will it ever be beaten?

Cardiff city fc had an average support of 38000 for the season 1953 to 54.does anyone think any club in wales and the west will ever top this in whatever sport?

Cardiff city fc had an average support of 38000 for the season 1953 to 54.does anyone think any club in wales and the west will ever top this in whatever sport?

Some will laugh but yes it will be beaten, it might be a very long time and judging on our recent crowds again it sounds laughable but like it or not a decent CCFC in the top division year after would pull huge crowds. Many would be new fans a lot would be the floaters, we have 300,000 on the database!

In the days of no sky TV, cheap tickets for dockers/factory workers, all walks of life. Football truely was the working class sport I guess in those days!

Football is too overpriced and easily accessible on TV thesedays for CCFC to get to that threshold I reckon.

In the days of no sky TV, cheap tickets for dockers/factory workers, all walks of life. Football truely was the working class sport I guess in those days!

Football is too overpriced and easily accessible on TV thesedays for CCFC to get to that threshold I reckon.

Spot on. Also, a lot of people did not have TV sets back then, and there was'nt all the alternative forms of entertainment that are around today. Football was affordable to everyone, and miners and factory workers etc. went to work on a Saturday morning and to Ninian Park once their shift ended. Tha players were more honest and were allowed to tackle, they did'nt collapse in agony if an opposing player brushed up against them, and often travelled to the ground alongside the supporters. A different game then in a different era, and I don't think those sort of gates will be seen again at Cardiff.

I don't think so.

firstly it requires more stadium expansion.

Secondly those were different times, tickets are extortionate these days it's harder to go on a more regular basis for some people

Nope

With population rises then it will get beaten one day but the percentage of the population then compared to the population would have been a impressive

I was 8 then and playing in school team on Saturday morning in the afternoon the teacher would take us all down in afternoon to watch we would be in boys section behind goal in grange end lot of schools did this which was what lead to us youngsters becoming lifelong city fans schools don't do team outings it's all down to army of people who run teams on Saturdays and they play themselves in afternoons.Cant remember how much we paid. Maybe we got freebies don't know

In the late fifties if you were in the school team and played Saturday morning
You would meet the games teacher outside ninian park 15 minutes before kick off
He would then take the eleven of us in the ground for free on a special ticket
Brilliant those days in the grange end throwing bags of stones at the visiting goalkeeper
All good fun in those days