I remember the cringe making report in the HDM describing wide-eyed youngsters setting off on the trip of a lifetime. Some had a few lifetimes before then and many have had a few lifetimes since. Strange thing is when we were doing well under Terry Neill the away following was generally pathetic. You were often on the one coach in addition to the supporters one in places like Leicester and Sunderland who brought thousands here. If other clubs adopted a been there done that attitude at Wembley they wouldn't have anyone there comparing the number of times they have appeared there compared to us.
Even better with lots of regular fans. Especially ones who want to get behind the team rather than greet the away team off the bus and spend half the game waving to and photographing opposition stars.
I would also venture that the cost also puts a lot of 'casual' supporters off travelling to away games these days. e.g. A day trip to Wembley for 2 adults and 2 kids isn't cheap.
Which as you rarely fail to remind us, isn’t a situation we’ve had at City since the 50s. So more is still better than fewer, no matter what their motives might be, no?
FFS are we really doing this again. The turnout at our last Wembley appearance was about the way the club was being run. It reflected the **** attendances we had that season and ever since. Blackpool left it empty too; not a coincidence.
If you like being surrounded by people telling you to sit down and shut up because you are spoiling their view of Stevie G and the like, yes. Not a situation unique to City but worse than a lot.
He was making the point that not going to Wembley reflected what was happening off the pitch, as did Blackpool. Coventry showed that wasn't the case. Even when boycotting Wembley more went to watch us, despite the supposed high cost for an impoverished resident of Hull, than our average gate for the season, as was the case for each Wembley appearance. If they went every week we would be flying.
FA Cup All our Yesterdays' Anyone go to Leeds vs. Sunderland at BP...Might have been 4th round replay...Circa 1968
Most clubs suddenly find and extra 20,000 'fans' for these one off Wembley games. In reality many regular fans take their spouses and kids.
You mean a one-off big game after years and years of **** ? I bet the local paper made a big deal of it as well
I was there in my City scarf. Stood in Kempton with the Sunderland fans, Leeds had the South Stand. Over 40,000 there from memory and one of the best atmospheres I have ever witnessed at Boothferry Park. The game had everything, dodgy penalty, minor pitch invasion when the ref got hit over the head with a ruck sack, sendings off, bone crunching tackles etc, but the over riding memory for me was one of 'What if' ? I always thought City would be like that at BP if we ever made it to Div 1. Sadly we only ever saw one First Division game at the old place and I saw that too.......I'll leave that to someone else to tell you who it was against.
It was 1967. That cup game was the record crowd for TWS 58,000. The previous record for a game at Elland Road was 54,000 for Leeds RL v Hunslet. Not that Leeds is as big a rugby town as Hull of course. I went to work in Leeds at end of 1967. Saw them play Man City in front of a crowd of 52,000. All I can say is I wouldn't have liked to have been in the 58,000 one. A shame we have never had the amount of vociferous supporters both of them had in BP that night. As an aside, Revie was that impressed with BP that he had the Gelderd End rebuilt based on the South Stand minus seats.(I wish Bunkers had been built that way). He also had the new pylons built the sane height as the BP ones.
It was when Leeds had to play their first four home matches at neutral venues due to an Elland Road closure - think we got the Spurs/Leeds match? I went but have zero recollection of the game.
A lot of us were temporary cockneys that night. Some Spurs fans in East Stand were surprised to see so many people cheering when their team came out.
