Wembley 🍕

[Burndens Bogs]

It’s looking like we’re just massive

[Lostock Whites]

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

Edited March 18, 2023 by Lostock Whites

[MickyD]

Just now, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

Fickle fuckers

[Farnywhite]

2 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

Blame thatcher 

[bwfc2003]

3 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

TAKE OUT THE LC SF and I don’t think we were anywhere near 40 to 45k

[RUREADY2ROLL]

2 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

We wasn’t getting crowds that size apart from a few games in the cup. We had 42000 on Boxing Day against Sunderland but they brought about 10000. Blackburn game midweek was 33000 but a lot of Blackburn

[bwfc2003]

1 minute ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

We wasn’t getting crowds that size apart from a few games in the cup. We had 42000 on Boxing Day against Sunderland but they brought about 10000. Blackburn game midweek was 33000 but a lot of Blackburn

Fulham for second div championship was 33k 

[Farnywhite]

2 minutes ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

We wasn’t getting crowds that size apart from a few games in the cup. We had 42000 on Boxing Day against Sunderland but they brought about 10000. Blackburn game midweek was 33000 but a lot of Blackburn

Average was 34,000 division 2 77/78 that was best in the 70s 

[stevieb]

11 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

 

11 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Fickle fuckers

Probably the year the flying flute got invented and Gary Megson was born. 

[Duck Egg]

16 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I also find it quite interesting how in the mid/late 70s we were getting home crowds of 40-45,000, then just 5 years later, 4/5,000 

8 years between getting 50,000 for a game and 2,900 for a game. 

[gonzo]

2 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

8 years between getting 50,000 for a game and 2,900 for a game. 

Pretty fucked up that isnt it. Almost incomprehensible. What I was saying about time being different nowadays. It doesnt pass the same now. Deffo a convo for a house party at 4am

[Mounts Kipper]

5 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

8 years between getting 50,000 for a game and 2,900 for a game. 

I was at both…. Was depressing going from the highs of the mid to late 70s to the abject lows of early 80s. 

[MancWanderer]

Unless the games were all ticket 70s official attendances were laughable. Sunderland was at least 50k as was the Newcastle FA Cup Supermac game. During the Greaves era we were recording attendances of 18/20k when BP was rammed. Cash on the gate was king

[Farnywhite]

Just now, gonzo said:

Pretty fucked up that isnt it. Almost incomprehensible. What I was saying about time being different nowadays. It doesnt pass the same now. Deffo a convo for a house party at 4am

Goes for a lot of clubs Chelsea used to get some really poor crowds in the 80s and Everton averaged 19,000 92/93 season and have the record for being involved in lowest attendance in premier league history 3,039 at Wimbledon that season . Doesn’t seem that long ago really 

 

[Lostock Whites]

2 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Pretty fucked up that isnt it. Almost incomprehensible. What I was saying about time being different nowadays. It doesnt pass the same now. Deffo a convo for a house party at 4am

Just shows how quickly things can change in football.

My grandparents were going to Bolton matches at Burnden Park in front of 60-70,000 when they were growing up.

Things are so different now, especially with the safe standing and with the disaster in 1946 and clubs geographically on our doorsteps becoming footballing giants.

Despite compared to our illustrious past crowds, it's fantastic to see us on a sharp incline, young fans coming in, attendances on the up, sold out away ends and possibly 35,000 at Wembley.

We are on our way back! 

[Johnnyrotten]

31 minutes ago, Farnywhite said:

Average was 34,000 division 2 77/78 that was best in the 70s 

No way was average ever 34k in my lifetime.  Highest maybe. 

[Casino]

15 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

 

My grandparents were going to Bolton matches at Burnden Park in front of 60-70,000 when they were growing up.

 

Not very often they werent

Granted theyd be a few years older than me but the only 3 i remember over 40 were mid 70s

42, 46 and 50, 000

Thered not be any more in the 70s and obviously, none since

I imagine the 60s werent record breakers, so its back to the period between the end of the war and late 50s

Even then there were some mad fluctuations from one game to the next

Im sure i once scoured marlands book and there were very few bigger than the everton 50

 

 

[Casino]

If you want to do some research

https://bicky.co.uk/season.php?season=1957-1958

2 56s and both in the cup

[Lostock Whites]

21 minutes ago, Casino said:

Not very often they werent

Granted theyd be a few years older than me but the only 3 i remember over 40 were mid 70s

42, 46 and 50, 000

Thered not be any more in the 70s and obviously, none since

I imagine the 60s werent record breakers, so its back to the period between the end of the war and late 50s

Even then there were some mad fluctuations from one game to the next

Im sure i once scoured marlands book and there were very few bigger than the everton 50

 

 

I was talking about the 1930s/40s when they were growing up 

[little whitt]

2 WEEKS TODAY 

IM ALL EXCITED 

BETTER THEN LOOKING FORWARD TO A HOLIDAY 

[MickyD]

9 hours ago, Casino said:

Not very often they werent

Granted theyd be a few years older than me but the only 3 i remember over 40 were mid 70s

42, 46 and 50, 000

Thered not be any more in the 70s and obviously, none since

I imagine the 60s werent record breakers, so its back to the period between the end of the war and late 50s

Even then there were some mad fluctuations from one game to the next

Im sure i once scoured marlands book and there were very few bigger than the everton 50

 

 

Sunderland (league) Newcastle (FACup)and Everton (League Cup)?

They’re certainly the biggest crowds I remember. Man U in 74/75 was ‘only’ 38,152

https://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/match_data/match_sql.php?my_match_date=1975-03-08

[Casino]

10 hours ago, Lostock Whites said:

I was talking about the 1930s/40s when they were growing up 

Id still say not

Anyway

Look at this

https://bicky.co.uk/season.php?season=1932-1933

Find our record attendance, then look at the home games either side of it!

 

Which, in turn raises another question...midweek games

Presume theyd be played at 1pm in the winter?

No wonder crowds were low

[green genie]

You’ve been drawn as home team so we’re in third kit

[Farrelli]

13 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

8 years between getting 50,000 for a game and 2,900 for a game. 

I went to both and abiding memory of Everton SF was the terrible penalty.  Against Darlington it was Allardyce whose legs had clearly gone.

[MickyD]

10 minutes ago, green genie said:

You’ve been drawn as home team so we’re in third kit

Hardly a clash of colours; us in white and you in bottle green.