
Originally Posted by
mahatmafoot
Probably like many Blades through the years I was brainwashed into thinking the Pigs average support was thousands in front of ours. I was told all about every attendance in the 40's and 50's being 50000+. As they had the best trophy record and a magnificent ground I took this for granted. Then came the WWW. You can check attendances from the 1890's to yesterday. It appears that their average is a little under 2000 more than ours. If you take out their halcyon years in the late 40's/early 50's and ( ours too at the same time ) it comes down to just over 1600. An aged Blade always told me if we'd had had half what the Pigs had our attendances would be well clear of theirs.