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[whispering dave]

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307 Likes for 182 Posts Originally Posted by whispering dave
I think Morecambe brought more than 34. I was sat in E block with a perfect view of them. That was the only game in my life that I ever remember counting the away fans and I'm 95% sure they had just over 40 fans there, 42 or 43 I'm almost certain.


Official number was 38, IIRC.



Either 4 Morecambe fans bunked in through the corner of New Road/Brook Road or I counted wrong on the night or the accuracy of my memory is fading with age.

 

[Salford Bee]

To add another dimension, can anyone remember a lower attendance of away fans at GP than the 34 Morecambe fans on a Tuesday evening a few years ago? I seem to recall in the 4th div days of the 70s there were very pathetic turnouts from the likes of Darlo, Rochdale and the like on the then open ER terrace.

Accrington had 92 on a Saturday that season. While more in numbers I think it's more pathetic than Morecambe given that it's a much longer trip on a Tuesday night.

 

[nick logan]

Didn't we take 42 fans to Swansea on a Tuesday night when we lost 6-0? Think Downes was caretaker manager.

yes about that, shocking.

 

[RodBee]

yes about that, shocking.

Wasn't it on a Friday immediately following Lewington being told he would not be managing the team the following season.

could have been 7-0 if Stephen Hunt had not cleared off the line with about 20 minutes to go!

 

[nick logan]

Wasn't it on a Friday immediately following Lewington being told he would not be managing the team the following season.

could have been 7-0 if Stephen Hunt had not cleared off the line with about 20 minutes to go!

I thought it was a tuesday ??

 

[tw13]

I recall a visiting Italian club in the Anglo Italian Cup in the early 1990's had about 6 followers .
All on the top tier of the 'Wendy House'
And one of them kept standing up in the front row, shouting and waving and threatening to take on all-comers in the New Road !!
Very funny.

Bari, I think!

 

[South Acton Bee]

Swansea was a Tuesday as we played Luton on the Thursday