Attendances 1985/86
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Cleveleys boy
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Crazy!!! All seater stadiums have obviously helped attendances and made it more family friendly nowadays
hampshire_exile
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Those of us who were around remember football being regarded and portrayed in the media as a pariah sport.
Macseasider
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Incredible numbers. Burnley averaging 3 and a half thousand.
onlyonepool
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Yes and Wolves just scraped 4k with Villa in the top division just 15k.
Josuah98
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Oyston was giving wrong crowd number back then. Remember the buy a player game, if we topped 6,000 he would double the amount taken (was that correct) I was in the west back then and it was rammed every game, made it all ticket for that game and it was 3 meter gap between fans.
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,
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,
Blackpool Are Back!
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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.
Season ticket holders were in the minority back then.
So it was a lot easier to fiddle the crowd figures.
Stockport. Crowd was just under 9k but rumours was it was over 13k
Alfie Conn
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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
1966_and_all_that
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It was the time of old stadiums about which the owners couldn't care less, beyond the minimal legal requirements. Hooliganism was rife and Thatcherism had created record unemployment. We who were there (most on this site), didn't feel anything wrong because we were used to it.
rusty2nails
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Fictional, why?If you showed that a knobber they would think it was fictional
Re-election season, games being played during midweek afternoons? We haven't forgotten and for those who started going on since, we've never tried to whitewash the events back in those days.
TwelveAngryMen
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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
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
Wizaard
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Higher figures than those up the road who were in League One, Division 3, or whatever you call it.
Alfie Conn
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Without the invention of the play offs the last quarter of the season was a dead rubber for a lot of teams.
Raptersaurus
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Goes to show when the O's took over we were in a healthier state than most but dragging their feet over a new stadium and investing in the 'club' probably cost us a few thousand who went elsewhere.
aquaduck
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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...
Alfie Conn
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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?.
God yes. I was big into AF when Ch4 first showed it, so in my mind it followed that I should be trying out for the falcons.
That lasted all of two days, until the lass at work described the size and fitness levels of the blokes going for trials, one of whom was her boyfriend. No idea if he ever made it, but my AF career remained as a TV supporter from then on. Although she, deservedly, did make the cheerleading squad for a while I believe.
That lasted all of two days, until the lass at work described the size and fitness levels of the blokes going for trials, one of whom was her boyfriend. No idea if he ever made it, but my AF career remained as a TV supporter from then on. Although she, deservedly, did make the cheerleading squad for a while I believe.
Blackpool78
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The Fylde Falcons made the national quarter-finals for, I believe, three years running back in the eighties, which wasn't bad considering there was up to 200 teams playing in the UK back then. They even had Superman's brother play for them for a while (Jeff Johnson, half-brother to Christopher Reeve). They played home games various grounds, including Fleetwood's Highbury (when it wasn't much more than a field), Borough Park rugby ground, Bloomfield Road, Fylde Rugby ground at Lytham, and a stadium that won't be named down the M55.
fcblackpool
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Exactly.
I know for an absolute fact that one Chairman (not BFC) who I won't name used to collect the cash boxes and take them away in his car. The gate decided thereafter.
Of course the turnstile operators turned a blind eye because they'd do half price admission and let you jump over the waist high turnstile. That is why they introduced full height ones, I presume. Even the stewards would open a gate for a fee.
Gates when announced never felt right.