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Post by oreo on Nov 14, 2024 22:35:06 GMT
I've just watched a short YouTube video that said the record attendance at Brisbane Road is 34,345 when we played West Ham in the FA Cup during 1964. That's near on four times our current capacity.
Just wondered if anyone on here attended that match?
BTW, apparently you can watch a game from the balconies for £25 per person. Something to remember when we have a sold out stadium.
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Post by eca on Nov 15, 2024 2:05:37 GMT
I've just watched a short YouTube video that said the record attendance at Brisbane Road is 34,345 when we played West Ham in the FA Cup during 1964. That's near on four times our current capacity. Just wondered if anyone on here attended that match? BTW, apparently you can watch a game from the balconies for £25 per person. Something to remember when we have a sold out stadium. I had a season ticket and attended |
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Post by Thor on Nov 15, 2024 8:03:02 GMT
I wasn't alive and didn't attend!!
My old man said to me back in the day, there were easily 40k in the ground that day.
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Post by redintheface on Nov 15, 2024 8:33:03 GMT
I've just watched a short YouTube video that said the record attendance at Brisbane Road is 34,345 when we played West Ham in the FA Cup during 1964. That's near on four times our current capacity. Just wondered if anyone on here attended that match? BTW, apparently you can watch a game from the balconies for £25 per person. Something to remember when we have a sold out stadium. Yes, I was there ( but not the midweek replay @ Upton Park). |
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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 9:18:15 GMT
I was there. Rarely missed a home game back then.
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Post by tommydark on Nov 15, 2024 10:25:02 GMT
It was so easy for people to get in for free back in the day.
The south terrace and west side especially.
All major matches had
More than the official figure.
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Post by dennisrofe on Nov 15, 2024 10:41:55 GMT
I was there. Rarely missed a home game back then. I was with my dad in the packed East Stand and was near the corner of the pitch where Norman Deeley scored with a headed goal that looped over West Ham keeper Jim Standen.
West Ham won the fa cup that season.
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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 12:04:16 GMT
I was there. Rarely missed a home game back then. I was with my dad in the packed East Stand and was near the corner of the pitch where Norman Deeley scored with a headed goal that looped over West Ham keeper Jim Standen.
West Ham won the fa cup that season.
Interesting. Back then I usually got in very early and got my spot against the wall around the pitch. In reality a crap view, these days I prefer to be higher up. Often wondered just how much managers actually see at ground level. Don’t stop them from moaning about decisions that, from their vantage point, they really cannot judge. Very nomadic in my watching, like changing my view. Before getting a season card I’d make up my mind on the stand when I got to the ground. But superstitious. If we played badly I’d move to a different place next game. Stupid I know but superstition and football go hand in hand with me, despite a lifetime in a job that revolves around logic! Football does that! |
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Post by dennisrofe on Nov 15, 2024 12:11:25 GMT
I was with my dad in the packed East Stand and was near the corner of the pitch where Norman Deeley scored with a headed goal that looped over West Ham keeper Jim Standen.
West Ham won the fa cup that season.
Interesting. Back then I usually got in very early and got my spot against the wall around the pitch. In reality a crap view, these days I prefer to be higher up. Often wondered just how much managers actually see at ground level. Don’t stop them from moaning about decisions that, from their vantage point, they really cannot judge. Very nomadic in my watching, like changing my view. Before getting a season card I’d make up my mind on the stand when I got to the ground. But superstitious. If we played badly I’d move to a different place next game. Stupid I know but superstition and football go hand in hand with me, despite a lifetime in a job that revolves around logic! Football does that! My dad and me nearly always went in the east stand. Quite often near the middle half way up, standing in those times. We used to chat to an old boy who sold evening papers outside the ground so he always left at half time. He told us many stories of players and games of years long gone by. |
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Post by tommydark on Nov 15, 2024 12:14:32 GMT
Superstition,so crazy when you are a young fan.I remember every time I'd played a certain lp on a Friday night we lost next day.
It worked for a while,then reality took hold.
Anyone else got any as daft as mine?
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Post by mujtahido on Nov 15, 2024 12:40:10 GMT
I didn't go to my first O's game until 1974.There has been many games where the crowd was announced around 180000 or so when there must have been at least another 10 thousand in the ground.I think Chelsea in the cup 1978 was announced 250000 but i was in the North stand and you couldn't move in there.South stand where majority of Chelsea fans were in was packed and there wasn't an empty seat in the ground
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Post by dohnut on Nov 15, 2024 13:33:56 GMT
Superstition,so crazy when you are a young fan.I remember every time I'd played a certain lp on a Friday night we lost next day. It worked for a while,then reality took hold. Anyone else got any as daft as mine? Daft! The year we went up I didn’t see every home game, playing for local sides got in the way. But every game I saw we either lost or drew, never saw us win at home. So when the Bury game happened I chose not to go. Superstition. We won, Orient went up, I missed the most important game in our history. |
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