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24k at ayresome was a decent crowd in the early 70s... how many at the Oxford promo game is anyones guess
 
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I did think of the Oxford 1967 game that would have been over 40k home fans - I think the official attendance was 42k. I was not old enough to go to games then, but reading reports the last 10 games of the season a real head of steam was built up with 5k going to away games which was bigger then than now.

I was thinking Man United and Man City FAC cup games 1970-1972 - Arsenal in 1977, Bolton and Orient in 1978, Barnsley and Wolves in 1981 with regards Ayresome.
 
Officially there are now no tickets to buy for Chelsea game. I hope the Club are helping those who have tickets stuck in baskets e.g. where applicable asking them to come to the Ticket Office to pay.
 
Redwurzel said:
Officially there are now no tickets to buy for Chelsea game. I hope the Club are helping those who have tickets stuck in baskets e.g. where applicable asking them to come to the Ticket Office to pay.
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I don’t get the stuck in basket thing, I thought they timed out after about 10 mins?
 
Redwurzel said:
I did think of the Oxford 1967 game that would have been over 40k home fans - I think the official attendance was 42k. I was not old enough to go to games then, but reading reports the last 10 games of the season a real head of steam was built up with 5k going to away games which was bigger then than now.
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I think you're right about the official attendance, but it was a real scrum getting into the Holgate - the usual squeezes and people climbing over the wall from the hospital..... Couldn't move once you were on the terrace. Still, what a great atmosphere and result!
 
CuddyWifter said:
What , even when we got 40-50 thousand in the 50s?
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No segregation in 50's and 60's, think I read somewhere that segregation was first introduced at Ayresome around 1976....though obviously groups of fans used to congregate together prior to that.
 
39,683 Boro v Oxford 1967.
Took the afternoon off school to join the queue for the Holgate
Doubt there was 683 Oxford fans there that night
 
TeaCider said:
Not sure on that, I can't find the official breakdown but Premier League away teams were entitled to 10% of capacity and it was a festive fixture.

If Norwich took the full 10% of that, there were 31,352 home fans.

That could be beaten on Saturday if segregation and card troubles haven't hamstrung us.
I'm expecting there to still be thousands of seats used for segregation though.
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Boxing day wasn't it? I was there. I remember Danny Mills winding them right up.

There was lots of people not happy as they had just turned up on the day expecting to get tickets.
 
Alzi said:
Boxing day wasn't it? I was there. I remember Danny Mills winding them right up.

There was lots of people not happy as they had just turned up on the day expecting to get tickets.
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28th of December, our Boxing Day match was away, which probably made it easier for everyone to turn up.
 
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