Carlisle cock up their sums

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/5252762.stm

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I am quite shocked that 12,000(odd) would have been a 35 year record anyway.

 

[Bob!]

I am quite shocked that 12,000(odd) would have been a 35 year record anyway.

BoF

you're not concentrating today are you

"the 12,031 attendance was the biggest for an opening game in 35 years. "

 

[Barrel of Fun]

BoF

you're not concentrating today are you

"the 12,031 attendance was the biggest for an opening game in 35 years. "

I was, I just wrote it in a hurry. I meant I would have expected a bigger attendance for their opening game. When they were in the old division one in the mid 70s when attendances were peaking. 12,031 doesn't seem to be very big for a largish city.

Their record stands at 27,500 in 1970.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

 

[Scotty Mac]

 

[ali jenkins]

What inconveniance would that cause?

 

[Captain Pugwash]

to people who write then record/history books?

 

[Del Boy]

What the taxman doesn't see!

 

[Woodchip]

1+1=4

4+4=16

Hmm, something doesn't seem right here. Oh well, no-one will notice.

 

[nail-Z]

Didn't Cheaterfield have similar problems in the 2001/2 season?

 

[Safeway]

It's the other way 'round when clubs are on the fiddle. Happened all the time at The Goldstone. There'd be blatantly 10,000-plus inside and they'd announce the crowd as something like 8,500.

Loads of clubs are at it, I believe Chesterfield just got caught (shame).

 

[Jim D]

I was in that crowd 35 years ago! They had a season in the old 1st division and after 3 games they were top of the league. I was working there and went to their first home games (Spurs I think - won 2-1). Didn't stop them getting relegated though.

 

[Hydro Driven]

Surely they just count the stubs? What did they do add 5,000 on?