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2 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

Football enjoyed it's boom years after the Second WW, lasting most of the 1950s, but then beginning to tail off and slowly decline through the 1960s (coinciding with the abolition of the maximum wage, and a widening of leisure pursuits and opportunities).

There was a spike post 1966, what with us being World Cup winners and all that, with crowds going back up again, lasting two seasons, before attendances again continued to decline. 

Crowds shrank steadily through the 1970s, as fewer goals were scored, players were paid more and wore their hair longer (then having it permed, and blow dried) and behaved more "unsportingly," the game became more "professional" and increasingly less like it had been during the post war boom years, reaching a low point in the 1st Division in 1984. 

Crumbling grounds and crowd violence contributed to the decline. And unemployment and recession. People were giving the game a miss (just as we were getting our act together on the pitch). Crowds were made up of a greater proportion of young (angry) males. 

Attendances didn't really recover until the late 90s.

 

We - City - missed a great opportunity to cash in on potential support by messing about in the bloody 3rd division for much of the 50s, and the lower half of the 2nd when we finally got out of the 3rd.

The advent of televised football, from the mid 60s, was a great time to have a great team. Leeds United timed this perfectly (and still enjoy the benefits of this today). Liverpool did nicely from it to, as did some smaller but also successful clubs (eg Ipswich, Forest, Derby).

By the time we got to the top in 1976 the game was becoming deeply unpopular, loathed by much of the rest of the country. Crowd violence at home and abroad (eg England games) helped to turn thousands of those who might be tempted into armchair viewers, if that. We missed out again by only playing top class clubs on a regular basis as football across the country began to nosedive into its greatest unpopularity. 

Interestingly, although Fewers like to seize upon our disappearing support through three successive relegations, the 4th division's lowest two seasons for support in its existence were the two seasons following our promotion out of it in 1984. 

To suffer an unprecedented "trauma" of three successive relegations and play two seasons of 4th division football at the same time as football was at it's least popular and support nationwide was at its nadir was bloody unfortunate / typical for us, and is the context that Fewers always neglect to include, or simply don't understand, when saying how massive their support was in the Banana pub league (when football's popularity, and attendances, across the country, the game and the divisions, was the polar opposite of the game in 1983 and 4).

Wolves' support dropped lower than ours, when they were in the 4th in the 80s (a greater decline from bigger crowds than ours during the good times). Cardiff's attendances in the 4th were thinner still, sub 3k average in more than one season).

Our support was ok, in the circumstances, more than ok, and only less than theirs, Rovers,' for one of those dismal seasons: the first season down in the 4th, when we were 92nd for a week or two. And they were a division higher than us, chasing promotion/having a good season. 

So, in conclusion: we're more bigger-er than Norwich; they're more bigger than Northwich. 

Good article, the buzz-words in the 80's , as I remember were......the missing millions .

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33 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Love the newspaper clipping - where did you find that?

Came across this a while ago, from late 80s I'd guess - not sure why we never used it:

 

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I put that up by mistake. 

Funny, though, Bill "Artful" Dodger going on about a lack of support, and the "fickle" support, at Eastville. As the letter writer above suggests, if they had some level of home support (instead of going to away games in tens of thousand) they might've still owned Eastville, and, like, built new stands, like we have done (and almost every other football club has done), instead of burning their stands (like we also have done. Burnt their stands).

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7 hours ago, Buster Footman's T shirt said:

They punch horses don't they?.....

Surely 'Only fools punch horses'?

 

'Smack a pony with a right hook

Headbutt windows on the van

Preach pure delusion

every bloody season

Cus sister, you're my mam

Where we both come from is a mystery

Now every bugger supports the City

A Billionaire owner who ain't got no bread

God, why wasn't I born a City red?'

 

I thank you! :thumbsup:

 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Surely 'Only fools punch horses'?

 

'Smack a pony with a right hook

Headbutt windows on the van

Preach pure delusion

every bloody season

Cus sister, you're my mam

Where we both come from is a mystery

Now every bugger supports the City

A Billionaire owner who ain't got no bread

God, why wasn't I born a City red?'

 

I thank you! :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Very good! Just wondering though, in keeping with the zeitgeist, should this not end with something like

Na Na Na Na Na..... YOU C NTS!! 

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41 minutes ago, City Rocker said:

Very good! Just wondering though, in keeping with the zeitgeist, should this not end with something like

Na Na Na Na Na..... YOU C NTS!! 

 

17 minutes ago, One man went.... said:

Good work..

No Investment,  No ground to see.

No money spent, Babestation for free

Blue and shite , We know we're broke

We punch horses it's no joke.

 

 

Bravo, absolutely superb!

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Can't be arsed to do it properly! 

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2 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Never forget.................. "The Premier League of Rich Clubs"

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Good grief! Even the media fell for it! Why did it take Bristol City fans with access to Google just a few minutes to realise this was just not gonna happen ?! 

Just where is Bristol Rovers FC now after their “similar backing to Chelsea or Manchester City” ???????

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