Pointing out omeone has just read 17,000 but then writes 15,000 as the figure. Are you insinuating my figures are incorrect?Thought it was 1966-1968 you were on about? I gave you the figures for those years. Now it is 1970. Make your mind up.The figures are easy enough for anyone with computer or Chris Elton' book to find. BTW, it doesn't cheapen you to admit you were wrong. In the event of myself ever being wrong I will hold my hand up to it straight away.
Eh what are you on about. I said we lost ten thousand. That's the figures I looked at. You didn't say an average you quoted high gates. I looked up European football stats. It said it dropped ten thousand. As I say you're making cheap comments trying to put me down there's no need, if the websites wrong its wrong.
LOL. It was myself typing wrong figure. It was indeed 15,000 in 1968. Should have put your arithmetic was wrong as 22-15 = 7 not 10. Put this link on before but it gives a lot of interesting info. Navigate to England then clubs then Championship as they don't alter thingss until end of a season. http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm
There comes a time in everyone's life when they are ready to watch the complex epic that is Dr Zhivago. Mine was this morning. Happy to say I stuck with it. Halliwell's give it 3 stars and note the challenges (not always faced successfully) with the epic scale of the story as Julie C is torn between 2 HCFC fans in Courtenay and Sharif. Note that unlike some bogus doctors, Zhivago is a bona fide medic. Pauline Kael also finds fault with the unintelligible flow of events and the overly contemplative Zhivago, the poet doctor, The great David Lean is the producer and does for snow what Lawrence of Arabia did for sand. The photography and direction are meticulous as you would expect. Channel 5 are holding all the aces today. Doc Z, followed by Curtis and Kirk D in 'The Vikings, then 'Jason and the Argonauts', before we are treated to the cinematic masterpiece of David Lean's never-to-be-surpassed 'Scrooge' - the televisual highspot of the seasonal films like it is every year, Starts 5.10 on C5. On no account miss this bastard.
I tried to read Dr Zhivago some years after first seeing it in 1965 but it was hard going. Too hard. The Lara in the book isn't the vision of perfection that was Julie Christie. Amazing to think that the Soviets wouldn't publish it as they thought it was uncomplimentary to the revolution as it dared to point out some less than perfect things about it. I thought it made a good case for it. Pasternak was persecuted after a manuscript was smuggled out of the country. Worth reading about it. A salutary lesson to all those who go on about those supposedly brave rebels defying authority in this country and the USA making millions whilst supposedly being persecuted to read about what persecution in an authoritarian state entails. An airing of The Third Man would have made an excellent day.
Doc Z has plenty wrong with it- the length to start with, but there are class actors involved. Wiki it and see who was considered for the roles... Sofia Loren for Lara (Ponti's Mrs), O'Toole for Doc Z, Michael Caine for Pasha and so on. Most of it shot in Spain, with Finland and Canada for the bigger wintery scenes. Talking of Caine, saw the underated Ipcress File again the other week. Proper British films unlike Wallace and Grommitt and Hugh Grant. Where have all the good films gone on terrestrial TV? Certainly not to sat/cable. Have not yet identified a decent war film on telly this Xmas - unprecedented,
I've not looked at other clubs but we do drop dont we. In 1950 we had a high average attendance of 37,319 within two years its dropped 11, 000. within 4 years we lost 15,000 and within 7 years we lost 25,000 fans.
Put it on here before, but my mum and dad were in Austria years ago and Omar Sharif and Micheal Caine were making a film there. Sharif used to come in the hotel bar and women were drooling all over him but all her wanted was to find someone to have a game of bridge. They said he was a smashing, polite bloke with no airs and graces but seemed rather sad. Micheal Caine they said was down to earth and organising a football match for a local kids charity. Sharif mentioned, when football came up, how Tom Courtenay used to have the scores of City games brought to him whilst filming. Presumably so one was ringing 211422for him. Was talking to Tom Courtenay after the game at Loftus Road where Terry Neill scored and then got sent off for lapping one of theirs into the stand. There was bother outside with some Irish idiots having a go at Neill for some comment he had made regarding The Troubles. We told them where to get off but we're refused entry into the social club. Tom Courtenay got us in, don't know how as he wasn't a member. Was talking to Sir Tom and mentioned two of my favourite films were Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago. The conversation switched to Julie C, and he said it was a bugger that in Dr Zhivago we was the one married to her character but Sharif was the one who spent time cuddled up in bed with her. His future wife, Cheryl Kennedy, was with him and didn't seem too pleased.
That scene where they charge on horseback across a frozen river showed Lean's cleverness. He found a field with an embankment at either side which was frozen. Cut off the bottom of a couple of small boats to give the impression they were stuck in ice and the sound effects really gave the impression they really were charging across frozen water. Lean was the master of the sweeping epic.
Yes. Reading Elton's book shows it even more. Boxing Day 1970 11,000 , a week later 30,000 against Man City in 3rd round of the Cup.
Dunt he end up in the sack with Charlotte Rampling in his latest one? I remember reading he never went to Wembley in 2008 as he 'didn't like crowds'. Couldn't have been down to bad experiences at City matches could it? Saw him at the Victoria Ground in 1972 - my first away game.
Don't think he ever had anything bad happen at games. The odd times we saw him he was always approachable and happy to chat.
Indeed City Man, not forgetting old Ebenezer was also from Hull and invented the beautiful game of football...
Meanwhile, back on Planet Snodgrass, Brucey makes an utterance... Steve Bruce: I want to bring Robert Snodgrass to Aston Villa if Hull City budge http://www.squawka.com/news/steve-b...rass-to-aston-villa-if-hull-city-budge/861367
City average League attendances in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s: 1965/66 - 22,828 1966/67 - 24,730 1967/68 - 15,639 1968/69 - 14,216 1969/70 - 11,230 1970/71 - 19,737 1971/72 - 13,972 1972/73 - 9,233 Terry Neill's appointment precipitated a higher jump in average gates than promotion to Div 2 five seasons earlier.
