FranklyMrShankly

Does anyone have any details or heard of any rumours of a possible Tour this summer? It looks like we will not be visiting the USA as all the Tournaments have already been announced for over there. Perhaps we are staying in Europe this year given that it is a WC Year?

One big factor in our poor attendances that has not been mentioned was the cost of watching us at home in the 80´s and 90´s. Simply put we were the most expensive side to watch in the Country. I´m from a Gooner family ( yeh i know) and we were charging 3 times as much as Arsenal were. I clearly recall it was 3 quid to stand in the Shed in the early to mid eighties while at Highbury it was costing them something like a quid at most. We led the way in prices for a long long time unfortunately. That Coventry game - i was at it and i do remember being surprised at the low turn out. It was actually the 2nd last game of the old Shed terrace. The next game we beat Sheff Utd to send them down in front of a much improved crowd. I would guess around 20,000. I still have a slab of concrete from the Shed end that i managed to pick up after that sheff utd game. Cov game was not straight after Wembley semi final either. It was something like a month or so after but cov game was played a few weeks before the Cup Final. Maybe people were saving money for cup Final tkts. Don´t forget also a lot of fans had to buy off touts for 94 final given our appallingly low allocation. Also there was Live Uefa cup Final on the TV that night between Arse and Parma. Maybe some just fancied watching that down the pub. Lowest Chelsea home attendance i ever attended in the League was Saints at home. Something like 6,000. It was a midweek game in 92. Four days later we beat Sheff utd in fa cup 5th rd in front of something like 30,000. Huge at the time and those 2 contrasting attendances kind of sum up our home support for that period.