my first ever game, got passed down to the front sit on the wall.Well in 1954/55 we played Arsenal to a draw 3-3 there was well over 42 thousand just managed to sneak in before they closed the gates queued for what seemed hours
57,000 v Everton in 1968, well it felt like it
No, that was Liverpool, me and Dad always said that was usWas that the famous 42002! Always fascinated me how there were 2 more than the capacity
I remember decent crowds in The FA Cup replays against Arsenal in the early 70s at Filbert Street, went to Highbury when we drew and both games at Home and I think it was Sammels who scored the winner for them (signed for us eventually) but the ground was packed out…
Good old days when we had regular sell outs unlike the 80s with the terrible attendances…
Sammels played for us that match.I remember decent crowds in The FA Cup replays against Arsenal in the early 70s at Filbert Street, went to Highbury when we drew and both games at Home and I think it was Sammels who scored the winner for them (signed for us eventually) but the ground was packed out…
Good old days when we had regular sell outs unlike the 80s with the terrible attendances…
I remember going to the 6th round game at home to Arsenal in Spring 71 - we were in charge of Div 2, they were heading for the Double. Again, I think the official attendance was 42,002. Anyhow, I got to go in the Wing Stand, I remember the first view of the ground as I walked up the steps, it was close to kick off, sunny afternoon, and all you could see, all around the Filbert Street End, the Popular and the Kop, were faces, thousands of faces - no necks, no arms, no torsos, just faces. Heaven knows what the actual attendance was.I remember decent crowds in The FA Cup replays against Arsenal in the early 70s at Filbert Street, went to Highbury when we drew and both games at Home and I think it was Sammels who scored the winner for them (signed for us eventually) but the ground was packed out…
Good old days when we had regular sell outs unlike the 80s with the terrible attendances…
For some reason I remember Sammels scoring against us, must have been a league match, great old days sneaking in the grounds as a nipper…Sammels moved to us in 72. He played against us in the two matches in 71 where Rodney had a perfectly good goal disallowed at their place
I don't think Sammels played in the re-play in 1971Sammels moved to us in 72. He played against us in the two matches in 71 where Rodney had a perfectly good goal disallowed at their place
looks very familiar…Amazing photos...the amount of people sat on the roof
Here's a link to the tweet, in case anyone wants to zoom in.
I thought it was the pop side that the seats put in the end of that season to reduce the capacity down to 34kThink you’re thinking of the 1975 trilogy. 0-0 at their place where most of us were hunted in the Clock End for all of the match.
Back to our and bastard Radford scored in ET. Fortunately the Birch got a great headed equaliser mins before the end in front of a delirious Kop. Back again at FS where the last near 40000 crowd ( yes probably more) packed in to watch the bastard score the winner again at the end of ET.
The following year the capacity was cut to 34000 due to seating in the FS end.
When it wasn’t all ticket like in these games there is no doubt there were far more than the official figure