Why is Anfield so quiet?

[@colincampbell5206]

Definitely played their part in the second half against Brighton

[@HallieBear-k6v]

The atmosphere of the European nights is unbeatable

[@matthewcoombs3282]

If you ask yourself why all the atmosphere in Premiership game comes from the away section, you nail it. Regularly attending passionate fans who are seated together.......

[@bruce.KAY-bike-drifter]

You nailed it. Want a good atmosphere? Go to any ground where Toon Army are visiting.

[@LukeGale-r8y]

@@bruce.KAY-bike-drifter To everyone else in the ground, the toon army just bring a bad atmosphere. Ha ha

[@andresiaw7895]

I visited Anfield with the hospitality ticket that cost a fortune. I sang and cheered to my hearts content, just for the other "tourists" staring down at me with a frown in their face like I'm mad. We were seated near the visitor's fan and I can hear them sing louder than anyone else in the stadium. I have to agree with this observation, we need to put a rule that if the tourist do not want to cheer, they should be put right next to the visitor fan so some of us can do our job!

[@davewhittleston2963]

Because it’s full of tourists, and not traditional local fans. Simple’s

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Same happening in a lot of London clubs. Tourists who are in town for a specific weekend will pay serious money to catch a Premiership game on Stubhub or Viagogo while they are visiting. Notice it a lot at Chelsea and Fulham.

[@Doc-q2f]

If you wanted to go to an el classico but they said your not a traditional local fan you'd be fumin Grow up lad

[@davewhittleston2963]

@@Doc-q2f I wouldn’t want to, Laddddd.

[@simoncampbell3144]

It's happened at Manchester United for 20 years now , you go to the match and the so called megastore is full of Asians buying £100 s of pounds of gear , quite ironic I suppose cos I get all my stuff from China

[@donmclean6888]

Then don’t promote your clubs worldwide🤷‍♂️

[@jimsmith-d3l]

the locals are being priced out

[@shanehumphries5741]

100%

[@rasmuz8361]

Poorer.

[@prathmeshmulay1993]

Yes

[@Tommy-v6y]

Season ticket prices were frozen for about 8 years until last season. How is that pricing the locals out? There's even a section of seats that go on sale for people with L postcodes so not sure how you have that view

[@zapre2284]

​@@Tommy-v6yHave you seen Anfield lately ? It's like Islamabad. LFC and the city council crapping on Scousers as per usual

[@JakeTheSnape]

People misrepresent what the Anfield atmosphere is. It has never been a constant cacophony of chorus and clamour. Even in the 70s and 80s, when Liverpool where at their absolute peak, the atmosphere ebbed and flowed. Against smaller teams, the atmosphere is often barely anything above average. What people refer to when they talk about Anfield are those moments and periods in games when it turns into an absolute feral pit of pandemonium. Sometimes, this lasts for a few minutes. Sometimes, it can be for most of the game. But it is never constant, as seems to be the common misunderstanding, but nowhere is. People will come away from Anfield saying that the atmosphere is a myth but it's not, it's wildly misunderstood and misrepresented by fans looking to point score online. The fact remains that Anfield is talked about by some of the greats of the game as a memorable stadium. Those who are lucky enough to have experienced Anfield truly ignite have absolutely no doubt that it can be a special place.

[@RichieBedfellows]

Absolutely nailed it! 👍

[@TJamieson-q5j]

100% gone. Local lads been priced out. The club don't want them.

[@slowerthinker]

I was first taken to Anfield as a little boy by my dad and uncle in the autumn of 1987. Liverpool were top of the league, unbeaten, with [arguably] their greatest team ever and [undoubtedly] their most exciting to watch team ever. The Kop was all standing still. We won the game 4-0. ... Yet the atmosphere was nothing special at all that day. (although atmospheres in all english grounds have definately declined over the decades somewhat) Twas ever thus. Unless the team is just about to win a trophy or playing a handful of sides that are big rivals, it isn't going to be anything spectacular at Anfield. People may point to the 1960s Panorama documentary footage of how great things were in the past. However, that was all filmed on the day Liverpool beat Arsenal 5-0 to clinch the league championship for the first time in decades -hardly a typical Saturday afternoon.

[@CCCoNeTiMe]

This 👆 If Barnes and Beardsley can't get you on your feet then no-one will. Btw, was this the QPR game where Digger got a brace?

[@slowerthinker]

Nope, it was later than the QPR game. That season we racked up 4-0 wins like George Graham's Arsenal did with 1-0s. John Barnes did stand out in this match, although he didn't score he was wearing a pair of tights underneath his shorts. The main notoriety around this game was that the opposition team had a Brazilian playing for them.

