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Man Utd visited Eastville on Good Friday, 1975, so clearly the attendance was less than it might've been what with the Tote End being at mass that afternoon.

If I recall kreckly, Man Utd drew 28k at AG that season, and 19k at Eastville. We are the Many, they are The Few.

It’s almost exactly like Tommy Doc's Man Utd and the Red Army rampaging around the Second Division in 74/5.

Joey might need to draw upon some of that Nietzsche he used to read over these ensuing ten minutes or so ....

blame? Or lamp?

Manchester is defiantly independent and separate and also assuredly confident in their own independence (from London/the rest of the country). And confident in their own cultural equality, or supremacy over, even, London. Liverpool the same. It wouldn't enter their thinking to hear a chant at Chelsea or Arsenal and then adapt it for themselves. I see the fellas in our singing bit - and in previous years/decades - and, bless 'em they do try, but they do not have this independent state of mind. They don't have the confidence. Or the wit/imagination.

JET and Baldock were third top scoring "duo" in the country that difficult season. Joe Bryan's goal v Man Utd is a class above both goals you mention there, though, in my humble ....

Thought you were on the Few forum?

Grounds were empty and most people were preoccupied with the pandemic when LJ was fired. There wasn't even a 'Johnson Out' bedsheet to be seen. What did for Lee was 1. Going backwards (down the table, not improving) 2. The dismal spectacle and dire quality of football, especially at home, and 3. The players were no longer responding to Lee, as close inspection of the drinks breaks brought in last summer when the season restarted revealed (Lee spent them berating the 4th official while his opposite number was amongst his players giving them instruction).

I am: Big Nige, thanks but sod off. Time to bring Ranieri in.

A lot wanted Pearson now everyone criticising what he is doing. What a shock (if we win)

Puppy still playing Old Harry/wrecking yer sleep?

Not even a draw in June and July

They will keep coming from looped crosses to the back stick, where Chris Martin will inexplicably always be in acres of space, and where he will power headers back across goal into the far corner of the opposition net, past the despairing dive of each and every Championship keeper this season.

It's not much of a town, is it?

Lam Out. Well, it worked for Quince

Nice to see the old Bris rugby club hasn't been completely lost ....

Bracey thinks this?

We must try this at AG ....

That does ring a bell, Phil. That could be him ....

There was one, about six years ago .... Les someone or other ....

We have some "normal" fans?

Something's afoot here because it's broadly in line with John Major's "condemn a little more, understand a little less" back to basics thing. This kid has done something wrong, it has just been discovered, he's been told to "say sorry," and he has reluctantly said "I'm sorry I've been caught," and he's been sent to his room. At some point he will be allowed out of his room, and normal service will resume.

Yeah, schoolboy error. Don't know what I was thinking.

How many did we have in Division 4? Not many, but then not (as) many went to football anywhere around the country in the early 80s because football was very unpopular, reviled even, and nothing like the fashionable thing it is today (which trickles down from the PL through the divisions), something they'll all take in to consideration on g4s chat when making their unbiased, unselective comparisons I do not doubt. Wrexham in the National (non) league in 2019, for example, averaged more than Rovers in Division 3 a couple of times in the 80s. Some other average attendances from around that time 1982/83: Arsenal, 24,000 Chelsea, 12,000 (in 2nd division) Everton, 20,200 Leeds, 15,900 (2nd div) Liverpool, 34000 Newcastle, 17000 Man City, 26000 Man Utd, 41,000 Sheff Weds, 16k (in 2nd). Cardiff, 7,036 (when they were promoted, from Div 3). So as we can see, if we are inclined to, crowds were considerably smaller everywhere, when we were in Div 4. Everywhere except Bristol Rovers, interestingly, where crowds around 82-83 were just a little bit smaller than they are nowadays. But then their crowds never have been big enough to have been significantly smaller at some other point.