Lowest league attendance at Maine Road

[JGL07]

Definitely Coventry and I’m sure it was a League Cup game.

I am not sure you are correct.

The three-day week started from 13 December 1973 and was ended by the general election on 28 February 1974.

The only mid-week matches at home during that period were Coventry (LC), Plymouth (LC SF), and Derby (D1).

The Coventry match was held on Wednesday 12 January 1974. The attendance was 25,409 on a filthy wet afternoon at Maine Road in a QF replay won 4-2 by City with goals by Lee (2), Law, and Summerbee. I seem to recall that the bomb scare was on a dry day?

The Derby County match was on Wednesday 5 February 1974 and was a 1-0 win with Colin Bell scoring. The crowd was 22,845, well below average for that season.

The Plymouth match attracted 40,117 and Coventry 25,409. There were certainly not 40,000 plus at Maine Road that day.

Unless I am thinking of a different season when electricity workers created problems, the Derby County match seems more likely.

 

[levets]

I am not sure you are correct.

The three-day week started from 13 December 1973 and was ended by the general election on 28 February 1974.

The only mid-week matches at home during that period were Coventry (LC), Plymouth (LC SF), and Derby (D1).

The Coventry match was held on Wednesday 12 January 1974. The attendance was 25,409 on a filthy wet afternoon at Maine Road in a QF replay won 4-2 by City with goals by Lee (2), Law, and Summerbee. I seem to recall that the bomb scare was on a dry day?

The Derby County match was on Wednesday 5 February 1974 and was a 1-0 win with Colin Bell scoring. The crowd was 22,845, well below average for that season.

The Plymouth match attracted 40,117 and Coventry 25,409. There were certainly not 40,000 plus at Maine Road that day.

Unless I am thinking of a different season when electricity workers created problems, the Derby County match seems more likely.

Apologies, Getting crossed wires. I wasn’t referring to the bomb scare, just that Coventry was an afternoon game…. I remember the Green/Black stripes of Coventry

 

[levets]

The game I first referenced was v WBA ion the 1st March 1972, attached is the programme front cover, it’s a bit distorted but that was the Wednesday afternoon game I went to. The crowd was down by over 10k on our usual gate.

Don’t remember that game. Why was that played on a weds afternoon?

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I am not sure you are correct.

The three-day week started from 13 December 1973 and was ended by the general election on 28 February 1974.

The only mid-week matches at home during that period were Coventry (LC), Plymouth (LC SF), and Derby (D1).

The Coventry match was held on Wednesday 12 January 1974. The attendance was 25,409 on a filthy wet afternoon at Maine Road in a QF replay won 4-2 by City with goals by Lee (2), Law, and Summerbee. I seem to recall that the bomb scare was on a dry day?

The Derby County match was on Wednesday 5 February 1974 and was a 1-0 win with Colin Bell scoring. The crowd was 22,845, well below average for that season.

The Plymouth match attracted 40,117 and Coventry 25,409. There were certainly not 40,000 plus at Maine Road that day.

Unless I am thinking of a different season when electricity workers created problems, the Derby County match seems more likely.

City borrowed a generator for the Plymouth game and it was definitely an evening kick off.

However, if you follow the thread, the original question surrounded the largely forgotten home game v West Brom in 71-72.

 

[hammocity]

Don’t remember that game. Why was that played on a weds afternoon?

Was the day after the 72 Miners Strike finished, shortage of coal and football grounds weren’t allowed to turn the floodlights on.

 

[levets]

Was the day after the 72 Miners Strike finished, shortage of coal and football grounds weren’t allowed to turn the floodlights on.

Cheers for that. The Coventry weds afternoon game in 1974, was during the ‘3 day week’ I recall; again due to coal miners striking. (I remember being sent to the shops for candles to light the house.)

 

[hammocity]

Cheers for that. The Coventry weds afternoon game in 1974, was during the ‘3 day week’ I recall; again due to coal miners striking. (I remember being sent to the shops for candles to light the house.)

I got away with the WBA game, think my Dad must have put me on a warning not to go to the Coventry game but I just can’t remember.

 

[levets]

City borrowed a generator for the Plymouth game and it was definitely an evening kick off.

However, if you follow the thread, the original question surrounded the largely forgotten home game v West Brom in 71-72.

Yes, Plymouth definitely an evening game, I wasn’t allowed to go as I was in court the following morning. Arrested V Birmingham 1st game of season for swearing ffs. I was 14

 

[Len Rum]

Mike Summerbee playing for Swindon.
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Remember it well.
Absolutely pissed it down that day!

 

[levets]

Remember it well.
Absolutely pissed it down that day!

Was that his last game for Swindon?