anfield...it's just different

@@Fiago Its not just when we are doing well, if for example the team are losing the crowd would pump up the team to an extreme if they are showing signs of fight. On the other hand, if the team is just letting it happen, it can get quiet. The crowd and the team feed of each other.

In the world? I didnt know europe was ''the world'' unbelievable. Go to South America then tell us

@@bullsharkdb Argentine crowds are probably the biggest example of a forced atmosphere. That was my whole entire point, you are not effecting anyone if you are constantly just at the same noise. You’re not reacting to something, you’re essentially having a party while a game a football is being played. I don’t ever want my crowd to be like that, it’s not authentic. It’s manufactured bs, just my opinion.

Hurry up and visit Mold Trafford, it's almost derelict.

@@walkslad not as bad as "good"ison park

Good point

It's the same at City these days ...

Yes but they have been coming for years. You can't just replace them. I think the increased capacity will help

In general they don't, but if they see something truly rare, they sing and shout like they are young again. I remember how hoarse Ian Rush sounded after the Barcelona comeback.

You are right and though I am in my 7th decade of attending games in London,I had never thought about it like that before though when I remember THESE Liverpool fans then they are hard to beat with 28,000 singing and swaying at The Kop End. "Liverpool F C-The Kop Crowd" from 1964. Please tell me what you think.

True!! Thanks for the feedback Darren

@@Fiago Goodison is better

Oh thanks for that info mate wasn't aware!! Will defo do that next time

Fair enough!

@@Fiago Can you really understand that? There are fans who put in hundreds of miles and countless hours to support the team at away games. And then you leave one of the biggest games, which is also on the brink, even though you can casually catch a local bus just an hour later? There are people who dream of being able to see the final minutes of a game like this.

I don't get that myself. Biggest game of the season so far, 1-0 up and you leave early so you can get home quicker...

true but not in this game

@@christiangwenner6384 I remember screaming at the tv when arsenal were beating bodo glimt at the emirates and one of the stands was emptying out quickly when they were like 3-0 up. All the bodo fans stayed until the whistle as well

Im a fan of the ultra culture but the thing that I love about Liverpool fans and chants is that they really feel connected to the players. When they scream "Mo Salah!" It just hits different

Isn’t it a racist club?

@@sharkymeldrew anything but, St.Pauli is literally known to be a Left Wing for the people club

see you tomorrow in freiburg

@@einfachso5185 Ich freue mich auf ein gutes Spiel 🤝🏻

More coming! :D

@@Fiago yay!!

Hey Mark, thanks for your kind feedback!! You‘re right there, it really got to me when they sang the iconic songs. I often really feel the atmosphere and have to cheer for the home team (same in Frankfurt, Dortmund etc) but here it was special. Can imagine with the standing in the 80s it got even crazier tho!! You‘re so lucky to have experienced that 🙌

THESE Liverpool fans then they are hard to beat with 28,000 singing and swaying at The Kop End. "Liverpool F C-The Kop Crowd" from 1964. Please tell me what you think.

No youngsters PLEASE! Iam in my 7th decade of attending(Not Premier team)...lol

@@Isleofskye Which team do you follow? I also used to watch Tranmere Rovers on the Friday night in the old 4th and 3rd division and then Liverpool on the Saturday. Still also support Rovers to this day too.

@@Mark-jagger Absolutely loved Tranmere's ground with that stand overlooking the pitch. I went there in The QQuarter Final replay in 2004 when Millwall won 2/0 , Because of my first visit of the season today,I can now say I am in my 7th decade of attending..

Me too 😊

Thanks Avar!!

Yeah true haha, glad you still enjoyed it even tho it wasn‘t the Clasico!

@@Fiago bro idk if you'll ever see this but please attend Roma vs Lazio............I'm a Roma fan, so please try if you can!

Danke haha. Iconic Paderborn fans 😂🙌

THIS is why I make those videos man. So so glad you enjoyed it ❤️

Hope you realise your dream...you can do it,if you want it enough. I’ve been to Calcutta many times-Suder Street,and absolutely love your city. It would be fantastic to know you made it over...good luck brother!

