There are loads of annoying things at football matches, but the most annoying (and small time) is battling relegation season after season.
Towards the end of last season we had balloons, streamers, new banners, 'themes' every week, and a drum.....and we created enough 'artificial atmosphere to drag ourselves out of the relegation zone & into a cup final.
No-one would like a naturally generated atmosphere from the fans more than me, that's why I have campaigned for safe standing, because the terraces used to flow with it, but we don't have that now. All seater stadiums just don't do what football used to do, and our actual football hasn't been that great either.
If I have to choose between no atmosphere and 'artificial atmosphere', I will probably choose the latter every time. Anyone who has been at the early rounds of the cup, when Brigada are the only thing happening, will have seen the faces of little kids who think they are brilliant, and who are being given a reason to want to come again when there is sod all else going on.
I'd rather we didn't need a drum, or even Brigada much as I love them, but we do.