KenTheLandlord
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wodda said:M18CTID said:Given that average crowds tend to be measured on a season by season basis, perhaps you can explain to us all what is so wrong in highlighting the fact that during your 37 year stint without winning a trophy your average crowds dropped as low as 11,685?
If whoever knocked that flyer up wanted to really stick the knife in, they could - as Ken The Landlord pointed out - have highlighted the fact that your individual crowds dropped below 4,000. And that was for a top flight league game. And just as a comparison, I'll point out that City's lowest ever league crowd at Maine Road was over double that (8,015)....and that was for a game in the division below your sub-4000 gate vs Middlesbrough in 1931.
Does it hurt that the highest ever attendance at Maine Road was for a United match
Not really because its complete bollocks.
Although you obviously feel the pain for Old Trafford recording the lowest ever total for a first class match.
13. 7 May 1921, the ground hosted a Second Division match between Stockport County and Leicester City for which the official attendance was just 13.
Yes, the only attendance record OT holds.
Mind you did get low crowds after the war, 11,968, as United v Fulham, 29 April 1950.
Oh and to blow your myth about no football in the war, OT actually held a FA Cup final there. You probably didn't know that as your Grandad wouldn't have shifted from Ye Olde Dogge and Ducke.
The ground's second FA Cup Final was the 1915 final between Sheffield United and Chelsea. Sheffield United won the match 3–0 in front of nearly 50,000 spectators, most of whom were in the military, leading to the final being nicknamed "the Khaki Cup Final".
Also the record attendance at Old Trafford is not for a Manchester United home game. Instead, on 25 March 1939, 76,962 people watched an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town.