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Post by beardyeustace on Mar 5, 2004 23:49:33 GMT
Hi, whats the largest attendance for a stoke game
i checked out soccerbase and it said arsenal 1937 51380.
I thought it was more than this... input please fellow stokies.
eustace.
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 5, 2004 23:51:39 GMT
Just over 84,000. for an FA Cup tie against Man City iat Maine Road in the thirties
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Post by beardyeustace on Mar 5, 2004 23:54:07 GMT
cheers joe.
what was the biggest at the vic?
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Post by markscfc72 on Mar 5, 2004 23:55:19 GMT
the one you refer to, 51,380 v. Arsenal. Division One, 29th March 1937 is the most at the Vic
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Post by markscfc72 on Mar 5, 2004 23:56:31 GMT
and the 72 cup final against chelsea there was 97,852  |
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Post by 339187 on Mar 6, 2004 2:26:35 GMT
51,380 v. Arsenal. Division One, 29th March 1937 is the most at the Vic Holy Christ  What was the population of S-O-T at the time? |
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Post by domstoke on Mar 6, 2004 3:11:50 GMT
The population of S-O-T was 240,000 in 1910 so probably very similar to today in the '30s.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 6, 2004 8:29:20 GMT
The two biggest crowds I have been in at the old Vic ground were both cup games. 49,486 against Blackburn Rovers in 1962 and 49,091 against ManU in a 1972 replay - cracking atmospheres both of them but very unsafe by todays standards!
The big crowd I would love to have been in was when we played Barcelona in a friendly at the Nou Camp in 1969. 65,000 turned up to watch. Can you believe it - 65,000 Spaniards giving up their hard earned cash to watch one of the great teams of the world play Stoke (including Banks of course) - and we won 3-2!!!!! Anyone who says we should forget our history and not strive to repeat it is missing the point, methinks.
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Post by Hooky on Mar 6, 2004 9:02:57 GMT
never said we should forget it, just not use it as a stick to beat down the passions of others stokies. To piss on our bonfire and dampen the enthusiasm some of us not born into the "LUCKY" generation of Stokies have for success we have had since........
The people most guilty of this are the arm-chair / moan & grumble brigade, who refuse to even contemplate a return to Stoke matches "till we are as big as man u again" yet still claim to be stoke fans
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 6, 2004 9:09:40 GMT
Hey, Dave lighten up - I never mentioned you in my post because I was not thinking of you when I posted it. I wasn't having a dig at anyone in particular.
I don't mind what your view is on this - I just happen to think that the great days of the past are a benchmark which we should aim to equal or surpass. If we have done it once we should be able to do it again.
You going to Reading - if so I'll see you there?
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