How many away are coming, 1500 or so would put us at a near maximum wouldn’t it….. gonna be a brilliant day… hopefully!!!!
There were 26,000 at the Oxford game. Despite our best season for decades with the highest league finish for 40 years that was the largest home crowd of the season. More than were at the 4-4 Boxing Day game against Wednesday.
Sure someone will be along any minute after checking Wikipedia to put us right. I post from memory and that game was only 55 years ago after all, always remembered it as a huge disappointment at the time especially after the heroics at Bramall Lane. Someone has already posted that we only won two more games after that. Remember Terry Neill missing a penalty in one game and getting sent off in another. Also us hammering Orient at home about 5-2? I do know the disappointment hung around until the last home game of that season when the crowd dropped to less than 12,000 from a seasonal average of over 21,000 and a high of 39,000 which I always thought was for that Oxford game, could be wrong, it has been known.
Your memory is far better than mine,though I very seldom missed a home game back in those days. I spent most of my time standing tip-toed in the well,staring up at just above pitch level.I have to admit they were my favourite times,eventually topped by the play-off promotion day...
Battle of Bramall Lane I was there on a school trip. Fleet of coaches (more than one anyway) outside Schultz. We all piled on at end of school day. I remember someone had a crate of oranges and handed them out, easily smuggled into the ground, no sniffer dogs or searches, and all hailed down onto Ian Mckechnie when he ran towards the goal. Knighton was fired up for that one. If Carling did school trips.......
Sounds a bit better than ours,which used to be Twydales in Driff. A classload of males and screaming females watching farmed birds going round on a carousel,foot snared on a hook getting a nice electric bath...
As Cityzen mentioned, the Oxford attendance was the highest of the season apart from the Stoke FA Cup game, maybe that's the one you're thinking of. Around 40,000 there that day.
