Wires71 wrote:
To think there was 85,000 there in 2010 when we played Leeds....
98,000 in 1966.
58,000 last week.
We are watching the demise of a national institution in slow motion.
I went to many Challenge Cup finals in the 90s and early 2000s, and it usually felt like a carnival atmosphere where fans of all clubs could wear their team's colours without any mither, just good-humoured banter. That atmosphere got less friendly in more recent times, though, and these days it's more likely that you are going to get grief from tanked-up idiots if you wear your team's shirt. That makes it much less fun, and is one of the reasons why I no longer go to big games as a neutral.
