Last year quite a few people were put off going by it being Millwall and confidence that we would get to the final.
20k is pretty respectable though, given the KO time and travelling distance. How many will not travel because it’s on ITV this year :ohmy:
Quite a few Millwall fans last year admitted they wouldn’t have sold 31k had it been at Old Trafford…we might well have done!
I would say 20k tops.
Plenty of people used the “millwall excuse” for not going to the auto windscreens final in 1999 & then the year after when we played there against Gillingham still didn’t go
I also think that you’ll have the “I took the gamble on them getting to the play off final” excuse/valid reason too
Basically though the demand isn’t there – Latics aren’t an “old club” with generations of latent support to call on. Everyone interested in the club & who doesn’t support (even from the comfort of their own armchair) someone else pretty much goes (although not all of them every week).
having looked a bit more I think we sold 23k for last year’s final. I just don’t think we’ll sell 20k for a semi-final
Anyway, lets stop obsessing about how many we think will go coz I’m sure the media & other supporters will do that for us. Lets just enjoy the fact that our club have reached the alst 4 of the FA Cup for the second year in a row & enjoy it. Some supporters never get to see their team play there & we’ve had it 4 times in under a year
