When the Icelandic ash cloud hit Northern Europe and flights couldn’t come into Great Britain, Liverpool happened to be playing at home against West Ham and the attendance at Anfield was just 37697
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8620335.stm
The last time City were proper shit, under Stuart Pearce, our average attendance that season was 39997.
United get about 45000 at home early round cup games.
Foreign nobodies are not real fans. They are just plastic fans. Liverpool and United have a frightening amount of plastic nobodies. City do not yet what we do have is just around the same amount of core fans to count on as the two plastic giants, just like most of the clubs in cities. Nobody’s proper core fans are that much bigger or better than anyone else’s.