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if we rank the 92 league clubs in order of their record home attendance name the top 10 and the bottom 10. best effort gets some points. bonus points for naming the teams whose record was not at their recognised home ground

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top 10 are all over 70k

bottom 10 all under 16k

the bottom 3 are the only ones to set their record this century

Charlton in the top 10 somewhere. That enormous side terrace at the Valley before they moved away. Still not a big club though they had a big ground! :-)

Man U

Newcastle

Chelsea ( S Bridge had enormous terraces)

Villa

Liverpool

Everton

Sunderland

Arsenal

Wolves

Sheff W

thats 11




bottom



Stevenage

Morecambe

Burton

Dag and Red

Barnet

Accrington

Macclesfield

Aldershot

Torquay

Wycombe

Sunderland in top 10? Really?

Roker Park, 1950s or earlier. Huge open end (before part was closed)...very deep covered home end too

Will be there or thereabouts

If you count the old Aldershot, I remember they had a pretty big crowd for a cup tie, I think against Sheff Weds.

tighty has 7 from 11 guesses for top 10
9/10 bottom 10

disappointingly no bonus points

bottom 10 is my strength

I rushed, did not consider bonii.

Sorry.

there are 2 bonus points available in the top 10. you got both clubs already

there are 2 bonus points available in the bottom 10. again you've already got both clubs

sorry, 3 bonus points for the bottom 3. the 3rd is for the team you've missed

was man utds record at maine road?

indeed it was. in 1948 while the war damaged old trafford was still being repaired

leeds vs sunderland is something like 57k in 50s or 60s if i remember correctly.

Aldershot had a crowd of 19,000 for a cup tie v Carlisle in 1970

Southampton @ the dell?

Pne?

that was 22 years before they existed though

aldershot and aldershot town are different clubs

I seem to remember Wimbledon having a woeful attendance at Selhurst Park, any good?

they haven't existed for 6 years.

they had a 30k attendance though which would've put them solid midtable

I read somewhere that spurs had the highest average attendance during the 60's

Check out the wiki page for Wycombe Wanderers.

It's more comprehensive than the Man Utd page!

I think we can give you that one

Spurs, 7th position, 75,038

sickeningly only 7 more than the official record at charlton to give you the no. 2 spot in london (though it's accepted that several games at the valley had over 80k due to the ridic low walls which were very easy to jump)

just the no.1 missing from the top 10 now

I'm gonna post the missing answers cos otherwise I'll forget but gonna do it in little letters cos tighty's still trying to work out the bonuses

coming in at number 1 we rather aptly have the massives. Manchester City, 1st place, 84,569, meaning the top 2 were both at maine road

the missing bonus from the top 10 is arsenal whose record was set during their period playing home champs league games at wembley. they'd still be in 9th place though even if we used their highbury record of 73,295

moving on to the bottom 10 we're missing chelthenham who are also a bonus answer having had their record gate of 10,389 at the local athletics ground

the other bonuses are stevenage who played a home fa cup tie vs. birmingham at st. andrews and accrington stanley who borrowed ewood park for the day to play crewe