amberchoc
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Post by amberchoc on Jan 4, 2023 23:22:14 GMT
According to one of the local papers, Sutton's record home attendance to January 1950 was 5,020. Unless some of the local league derbies with Tooting or Carshalton thereafter beat that which is unlikely though not impossible, NYD's gate is probably a record league one for GGL. Unless it was between 1950 & 1958 when i first started to follow them then i'm sure you are correct. I think Carshalton were in a different league during those years so its unlikely to be them. Tooting in the fifties would be the only possibility, I think. We were in the Athenian League with them up until the end of season 55/56, after which they switched to the Isthmian. They were extremely well-supported matches back then. When the teams played an Amateur Cup replay at GGL in 1957, a gate of 8,500 was quoted (although possibly an estimate at the time). I don’t know about league gates up to 1956 though. One thing we can say, I reckon, is that the attendance on Sunday - 5,049 - is our biggest home gate in any competition since Coventry.
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Post by FaultyyearsaU on Jan 5, 2023 10:04:55 GMT
The match might officially have been a sellout but there were still quite a few “no shows”. I’d guess there were something like 30 unoccupied seats in the away end, and there were at least eight empty seats in my side of the main stand too. I fully anticipated that for the 3 games over Christmas, a team of stallions foaming at the bridle, something akin to the beasts on top of the Brandenburg Gate would be required to prevent me from collecting my ticket from "the grey cabin in the car park" at Crawley Town and parking my bottom on my lovingly polished season ticket seat in the stand for Gillingham and Wimbledon. As it transpired, a rather wheezy mouse with limp would have been quite sufficient to prevent me from getting anywhere close to even getting my head off of the pillow for 6 straight days, let alone attend a football match! Boy, I was unwell (I was latterly swab tested to see what virus it actually was- almost certainly flu) and I'm in absolutely no hurry to feel like that again! My point being, given that the NHS is at breaking point (broken?!) with the current Covid/Flu pandemic I suspect there were countless "No Shows" for this same reason over Christmas and the New Year period. An unbelievable return of 9 points from the 3 games certainly assisted my recovery. Well done to Matt, the team and everyone associated in not only achieving this incredible return but also for somehow managing to keep our heads above water for 4 months whilst what was once referred to as the "First Team" became anyone who owned a pair of boots! Players are back, thank goodness and boy doesn't it show. Onwards and upwards for the mighty Us in 2023!
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Post by cheshire on Jan 5, 2023 10:05:43 GMT
And presumably its only because of ground regulations that it was "only" 5049. If the ground capacity was larger would 6k plus have been possible?
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markf
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Post by markf on Jan 5, 2023 15:32:44 GMT
Unless it was between 1950 & 1958 when i first started to follow them then i'm sure you are correct. I think Carshalton were in a different league during those years so its unlikely to be them. Tooting in the fifties would be the only possibility, I think. We were in the Athenian League with them up until the end of season 55/56, after which they switched to the Isthmian. They were extremely well-supported matches back then. When the teams played an Amateur Cup replay at GGL in 1957, a gate of 8,500 was quoted (although possibly an estimate at the time). I don’t know about league gates up to 1956 though. One thing we can say, I reckon, is that the attendance on Sunday - 5,049 - is our biggest home gate in any competition since Coventry. According to local papers, the 1957 AC replay attracted a crowd of 7,000. The FA Cup tie in 1958 against T&M had a recorded attendance of 5,000. That's the won we lost 8-1. The 7,000 gate was the biggest for many a year suggesting there may have been a bigger one pre war. That may have been for another Amateur Cup tie though.
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