It definitely wasn't full but it wasn't 49000 neither.
Everton did not sell out their allocation. Empty seats in each tier of their section.
As usual, empties ditted about all round the ground here and there. Including the seat next to me.
But who, really, gives a fuck? Do you think if there were Internet forums in the 1930s people would be saying "can't believe there were 78000 here the other week and only 26000 here today, what the fuck's going on? The Rags and the Cholmondley Warner Telegraph are going to have a field day!"
It's all the leavers that I can't get my head around, walking out with five minutes to go when the first home game of the season is in the balance and we're chasing a winner against a local rival... not within my world of reckoning that