What Was The Attendance For The Derby??

[King Kev]

I want to update our Fixture List but can't find out what the crowd was on Wednesday night.

The OS says 47228 [urlnp=http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Match-reports/2010/November/City-v-United]LINK[/urlnp]

The BBC says 47210 [urlnp=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9163093.stm]LINK[/urlnp]

The Premier League says 47679 (which I think would be a record?) [urlnp=http://www.premierleague.com/page/MatchReports/0,,12306~51790,00.html]LINK[/urlnp]


How the hell can 3 different sites show 3 different attendance figures for the same match, and which one is most likely to be accurate?

[Wonderwall]

That is typical ha ha.. surely they all get their info from the same source?

[Dameerto]

Maybe one figure is using tickets issued, and one is using bodies through the 'turnstiles'? Just speculating.

[King Kev]

Maybe one figure is using tickets issued, and one is using bodies through the 'turnstiles'? Just speculating.

What about the 3rd figure?

[gillie]

Maybe one figure is using tickets issued, and one is using bodies through the 'turnstiles'? Just speculating.

What about the 3rd figure?

Thats from a little guy whose job it is to count heads during the game.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

Maybe one figure is using tickets issued, and one is using bodies through the 'turnstiles'? Just speculating.

What about the 3rd figure?

That's a limited edition figure : )

[Dameerto]

Third figure is based on programs sold... (no, Im not being serious)

[mr_nool]

(47228 + 47210 + 47679) / 3 = 47372

edit: toddlers and small children make up for the 0.332

[john@staustell]

The SKYTEXT summary the next day gave the 47,679 figure. But as the OS said 47,228, it seems every other source - like KK - held off to get the right figure.

47,679 would indeed be a record, but I just cant see us suddenly getting an extra 200+ in with the segregation etc for this match, over our previous bests.

Mind you the OS thought the Poznan game kicked off at 7pm, so.........................

[gillie]

We can't have had record coz the rags entitlement was reduced coz of persistant standing.

[Im_Spartacus]

We can't have had record coz the rags entitlement was reduced coz of persistant standing.

Plus, about 30% of the boxes were empty, a good 20/30% of the directors box (sad that they couldnt even give away the tix) plus there were a lot of empty single seats all over the stadium.

I would be very very surprised if the number of people actually in the stadium was anywhere near 47000 - and whilst it might have been reported as such, it was very very far from an attendance record

[King Kev]

If anybody got a programme today can you let me know what they put the attendance as for Wednesday night please, I'll use that.

[Brad]

In todays match programme it says the attendance for the derby was 47,228

[King Kev]

That'll do for me. Cheers Brad.

[Brad]

No probs.

[craigmcfc]

How could you doubt our OS figures. Shame on you