Give em 10,000 tickets who really gives a ****. Wont go if its £1. If the Pair of **** faces go soon i ll be there.. Do we really want to get too Wembley anyway and have an allocation of 30.000 + tickets and be the 1st team not to have full seats at a League Cup Final. No thanks.
Phil Hay @PhilHayYEP Leeds United closing in on first sell-out for more than five years as crowd for Newcastle game passes 32,000.
Capacity at Elland Road is over 39,000 so it looks like they still aren't opening the top level of the Lowfield .Road Stand. I referred in another thread to Bates winning an argument over policing and costs. One of the outcomes I think was that they were only responsible for police being in the ground and associated costs was if the upper tier was opened.
http://ukpopulation2016.com/population-of-leeds-in-2016.html Leeds pop 787 000. So it's like us getting 11,000 in comparative terms.
Exciting big game for a lower league team though, playing a team that used to be in the Big League in recent years
According to a very quick Google, a similar proportion are students. If anything the multicultural thing probably affects Hull more, because Hull's ethnic mix is mainly overseas students (apparently there are a lot of Chinese students at Hull Uni), and people of European/middle-eastern backgrounds many of whom aren't particularly integrated culturally or have much disposable income. City's fanbase is very white British, while it's clear even from MOTD that most other clubs in similar-sized or larger cities have a more diverse crowd. Presumably for these reasons. I bet it's the same in most people's offices if they work in Hull. You only really see that diversity in the street - not so much at leisure venues or workplaces.
Quite a lot of Leeds' populaton are historically from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. and no asian people will watch Leeds. I've spoken to my asian mates about it and Leeds' crowd is nearly all white, like Bradfords, so thats quite a large portion of the populace not going to see them. Most asian people in Leeds and outer areas seem to be Man Utd fans.
Lots of vermin fans are not even W Yorks - so the Leeds based support is even lower. Imagine being a HU inhabitant and selecting the vermin lower league vermin as your team!
The Newcastle United fanzine appears to be a bit deluded if they think we'll get an attendance of 20,000. That will depend on, amongst other things, how tickets are for sale in the Upper West.
Are Newcastle aware that much bigger clubs have played at the KC in the last few months and not moaned about their ticket allocation?
I was thinking more Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Funnily enough Rovers probably did have the biggest away following at the KC this season, but then again they did have the biggest allocation.
