3007 is still extremely poor for a first team game; Utd got more English fans travelling to the US for a pre-season tour. City fans are the self styled best fans in the world but Old Trafford would never be that empty whatever the level of the game.Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
As it happens I was 1 of the 3007 and what you conveniently forget to mention is that the crowd of 3007 was for an Auto Windscreens Shield game when we were in Division 2, and that Joe Royle played mainly his fringe players that night. With no disrespect to the lower division clubs and the AWS, it isn't a competition that is going to get City fans excited or many other fans for that matter, in much the same way as the Full Members Cup failed to attract decent crowds at any ground when it was in existence.
What's the relevance of this question? It was 61 years ago!
You know it's at Maine Rd but would easily have been beaten by now if we didn't have all seater stadiums. When Utd extend OT over the railway then it'll go, so within the next decade.
Incidentally, when we were in division 2 and you were in division 1 our attendances were 15,000 better than yours, but we only have glory hunters don't we!? ;-)
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