100% 🙌🙌

Anfield 2005 champions league semi final best atmosphere I’ve ever experienced.

@@adamahmed2449 lucky man

Thanks mate appreciate the feedback 🙌

Same with every team big games atmosphere is obviously going to be better

I wouldn’t say he got lucky when he made the decision to go to this game. He knew this would be the one to go to

@@iJaxy10 then my point still stands, he should go when we play 1 of the so called lesser teams because our atmosphere is shocking

@@paulstephenson2872 but why would you want to go to a game like that as a non Liverpool supporter. Obviously gonna want to get a good game with a good atmosphere

@@iJaxy10 the point of him going was to see if anfield was a so called library then he needs to go when we play a so called smaller team because the atmosphere is shocking

Appreciate it!!

True good point it‘s in fact a small stadium in relation to its icon status. Make that 80k and it might be undefeated as the best in Europe

@@Fiago yes. And 6 years ago it was literally only 45,000 too. Thinking about it, that's way to small for a club on Liverpools size!

@@Fiago There are smaller grounds with better atmosphere (and bigger with worse) in the PL so that blows your theory right out of the water.

No those extra seats will just get filled with tourists. Look at west ham. One of the best fanbases in the country at the boleyn. Now their home support is utter shite

It's seemingly impossible to get tickets for tourists so I wouldn't worry much about that!

Appreciate it Andrew!! 🙌 defo my favorite English club

All Joking aside you are both are both a Massive Credit to Germany. You are natural Media Guys, made for it.Take a Bow you deserve one! I Loved the way you were Amazed the Anfield Stadium was surrounded by Terraces of houses. it was Brilliant. Remember Anfield and Liverpool FC is ALL about the people not Massive Arabian Bank Accounts building Breeze Block Jungles! Liverpool is a peoples Club and always will be. I have been going to Anfield since 1967. I was chosen for Trials at the club when i was a Teenager and was very proud. I remember the Spion Kop where you climbed the steps behind the Kop and you came out right at the Top. Your first view of Anfield! Was a very dramatic one on those days! To stand on the Kop and watch Dalglish and Rush tear up Europe and Man Utd was indeed a great pleasure never forgotten with 20,00 Comedians!!!! But you Guys were Fantastic!! Truly!! Have a good one Guys!! I wish you both well for the future. Cheers Andy.

Means a lot man!!

Nice good to know mate!!

Hands down the best support in English football. 💙💛🤍

indeed

Wanhad

Thanks man!

Thanks for your feedback Joseph 🙌🙌

You‘re probably right there! And I will hopefully go to the Emirates soon 🙏

Except against PSV the emirates went old fashioned and back to what it used to be with away fans making all the noise

Yeah got lucky!

Thanks Charlie!

@@Fiago You’re welcome. Keep up the great work! :)

Thanks Daniel!

Can imagine mate!! South America atmosphere is so beautiful I believe. Hopefully I can experience it soon myself

