Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
Is this the enormous football club that twice lost around 20% of its crowd after relegation to Division 2 in the 80s/90s? In fact, from 1976 to 1981 crowds halved as Newcastle went from 5th in the top division to bottom half in Div 2.

However their crowds since the early 90s have been phenomenal.
Well as you know crowds before italia 90 were poor

Our crowds in the late eighties and some of the 1990s were sometimes around 2500

Newcastle even with crowds of 18000 absolutely dwarfed us