As Churchill said, "History is written by the winners". In the interests of the Northern loving media to say that and put down other clubs. Protecting their own interests by bigging up Pool/United's history and forgetting everybody else's.
He did, but the northern teams have won it a lot more over a much longer time, so have a much better history, so the media are quite right in putting the smaller "little history" clubs down, as nobody is interested in them. Have a nice day
Since when, I only make the odd comment, now and then, unlike you who makes 30+ comments a week. Such a dim person you are
Here they come: United synthetics posting on a Chelsea thread again. You cuckolds really don't like us since Jose dumped you
This has effectively become the Chelsea LOOKATUS board! Lots of proclamations about what a big club you are with lovely lists to back them up. Bless.
Not as dumb as a person who thinks that history can be 'better' or 'little'. Total ignoramous. If you don't know the meaning or context a word can be used I suggest you don't use it.
I notice they've tried to shift the thread away from Chelsea and our support. No surprise once the facts were presented. Some of the biggest crowds in the country for 3 decades and not a glory hunter amongst us. ManU can't get close to that.
The year you won the league in the 50s was your highest ever for average gate understandably. The following year when you finished sixteenth the average gate dropped by over 14,000 so presumably there were a few glory hunters even then. The 55,000 was a great crowd in December '76 even for a local derby but the average was 30,000 and the average the year before was under 19,000 so there's really no need to only present certain "facts". It's nothing to be ashamed of.
What's to keep up with? You said you had some of the biggest crowds in the country for three decades without glory hunters which is clearly not true (for any team) once you scratch below the very selective stats you choose to use.
Leave him to it, he is well know to make up facts to suit his argument. But I will give him 3 facts; 20 League, 3 Euro, 11 FA
Many clubs have glory hunters; United got 20-odd k crowds for Div 1 matches in the 80s v Everton and Wimbledon, now they get 75k every week. But the 55k crowd v Fulham on Boxing Day was in Div 2 when the club was bankrupted by thears!e East stand; we were in the doldrums for a decade from 74-83. Hardly glory years
You could equally say that you were getting 10k or less for games against that sort of team at one point and not loads more in the top flight at times and now could get 55-60,000 probably if the ground could fit them. The 55,000 was great, obviously, but a bit misleading given the time of year and a presumably sizeable away support. The season's average was still good but barely half that. Frankly Chelsea and United can compare cock sizes all you like, it's just nice to not mislead.
Fair play. We rarely got more than 20k v the likes of QPR in the 80s despite the fact it was a London derby. But in the 80s everyone's crowds dipped, ours in particular, which was understandable after the redevelopment fiasco and ten years of being in Div 2 on and off. We still retained a big fan base as evidenced by our superb away following, third only to the Dippers and Cockney reds