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LH
August 10, 2017, 9:14pm

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How would it be one of the biggest attendances at Anfield if they weren't at Anfield? Are you Towncryer in disguise?
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August 10, 2017, 9:36pm
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Have made this point before, but we took something like 21,000 to Anfield. It was an unticketed game so they ahd no idea how many were coming, or were just too bloody lazy to think that a 3rd Division club would bring a sizeable support with them.

We were some of the first to arrive and had to wait until about 1.15pm for just two gates to open on the Anfield Road end. I spoke to one of the police outside and he thought I was on drugs when I told him how many were coming. The whole of the Anfield Road stand, half the Kemlyn Road stand and a never before seen overflow of some 2,000 in the Kop - something those lovable Scousers took offence to, some of them with Stanleys.

I've always maintained that this turn out from Town was probably the largest ever travelling support seen at Anfield as restrictions since then, and clubs just sending out so many tickets, means away contingents are nothing like what they used to be. To put it into context we were Liverpool's fifth highest home crowd of the season with 49,000 plus fans there, only the visits of Spurs, MUFC, Leeds and Everton drew more. Liverpool played Bury in the 4th round at Anfield and 33,000 turned out to watch it, 16,000 less than our game, and that was for a local derby. We certainly knew how to travel in those days, and good to see us doing so again.


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August 10, 2017, 9:44pm
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All these stats about followings only reinforces that in my mind when the new stadium comes along and that we're hopefully in a higher league we could pull 10-12 thousand every week.


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August 10, 2017, 9:45pm
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I'm not disputing what you've written, but the notion that we took 21,000 to Anfield that night does seem a little hard to believe.


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It was an afternoon and you had to be there - i ended up in the Kop and it was an interesting experience!


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August 10, 2017, 10:09pm

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Crusty took the Kop laugh out loud if it had wheels it went seen nothing like it
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Have they started the cup draw yet ?


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August 10, 2017, 10:15pm
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Away at Barnsley if we get through


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A good old school Yorkshire away day if we got through, happy with that.
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