When one of my rag mates is feeling a little bit low, which is quite often these days, he always brings that game up!
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Lowest league attendance at Maine Road
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Lovebitesandeveryfing
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That's magnificent!!
I see what you did.
citymad
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It just shows you how much he's hurting.When one of my rag mates is feeling a little bit low, which is quite often these days, he always brings that game up!
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Future City legend Lee Peacock with both goalsLost something like 2-1?
Not so many there v Chester in the FA Cup? 10,000 or so. Friday night.
I was born 4 days before this. Didnt start going until 73/74 season.Last City home game before I was born.
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lazerblue
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why not just concentrate on the highest attendances at maine road!
JGL07
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I was at the Swindon match where Mike Summerbee scored. The 8,015 that attended wasn’t much lower than the match against Middlesbrough the previous season (8,053).
The Middlesbrough match was played on a Tuesday night as opposed to a Saturday.
Gates of less than 10,000 were not unknown at Maine Road before the arrival of Mercer. The final match of the 1964-65 season against Charlton attracted only 8,409.
Many will not appreciate how variable crowds were back then when the number of season tickets sold was very low. Bad weather and other issues could affect attendances.
The Middlesbrough match was played on a Tuesday night as opposed to a Saturday.
Gates of less than 10,000 were not unknown at Maine Road before the arrival of Mercer. The final match of the 1964-65 season against Charlton attracted only 8,409.
Many will not appreciate how variable crowds were back then when the number of season tickets sold was very low. Bad weather and other issues could affect attendances.
The Lightbowne Cowboy
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1964-65 was our lowest ever average attendance at Maine Road,and by some distance too. 14'753 which is an anomaly when you look at the history from 1923 right up to 2003. We got 18201 the season before which was the second lowest average at Maine Road. Even in the dark days of the 80s,when football attendances were on their arse(mainly due to Hooliganism) we still got more(87-88 was 19'472) You had to go back to season 88-89 at Hyde Road when we averaged 9000 to get a lower average attendance,but football was in its infancy then and that was pretty much standard back then. Going back to the early 60s to Mercer n Mal taking over. The club was in the doldrums and there was a famous quote from our then manager about there being a dirth of goals. Was it Les Mcdowall?I was at the Swindon match where Mike Summerbee scored. The 8,015 that attended wasn’t much lower than the match against Middlesbrough the previous season (8,053).
The Middlesbrough match was played on a Tuesday night as opposed to a Saturday.
Gates of less than 10,000 were not unknown at Maine Road before the arrival of Mercer. The final match of the 1964-65 season against Charlton attracted only 8,409.
Many will not appreciate how variable crowds were back then when the number of season tickets sold was very low. Bad weather and other issues could affect attendances.
TedofChume
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According to the European Football DatabaseI was at the Swindon match where Mike Summerbee scored. The 8,015 that attended wasn’t much lower than the match against Middlesbrough the previous season (8,053).
The Middlesbrough match was played on a Tuesday night as opposed to a Saturday.
Gates of less than 10,000 were not unknown at Maine Road before the arrival of Mercer. The final match of the 1964-65 season against Charlton attracted only 8,409.
Many will not appreciate how variable crowds were back then when the number of season tickets sold was very low. Bad weather and other issues could affect attendances.
You are right the lowest league attendance at Maine Rd was 8,015.
I also remember articles in the programme about it after we played Leeds in front of 4,023 in the Full Members Cup in 1985/86.
Why are we talking about lowest attendances, when we had the best average attendance in England in
1914/15
1927/28 (2nd division)
1928/29
jimharri
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All this guff about the 1960s is clearly fake. Everyone and his dog knows we weren't founded until 2008.