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What's the lowest league crowd you've been in?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Wolfysmith, Feb 23, 2021.

  1. Wolfysmith

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    After reading the New Manager Bounce thread and the discussion about the famous Hereford game, which is City's lowest league attendance, it got me thinking about the lowest league crowd I've been part of.
    For City, it's probably the circa 3,500 for the visit of Wrexham back in the mid-90's.
    But my personal best was being one of the 966 hardy souls that saw Halifax Town lose 0-3 to Crewe back in 1987 in a Division 4 game, which was played on a Saturday
     
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    I remember a match with 90o isshhh at City in the seventies it was dire...I may be few more but it was bad
     
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    see cant remember owt any more …….1,697 v Northampton Town (23 April 1975, Division Four)
     
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    Not sure how many there but was 3 of us and a dog on the old kop on a wet Wednesday night, we had lost 7-0 on the previous Saturday and lost again I think 3-0, The dog left at half time
     
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    1,249 v Hereford !!
     
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    I was at the Hereford match, so has to be that
     
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    I watched city play Charlton at selhurst park
    It was a filthy wet night and at half time they moved the nearly 60city fans undercover
    If memory serves me there was less than 150 in attendance that night
    We lost 2-0 i think it was the full members cup about 1986/87
     
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    Slightly related to this thread, a friend of mine once worked in an office in Manchester with an avid Cardiff City fan. One midweek night they were playing at Preston and he decided to go. Unbeknown to him just one coachload of Cardiff fans left south Wales and this coach broke down on the motorway and couldn't be repaired in time to get to the game. So the bloke was in the away end on his own. Making the most of it he began singing and chanting and the Preston fans quickly picked up on this. Apparently the banter was priceless, especially when Cardiff scored and he was jumping around on his own. Then Preston equalised and the inevitable chant of 'You're not singing anymore' rang round the ground. The Cardiff players gave him a standing ovation at the end of the game.
     
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    I was one of the 1249 at the dreadful Hereford game, been to a few of the low crowd Checkatrade games as well.
     
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    Brilliant!
    Imagine being the only away fan in a proper league ground like Deepdale. What an experience.
     
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    My dog died. And City signed him.
     
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    Yeah I was at a Leyland DAF game against Hartlepool with 1500 or so there. Bloody cold night as well.

    Anybody at Chester in April 92, 1149 in attendance?
     
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    Reminds me of this.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529
     
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    I dunno about the lowest crowd, but the coldest league game I've ever been to was in the 80/81 season. My first year at Bradford Uni, just up from deepest Essex.
    Oldham v West Ham. Night match. I stood on the old open end at Boundary Park with a smattering of other Irons fans. I was massively underdressed for the occasion, having never heard of Boundary Park's reputation as a small slice of the Arctic Circle transplanted into Lancashire.
    Totally froze my nuts off. Can't remember the result, only the cold.
     
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    Or as it was rightly known at the time, The Captain Oates End.
     
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    Priceless !!!
     
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    I wonder how many free pies he blagged at the end rather than have them thrown away ?
     
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    Woking v Chertsey, Surrey Senior Cup - attendance 49 on a freeze your bo....ks off night :x3:
     
  20. Wolfysmith

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    That open end at Boundary Park was a killer. I went there in December 86. We lost 0-1. It was one of Trevor Cherry's last games in charge before he was sacked.
    It was blowing a force 10 straight from the Artic and snowing. It was so cold there was a brass monkey stood next to me crying.
    The following season we played them up there in August in a mid-week game. It was t-shirt weather when I left Bradford but it was pure Baltic when I got to Boundary Park. I think I was as cold that night as I was in December.
     
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