From that RAWK thread:
It's always good to shake things up. Cup games, where something is at stake, and the normal rules (staying seated) go out the window usually help. Not always like, ya know when we are [poor], and hodgson is the manager and we are getting done by northampton and the like.
The oldies on the kop created marvellous atmospheres towards the latter parts of last season. The same oldies that did the business v Chelsea, juve, olympiacos, Roma and the big league and cup games. Dud atmospheres were the fault of seats, mates not being able to sit together, scals being priced out, over zealous stewards, tannoys telling us to sit down, then, ooters, ooters, wools, and on and on and on.
We are [language] when we are playing [language] against [language] sides. We stop singing and get busy watching the collection of incompetence on the pitch, from refs and linos, to players, to managers to the idiots in the directors box responsible for the players and manager. Then we turn on each other in the aftermath. It's your fault, no it's your fault.
If we were truly consistently [language] dire on the pitch we might be able to turn our backs to it completely and sing like the palace fans.
We tend to get caught up with the action and sing/chant/shout/vent in tune with what's going on. Sometimes good, sometimes awful.
The atmosphere was quite decent at the start (new signings, city and arsenal drawing) but petered out within minutes because we've seen it all before, carbon copy of last seasons performance v villa. [Crap] with us on the back foot, struggling to get to grips with a poor villa side. Did anyone truly believe we'd turn it round? Was there anything on the pitch to indicate we'd get back into the game, create a chance, catch a break? No shots on target. Not much to shout about.
It's a biter pill. 25 years of being nearly, almost, not quite, just a signing or two away from maybe nearly doing something. We get close and our better players run out of patience and [do a Suarez] off. Mcmanaman, Owen, alonso, masc, Torres, suarez and nearly Gerrard twice. We keep players who should be moved on for a decent fee kuyt, Lucas, agger, reina. We've had clueless [idiots] running the show behind the scenes and we've seen our dearest rivals romp to title after title, sugar daddies establishing themselves, with us being able to do [naught] all about it due to sheer incompetence off the pitch.
Give us a stand for the oldies to retire to, give us cheap seats, give us freedom to sit where we want with whom we want, but above all give us a decent [language] team capable of [beating] every team we face. For the love of god, give us something to sing about.
