I have often been disappointed by our home support of the club, and although l admit l’m not the type to chant and sing l do appreciate those that are and do. Sitting in the ‘upper east’ sometimes our silence is deafening and a few hundred away fans outsing us easily. Wednesday night proved that supporters can lift a team, when we went behind we could have been forgiven for ‘sulking in silence’ given our recent form, but the immediate vocal response from the ‘Ponte’ was outstanding, l have no doubt it had the effect of bringing on an extra player and gave the team the vital injection it needed, the outcome is WE won, ‘United we stand’. We’ll done all!
The atmosphere would be so much better, if the people starting the songs sang the song more than twice through. You get a chorus of 'when the reds go marching in' going, and by the time everyone has heard it, began singing, the people who started it stop singing, so it dies down before its barely got going. Its great when there's a shout of 'red army' that continues for a while. I may be misremembering, but I have a memory of a home game vs Birmingham when I was a kid, it was the season we got promoted to the Premier League . I think we went a goal down in the first half, and there was a shout of 'Danny Wilson's red and white army' for what felt like the entire 2nd half. It's something that has always stuck with me, and you never get that anymore.
I am still in the apathy, leaning on stepping out altogether mode so didn't attend. However i caught most of game on red button and the fans seemed to get really behind em from what i could hear eapecially after their goal.
We beat Ipswich 4-1 in 2008, a tuesday night game just before the FA Cup semi final. We went 1-0 down but the Ponty started "Red Army" and it went on for almost the rest of the game, it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