There is a lot of factors there really. First, the standing Kop went. That was what gave Anfield its reputation back in the day. Back then you could queue up on the day, get a cheap ticket and get straight into the Kop. If you were older or didn´t want to make noise you would sit in others parts of the stadium. The Kop was famous not just for its songs and colour, but also its humour, and the way the entire stand would sway in a way that seems incredibly dangerous today. Nowadays its all-seater stadiums, much harder to get tickets, much more expensive tickets (unaffordable for most to go regularly even if you could get tickets), much harder to sit with your friends, and an increasingly ageing fanbase, and an increasingly middle class fanbase too. To top it all off, you now have a lot of people visiting Anfield purely to "experience" the atmosphere - which obviously makes it even harder to get tickets for younger diehard fans. For these reasons there is whole generations of younger fans that have not developed a culture of frequently going the game, and it is young people who make the most noise. This is the flip-side of the commercialisation of the game - the quality of football is sometimes mind blowing, but many of these older aspects that made for an overall match day experience are lost. The club now uses the reputation of the "Famous Atmosphere" to sell the club to new fans - whilst simulataneously killing the atmosphere with that very same commercialisation. South America has managed to retain its more traditional match-going culture in a way we haven´t in England - although its for that exact same reason of commercialisation and money that South America´s best players now head to England (which I think is sad - the South American leagues used to be famous) That is the first point. The second is that atmospheres in England (and Scotland) are just not the same as elsewhere, and they never have been. It is not like South America with the Barras Bravas or Europe with the Ultras - where there is a constant noise for 90 minutes. English fans have always reacted to the game in front of them. That means there is some games where the atmosphere is dead - even back in the old days of the standing Kop. However, it means when there is a high stakes games where the fans are really needed, they are able to react in a way that affects the game on the pitch, in a way that just isn´t present elsewhere. People really live the game on the pitch. When you have fans screaming for every tackle, every throw in, every decent pass, every bad refereeing decision, it can suddenly become incredibly difficult for the opposition and beneificial to the team. In those games, when the crowd is up, the adrenaline rush is like nothing I have experienced in South American or European footy. And it is those moments that leave opposition players disorientated in a way that constant singing won´t do. It is easier to learn to block out a constant background noise as a player. There may even be some quiet moments in those same games in England, but thats because the atmosphere is organic and not dictated by a drum or a megaphone or by some topless guy who isn´t even watching the game. The Barras Bravas and Ultras are great for the less important games, against smaller opposition. They bring lots of noise, colour and flavour and thats great - especially if you are visiting as a casual fan as I have done in Germany and Chile. But for that exact same reason, they are less impactful in the really important moments of a game. I can find the constant Ultras drone off-putting in the big games, and I have been to games where the noise barely raises for a goal because the Ultras are already mid-song. I do think Argentinian fans have some of the best songs in the world. Would love to visit one of the Buenos Aires clubs. I love German football culture too - that is a League that has not sold out to the highest bidder like in England, and the game still feels more connected to its roots.

@@Fiago yes try to come you will love it!!!

@@Azog150 i totally understand what you say and i like to have this response from a local Liverpool fan because i wrote the comment with the highest respect, for me Anfield is the best stadium in europe, i felt in love of the city and its people i really felt like i was in another country, very diferent than London or Birminham. That been said, i still belive stadiums in Argentinian and Uruguay are far louder ,crazier and give a lot more support to their teams that the European stadiums, and even Brasil fans are louder(where by tha way happend something similar to what happened to the Kop). Anyways is a point of veiw, but come to Argentina, is very diferent than Chile 😅. I do want to ask you something, i got the felling and from what i read that scousers are really strong together, really proud people, and what you mentioned makes perfect sence , i saw that happened in Brasil, so i belive you, thing is how come you mates never try to "rescuit" the Kop,or try to get its old glory back? you think it is going to hapend in the future or is going to get worst?

