Chris Charles No1 Fan wrote:you are wrong there Pev. City got on average 32k at maine rd and sold out all their away games, unlike Trafford utd who i believe were only getting approx 27k in the 70s & early 80s. Easy mistake to make mate
Oh dear oh dear!! Someone needs to look at the facts.
Now, presuming you mean
Manchester United then the average attendances were as follows...
68-69 - 51,169 City - 33,750
69-70 - 49,862 City - 33,930
70-71 - 43,945 City - 31,041
71-72 - 45,999 City - 38,573
72-73 - 48,623 City - 32,351
73-74 - 42,712 City - 30,756
74-75 - 48,389 City - 32,898
75-76 - 54,750 City - 34,280
76-77 - 53,710 City - 40,058
77-78 - 51,860 City - 41,687
78-79 - 46,430 City - 36,203
79-80 - 51,608 City - 35,272
80-81 - 45,071 City - 33,587
81-82 - 44,571 City - 34,063
82-83 - 41,695 City - 26,789
83-84 - 42,534 City - 25,604
84-85 - 42,881 City - 24,220
85-86 - 46,321 City - 24,229
86-87 - 40,594 City - 21,922
87-88 - 39,152 City - 19,472
88-89 - 36,474 City - 23,500
89-90 - 39,331 City - 27,975
90-91 - 43,242 City - 27,874
Not once in those 23 years did City have a higher attendance than Nited and only 3 times was Nited's average under 40K...not quite the 27K quoted though we have had a few crowds of round about that figure - Wimbledon at home on a Monday night was definitely a 27Kish crowd if I remember rightly.
Apologies for the pedantry, I'm slightly bored in work!!