In the Sunday Times today:......"Following Millwall being installed as as the country's most popular team for having disposed of Leeds United in the play-offs, I received gleeful congratutory text messages from supporters of Spurs, Manchester City, Charlton, Huddersfield Town, and even West Ham". He goes on: "The least one can wish for them is that next season they get to the play-offs again and are defeated very narrowly by a much smaller club over two legs". He also expects 35,000 spanners to come out of the woodwork next Sunday, So, who sent a text, then?
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They have been given 49,500 tickets, so I wouldn't be surprised if they top 35,000. Credit where credit's due, 35,000 would be an impressive turnout when they only average 8,000 at home games. I can't help thinking we might struggle to match this if it were us. Our Wembley showing in the Full Members Cup was an embarrassing 15,000+ and our Play-Off heroics against Sunderland only managed to attract the low 30,000's. In both of those games we were outnumbered by northerners who had considerably greater distances to travel with all that goes with it. Maybe it would have been higher if we had made a final appearance in the Premier League years but that must be on the wane now...
Oh errr right yes well....thanks for that Cardinal......I think?
Agree with you Goonerhater, morale must be at an all time low. Forget the knees up muvver bran crap of yer actual 'wall at Wemberley (haleys comet style rarity that it is) and how many day trippers and hangers on they are/aren't likely to get. The fact is they only get about 8,000 for the bread and butter matches and that is what really counts.
Good luck ladies and gents. See you there.
In your f'ing dreams pal!!
This must be a wind up, surely?
They didn't sell out the home leg and they didn't even sell out their 1000 allocation for the 2nd leg. Small club.
Whatever the result, you won't seem them at the, erm...... 'London Stadium' next season.
The missus family are all Millwall, her brother has been every game home and away this season. He was so worried about not getting tickets to the away leg at Leeds that he drove down to Millwall at 2 o'clock in the morning on the day they came out, slept in his tiny smart car till 5.30 then got out and joined the queue of people waiting for tickets when the ticket office opened at 9.30.
The best part was his dad rung him at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to say that there was 500 tickets still left, in fact he could have gone down there the day before the game and still got tickets!
I haven't stop take the piss out of him since!
I seem to remember we took 35K to Wembley when our home crowds were somewhat smaller.
**reminisces about being in the wigan end 1999(ish)**
**prays for the same outcome**
On the Saturday morning before the game the club had about 50 expensive tickets remaining and decided not to open the ticket office, so Ian Cartwright and I (on behalf of the supporters' club) spent the morning selling them for the club out of a portable ticket office with no credit card facilities.
1987 was a different world and one of the problems was that the club restricted sales to Selhurst Park, a policy so silly that even the CAFC realised that for the play-off games that followed they would have to sell tickets from the Valley Club alongside the derelict Valley.
Ebbsfleet took 25,000 to the FA Trophy final last year and Millwall took about 50,000 to Wembley in 1999 for the Windscreen Wipers (Wigan took about 5,000), so I'd expect them to sell as many tickets as they get their hands on. It tells you nothing, really.
Whilst thousands of Millwall fans are going for the day out, Scunthorpe have already been to Wembley this season when they lost to Luton in the Auto windscreen shield. So a lot of their 'hangers-on' probably wouldn't be too fussed in paying £40-50 for a ticket, £30+ for the train etc plus also faced with the prospect of 40k meatheads wanting to kill them if they win.
Their home crowds were only about 9k on average even in a possible promotion season.