What happened in 1965? Less than 15k? I know we were Div 2 then but were crowds low in general then?
I think it was the post war post lending it's Maine Road post Busby babe post Munich disaster factor apart from being in div 2. The perfect storm. The whole country had sympathy for United and rightly so but it cost us for a while.
Think that was the year we got our lowest league crowd of 8000
The stats on that site are good, and it’s nice to examine league positions and cup positions, but … just be aware that some of the attendances (for City at least) aren’t accurate according to @Gary James
Can you go on every teams forum next season and post the graph on their forum,,,before they rock up to the Etihad or we go to their place - and get the ignorant no fans / no 'istry jibe - i literally had an argument with Norwich fan recently who thought their club was bigger than ours before our take over!..I then sat down and went through aver league position since 1900...average gates since 1900...honours 1900 - 2008 they were of course smashed in every department by us - i got an ''oh didn't know that!'' response - unbelievable - let's get these sort of facts out there as it's doing all our heads on...Sunday will be dreadful...10,000 empties at our end..tv camera panning round to the seats more than the match..im fking sick of it really
Not come across that site before.
I love a good spreadsheet as much as the next man, but got to agree with you on this. The reasons for empty seats today and last Tuesday have been fully covered.
The really low Newcastle ones all go missing in the late 80s. No idea why that might be? <shrugs shoulders>
