Official attendances are always about 25% to 30% higher than the number of real people in the ground. Last weekend was our best attended game of this season so far (I've been there for all the home league games). I would estimate between 7,000 and 7,500 home fans (probably at the lower end of that estimate). The Club's official figure was about 9,500 home fans, plus just over 1,000 away fans I think. It's a long running piece of official silliness we like to laugh at. Not just Charlton fans, probably fans of all Clubs.
I saw a headline on Twitter earlier that West Ham are over recording their home attendances this season by 12,000. Sheff Wed must be over recording theirs by 20,000.
Last season Highbury was often about a third empty, but was always given as a full house. Official attendances show a trend even though they are not accurate. Anyway the pro-Roland faction don't care about attendances, and can't understand why anyone is.
It’s the same at Kilmarnock apparently. They give the home attendances as 3,000, but the real one is 298 ?
Here's an idea; A tax on attendances - the money collected going to fund good sporting causes like better access to sport for disabled folk. If Clubs had to pay a tax on every head they claim is coming through the turnstiles, I think pretty soon they would find a way to stop the laughable over-estimation of numbers.
