Pablo ZZZ Peroni
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I was reading something before, and was surprised (it was before my time), to read that in the 71/72 season the rags had to play their first 2 home games away from the swamp, because of hooliganism the previous season. Apparently knives had been thrown into the away section, these 2 home games were played at anfield and the victoria ground. A bit curious I thought I'd see who they played so went to the 71/72 season wiki page. One thing that struck me was the biggest crowd they played in front of all season was 63,300 at Maine Road for the Derby, other than that about 55k was the 2nd highest home or away. Small club, no fans.....Yeah right!
Article about the United home game at Anfield: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/mar/17/manchester-united-home-anfield-1971
Late 60s and early 70s our highest home gate of the season at Maine Rd was always 60,000+.
Magical atmospheres for those games but a different culture back then when there was a big difference between highest and lowest gate of the season. Take the best supporters in the world down the East Lancs: 73/4 highest gate at Anfield as champions was 56,003 and lowest 21,656.