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Joined a group mainly about old lost grounds on fb, a guy always posts scores/ attendances in every league from random times over the last 30 years or so. Quite surprised to see how low some are compared to nowadays…..
Birmingham forest less than 13000, Everton 17000, Sunderland Man City 15000, spurs 23,000, Chelsea v Blackburn less than 7000 in what’s now the championship……
Saturday February 26th 1983
Division 1
BIRMINGHAM CITY v FOREST
12,987
BRIGHTON & HA v STOKE
14,937
EVERTON V SWANSEA
17,112
Ipswich v Luton Town
18,615
MANCHESTER UNITED V LIVERPOOL
57,397
NOTTS COUNTY v COVENTRY CITY.
8,689
SUNDERLAND v MANCHESTER CITY
15,144
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v ASTON VILLA
23,342
WEST BROMWICH ALBION v ARSENAL
13923
WATFORD V VILLA
19238
WEST HAM UNITED v SOUTHAMPTON
19626
Championship / div 2
BARNSLEY V ROTHERHAM UNITED
13,941
BOLTON V MIDDLESBROUGH
5,598
BURNLEY v CHARLTON ATHLETIC
7,022
CARLISLE UNITED v LEEDS UNITED
6,419
CHELSEA v BLACKBURN ROVERS
6,982
DERBY COUNTY v GRIMSBY TOWN
12,775
FULHAM v NEWCASTLE UNITED
14,277
LEICESTER V WOLVES
13,530
OLDHAM ATHLETIC v CRYSTAL PALACE
9,780
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. V CAMBRIDGE UNITED
12,815
SHREWSBURY TOWN v QUEENS PARK RANGERS
4,397
Hooliganism was a major issue , I think nearly every away game I went to resulted in something happening.
3,000 - 5,000 in NP was like a ghost ground some week nights. The nearest person on the Bob bank could be 50 yds away
We were on the Bob Bank, last seats in the corner, Grangetown End. One game against Rochdale, I think, there wasn’t a soul in front of us all the way down to the terracing fence. The ball was hoofed clear by a City defender all the way up to us. I picked it up and punted it, one bounce on the terrace, over the fence and the Rochdale, again I’m sure it was them, player caught it with a ‘Cheers mate’ to me as if it was over Pontcanna or The RacecourseOriginally Posted by Des Parrot
Sure, didn’t know clubs like spurs and arsenal got around 20/25,000 most of the time….saw some figures from fa cup games and all attendances were a lot bigger than league games. I guess it was a big deal back then….
Which made the goal celebration hugs all the more memorable, with the slow motion run-up and the soft music playing over the tannoy.
Sometimes it felt like a big crowd if you couldn't get your own barrier to lean on.
On a side note, I think it was quite a common thing to do, me and four others had to duck into a book shop store room in Newport around 1988 just to lie low until the next train to Paddington after an incident on the train resulting in us all having to jump off a moving train at Newport station…..it was a very long arduous day to say the least.
Notts County in the top flight.
One of my first games down the City was against Nots County.Notts County in the top flight.
I was in awe of John Chedozie
https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...h-1985-121555/
Oxford, Stockport, tranmere, Grimsby and bury appear to be in the 2nd tier most of the time too….mostly non league last few years aren’t they?Notts County in the top flight.
Awestruck you may have been but Cheidozie was 8 months into his Spurs career when we were thrashed that Sunday.
Attendance 3631
It got worse , far worse
The smallest crowd I watched CCFC at home in a league game was 1800 v Wrexham
Christ it's almost unbelievable to imagine a football match going on with so few people in the ground
Football has definitely come a long way and mostly for the better.
The question I suppose is whether it's gone too far 'the other way'?
I remember it well!
I've watched a few games under 2000. No league games though. I wasn't around in the '90s. Mid '80s was the low point for me. Alan Durban. Grim. The Bob bank had no seats and it was ****ing huge. You'd see little pockets of mates scattered around. You could easily stand 20-30 yards away from each other.
Late 80s, early 90s(?), Friday night game. We had a session on Hurlimanns and in fairness due to age and drinking prowess shouldn't have strayed from the usual Hemeling or Hofmeister.
Mate of mine was able to get into the ground and have a decent sleep on the Bob Bank without a soul disturbing him.
Hurlimanns could send a horse to sleep mind.
I remember a crowd attendance of 6000 v Bolton seeing people get excited and suggesting the crowds are back.
I remember one night match late 80’s or early 90’s it got really foggy towards the end of the game, from the back of the BB for a while we couldn’t see anyone else or the pitch….reckon it would have been called off but there was only 10/15 mins left.
I hijacked an Aberavon ladies supporters club shopping trip to London in 1982 and me and my mate went to watch Chelsea Burnley in the old 2nd Division. Crowd was under 7,000. 6,800 as I recall
In the eighties, you could park in one of the office/factory car parks across the road from the ground at five to three and be on the Bob Bank just in time to see the kick off - I think I’m right in saying that the Buchanan goal against the jacks game was the last one at Ninian Park of the seventies, there was20,000 plus there for that hame, but I can’t remember City getting a crowd that big through the eighties.
I remember (?) a match v Mansfield where no one could see the pitch on a Friday night.
My thoughts could be influenced by the Hurlimanns mind?
Some 1980 FA cup attendances…..always seem to be a lot bigger than league. Everton, arsenal, Villa and Liverpool over 40,000 and spurs almost 50,000 v Birmingham, almost twice their league crowds. How times have changed with the PL.
BLACKBURN ROVERS.............. 1 (0) ASTON VILLA.................................. 1 (1)
29,468
BOLTON WANDERERS..................... 1 (1) ARSENAL..
23,530
EVERTON v WREXHAM
44,830
IPSWICH TOWN V CHESTER
26,353
LIVERPOOL V BURY......
43,769
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR.................3 (3) BIRMINGHAM CITY ......................... 1 (1)
Gerry Armstrong
Keith Bertschin
49,936
Glenn Hoddle 2-1 penalty
WEST HAM UNITED......................... 2 (0) SWANSEA CITY............................... 0 (0)
Paul Allen
David Cross
30,497
WOLVES v WATFORD.
32,881
Tuesday February 19th 1980
ARSENAL v BOLTON
40614
Wednesday February 20th 1980
ASTON VILLA V BLACKBURN
42,161
That could be the one….reasonable crowd too but no one at all in lower grandstand or grange end so looked like no one was there anyway.
Btw I always remember the four bars selling Hurlimans, a few pints and chaos would ensue, lethal stuff. What happened to it? Was it banned?
Yep it was engulfed by a pea soup cloud
We beat them 3 -2
8500
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