[@wzev628]

@@slowerthinker I heard an interview with Alan Hansen post retirement complaining about how jaded and spoilt the fans had become as a result of them growing so used to success. If Liverpool only won 1-0, he said he could hear fans moaning as they exited the pitch through the tunnel saying ''Is that all you got for us, lads?'' I also remember watching the highlight show and noticing how quiet Anfield often was compared to the previous game if Liverpool were playing a lowly team like Wimbledon or Coventry.

[@CCCoNeTiMe]

@@slowerthinker Mirandinha?

[@slowerthinker]

@@CCCoNeTiMe Thats a bingo!

[@Unfavoeablemachine]

Corporate and hospitality

[@bruce.KAY-bike-drifter]

I'm a lifelong Newcastle United supporter. When I lived in the UK, I always had a season ticket at St James' Park. I also travelled to most grounds in England as an avid away fan. In those years, early 2000s, I also travelled to Anfield to accompany my son who is a lifelong Liverpool supporter. In my humble opinion, Anfield has the BEST atmosphere of any ground I have ever been to. The singing, the chants, the craic, and the Kop are beyond compare. That said, if you are looking for the supporters to be the "twelfth man', truly lifting the team to better performances, Toon Army are the BEST.

[@PetzM12]

costs too much to go - simple. Younger fans make the most noise but they can't afford it - premier league footy is a middle class past time these days

[@andrewswift2856]

Same at Old Trafford,apart from one little corner in Stretford End,there was very little noise apart from when goals went in

[@walkslad]

I was there on Sunday against City and it was a fantastic atmosphere.

[@willh5901]

there are specific ticket requirements you need to go to the bigger games. 4+ home games from season before for the big six + everton + last game of the season. Rest of the games dont have these requirements so the atmosphere is much worse. The harder it is to get tickets, the better the atmosphere

[@douglastaggart9360]

Because its full off outsiders only 30% are from merseyside 30 years ago it was more like 70% local fans

[@simonlewis720]

This isn’t true most of the kop are locals and the atmosphere on there has been abysmal,the best stand for atmosphere is the new anfield road stand which is packed with tourists especially Irish and they are magnificent,I am a local and I think the problem are the local people they only create a big atmosphere when we play a big team

[@theredmen1093]

Because this Sunday they are playing at The Emirates. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@playlist9980]

I remember going to the ground alone with my mates at 11 or 12. Totally unthinkable now. It's a totally different world.

[@brianconnolly8769]

Too many non passionate supporters. When not in the KOP. When singing or cheering. Most people give funny looks and sit in silence. If you arent gonna support the team. Watch at home.

[@nilskanter2892]

But you can generally project it onto the Premiere League. This is not just an Anfield or Liverpool phenomenon! And not just since yesterday! Sometimes I think it's intentional. Everyone sits in their place, claps and applauds very nicely. But please don't jump up, stay seated! Okay, raise your arms, but only if a goal has been scored!🤷‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ At the end of the day, that's (among other things) the price for this whole "system"! Money, money, more and more money, marketing everything to the last corner of the world. Billionaire club owners come and go (they aren't there out of charity for the club either!), transfer fees and salaries rise astronomically with no end in sight. The normal football fan, who has perhaps been to the stadium every home game for 40 or 50 years, is suddenly seen as just a normal "consumer", like in a supermarket, etc.! If there's one thing I'm proud of here in Germany, of just one thing, it's that we, the fans, ultras, club members, etc., against all odds, still have that little bit of something (which is what football actually is) of a fan -Culture, fan and spectator-friendly ticket prices, an incredible atmosphere in the stadiums from the 1st to the 3rd league, which you can certainly only dream of! And despite all this, the Bundesliga is not even far away in international comparison! But I don't want to judge it at all, I just want to explain it! You wanted it this way, we wanted it different! Everyone has to know for themselves...

[@andrewshackleton6635]

The fans of most clubs did not want it this way. Sadly it has become Americanized ,you are very lucky in Germany the authorities have created the space for Fans to act like proper Fans not consumers.

[@MrMonne84]

Its more to do with the difference in the style of play from Klopps full throttle style to now Slots more reserved style.

[@perspellman]

There are probably several factors, as already described i comments, but non locals and others than hard core supporters need to know the chants and where to find them.

[@ynwa73]

Great atmosphere at anfield...sky just quiet the noise down ...big difference when watching match on lfctv..you can hear all the songs

[@VaeVictis96]

I've been to Anfield myself and it was pretty quiet after they sang their shite song

[@gustavbrinkel5489]

@@VaeVictis96 Keep it classy!

