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Record Blue Square Prem Crowd

Over 10,600 watched Oxford beat Luton 2-0 last night, the game had to be delayed for 15 mins due to crowd congestion,
this is the higest attendence for a Blue Square game since the conference was re-branded.

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  • plenty of league clubs would be happy with gates near that !!
  • Amazing for the league, but not when you see who the teams are...both recent fixtures in the football league......shows how far the mighty can fall
  • [cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Amazing for the league, but not when you see who the teams are...both recent fixtures in the football league......shows how far the mighty can fall

    Spot on Tel, the BBC mentioned that fact about it recently being a league fixture, it also had a bit of added spice because both teams went into last nights game unbeaten.
  • [cite]Posted By: eaststandmike[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Amazing for the league, but not when you see who the teams are...both recent fixtures in the football league......shows how far the mighty can fall

    Spot on Tel, the BBC mentioned that fact about it recently being a league fixture, it also had a bit of added spice because both teams went into last nights game unbeaten.

    agree with this....but still a fantastic gate at that level of football !
  • Yeah, no arguement...what was the score?
  • 11,065 saw Oxford V Woking on Boxing Day 2006. When was the last time Millwall got a crowd like that?!
  • [cite]Posted By: eaststandmike[/cite]
    Over 10,600 watched Oxford beat Luton 2-0 last night,

    Was a top flight fixture just 20 years ago.
    Luton finished 7th in 1987.

    League Cup

    Oxford beat top flight QPR at Wembley in 1986

    Luton beat Arsenal at Wembley in 1988
    Luton lost to Brian Clough's Nottm Forest at Wembley in 1989


    Luton were FA Cup semi-finalists in 1985 and 1988, both times losing to the eventual winners.

    All during the same period that Lennie the Legend was leading Charlton in the top flight.
  • Who did Luton beat in the 1985 1/4 final?
  • Guess who?

    The 1985 Kenilworth Road riot occurred at Luton Town's Kenilworth Road ground before, during and after an FA Cup sixth round match between Luton Town and Millwall on 13 March 1985. It was one of the worst incidents of football hooliganism during the 1980s, and led to a ban on away supporters by Luton Town which lasted for four seasons. This itself led to Luton's expulsion from the Football League Cup during the 1986–87 season.

    Millwall's Bushwackers were already one of the most notorious hooligan firms in the country by 1985.[1] Luton Town had their own fringe of hooligans in the MIGs.[2][3] The Den, home of Millwall, had been the scene of a full-scale riot seven years earlier during another FA Cup sixth round match against Ipswich Town in which dozens of innocent Millwall supporters were injured.[4] Following the incident, the opinion of Ipswich manager Bobby Robson was that "[the police] should have turned the flamethrowers on them".[5]

    Millwall, a Division Three side, were drawn to visit First Division Luton's Kenilworth Road in the FA Cup sixth round.
  • Even with their recent league history that's an excellent attendance for 5th level football,and surely wouldn't happen in many (any?) other countries. Wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple below that in Serie A this season. Those stats from Oggie put a few things in perspective, not least our own fall from grace - let's hope we really have turned the corner now.
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  • [cite]Posted By: Elthamaddick[/cite]plenty of league clubs would be happy with gates near that !!

    Millsmall for example!
  • [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]11,065 saw Oxford V Woking on Boxing Day 2006. When was the last time Millwall got a crowd like that?!


    Parkhurst v Brixton 1975
  • [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]11,065 saw Oxford V Woking on Boxing Day 2006. When was the last time Millwall got a crowd like that?!


    Parkhurst v Brixton 1975

    Not many away fans at that one though.
    The Brixton lot never travel !!
  • It really appeals to my sense of the unusual that Cambridge United's record attendance was for a pre-season friendly in the early 1970's.

    Anyone remember Ian Hutchinson?
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: eaststandmike[/cite]Over 10,600 watched Oxford beat Luton 2-0 last night, the game had to be delayed for 15 mins due to crowd congestion,
    this is the higest attendence for a Blue Square game since the conference was re-branded.[/quote]

    I doubt whether the top flight games between these two during the eighties generated more.
  • [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]11,065 saw Oxford V Woking on Boxing Day 2006. When was the last time Millwall got a crowd like that?!
    Saturday 9th May v Leeds United Att: 13,228
  • [cite]Posted By: Dave Rudd[/cite]It really appeals to my sense of the unusual that Cambridge United's record attendance was for a pre-season friendly in the early 1970's.

    Anyone remember Ian Hutchinson?

    Yep, used to play at Chelsea with Alan Hudson, Peter Osgood, Bobby Tambling, Chopper Harris, Peter Bonnetti et al.
  • [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Dave Rudd[/cite]It really appeals to my sense of the unusual that Cambridge United's record attendance was for a pre-season friendly in the early 1970's.

    Anyone remember Ian Hutchinson?

    Yep, used to play at Chelsea with Alan Hudson, Peter Osgood, Bobby Tambling, Chopper Harris, Peter Bonnetti et al.

    Long throws.
    [cite]Posted By: kodfish[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: eaststandmike[/cite]Over 10,600 watched Oxford beat Luton 2-0 last night, the game had to be delayed for 15 mins due to crowd congestion,
    this is the higest attendence for a Blue Square game since the conference was re-branded.

    I doubt whether the top flight games between these two during the eighties generated more.

    87/8 season

    Luton 7 v Oxford 4 8063
    Oxford 2 v Luton 5 6804

    Small gates but you got value for money.
  • [cite]Posted By: Dave Rudd[/cite]It really appeals to my sense of the unusual that Cambridge United's record attendance was for a pre-season friendly in the early 1970's.

    Anyone remember Ian Hutchinson?

    And record league victory 6-0 against Darlington 1971 and record defeat is 0-6 against Darlington 1974
  • [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
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    87/8 season

    Luton 7 v Oxford 4 8063
    Oxford 2 v Luton 5 6804

    Small gates but you got value for money.

    Same season - Charlton 0-0 Oxford. Just over 4,000 hardy souls that dark, dark night at Selhurst.

    Ah, top flight football!
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  • Dark days for football...... and storm clouds building for the country.

    Thatcher in all her pomp ......set herself up as a cross between Winston Churchill and Queen Boadiccea, "we are a grandmother now" FFS. Economy overblown by credit boom, about to go to the dogs. We never learn.

    A fledgeling Carl Leaburn takes his first tentative steps to cult status.
    And Charlton are homeless.

    But Lennie is a legend.
  • And somewhere in all this didn't luton stuff us 5-2 on their plastic pitch?
  • was at that one: think Andy Jones scored our 2.
  • [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]And somewhere in all this didn't luton stuff us 5-2 on their plastic pitch?

    Yup, memorable only in terms of seeing Andy Jones get on the scoresheet.

    Curse you, Luton Town. Only League ground where I have scored .... so they go out of the League.

    Not fair.
  • Just to contrast the Oxford/Luton attendance, Ebbsfleet had only 863 to see a 0-0 with Rushton & D. and Forest Green 630 v. Hayes & Yeading.(0-0).
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