Does our reactive crowd hold us back?

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the general view that last night was mostly Clarke's thought, but the inevitability of our collapse brought back a thought I've often had watching us play live.

Football culture in the UK is different to many other parts of Europe. Stadium atmospheres follow the rhythm of the game far more than other parts of Europe and we have a great ability to get fired up over the smallest shifts in momentum, strong challenges especially.

The flip side of this is that we're not like some countries who have constant flowing chants and fan atmospheres that sometimes seem entirely disconnected from the play.

The atmosphere never really got going at Hampden last night, even from kick off when we started reasonably brightly. We have been in good form and were taking a lead in but there was a clear nervousness and as soon as they scored the place was near silent the rest of the game.

Surely that affects the players? We're so quick to shift into that tetchy, angry headspace and it feels like a small part of the reason we don't feel like a team that can step up from a poor performance.