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Thread: 18/Jan/1992 Notts v Man U pics from County Road

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Don_ORiordan View Post
    I think they just made those numbers up back then. Have to say that’s the most packed I’ve ever been at the lane though. Couldn’t even get to my “normal” place on county road. So had to get far too close to the pipe smoking fan forever known to me as “come on Geoffrey pike”

    I think the game started a few minutes late, as there were tons of fans still outside at kick off and as always, hardly any bloody programmes available. They probably only printed 150....

    Remember having to ask a manure fan which letter was the florist score......and him telling me he was a florist fan (as well) and they were playing the Sunday.

    Funny what you remember.
    I hadn't thought about the size of the crowd in respect of it was probably the biggest crowd I've been in at a Notts home game but having checked again it was the 3-2 win at home to Florist in Dec 82 which was my biggest home crowd experienced, 2,500 more than this one.

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    Chris Short played an absolute blinder that day!

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    That day probably was the high water mark for Notts, post Sirrel. We were only 5 points behind Fword at 5pm that evening with a better defensive record and we looked good for staying up. Aside from the unbelievable queues outside at 2pm. I most remember offloading possibly my angriest every tirade of foul mouthed abuse at a football match in the direction of Mark Hughes' as he continually moaned to the ref, I absolutely hated him. Brian McClair was almost as bad. Horrible team and a horrible manager which gave them that extra edge to become as successful as they were.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ncfcog View Post
    I hadn't thought about the size of the crowd in respect of it was probably the biggest crowd I've been in at a Notts home game but having checked again it was the 3-2 win at home to Florist in Dec 82 which was my biggest home crowd experienced, 2,500 more than this one.
    v Coventry City 26,759 Easter Tue 1961, 3-0 in the old 3rd tier.
    v Man City FA Cup 25.015 6/1/62 0-1, we should have won it, Bert Trautmann did a "Steve Cherry" on us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
    v Coventry City 26,759 Easter Tue 1961, 3-0 in the old 3rd tier.
    v Man City FA Cup 25.015 6/1/62 0-1, we should have won it, Bert Trautmann did a "Steve Cherry" on us.
    Since 1960, 15 games have had bigger crowds than the 1992 Man Utd clash

    1. Sat 4/Mar/1972 34,208 v Aston Villa
    2. Sat 9/Apr/1977 32,518 v Nottingham Forest
    3. Wed 26/Dec/1973 32,310 v Nottingham Forest
    4. Sat 3/Jan/1976 31,192 v Leeds United
    5. Tue 13/Apr/1976 29,279 v Nottingham Forest
    6. Tue 27/Dec/1960 26,759 v Coventry City
    7. Sat 6/Jan/1962 25,015 v Manchester City
    8. Sat 3/Nov/1962 24,473 v Peterborough United
    9. Sat 28/Apr/1973 23,613 v Tranmere Rovers
    10. Sat 4/Dec/1982 23,552 v Nottingham Forest
    11. Tue 25/Nov/1975 23,404 v Everton
    12. Mon 18/Apr/1960 22,788 v Walsall
    13. Sat 21/Apr/1973 22,712 v Blackburn Rovers
    14. Sat 18/Feb/1961 22,292 v Grimsby Town
    15. Sat 5/May/1979 21,571 v Stoke City

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    UTM - I was overseas for all those 1970 games and missed out on some of Jimmy's best years. What happened to all the money from those 1959-61 seasons' gates and the subsequent sale of Big Tony & Jeff! Didn't get used to improve the toilet facilities that's for sure.

    I must have been at the Grimsby game and just about remember the games v our big rivals at the time, Walsall.
    Last edited by Old_pie; 19-01-2021 at 01:20 PM. Reason: Added Jimmy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
    UTM - I was overseas for all those 1970 games and missed out on some of Jimmy's best years. What happened to all the money from those 1959-61 seasons' gates and the subsequent sale of Big Tony & Jeff! Didn't get used to improve the toilet facilities that's for sure.
    Some of it was wasted on Terry Bly, I think Colin Slater mentioned in his book that Notts were hoodwinked because Coventry knew they were selling a player who was never going to recover from injury. He scored 4 goals for Notts before going to Grantham Town.

    It would have been better for the club in the long run if the success they'd had in the 1970s had come ten years earlier, with a much bigger increase in the core support on the back of the football boom that surrounded the 1966 World Cup. Instead our gates collapsed to an all time low at a time when crowds in general were going back up and by the time we got our act together, the violence on the terraces was turning people away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
    Since 1960, 15 games have had bigger crowds than the 1992 Man Utd clash

    1. Sat 4/Mar/1972 34,208 v Aston Villa
    2. Sat 9/Apr/1977 32,518 v Nottingham Forest
    3. Wed 26/Dec/1973 32,310 v Nottingham Forest
    4. Sat 3/Jan/1976 31,192 v Leeds United
    5. Tue 13/Apr/1976 29,279 v Nottingham Forest
    6. Tue 27/Dec/1960 26,759 v Coventry City
    7. Sat 6/Jan/1962 25,015 v Manchester City
    8. Sat 3/Nov/1962 24,473 v Peterborough United
    9. Sat 28/Apr/1973 23,613 v Tranmere Rovers
    10. Sat 4/Dec/1982 23,552 v Nottingham Forest
    11. Tue 25/Nov/1975 23,404 v Everton
    12. Mon 18/Apr/1960 22,788 v Walsall
    13. Sat 21/Apr/1973 22,712 v Blackburn Rovers
    14. Sat 18/Feb/1961 22,292 v Grimsby Town
    15. Sat 5/May/1979 21,571 v Stoke City
    All those games against Florist, now we can't even look forward to a game against Florist bleddy green onions!

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    Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
    Since 1960, 15 games have had bigger crowds than the 1992 Man Utd clash

    1. Sat 4/Mar/1972 34,208 v Aston Villa
    2. Sat 9/Apr/1977 32,518 v Nottingham Forest
    3. Wed 26/Dec/1973 32,310 v Nottingham Forest
    4. Sat 3/Jan/1976 31,192 v Leeds United
    5. Tue 13/Apr/1976 29,279 v Nottingham Forest
    6. Tue 27/Dec/1960 26,759 v Coventry City
    7. Sat 6/Jan/1962 25,015 v Manchester City
    8. Sat 3/Nov/1962 24,473 v Peterborough United
    9. Sat 28/Apr/1973 23,613 v Tranmere Rovers
    10. Sat 4/Dec/1982 23,552 v Nottingham Forest
    11. Tue 25/Nov/1975 23,404 v Everton
    12. Mon 18/Apr/1960 22,788 v Walsall
    13. Sat 21/Apr/1973 22,712 v Blackburn Rovers
    14. Sat 18/Feb/1961 22,292 v Grimsby Town
    15. Sat 5/May/1979 21,571 v Stoke City
    I was at no10 and no15. As a young kid I was a bit in awe of seeing so many away (Stoke) fans. They must have had at least 10,000. I think they needed a win to go up, which they did 1-0.

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    For the Man United game I had a ST that year in the main stand because I took my grandad. The old benches, seats separated by a painted line. Got to our seats to find them filled by United fans who had somehow got in. Eventually the stewards got them out.

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