[@dangermouse6687]

​@VaeVictis96 jealous much???😅

[@VaeVictis96]

@@dangermouse6687 Jealous of what? 🤣😂

[@VaeVictis96]

@@gustavbrinkel5489 I'm keeping it truthful

[@MisterMauer]

It’s the same at Old Trafford, Emirates, Etihad. The atmosphere at big premier league clubs is atrocious! Has been for years. The crowds have been separated and the regulars who sing together are no longer sat in big numbers, they’re spread out and sat next to families. It’s a family sport now and let’s face it, it’s really rather boring going to the match nowadays.

[@craigjonsmith]

High ticket prices are unfortunately forcing the working class out, like everything else in life. When there is a demand, they can do what they like.

[@utopia3161]

The kop is not the kop of old. The kop was famous world wide, not now, the ground is a mess, 4 diferent stands, this is why their is no atmosphere, should have done what everton has done, build a new SPECTACULAR stadium

[@toolfankrk]

British stadiums need something like in erope. A "Nest" it is a place where one person with a megphone leads a whole support for a team.

[@frankward8336]

Stuff that nonsense

[@thetiredtomcat]

It’s definitely much noisier in places like Turkey or Germany. Less restrained

[@thelfcman168]

People think the club have prices local fans out the ground. In fact it is local touts that get the tickets for face value and then sell them on to out of town fans for £200+. It’s these greedy touts that are destroying the atmosphere

[@grahamwood9428]

Its not just Anfield. Obscene prices, so many season ticket holders now, many of which I bought by companies not individuals exclude the thousands of locals who used to go. High attendances like most premier grounds now but who is actually going.? Exactly the same at Spurs and other places.

[@frankward8336]

Hospitality. £400- £1000 per seat. Why sell to a local for £50? Kids never get to see their team.

[@alishour5519]

I said it before it use to be compact now is all in the air

[@AlexKnowles-m4i]

When did you say it before?

[@alishour5519]

@@AlexKnowles-m4i I know anfield 42 thousandbis louder than 61 k

[@alishour5519]

@@AlexKnowles-m4i I would love it if you tell.me im wrong

[@AlexKnowles-m4i]

@@alishour5519 I just don’t believe you have said it before

[@alishour5519]

@@AlexKnowles-m4i you meantime not correct

[@Carvello20]

the reason its so quiet is because we're trying to concentrate on winning the league

[@wzev628]

It's the same bs expectation that smaller teams' supporters have when visiting Anfield Watch some old games from the 80s and early 90s when there were 20 000 jam packed together on a standing Kop and the ground was still quiet. It is simple, when Anfield is rocking no ground can boast a better atmosphere. Watch a Liverpool v Man U/ Man City/ Arsenal at Anfield back to back with the corresponding fixture at the opposition's ground and compare the two atmospheres.

[@rotheryberlin7772]

Anfield is for Prem not bad, the worstest atmosphere of the big clubs is Arsenal since leaving Highbury.

[@christopherstillwell8662]

As materialism, exploitation, ego , and pomp creeps slowly slowly slowly into football, then the SPIRIT of football getting squashed , or covered over / hidden . A good analogy is perhaps, a party where everyone is invited , free of charge , and the whole set up is PURELY for the people's good time , versus, a party, charged with high prices, that is mainly about, ego , competition, and basically tge superficial. The people focused party, is likely to be way more ALIVE, than the materialisticley motivated party, thats had the life a soul sucked out of it . I think there is a parallel between the party analogy, and modern day football personally.

[@sm112]

This is a problem for many football grounds - locals are priced out. The current generation also have to work more than before to pay for a shit living standard. Therefore less time for football.

[@ianng4633]

Yea I agree that it's a disgrace that locals are being priced out and I think there is a need for a discount of you have a mailing post code that starts with an "L". However, I am not having the argument that because the match goers are getting older they are quieter, I mean, for god's sake, how old do you need to be to be too old to chant? 85? Are they really that old?

[@Damianjames4ever]

A lot of the locals are really old and or women and they just sit down moaning if anyone gets up and sings and shouts. trust me there's more than enough locals there, they ain't doing their job.

[@playlist9980]

Being loud has always been a young lads' game. Like the video says, lads can't afford to go anymore.

[@finndebrodelegh218]

Not much wrong Tuesday evening against Leverkeusen. The crowd demanded a goal 2nd half, and the team responded with 4 - and you could feel it coming !

[@jamesli9380]

You have your tv volume on very low..?

