nottsblue wrote:best and Japan in front of even less. The fans couldn’t give two fucks
Now or late 90s when they changed it?
Before that, when it was Intercontinental Cup, the stadium was packed. Year after year.
Check for example Porto vs Penarol in 87 or 88, a snowy classic. In 89, 40.000 Colombians went to see them with Milan, many of the travel expenses being paid by the Cartels (allegedly).
The other one, if I recall, until moving it to Monte Carlo in 98 was played in two legs. I think the Rags couldn't play in Belgrade in early 90s because of the war? They had two-legged games with a few exceptions.
I think it's quite a different perspective here how they are seen in vs outside England. But I wouldn't put the Community Shield in the same category as those two.