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Made me cringe watching that draw, Mistake after mistake lol
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What a shambles of a draw - home and away ties incorrectly announced in the South section
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Everton and Liverpool both at home on the same day?
Both drawn at home in the FA Cup. They didn't urine around with fixture times and dates in those days.
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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 Raod stand, half the Kemlyn Road stand and a never before seen overflow of some 2,000 in the Kp - 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 sinc 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 highets 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.
From memory (unreliable in my case, sadly) the 'official' number quoted was 15,000....but nobody knew for sure in those days. I spoke to a copper on a horse who said (verbatim) "I've never seen anything like this...even when Man Utd come". Weren't too much fun in the Kop with my GTFC colours on, though.
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Couldn't get into the packed "Town" end so we were herded by the police into the Kop. Wouldn't like to think what would have happened if we won! Once Liverpool had the game sewn up they more or less tried to "gift" us a consolation goal but I remember Tony Ford in particular making a complete hash of his "golden ticket" opportunity.
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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.
We took maybe more to Coventry in the 1972-3 FAC 3rd round tie, their highest gate of the season.
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I was in the Kop too, got thrown all over the place
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We took maybe more to Coventry in the 1972-3 FAC 3rd round tie, their highest gate of the season.
That gate was 38,000 with 12,000 from town ( official numbers ) BUT Many town fans in other stands my mam went to this one with dad and she never went to games.
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Pete, hate to disagree but if anyone can find the GET for that day it tells of every single coach in Lincolnshire being booked for that day, plus three (?) special trains and thousands in cars. It was 20,000 plus travelling from Grimsby.
Coventry had 7 gates in the First Division that year of under 20,000. We would not have been as big a draw to any Coventry fan as any one of those 7 sides, so to get from under 20,000 to 38,000 takes around the 20,000 mark, not 12,000.
Other Coventry gates that season include Arsenal 24,670 (they won the double 2 seasons prior to that so would have been very attractive opponents; Chelsea 20,295; Spurs 26,854; Leeds 24,475. We were a much bigger draw than those clubs, all of whom had been in European Finals in the previous 5 years.
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I am not saying 12,000 was the total like I said we had fans in most stands, The figure was given as 12,000 as that was the amount that stand could hold I guess, If my mam went to a match which was a first there must have been a lot
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