Weds & utd will always get big crowds because it families v families! It's a bit like FC & Rovers! You're one or the other! Even most of the city fans have a preference!
Metropolitan Sheffield is 1.569 million, we don't have the equivalent. That's three times the size of Hull and surrounds. The have support in Derbyshire and Notts.
My personal favourites was the following to a previous final kept going up from 40k finishing at 50k Yeah and I would bet not many follow teams from outside the area
Arrogant set of cun** at S6 and always were. Why do think the hated for either Sheffield Town pub teams still exists and has done since the sixtys? Bruce OUT
It's amusing that those of you who decry some clubs harking back to their pasts and deludedly thinking they should be doing better than they are, are the same who used harking back to our history as the reasons for being anti name change. Anyhow, it's a cup final game. They finished in the play off places. It's quite possible they'll beat us, although we should be more than capable of winning it of course. But, its a funny game at times, finals games are funny, who knows what will happen? Getting all uppity at the other clubs fans thinking they should win is kinda silly.
You can always interpret these things to your own advantage. Leeds has a population of 200,000 more than Sheffield. A Wednesday fan at work a while back, must have been 2004 as that was the last year I worked there, used to delight in telling Leeds fans that more people turned out every week to watch 2nd and 3rd division football in Sheffield than turned out in Leeds, a city with a population nearly 50% higher, for Premier League football. Just looked it up and Wednesday got 22,000 in Div 3, Sheffield Utd 21,000 in Div2 total 43,000. Leeds got 36,000.
I remember reading on a Sheffield United forum around the FA Cup final that they would overtake us in two years and we would drop like a stone. Well they still haven't managed to even get promoted.
I live in Sheffield and most of my football team mates are Weds fans, and to be fair none of them are going over the top, they are all delighted after years of getting no where near to be in with a chance and rightly fancy themselves in a one off game. Let's face it, after the first leg against Derby, anyone coming on here would assume the majority of our fans were full of it as most of us were talking like we'd already gone up
"Who's getting tickets in the Hull end?" If I had the money, I'd buy 25,000 Wednesday tickets and just burn them the day before the game.
Anyone else had to Google "Hubris". Learn something new every day, that keeps your mind active!!!!!! I work with people with too much Hubris. I shall enjoy informing them tomorrow.
Apparently 'thousands' of the masses hordes of wendies will be filling our end that'll be from the huge 22,000 average they had this season Now I can understand how having spent most of the last 20 years grubbing around the lower divisions frequently overshadowed by their more successful neighbours they are now poised to return to the league they graced for oh at least 4 or 5 seasons on the 90s having spent the previous thirty years desperately trying to regain the title of biggest team in Sheffield. Yes I can just see the met waving in hordes of blue and white bedecked six fingered troglodytes into an area reserved for City fans. Still it'll be amusing to see the concourse awash with blotchy red lachrymose pissed up thee thas
Just had a comedy hour reading all the posts on your link to owlstalk OLM was PSML for most of the time! think (correction KNOW) they will be more then surprised to see such a turnout from their northern neighbours (if they can find their way!) lol. Will be all crossed but 2-0 cum on u ull...CHANT...'tuesday, tuesday give us a song, while ur being licked by the dull kittens'...luv it.
