No i can only do a couple of hundred at Torquay on a 7 45pm Saturday night kick off.
What was City's lowest attendance.
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No, there were only two of them. It would have needed another. As they used to say, you could reach their IQ with a single dart.
I knew someone who went when they played in the USA and when they toured the Med and played in Gibraltar and Malta. Don't think there were many on either occasion.
Good support by yourself BTW. You didn't go with the coffin carrier did you? I am sure he went to Scotland for some friendlies.
There was a photo in the HDM in the 1970s of FC's one supporter at an away game. Hope he got to see the good times with them.
There was only about 20 at QPR 1971/72 season forvsomecreason to see Terry Neill get sent off for banging Rodney Marsh into the stands.
My son's first away game was that, he'd have been about 7.
A proper treat for him.
The lowest I've been to was in the Auto Windscreen Wipers Cup, we played Scarborough lost 2-0 & the only time I've left early & it pissed it down. Went to meet a nice young girl & get warm instead.
I remember that Scarboro Autoglass Tropy match.
They had John Burridge in goal and also a Hull born player we'd released a season earlier (might have been Stuart Young, can't remember exactly) who scored a screamer.
Lowest home attendance I've been was also an Autoglass Trophy game, but can't remember who it was against. I'm sure the crowd was sub 1,000 but I don't think it was the aforementioned Chester game. Might have been Donny - can't remember now.
Always thought that City had, relatively, good away support (particularly so in the 1990s - our worst ever period). I used to go all over the place during that decade but off the top, I remember going to Hereford away on a night match in the mid 90s and there being just a handful of fans.
Some good aways in that period to be fair. Brentford 3-0; Shrewsbury 3-2; Cambridge 4-3, Cardiff 4-3 but they also ran parallel to ****e like Blackpool away 6-2.
They had John Burridge in goal and also a Hull born player we'd released a season earlier (might have been Stuart Young, can't remember exactly) who scored a screamer.
Lowest home attendance I've been was also an Autoglass Trophy game, but can't remember who it was against. I'm sure the crowd was sub 1,000 but I don't think it was the aforementioned Chester game. Might have been Donny - can't remember now.
Always thought that City had, relatively, good away support (particularly so in the 1990s - our worst ever period). I used to go all over the place during that decade but off the top, I remember going to Hereford away on a night match in the mid 90s and there being just a handful of fans.
Some good aways in that period to be fair. Brentford 3-0; Shrewsbury 3-2; Cambridge 4-3, Cardiff 4-3 but they also ran parallel to ****e like Blackpool away 6-2.
I think you are right. I remember an Auto Thingy game with less than 1k against Chester and they opened the South Stand. At the time it was our lowest attendance every, so I assume it was the same game. I know South Stand was open because I used to steward the games and was always based in South Stand, I was never based in West Stand.
The funny thing about that game was that there was a really good atmosphere. There was a group right in the top corner of South Stand Upper, banging their chairs and the corrugated cladding behind them and they chanted pretty much through the whole game - sort of a Dunkirk spirit.
Strangely good times (with a selective memory of course).
I went to a couple of Friday night matches at Colchester. There weren't many of us there at either game.
And a Monday night FA cup game at Chelsea. The tube after the game was interesting.
"Define interesting."
And a Monday night FA cup game at Chelsea. The tube after the game was interesting.
"Define interesting."
Yes, definitely stood on Bunkers for that Chester game.
As far as the lowest attended league game against Torquay goes I recall that Man U were playing Barcelona that night and we thought that might have accounted for at least a couple of hundred not turning up at BP. I'm pretty sure we won that night in a relatively entertaining game but can't remember the score.
Lowest away attendance I witnessed was probably a Friday night in Swansea. It was switched from a Saturday to the Friday night with only about four days notice, something to do with a visit by Prince Charles. I even rang Swansea the day before to ask if they would delay the kick off as I would be struggling to make it for 7.45. There was about 15-20 there until half time, when a small coachload of City fans finally arrived having broken down en route. Game finished 0-0 as I recall.
Listening to romantics who back their arguments with the old 'I was there at our lowest attendance' quote I suspect around 5000 were actually at the Torquay game !
That was Ted Baldem and the game was at Thrum Hall, Halifax and the Mail only knew of Ted because he worked there.
Cheers. Always thought it was at a game in Lancashire for some reason. You know, one of those long, difficult journeys.
Was at the Friday night match way at Bristol Rovers in the 1965-66 season. Won promotion that night as well as Waggy beating City's post war goal scoring record. There was probably only about a dozen City fans there that night. Being there all those years ago does not make me a better supporter just bloody old. Went next day to Walsall to watch our promotion rivals Millwall thrash them 4-1. Not a bad weekend on a day return!
Getting to a Friday night game at Bristol was not easy , or cheap, in those days so well done.
I have no idea what mine would be but I remember at night match against Oxford at the Manor. Very cold and very few City fans. That was a weird ground my wife and I sat in one of those funny side stands virtually by ourselves.
Also do not remember many being at the Salisbury cup game early in great escape season I think.
But even at the Cardiff away last season mid week after Brighton away on the previous Saturday was quite low I think.
My own private Idaho was Gillingham away at the Priestfield Stadium on Tues night Match 4th 1980.
Lost 1-0 in front of 4,161, stood on the open end, don't recall seeing any other City that night.
Went to the original game that got frosted off on a Saturday too.
Lost 1-0 in front of 4,161, stood on the open end, don't recall seeing any other City that night.
Went to the original game that got frosted off on a Saturday too.
That draw at Chelsea was considered a great result at the time, even if we lost the replay.
Their fans were banned but they still showed on a freezing foggy night. Someone did their team bus after the game and it made the national news. We made history by calling in the Receiver a few weeks later.
Eventful times.
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