Fantastic attendance but did you really have 2000 not turning up? Sounds like a FFP fiddle to me.
Still it is is a great attendance truly befitting of the biggest and best club in the world. It really does mean more and also more piss taking (not from you) from the cultists on RAWK and social media focusing on our 39000 against Fulham.
Historically Liverpool haven't been particularly supportive of early round FA Cup ties at Anfield. As an example going back over the last 30 years:
Jan 1990 29,194 (Average gate that season 36,875)
Jan 2000 32,839 (Average gate 44,074)
Jan 2010 31,063 (Average gate 44,392)
Quite pathetic attendances really for such a big club.
Those attendances make our 39,000 look huge particularly with it being live on BBC, only a few hundred from Fulham and buying tickets for United, Real Madrid and, today, the LC Final.