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Sorry for the extra thread but this bollocks keeps cropping up in different threads so:

City pre (Thaksin) takeover.

City's average attendance during Pearce's season of utter misery, before Thaksin took over at City was down on previous seasons: 39,997. We had 3 or 4 35, 36,000 attendances round about mid winter time, lowest being Fulham at home: 35,776 we finished 14th I think.

On Jan 1st of that season we scored 2 at home v Everton ATT 39,836. WE DIDN'T SCORE ANOTHER HOME GOAL. Attendances went up.

On 28 April we lost 0-2 to Aston Villa in front of 40,799 people, who hadn't seen a goal since January. They hadn't seen a trophy since 1976.


City team that day: Isaksson, Onuoha (Jihai 46), Dunne, Distin, Ball, Hamann (Sinclair 68), Barton, Ireland, Vassell, Samaras, Mpenza.
Subs Not Used: Weaver, Dabo, Trabelsi.

On New Years Day 2011. The famous Liverpool played Bolton Wanderers at Anfield. Att: 35,400

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/ind ... c=268447.0

'Odd. It didn't look that low - there were a couple of empty seats dotted around, and the corner of the annie road was nearly empty (didn't see the upper bit). If that was 35.000, how low was the attendance for the dead game against Utrecht? It looked even less. And they gave tickets away for that one...'

'Wow, that's nearly half a million pounds in receipts! Might be too much of a risk to keep Roy after all.
Bring Kenny in, and you've pretty much guaranteed capacity for all home games.
What a dilemma for the owners. (sarcasm)'

'which game in 2004 got that low an attendance - cant remember of any ged's games have such a shit attendance'

'There's two games v. portsmouth with low attendances.

17.3.04 (Wed. night) 34,663 v. Portsmouth
14.12.04 (Tues. night) 35,064 v. Portsmouth

So nothing new then.


In 2011 Anfield held over 44,000 (highest att 44,923).

In AUGUST that season, (2nd game of the season) Att v West Brom= 41,194.

Empty seats, 2nd game of the NEW season= 3780.

For a home game, in a NEW, FRESH SEASON, the multi title, multi European Cup winning, worldwide, history ridden, gigantic, title deserving, legendary, club had 3,780 empty seats & pulled precisely 395 more fans, than historyless, Johnny Come Lately City managed at the end of a season where we hadn't scored a fucking goal at home for 3 months.

Liverpool team the day they pulled 35k.

25 Reina
02 G Johnson
05 Agger (Kyrgiakos 89)
06 Aurelio
37 Skrtel
04 Raul Meireles (Gerrard 21)
17 Maxi
21 Lucas
09 Torres
18 Kuyt
24 Ngog (Cole 82)

Fucking good job they signed Suarez & Sturridge.

Oh but look, end of the following season after they 'BRING KENNY IN' :

May 1st 2012 Fulham Home Att, 40,106. But that's LESS than our pre takeover Villa att !!

Oh wait, look at this:

May 8th 2012 CHELSEA H 40, 721 BUT THAT'S V CHELSEA & IS STILL LESS THAN WE GOT, PRE TAKEOVER V VILLA, AFTER US NOT SCORING A HOME GOAL FOR 3 MONTHS.


But how can this be ? We are so much smaller, only have Johnny Come Latelys supporting us & have no history.

Yes we sometimes have empty seats. We will have more empty seats & higher attendances when the new stand is built & more empty seats & higher still attendances when the next stand after that is built. Also, their away area is almost always sold out, ours is hardly ever sold out & City fans buy up the tickets (as v Villa), yet still, over the years, Liverpool have regularly been below 45k ish capacity at Anfield. With all that worldwide fame & istree.

They have been buzzing this season because they did well & are close to a title. We had a bit of a dip mid winter & lacked some of our usual enthusiasm. Fair play to Liverpool for their efforts this season. Liverpool have had decent attendances over the years but have failed to fill their ground on plenty of occasions, in spite of all their trophies, worldwide support & history.


We don't need any lectures in loyalty or history or attendances from those fucking bitter, jealous, wankers amongst their supoort. They are full of shit, as I have proved here, & they can just fuck off

Love stuff like this

Quality ted.

Other fans throw shit at us the whole time and some of it is right.

However, these things always apply to the accusers as well in some form....

The only thing that sets us apart from these horrible cunts is the fact that we are never the ones who sling the shit. we seem to have spent most of our history defending ourselves.

I think that, in itself, tells you everything you need to know.

Good work Ted,

The scouse cocks seem to have gone quiet around their own 'fantastic' support recently for some reason.

The same ones singing that they would win the league for a month or two...

I haven't seen much else around their incendiary fuelled coach welcoming for a while .. Odd that.

Instead their propaganda machines (ran from Thailand it seems) have started to spew out nonsense about Gods Own club.

One 'i dont believe it - they're still selling tickets on the day' when returned villa tickets came on sale - its lies emanating from 6000 miles away - they don't see the fucking irony though as they're too engrossed in their own lies to cover up the embarrassment of their own behaviour over the last few months.

I know a few good scouse lads who couldn't believe where they were/may end up if we screw up - but are over joyed with the season they've had and getting into the CL

A couple others cant handle it and the only difference between them and the rags is the crest. Strangely enough - these don't come from Liverpool ...

Great stuff. I wish they would state this on TV but too many scouse pundits for that. £400 million spent on players too since they won the Champs league.

Great work. I'd just add that in all the years of them winning everything and only once in 17 years finishing lower than 2nd, (won European cup), they never once topped the average attendance charts and rarely, if ever, averaged over 40k.

Nice one, Ted. I think next season, when they once more return to irrelevancy, their crowds will decrease to their normal levels. What won't decrease is their overweening senses of self-entitlement.

Quality, quality, quality post Ted. Anyone want to post this in RAWK?

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They have the best balanced side of the premier league. Sure it took 700m to assemble but they have the 2nd most goals and the 2nd best defense. It's kinda what we want to achieve.

Second most goals? How's that for fucking denial.

I think being a nearly club is alot worse than just being shit like we were. Anyone supporting a club that has been near the top and never been through what we have been through as fans talks to me about support, attendances or how unfair it is we have money I just laugh in their fucking faces.

I was listening to Fighting Talk this morning and a Chelsea fan mentioned the 'everyone wants them to win it' bullshit. He pointed out that no one who watched them in the eighties would want them to win it - a team that won everything and yet were so boring they forced a change of rules outlawing the back pass.