Chris Short played an absolute blinder that day!
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.
Chris Short played an absolute blinder that day!
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.
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
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
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.
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.