| Attendances in the mid to late 80s 00:41 - Feb 4 with 5226 views | Illinoisblue |
Villa getting just 8k at home for a top flight game. We pulled in just 20k for Liverpool and that was one of the biggest of the day.
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| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 14:47 - Feb 4 with 366 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 13:53 - Feb 4 by Trequartista |
English Football was at an all-time low in popularity then, with our current gates we'd have been one of the Big Four!
And for only £5 seat (standing would have been cheaper)
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Some massive drop offs from the previous season there, particularly the two North London clubs. |  |
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| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 14:49 - Feb 4 with 356 views | burnbudgiesburn |
| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 13:58 - Feb 4 by Trequartista |
And a 3-0 lead at Oxford thrown away. To be honest though we'd scraped survival in the two previous seasons, we were directly replacing internationals with lower tier standard players, it was pretty much inevitable |
Not so sure, as mentioned earlier at least from my perspective our younger players were starting to find their feet at that level gaining experience.
We were always competitive at least in those 3 seasons, even though we were clearly no longer the team we were.
Now 1994-95 and 2019... they were inevitable
I reckon we kept hold of Cooper for 2 seasons too long, was starting to get more error prone. |  | | |
| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 14:53 - Feb 4 with 344 views | DJR |
| Attendances in the mid to late 80s on 14:47 - Feb 4 by gainsboroughblue |
Some massive drop offs from the previous season there, particularly the two North London clubs. |
Heysel in 1985 (with 39 deaths) may have played a part, both in discouraging people from attending and due to the ban on English clubs from Europe.
Surprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly, Heysel seems to have been airbrushed out of history, as my Everton-supporting father-in-law often says. [Post edited 4 Feb 2023 14:54]
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