Almost unnoticed, the noise levels are going up at the London Stadium. It's not the Boleyn and the athletics track is still a big problem, but the crowd is getting louder. Watching Match of the Day there's a huge chorus of Bubbles going round the stadium as Chicharito finds Anderson who curls it into the top corner.
It certainly helps that the crowd is behind a manager who plays attacking football and that a new talisman has arrived in Anderson. There was a massive roar after Fabianski saved a penalty against Cardiff and even when Man City hammered WHU 4-0 the crowd were still noisy and behind the team. The rhythmic clapping and stamping also has quite a primeval effect and must intimidate the opposition. It's one way round the vastness of the LS bowl.
In our third season the fans are starting to accept it's too late to go back to Upton Park. "Is this the Emirates?" asked the Palace fans. No, it isn't anymore. The London Stadium is now full of "oles" (never advisable with our defence though) and it's starting to almost have a feelgood factor. All this, and we might even get our claret carpet in the January sales at Westfield.
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