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**** poorly. Back in the 30s the Dell had 50,000+ regularly.

 

No it didn't, the record is about 31,000. The club record is 32,151 at St Mary's.

 

Although I'd like to know how many actually got in for Channon's testimonial.

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Only gaps yesterday were in Corporate section in Itchen' date=' Northam side and a few empty boxes plus segregated area[/quote']

 

And Walsall sent back around 100 tickets.

 

What we shouldn't forget is this was sold out to Saints fans a week before the game. If we had the capacity to continue selling tickets for another 7-or-so days who knows what we may have sold - for a third division match!

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biggest attendance for a 3rd division game in the history of english football?

 

No chance! You don't even need to go back that far to see it beaten, just go back last season and Leeds United on four occasions in League One beat Saints attendance on Saturday (helped of course by having a larger ground), including over 38k against Bristol Rovers and 36k against Huddersfield.

 

Then if you were to go back to the 1930's to 1970's you will find some huge attendance's even as low as the 3rd tier.

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Im just as impressed that over 17,000 turned out for Sunday's match - that's more than the number that regularly turned up when we were last in the championship and effortlessly more than the pathetic 3000-5000 that is reported to have attended Brighton's victory parade.

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Me and stVince1966 most beer ever consumed in the history of english football in covent garden night before a match ?

 

Me for the most obnoxious toxic fumes emitted during a long haul flight (on the way back home on Sunday...) Strangely the seat behind me emptied shortly after we reached cruising altitude and the pressue differential took hold

 

Fish & Chip Lunch, Real Ale, Lager at Ground, Real Ale all evening, Chicken Patia, Onion bajies, Real Ale before boarding flight.

 

Jokes aside, Saturday the crowd was awesome, was proud to have been there It's as Simple as that

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That game has got to be the most saints fans at any game (at St Mary's anyway) because for other games that have sold out the away fans have always had more tickets.

Got to be close (apart from Le Tiss testimonial) but Steaua Bucuresti in the UEFA and Milton Keynes in the JPT have to be up there too!

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No it didn't, the record is about 31,000. The club record is 32,151 at St Mary's.

 

Although I'd like to know how many actually got in for Channon's testimonial.

 

Yep, I was at both those record games. Those were the 'official' figures!!

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Strangely the seat behind me emptied shortly after we reached cruising altitude and the pressue differential took hold

 

Gawd, you must have been evil...

It's funny, no matter how cultured and refined one tries to be there's just no stopping it, is there? Burton beers (e.g. Pedigree) always add an interesting note to the bouquet..

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No it didn't, the record is about 31,000. The club record is 32,151 at St Mary's.

 

Although I'd like to know how many actually got in for Channon's testimonial.

 

The old DELL crowd record was 31,044 .

I know 'cos I woz one of them. October 8th 1969 v. Man Utd - we lost 0-3 although a draw would have been a fairer result.

 

the prev. "best" was 30856 . April 30th 1949 v. West.Brom. 1-1 draw and we missed a pen. ´They got promoted to Div.One

and we stayed put on 3rd in Div.2 The season of the great disaster. 8 points ahead of the league at Easter we lost almost every game after Wayman was injured v. Tottenham..

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The old DELL crowd record was 31,044 .

I know 'cos I woz one of them. October 8th 1969 v. Man Utd - we lost 0-3 although a draw would have been a fairer result.

 

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anyone who wasn't there that day is a plastic,JCL supporter :smug: You had to be fit to survive that sort of crowd on the terraces, most of today's fans would have heart attacks when they suddenly got catapulted 5 rows forward when we scored (not that we did on that day mind you).

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Me for the most obnoxious toxic fumes emitted during a long haul flight (on the way back home on Sunday...) Strangely the seat behind me emptied shortly after we reached cruising altitude and the pressue differential took hold

 

Fish & Chip Lunch, Real Ale, Lager at Ground, Real Ale all evening, Chicken Patia, Onion bajies, Real Ale before boarding flight.

 

Jokes aside, Saturday the crowd was awesome, was proud to have been there It's as Simple as that

 

Was that you on the goalline with the Dubai Saints flag?

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anyone who wasn't there that day is a plastic,JCL supporter :smug: You had to be fit to survive that sort of crowd on the terraces, most of today's fans would have heart attacks when they suddenly got catapulted 5 rows forward when we scored (not that we did on that day mind you).

 

Absolutely correct !

..and it was very painful if you happened to be leaning on a bar in the first place.

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