I was listening to the game on talksport last night and they were talking about the lights changing before the match started. I've been wondering whether we'd be using them in the buildup since we got the new led ones. Think it could look awesome on the big Champions League nights, all changing to blue when we score or something. Anyone who went last night have any info?

They didn't do anything with them that I saw in regards to spectrum. Can't say I'd welcome the razzmatazz .

However, one of the neat things with LED is they come on right away, rather than the warm up period halides have. So, before the players came out some of the lights were off and they just switched them on. Perhaps that is what they meant?

Thought it was kind of cool actually...all the lights went out, great video montage came on the screens and pumped up music...it reminded me a bit of what my NBA team the bulls do...for night games this works...definitely think we should keep doing it...

Giles Smith's take on it

 

"How was the new light-show for you? Just before the players emerged from the tunnel last night, the floodlights were dipped, the hoardings around the pitch glowed bright blue and a heart-beat came pumping through the PA system. All courtesy of those new LED light bulbs of ours, which can be flicked on and off, unlike the old ones, which were powered by a complex system of hamsters on treadmills and therefore took a little while to warm up.

Maybe you had to be there. The thing is, if I had seen the plan written down on a piece of paper beforehand, I would probably have thought it was a terrible idea and turned my nose up against it as high as my nose would go. Artificial atmosphere in the stadium? Surely that’s a close relative of piping in music after goals, which would have to sit extremely high on the list of the very worst ideas that anyone ever had in the vicinity of a football ground.

As it happened, though, I thought it was brilliant - an enhancer rather than a detractor, a complement to the atmosphere that was already there, and probably quite a kick for the players, who got to walk out into these theatrical pools of light with the rest of the ground in darkness.

Shades, in fact, of the eerie aftermath of our 2005 Carling Cup victory in Cardiff, where the lights were dimmed for the trophy presentation and which I can still become quite shuddery thinking about even now.

So I’m all in favour of this new night-game curtain-raiser. It’s probably against Champions League rules, so I don’t know when we’ll see it again. But I’m already looking forward to it.

No music when we score, though. We must never let that happen. It’s up to all of us to unite against the notion if anyone so much as mentions it."

 

Wish I'd seen it.

Edited December 4, 201411 yr by Beerqueen

Completely forgot about that until I saw this thread, but I thought it was really cool. I was just making my way to my seat as it all went dark and like someone else said, it was a bit like what they do at NBA games.

 

I'd have probably sneered at the idea but it was really effective.

Would be cool to see it, maybe a home Saturday evening game over winter will be a good time for it.....ermmm maybe for this?

Chelsea v Man City

Sat 31 Jan

17:30

Edited December 5, 201411 yr by Zola

I think it would be great to make the pitch all blue while the players walk on to the pitch. I dont think it will happen though.

Would be cool to see it, maybe a home Saturday evening game over winter will be a good time for it.....ermmm maybe for this?

Chelsea v Man City

Sat 31 Jan

17:30

Love it!  And I think I've got my ticket in the bag already, so doubly love it!

Dont suppose anyone got a video or something of it?

Love it! And I think I've got my ticket in the bag already, so doubly love it!

If ever there was a time to do it, its for this game! If done right it could have the sort of impact that an All Blacks Haka has.

It would get the fans pumped up and the tone set!

Edited December 5, 201411 yr by Zola

XFactor - are you back on the sofa tomorrow?

XFactor - are you back on the sofa tomorrow?

 

Sadly no. Our season is in full swing and I have games every Saturday and Wednesday so Im quite buys with my own team. Might make it a few times during the Christmas break

That's made me nervous!

Dont suppose anyone got a video or something of it?

I took a photo of it when the lights were all dimmed but my camera(phone) sucks, sorry.

 

But it was awesome. Completely unexpected which I think added to it. Just hearing about it probably makes it seem completely unnecessary and a bit stupid, but everyone around me (and myself) seemed to like it :D Very dramatic.

I think what is does quite effectively is in a weird way, give a sense that the action is starting thus ramping up the atmosphere . On an evening game like wednesday, the crowd are quite late getting in , and all of a sudden it can seem like the players are on the pitch. The light change switches the crowd on, although I would prefer it without the heartbeats 

I thought it was excellent , really enjoyed it . Certainly got the crowd pumped up !!

 

.........so the next question is what Song should the team walk out to match it ??

The Liquidator

Nah not deep and dark enough ...........that is for before the lights go down

The old Russian song we use to come out to.

I suspect what happened the other night was different to what's going on here, but this is the only video I could find on the net.

 

 

If someone with the know how can embed that, I'd be most grateful.

Scrap that, I did it! Go me! Yay, woo.

 

Ignore me. 

Thought it was kind of cool actually...all the lights went out, great video montage came on the screens and pumped up music...it reminded me a bit of what my NBA team the bulls do...for night games this works...definitely think we should keep doing it...

 To this day, every time I hear the song "Sirius Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parson's Project, I say the 1997-98 starting lineup to the intro.

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!

So much potential with those

Watch all the other clubs copy us now

So much potential with those

Watch all the other clubs copy us now

Most clubs have them I thought