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@wetherbywhaler clearly wins this competition

 

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.

 

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

 

Or as it was rightly known at the time, The Captain Oates End.

 

I think you will find that the game was at Valley parade in the 81/82 season. It wasn’t foggy but very windy hence we went a goal down with a drop kick from the Stockport keeper. We went on to win 5-1 with all our goals coming in the last 20 minutes. McNiven didn’t score 4 in that game but later in the season in a win at home to Crewe but it wasn’t foggy that night either.

 

The lowest league crowd I’ve ever been in was 911 for a game between Halifax and Colchester on a Tuesday night in about 1987. Occasionally my dad took us to the Shay for midweek games if we had nothing better to do.

City wise I think a crowd of about 1,100 were there when we drew 0-0 vs Chester in the early 90’s in the days when Chester played home games at Macclesfield. It was a Tuesday night fixture.

For lack of numbers watching City away I remember a 2-2 draw at Swansea, again in the early where there can’t have been more than 150 of us on the away terrace. Bournemouth away on a Tuesday night a year or so later, a similar amount.

Home league game I think the worst crowds were the odd crowd less than 4,000 under Lennie Lawrence. I can’t remember many under 5,000 up at Odsal.

 

1,249 v Hereford !!

 

I was at the Hereford match, so has to be that

 

I was one of the 1249 at the dreadful Hereford game, been to a few of the low crowd Checkatrade games as well.

 

My dog died. And City signed him.

 

Reminds me of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529

 

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.

 

I remember the old scoreboard at that end was made up of separate bulbs and it became a bit of agame to try and put them out with stones. Not that I joined in mind.

 

That December 86 match was when I first experienced the Captain Oates End! I'd just moved to Manchester and thought - yay! Away City game just up the road. Jeezus Christ, Oldham was grim - but not as much as that weather. That brass monkey passed me on the way out.

 

Was your dog Aaron McClean?

 

If it’s the Don Valley Stadium you are referring to , I agree it was freezing cold that day. Plus the view was terrible.

 

Me.