Ninian Attendances

Anyone know the last time we had 28k and 33k at ninian park. I know it was well before I was going down.

I can remember over 30 thousand in 76/77 season against hereford on a tuesday night

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

I remember as a lad at ninian park. We played Leeds and lost 2-0 about 1972 I think.We had the second highest crowd of that day at Ninian Park. Over 50,000 53,000 I think.

Now that was busy!

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

you got most of that correct,just where Palace were in the table, it looked like hereford palace and ourselves for promotion for quite a while but millwall under george graham came on a run,i think it was 8 straight wins......squeezed palace out....we did actually relegate Palace at NP two years prior to that..had they beaten us,it would have been us not them going down.we went down the following year.

I remember as a lad at ninian park. We played Leeds and lost 2-0 about 1972 I think.We had the second highest crowd of that day at Ninian Park. Over 50,000 53,000 I think.

Now that was busy!

51,000.

We lost to two Jonny Giles goals. I missed both goals, well actually I missed most of the match because as a 12 year old if you were not at the front you basically saw nothing. With todays Health and Safety paranoia we will never see a stadium filled like that again.

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

you got most of that correct,just where Palace were in the table, it looked like hereford palace and ourselves for promotion for quite a while but millwall under george graham came on a run,i think it was 8 straight wins......squeezed palace out....we did actually relegate Palace at NP two years prior to that..had they beaten us,it would have been us not them going down.we went down the following year.

Thanks for the info Soulofthesea. We may have been playing in lower leagues back then, but I think the fans were far happier than they have been this season.
I also remember a crowd of well over 30,000 when West Ham beat us in the FA Cup, pretty certain Geoff Hurst scored both their goals after we had gone in 1-0 up at half time. I missed our goal as traffic had held us up, and people were still queuing to get in 30 mins after the match had started.

I remember the Hereford game and the Bury game , we took over the stadium at Bury , I remember my dad taking me in our Capri and passing I think it was Tony Clemo in his White Rolls with a Blue white and yellow scarf tied to the Silver Lady on the bonnet class ! Yes there was 35k at the Hereford game happy days to be a BLUEBIRD

I remember as a lad at ninian park. We played Leeds and lost 2-0 about 1972 I think.We had the second highest crowd of that day at Ninian Park. Over 50,000 53,000 I think.

Now that was busy!

51,000.

We lost to two Jonny Giles goals. I missed both goals, well actually I missed most of the match because as a 12 year old if you were not at the front you basically saw nothing. With todays Health and Safety paranoia we will never see a stadium filled like that again.

Ian what was the crowd v Real Madrid in 1971 that has to be about 50,000 as well wasn't it ?

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

Think you'll find that was tommy doc, and not allison

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

Think you'll find that was tommy doc, and not allison

Getting my managers mixed up as well, must be losing my marbles.

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

Think you'll find that was tommy doc, and not allison

Getting my managers mixed up as well, must be losing my marbles.

pretty sure the doc got sacked for the affair as well, think she was the wife of someone connected with man utd at the time, but my memory is failing as well

I can remember the City fans singing who's up Mary Brown to the tune of knees up mother brown. Just got my managers mixed up.

I remember the Hereford match in the mid 70's. I think the attendance was just over 35,000, mainly due to Malcom Allison who was manager at Crystal Palace at the time. He had said something along the lines of Cardiff not being a big club, and that they would get less than 20,000 for this important match. I think we got promoted shortly after, and I have a feeling Crystal Palace were relegated that season.

they missed out on promotion on the very last day.....there were only 2 games that night Bury V Cardiff and Chester vPalace,
it was still possible for palace to go up instead of us.....but we won and they lost,pretty sure their team coach was involved in an accident on way to game

My memory is not up to much, put it down to age. I seem to remember around that time, Malcom Allison getting a lot of stick from the City fans when Palace played here. Think he had been having an affair with someone called Mary Brown, and the City fans were chanting "who's up Mary Brown" each time he got up off the bench.
I remember the Leeds game around the same period, they completely outclassed us, although Ian Gibson gave a good account of himself. Not sure if Bill Irwin in goal for us made what many considered to be the save of the season in the same match. As I said, a long time back, and my memory is not what it was, may be getting my goalkeepers mixed up.

Think you'll find that was tommy doc, and not allison

Getting my managers mixed up as well, must be losing my marbles.

pretty sure the doc got sacked for the affair as well, think she was the wife of someone connected with man utd at the time, but my memory is failing as well

He did indeed. She was the wife of the then Man U physio Lawrie Brown. If my memory serves me correctly, Big Mal had an affair with a glamour model...Fiona something ???

I remember as a lad at ninian park. We played Leeds and lost 2-0 about 1972 I think.We had the second highest crowd of that day at Ninian Park. Over 50,000 53,000 I think.

Now that was busy!

51,000.

We lost to two Jonny Giles goals. I missed both goals, well actually I missed most of the match because as a 12 year old if you were not at the front you basically saw nothing. With todays Health and Safety paranoia we will never see a stadium filled like that again.

Ian what was the crowd v Real Madrid in 1971 that has to be about 50,000 as well wasn't it ?

Yes it was over 50,000 but no ones knows if the Leeds game or this Real Madrid one had the bigger attendance.

I remember as a lad at ninian park. We played Leeds and lost 2-0 about 1972 I think.We had the second highest crowd of that day at Ninian Park. Over 50,000 53,000 I think.

Now that was busy!

51,000.

We lost to two Jonny Giles goals. I missed both goals, well actually I missed most of the match because as a 12 year old if you were not at the front you basically saw nothing. With todays Health and Safety paranoia we will never see a stadium filled like that again.

I was right at the front on the bob bank with my Dad, I was only 10, but can still remember being there. Mind you, I can't remember what I did last Monday!