ferrarilover wrote:If STFC are that frightened of opposition fans generating an atmosphere, the answer is for the home support to sing so loudly that the away fans don't get a look in.
This really grips my poo (see Louis, no swearing). We all support our own teams, if we all supported the same team, football would cease to exist. We pay damn good money to get into other grounds and we ought to be able to support our team as we wish, within the bounds of decency and law.
Flares, fireworks, massive flags and so many instruments it appears that the BBC Concert Orchestra have rocked up, I can understand. Flares are dangerous, as are fireworks, those massive flags obscure the view for dozens if not hundreds of fans and loads of brass instruments is just over the top (the official England band excepted). All we are asking is that we are allowed to have fun, because that is what football is supposed to be, especially for supporters. I know it is important to us, for some, it is the most important thing in their lives. But it's nothing more than a game, it serves absolutely no purpose other than as an entertainment.*** To ban drums from football grounds is to ban singing, dancing or clapping at music festivals.
If the Chairman is so insistent that away fans are not to support their team, why permit them entry in the first place? Why not just ban travelling support. Or, better yet, play behind closed doors? Perhaps if he had his way, football seasons would be computer simulated, saving any possibility that a visiting team may bring more than 20 fans and actually generate an atmosphere of fun, pleasure and enjoyment.
STFC (the executive, not the fans, although some of those seem equally as determined that football is a sport for Ned Flanders types) need to get a grip of themselves. I'm not sure what they're going to do if they get into the same division as Leeds United or Norwich City or teams of this nature, you try stopping the 10,000 they'll bring along making a noise in your soulless morgue of a ground.
Matt.
*** NO! I won't entertain an argument based in economics, I'm not interested.
Nothing to do with stopping anyone creating an atmosphere. The majority of the noiseiest teams I've heard haven't got a drum, they just get on with making a racket by singing - from the Premier League down to non-league.
The reason why English football is so popular abroad is a lot to do with the support, they love the atmosphere within the grounds because it's different to most countries. It's different because it's pretty spontanious - we don't have orchestrated chanting with drums and megaphones. When you have a person directing the rest of the crowd you take away a lot of the atmosphere in my opinion, in this country at least.
But that is just my personal opinion, in practice I don't care - I'll just sing louder. As I've said before in this thread, I don't think drums should be banned as people should be able to support their team how they want. I just much prefer the atmosphere created without them.
