Yes and Wolves just scraped 4k with Villa in the top division just 15k.Incredible numbers. Burnley averaging 3 and a half thousand.
Stockport. Crowd was just under 9k but rumours was it was over 13kJosh, overall you're probably right, but this particular table was before he took over.
Towards the end of the promotion season we started to pull some big crowds. We had, I think, three home games where the gate was either side of 9k - Chesterfield for certain, and I think Hereford? Can't remember the other one, unless it was the final day with Torquay,
AccJosh, overall you're probably right, but this particular table was before he took over.
Towards the end of the promotion season we started to pull some big crowds. We had, I think, three home games where the gate was either side of 9k - Chesterfield for certain, and I think Hereford? Can't remember the other one, unless it was the final day with Torquay,
According to Blackpool The Complete Record....Josh, overall you're probably right, but this particular table was before he took over.
Towards the end of the promotion season we started to pull some big crowds. We had, I think, three home games where the gate was either side of 9k - Chesterfield for certain, and I think Hereford? Can't remember the other one, unless it was the final day with Torquay
Fictional, why?If you showed that a knobber they would think it was fictional
Higher figures than those up the road who were in League One, Division 3, or whatever you call it.Acc
According to Blackpool The Complete Record....
Chesterfield att 7,144
Crewe Alex att 6,653
Hereford Utd att 8,585
Torquay Utd att 7,021
Wrexham att 6,093
We finished 84/85 comfortably the best supported team in Div.4
Without the invention of the play offs the last quarter of the season was a dead rubber for a lot of teams.In those days unless Liverpool were playing a top side they were down to 27,000 and that was as the best team
You could just turn up at any of these games POTG
Ours had gone up a lot as we'd just been promoted
In 1982/83 we dipped under 2000 on a number of occasions and circa 3000 was average for many years with anything over 4000 being viewed as a bumper crowd
I can remember American football being talked about as possibly overtaking real football in popularity in this country at one point in the mid-eighties...Those of us who were around remember football being regarded and portrayed in the media as a pariah sport.
Correct, we used to play American Football in the playground at school, anyone remember the Fylde Falcons who had a short spell playing at Bloomfield Road?.I can remember American football being talked about as possibly overtaking real football in popularity in this country at one point in the mid-eighties..
Exactly.These were cash at the turnstiles days.
Season ticket holders were in the minority back then.
So it was a lot easier to fiddle the crowd figures.