[@eivindtveiten2882]

Because when you stand up to cheer and sing stewards tell you to sit down and behave.

[@andrewburton9643]

Wow, should be why is old Trafford so quiet, never known a stadium with no atmosphere.

[@notjerma1ne]

we have an atmosphere lad, after the rags sing 'ynwa' youse are quiet

[@martussfrank3903]

This aged well.

[@EnlightenedTurtle]

It ebs and flows depending on the intensity of the occasion.

[@t.k.1319]

Speaking just for American tourists: we would HAPPILY sing out heads off, if there were a Jumbotron leading us. Americans, especially, are used to being told when to be loud, what to chant, and when to be quiet. We are used to literal cheer leaders. Folks are worried about being embarrassed if they try to start a song and nobody joins along. If the screens just said “make noise,” you’d see more from the tourists.

[@omenbeats2315]

shut the fuck up lmao we're not americans, no one is going to add giant jumbotron to a football game to get the fans cheering. you and your hot dogs can screw off

Singing "where's your famous atmosphere" whilst the ground is not even half full before kick off. Must be doing something right just been voted the best atmosphere in the Premier league

[@riyadaleme8557]

You just get the answer in Brighton game🔥

[@joedavis7996]

Depends on flights fro. Norway

[@MattMajcan]

just so you know, the title of this video made me click your channel and click "do not recommend again" so good luck

[@thelfcman168]

It’s not quiet. Big games it’s the loudest in the premier league easy. Every player and manager know it.

[@StiofanMacSiomoin1798]

Sure they can always play crowd noises over the speakers like they done in the past.

[@bob6693]

I'm not a regular at live games and more of an armchair supporter but it seems across the country uk fans are way quieter than fans from abroad where its jon stop singing and chanting.

[@neave789]

Premier league and basically championship league is so controlled that any noise or chanting is stamped on you sit and before a game starts are encouraged to create the walk out pre kick off vocal support thee after sit down shut up .I gave my season ticket up after 30 plus years for my club because I was sick of this

[@jmw-qt2ih]

Like all other premier league clubs Liverpool has got too many prawn sandwich fans who totally lack the passion of a genuine football fan. My own club Newcastle suffers from the same issue, at its best it is a match for any stadium in the UK but that is only on an odd occasion where it used to be almost every match

[@blanka8188]

Wasn't too bad in the second half today, get in Reds top of the league 👊🏻

[@Doc-q2f]

Coz we are always on Sundays

[@zapre2284]

Tourism FC. Just like the city itself....locals have been pushed out.

[@wendalboy]

Speakers are good though

[@mikehughes9836]

Great supporters when things are going right, hateful when it isn't

[@Raptor-22]

Hateful? Give your head a wobble. Weirdo.

[@fromthefountofyouth]

Think you've described Everton fans there.

[@paullittle9757]

Oh you mean when they were 3-0 down in Istanbul and singing YNWA at half time and the players thought my god what inspiration!

[@ams1897]

No offense to the creator of the video, but the premise is stupid. Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth were always going to be quiet games and would have been in the past too. As was mentioned elsewhere, the team needed the crowd against Brighton and they delivered (on and off the pitch). Atmospheres across Britain are shit these days (yes, even Celtic and Rangers); the real difference isn`t that you get quiet games, it`s that the loud games are less loud and less frequent. No way this will change though a number of changes that the authorities will never santcion.

[@williammatthews6386]

Price of tickets on line rip off real people can't afford it

[@daviddelaval6630]

People have to sit 90mns. Ambiance is so different with standing people

[@affectionatepunch]

Safe standing at Anfield

[@donmclean6888]

No one forces you to sit, just stand up… Celtic park is a seated stadium and has a legendary atmosphere renowned throughout Europe

[@steveconstable9498]

It's a tourist club😂

[@aidygooner]

People blaming tourists or foreigners when English fans have always been a reactionary bunch who mainly sing when they're winning and are too relaxed unless it's a big game. 😂

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Not true. It is all seater stadiums, where the ultra fans are now split up, older fans due to eye watering ticket prices and occasional visitors. Not gonna hate on foreign fans of English teams, they are also passionate fans. It is changes within English football. Now in any Premiership game it is the away fans who create the atmosphere. As passionate fans are grouped together and create noise and atmosphere.

[@mmafiemc]

The British Pound buys you half as much as it did in 2020 . If your nan had a 30 k retirement that means she can buy 15k worth of stuff now after the government taxed her to lift it The premier league is a league run on debt . Just like the UK . The fans that go to football now are in less debt and able to commit funds for a ticket . Even if you go life is pretty miserable right now too So people are less likely to scream and shout when their favourite pubs gone bust their land lord wants an extra 100 a month and yer nan can't afford to keep her gaff warm. While we pretend we are a G7 economy.

