Trying to grow the fan base is exposed as an impossible task today, regardless of the massaged figures.

Attractive opponents, key game, tickets are still available....amazing.

Cambridge will NEVER be a football town. This game anywhere elsee would be a sell out long ago, eeven with a bigger ground. Burnley havee a smaller populace, and they are prem league.

Cambridge is full of people more interested in Friedrich Nietsczche, Solzenitzin, astronomy and bunsen burners.

Ask any bloke walking in Sturton streeet if he knows where the Abbey stadium is and he will say no, pocketing a book on Macedonian archieology.


Without Barrys tuppeences, United would be in the conference. Its a miracle they have survived, the fans reegard the players as rubbish, and they are.