@@andresssanchezpolanco5622 Glad you really liked Liverpool! As I said I would love to go to Buenos Aires! Very high on my list. I also think you are right that South American stadiums nowadays are louder and crazier then European stadiums - whether or not thye used to be I could not tell you. But basically, regarding Anfield and the Kop, many things have changed. Football has changed, society has changed, and the sport is flooded with too much moeny. The Kop was famous when it was an old standing terrace. It used to fit 32,000 people at its peak. Nowadays, with all seater stadiums (which were introduced after numerous deadly disasters in the 1980s - cheif among them Hillsborough) the whole of Anfield is 54,000, with only 12,00 in the Kop. When it was a standing terrace, you would pay the equivalent of £5 to get in. Now you can easily be paying ten times that. When it was a standing terrace you would just queue up and buy your tickets on the day, even for the very biggest games, and if you didn´t have the money or a ticket or might your luck by hopping over the barriers. Nowadays there is a crazy online ticketing system where you are competing with hundreds of thousands of people around the world for a ticket - and you are very lucky to get hold of one. Because it is seated, you often can´t sit with your friend, even if you can go regularly. The Kop is dominated by season ticket holders who started going to Anfield when it was the old standing Kop, and they have maintained that tradition to thih day (The Kop stopped being a standing terrace in 1994). However those people are now in their 50´s or older. In all the old days they would have moved off to the seating stands at the sides, allowing a new generation of young people into the Kop. Nowadays young people struggle to get tickets. Finally, some people now just see Anfield as an excuse to make money. When there is someone who has come to Anfield as a once-in-a-lifetime trip to "experience the atmosphere" and they are willing to pay £300 for a £50 ticket - some people will sell them it. It is sad that this happens, but money talks. For these reasons it is very hard to reclaim the Kop. Most of the time you can´t afford to get in the stadium, or can´t get tickets. The owners of these clubs are just happy to chase the money, so they won´t do anything about it. I think the only way to start to rescue the atmosphere would be to make the whole of the Kop have tickets that you have to queue up for on the day, first come first serve, for no more then £20. Then you might start to see younger fans going with their mates and sitting or standing together, where they will make noise. The finaly factor is society has changed. Football used to be a much more solidly working class sport. Nowadays, since it became monetised and unaffordable, much more of the match-going fanbase is dominated by middle class people who, generally, make less noise. Furthermore, people nowadays like to be glued to their mobile phones or trying to film the pitch for their instagrams. Society also used to be more violent. Football had a much darker side with hooliganism. If you wanted to sing and make noise you went in the Kop. If you were a hard-core scally and wanted to fight the away fans, you would go in the Anfield Road End - and leave the stadium ten minutes before the end of the game to wait for the away fans outside. Thankfully those days are long gone. But they also added that frenzied and anything-goes edge to an atmosphere. Nowadays, most of the local fans who used to go to the stadium, instead now watch the match in the pub with their friends, where there is quite frankly a better atmosphere a lot of the time!!! Hope that explains the difference between now and then. Those days are never coming back, for better and worse. I do think there is measure we can take to improve the atmosphere - but with English football so money oriented the owners are unlikely to take those decisions. Sadly, for these reasons, the game that started in England has become overcommercialised, overstanised, and lost its core essence, even if the football is better. I imagine in South america they have managed to retain their traditions and essence far better then in England. All that said, we do still get some great atmospheres in England, even if they are less frequent then days gone by.

Yeah got lucky man!! Thanks

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Which game did you watch?

How he get a ticket. They're impossible

Yeah that makes sense of course

Anfield doesn't hold 60,000. I'm been to Candlestick Park quite a few times. Unless it's a big game it's like a fukcing library. And younger fans will never get in. Liverpool only has 25,000 season tickets and only 7000 of those live in Liverpool. Most tickets go to outsiders and tourists. How do you think this guy got a ticket ? My mate has been on the waiting list for 15 years. He was told recently it'll take another 10........and he's from Liverpool.

@@andyd2528 53,000

@@BrandonGiordano 7,000 without tickets . Who would have thought it ?

Are they fake ones ?

@@andyd2528 im confused what youre trying to say. Im just saying that the official capacity of Anfield is 53k. Idk about the ticket situation. If youre talking about how more people FROM Liverpool deserve to be able to get/afford LFC tickets then i agree with you. I hope that this new stand would allow that to be a possibility. Im an American from New York and it's always been my dream to go to an Anfield game but obviously thats not easy since im in the US. Even then, i understand and support the desire for locals to be able to go to games.

I'd say celtic park is better average as the smaller games are better than Anfields smaller games

@@samuelpinder1215 been to Parkhead on many occasions. Big European games and it was incredible but there's something very special about Anfield. Not just the noise but the joy amongst the people in the stadium is special. Complete strangers hugging each other withy joy. I've not witnessed that kind of passion anywhere else.

@@markdoherty8161 I've never really seen proper limbs in the kop tho

Thanks Clarence!

I saw a video at the Kop end when Salah scored and the stand bounced

True

Cheers Jimmy!

I also think what hasn’t helped is the stewards

Velocity? Where’s the physics?

Yeah 100%🙌

Yep

Thanks Patrick!

Probably true

Vastly overrated, not a patch on Newcastle. Liverpool supporters just full of wind and piss 🤫

@@brucedunn6845 The only one full of wind and piss is you mate. It's past your bedtime. Night, night🤣🤣