Actually I think you’ll find he stopped going at all when he moved almost 300 miles away from the area in early 1986, some 2 years before Stan McEwan even signed for the Latics and 3 years before the incident that p!ssed him off with the way the club was run.

The “collection” incident that you refer to was actually the regular blanket collections for the covering of the Terrace behind the goal at Springfield Park in the era when Larry Lloyd was manager and the crowds were around the 8,000 mark around 1983. Many thousands was chucked into those blankets, yet none of it went towards what it was supposed to.

In my world, that constitutes embezzlement.

Always happy to correct a no-mark’s fabrication.

An unexpected point – even most on here doubted it before the game. It means you will not be bottom on Xmas Day – that honour will fall to either Blackburn or Bolton, and we all know what happens to the side who are bottom on 25 Dec..

Now, answer this….

The website said that there were very limited tickets for the south stand (in the dozens), yet there seemed to be well over a thousand empty spaces on ESPN. Did 1000 people buy tickets only to not bother showing up?

(or were they freebies that recipients couldnt be arsed cashing in)

come on boxing day and see old trafford full for once. i know you lot only geet (at a push 71k)on..last season 75k pal ……….unlucky[/quote]

Will that be when you “nearly” sell out your reduced allocation again? Still, at least 2000 extra people get to see their beloved Man Utd when Wiggin’s in town.

Congratulations on your win.

and congratulations on nearly selling out your much-reduced allocation.

And what was the “Allocation” that you have “Nearly” sold out

IIRC, there are about 2,800 seats that can be taken up by visiting clubs at WBA. If you have nearly sold out of that two weeks before Xmas and in the middle of a bunch of expensive home games, then I take my hat off to you too.

Rather like someone supporting Latics & St Helens. Or Latics & Warrington.

Fri 25 March – 21056 v Warrington
Fri 22 April – 24057 v St Helens
Fri 1 July – 16426 v Leeds

All league games and all shown on TV.

The “playing London Sides” bears no relevence as both Arsenal & Chelsea still manage to bring in excess of 3,500 fans to help swell the average. Liverpool will bring their 5,000 in the North Stand (and a couple of thousand elsewhere), meaning there’ll be around 12,000 away fans in whatever you muster. Largely the same as the number of away fans in the games listed above.

So, do you reckon you’ll manage to get 50,000 or are we now going to blame Xmas, the weather, the TV, the cost, the recession, the spending cuts, the cats had kittens, the dog hurt his paw.

I wait with baited breath for the excuses for non-attendance….

Almost as much a foregone conclusion as to who will win the Scottish Premier League year after year.

And until Man City & Chelski inherited sugar daddies, the most interesting bet you could get was who would finish 2nd in the premiership behind Man Utd.

If they win it this year, I wonder what odds will be available on Man City being 2012/13 premiership winners? I doubt they’ll be good enough to tempt me to part with my cash.

As you are into odds Mr Rodelleganailbarqueen what’s your odds on over 60,000 turning up at the DW for the next 3 home games against Arsenal, Chelsea & Liverpool.