"It's fast and furious in this opening quarter of an hour..... Grealish to Smillie......Number 8, Howlett, chipping one in for Gordon Smith........It's there!!! ......Gordon Smith for Brighton after 14 minutes!!"
I prefer to remember this, not many people do.
Cracking game at St.James Park, Exeter 2-0 up until the 83rd minute, then Carlisle score on in the 83rd minute and equalise on 90 minutes, just settling down for extra time and Exeter scores a beauty with the last kick of the game in the 95th minute.
So what was the official attendance for that game? was the top tier open to fans? It would seem like a wasted financial opportunity to me if they only allocated 3k to away fans. I think 10k would be more realistic figure.
Assuming Tottenham will be allowed the full 90k capacity, what do you think our allocation would be? And how many would we take? A trip to Wembley being an attractive and a not too distant away day, 20k+ ?
My first experience was at the Goldstone in October 1983 and we were playing Portsmouth. I was standing at the northern end of the east terrace, down the front, don't know why or how I ended up there as it was the one and only time I ever stood on that side. Portsmouth fans were allocated the...
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I would have the Goldstone back, but only if we could have it back when it was at its 38k capacity best. Biggest crowd I ever saw there was 27k and the whole ground was absolutely rocking.