Over 28000 there!!

The single ‘guess the attendance’ participant was so far off the scale that questions are asked “are they even a Leicester supporter “
 
It seems there were lots of young families with kids perhaps going for the first time. With that crowd has to be, and how wonderful. Perhaps kids seeing their first game and we won 6-2. They won’t see, care or know about the usual crap we go on about.
To put it in perspective in 1974 we played Spuds at home in the 3rd round. In those days as we know the cup was everything. One of the biggest crowds so far that season. Just over 28000. The cup now is a spent force yet today 28000+ turned up.
Funny old game isn’t it as Greasvie just to say.
 
LGFOX said:
It seems there were lots of young families with kids perhaps going for the first time. With that crowd has to be, and how wonderful. Perhaps kids seeing their first game and we won 6-2. They won’t see, care or know about the usual crap we go on about.
To put it in perspective in 1974 we played Spuds at home in the 3rd round. In those days as we know the cup was everything. One of the biggest crowds so far that season. Just over 28000. The cup now is a spent force yet today 28000+ turned up.
Funny old game isn’t it as Greasvie just to say.
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Maybe because they wouldn't normally be able to get tickets for games - at least not at affordable prices - so an opportunity to sample a PL type experience.

28,000 in 1974 for Spurs was a bit low and I don't recall why. Don't think it was weather related. It was 37,000 for the next round, the Fulham replay.
 
LGFOX said:
It seems there were lots of young families with kids perhaps going for the first time. With that crowd has to be, and how wonderful. Perhaps kids seeing their first game and we won 6-2. They won’t see, care or know about the usual crap we go on about.
To put it in perspective in 1974 we played Spuds at home in the 3rd round. In those days as we know the cup was everything. One of the biggest crowds so far that season. Just over 28000. The cup now is a spent force yet today 28000+ turned up.
Funny old game isn’t it as Greasvie just to say.
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Totally agree. And that scoreline - 6-2. It was the same result when another young boy went to watch Leicester for the first time. Leicester 6 Leeds 2 on the opening day of the 1948/49 season.

Not me. This lad:

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Why would Top want to expand the stadium
They gave tickets away and there was still room to get another 3,000 in
The ship has sailed there is not currently an appetite for more capacity
What we need is safe standing , a decent side and a change at the board level 😊
 
Whuru said:
Why would Top want to expand the stadium
They gave tickets away and there was still room to get another 3,000 in
The ship has sailed there is not currently an appetite for more capacity
What we need is safe standing , a decent side and a change at the board level 😊
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We could extend it so Top can get more of his entourage in.
Then again it will be a long while till we win anything so perhaps not.
 
Wigston_Fox said:
Lots of kids there, which is good news 👍
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Reminds me of when I was a lad, traveling to Filbert Street in a smoke filled Corporation football special bus, queuing for the turnstile with my monies in my hand, the smell of the hotdogs and once inside being passed over head to the front wall to be told you can't sit there son. We traveled to the ground with my Dad and Uncles and not a bit of bother. Then after the final whistle travel to my nans house for a huge mug if hot tea made with condensed milk, then read about the game in the Leicester buff. Special days those, I loved it.
 
Whuru said:
Why would Top want to expand the stadium
They gave tickets away and there was still room to get another 3,000 in
The ship has sailed there is not currently an appetite for more capacity
What we need is safe standing , a decent side and a change at the board level 😊
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And claret and blue shirts?
 
Whuru said:
Why would Top want to expand the stadium
They gave tickets away and there was still room to get another 3,000 in
The ship has sailed there is not currently an appetite for more capacity
What we need is safe standing , a decent side and a change at the board level 😊
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I know what you’re saying but your lot are a good example of how to double your ground and still fill it. Might be v cheap ST and full of kids doing that nauseating ‘hammer cross’ sign but they fill the ground. We only want to increase it by 25% not 100%
 
Sammy George said:
Not to mention then sitting on wet seats & water dripping on my head. I thought I was being tortured by the CIA!
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If I was a st holder in SK2 row A id be complaining to the club about the amount of money charged for sitting in a moss covered seat with a constant dripping from above.
 
I'm not usually cold at the footy despite being a temp wimp, but the coldest I ever have been was Blackburn at home in the early 90s when Steve thompson double touched a penalty so it was disallowed. An incredibly dull 0-0 draw watched from the upper reaches of the DD.
 
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