Hmmm 7,000 is getting on for twice as many as nearly 4,000 though, plus Milton Keynes is further, and a lot more difficult to get to than Fulham.
I definately think the cheap price of tickets helped swell the number solved,
Yep, and nigh on impossible to get back to Reading by public transport post match too.
But as you rightly say, sub 300 really isn't a very good showing at all.