[@AidanAdam97]

Check again after the Brighton match 😂

[@supremeschemes1460]

LOOL are you nuts?! Anfield is 100% not getting quieter 😂 it gets louder every year! Theres no place like Anfield, been to many places arcoss uk and abroad and theres no place like Anfield 😅

[@VaeVictis96]

Anfield is like a library after they sing their shitty song 😂

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

It has been much quieter this season, besides the last 2 games, but ONLY after we scored.

[@kevintutchener3394]

Anfield quiet? Lol. The things jealous haters look for to try and put us down. It's hilarious. At Old Trafford it's so quiet you can hear the roof dropping...at Arsenal you can hear Arteta whinging..at City you can hear Grealish reading a book on the Bench...and at Chelsea you can gear the agents laughing all the way to the bank. To be fair to Everton you can hear then booing their team.

[@douglastaggart9360]

You only sing at the start and when you score and thats it.

[@thisisanfield7085]

Yh it’s very quiet… click bait crap… have you heard it lately? Ask the Brighton and leverkusen managers if it’s quiet!

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

I am a season ticket holder it has been deathly quiet this season. The last 2 games were the same until we scored.

[@thisisanfield7085]

@ can’t argue with that. However, I was there on Tuesday. It was just as loud as my previous experiences. Admitted in the second half.

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

@@thisisanfield7085 The other games it's been dead. Trent fighting with a Brighton player got the crowd going 2nd half but Leverkusen was very quiet first half as we were poor. Even the stewards are saying it's much quieter. The team bus greeting was the quietest I've ever seen before a CL game as well. Real Madrid and MC will or should be loud all game though but I think the fact we're starting slowly hasn't helped.

[@purpleskittle94]

The atmosphere in England is miles behind the rest of Europe

[@Beepbeepbeepbe]

Nope. Only in the premier league due to how worldwide popular it is. The championship and lower divisions atmosphere is great.

[@theferret390]

Same as Sid James Park vastly overrated.Fact.

[@rayforisa88]

The solution? Kick FSG out and invite arabian investor so the club wont be bothered with ticket price, thus young local fans can enter..

[@NeilMalthus]

Don't be moronic

[@justthetruth1]

AI shite. Nothing quiet about it.

[@simoncampbell3144]

Anfield always means Everton to me😂😂😂😂😂

[@lisacook6064]

Anfield isn’t quiet what are u on

[@bobpartridge472]

It's noisy for the anthem and briefly after goals are scored apart from that, silence

[@fffaaaddd78]

@@bobpartridge472seems like it this season, although I haven’t been to a game this season yet. Last season when we went, the atmosphere was stunning. I went to the Brighton game in March, amazing. We went down 1-0 in the first minute, but the singing and the support was so strong, we never stopped singing, and chanting “Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool”. Even when I went to the Forest game at Anfield, we never stopped singing even though it was a very comfortable game from the start, and not a very fierce one. Those games were last season. Will try to go to the city game this season at Anfield and see how it goes.

[@VaeVictis96]

I mean it is quiet though

[@devanman7920]

The club is becoming like Manchester united.

[@johnprosser5035]

It's not....

[@robbiekop7]

Against Chelsea it was buzzing

[@bigbaddwolff]

This is AI bs. They've been saying this shite for years.

[@VaeVictis96]

I've been to Anfield. The atmosphere is a myth, once they sing their crap song with the speakers turned on its silent, until they score a goal. I've been to St. james Park way better than Anfield

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

It has been quiet this season but we have more songs than anyone. Once we score that's when they get rolled out.

[@alanmansell9845]

FSG OUT

[@Evemeister12]

Gillette back in

[@robbiekop7]

The Best A Man Can Get 😀

[@shakirghazali2890]

Saudi in

[@devanwhitston7966]

@alanmansell9845 Gobshite!

[@peterhigham8034]

Youve never been to anfeild if u think this is true 🤦‍♂️👍

[@douglastaggart9360]

You only sing at the start and when you score

[@peterhigham8034]

@@douglastaggart9360 I'll repeat it just so it sinks in, you've never been to anfield if you think that's true 🤦‍♂️👍

[@zapre2284]

​@@peterhigham8034the crowd is a bunch of tourists, and the whole of the Anfield now looks like Mumbai or Lagos. So so there's hardly even Scousers in the area anymore.