4400 Arsenal at The Amex

[Moshe Gariani]

Should be quite a spectacle. I think they are into scarf twirling.

How many times have there been more than 4400 away fans at a Brighton home game?

Southampton in 1986. Any since then. Presumably not many before about 1970?

Teams that have done it in my direct experience...

Definitely:Palace, Pompey, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Southampton, Norwich...

Very likely:West Ham, Liverpool, Millwall, Leeds

Might have done?Port Vale, Fulham, Man City, Man Utd, Bournemouth,

Others will know much better. Bound to have missed a couple or more obvious ones...

 

[spence]

Arsenal in the cup at the Goldstone?

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Arsenal in the cup at the Goldstone?

Yes, the FA Cup game is in my "definites". Not sure how many they brought for league games or the League Cup... would guess they might have been close more than once?

 

[sod1]

Stoke City ?

 

[crodonilson]

4,400 Arsenal fans will be quite a sight, they've got great support to be fair, they'd probably have shifted double that if we were able to give them that many.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Stoke City ?

Good shout for a "possible". Was that an end of season promotion game? Agree, probably around 4 or 5K Stoke if so.

 

[sod1]

Good shout for a "possible". Was that an end of season promotion game? Agree, probably around 4 or 5K Stoke if so.

was end of season game , but was their relegation party !

 

[Moshe Gariani]

4,400 Arsenal fans will be quite a sight, they've got great support to be fair, they'd probably have shifted double that if we were able to give them that many.

Yes, they would. Hopefully the day never comes when we are able to give 9,000 tickets to an away club because we have empty stands to fill...

 

[nevergoagain]

Will be good to see the South East corner full for once, always makes the ground look sparse when we're on TV. Very pleased they haven't shifted us from S1G.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

was end of season game , but was their relegation party !

Haha... I missed that one!

 

[Notters]

Didn't they bring the same 2 seasons ago?

 

[Everest]

As long as they don't bring those bloody massive flags.

 

[Notters]

Port Vale brought loads to the Goldstone that time they got promoted. I seem to remember Birmingham used to bring a lot down too.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Didn't they bring the same 2 seasons ago?

I was thinking that - all of the ground expansions were already completed by then weren't they?

 

[Curious Orange]

Arsenal in the cup at the Goldstone?

They had the entire East Terrace that day, as it was before a good portion of it was condemned. I heard there were ten thousand of them down that day, though I doubt that is true.

 

[Grassman]

Port Vale brought loads to the Goldstone that time they got promoted. I seem to remember Birmingham used to bring a lot down too.

Remember that, though not sure it was that many to be honest. They invaded the pitch and headed to where we were in the North, everyone was expecting it to kick off and all that happened was a load of handshakes.

When was it, 93/94?

Just done a little research! 7th May 1994 and the crowd was over 15,000. Maybe they did bring that many, afterall!

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I cant be the only one who finds it fuvking annoying that we have to give them such a big allocation.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

They had the entire East Terrace that day, as it was before a good portion of it was condemned. I heard there were ten thousand of them down that day, though I doubt that is true.

10K is not far off. 8K+ and up there with Chelsea (and Palace?) as the only 8K+ away followings at The Goldstone?

 

[Notters]

Remember that, though not sure it was that many to be honest. They invaded the pitch and headed to where we were in the North, everyone was expecting it to kick off and all that happened was a load of handshakes.

When was it, 93/94?

Just done a little research! 7th May 1994 and the crowd was over 15,000. Maybe they did bring that many, afterall!

I was 11 at the time. Just remember being annoyed when a Vale fan asked if they could have my woolly hat as a souvenir and my Dad/brother said I should give it to him!

I cant be the only one who finds it fuvking annoying that we have to give them such a big allocation.

Not at all, it's part of what's great about the cup. Like when we took 4,000 to Orient. (Though it used to be 30% then, rather than 15%).

 

[GoingUp]

At the Amex over the last couple years Newcastle, Liverpool, Leeds and Arsenal have all had good turn outs.