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JTF said:
'Football Through The Turnstiles' by football historian Brian Tabner provides a survey of all league clubs based on the attendances they have attracted from 1888 to 2002. It contains a table for each year listing the averages for every club that played in the league during those seasons in descending order. Then at the end is an all-time attendance table based on each clubs' average positions in the seasonal attendance tables. The top 20 were as follows:

1: Arsenal
2: Liverpool
3: Manchester Utd
4: Everton
5: Tottenham
6: Newcastle
7: Manchester City
8: Chelsea
9: Aston Villa
10: Sunderland
11: Leeds
12: Sheffield Wed
13: West Ham
14: Wolves
15: Birmingham
16: Leicester
17: West Brom
18: Sheffield Utd
19: Middlesbrough
20: Derby

Given our attendances in the 16 years since 2002, its more than possible that a table to 2018 may have seen us edge above Villa in to 9th place in the all-time table.

How successful a club is, of course, effects attendances over time so although this gives a decent indication of the size/fanbase etc of each club it cannot tell the whole story. Given that all of the clubs above us have been far, far more successful in the last 60 years (at least), 9th/10th is pretty bloody incredible.

Portsmouth, by the way, were 23rd in the all-time table.
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I’m actually pretty surprised how lofty Chelsea’s position is to be honest.
 
janey said:
This positive thread has been completely ruined by a Mag obsessed with attendances. No other debate, just attendances. He’s stinking the place out
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I bet he doesn’t even go to the games.

It’s frustrating the mods don’t take action though
 
Hank Scorpio said:
I bet he doesn’t even go to the games.

It’s frustrating the mods don’t take action though
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Its not like. That is what makes this forum better than almost every other clubs main fans forum. Others ban anyone who post anything other than the party line and certainly will ban any rival fan taking the piss. The ability to take that on the chin and give as good as you get with rival fans makes this place far more vibrant than most other sides main sites and it's also why we also have so many oppo fans on here.

Many of those rival fans come back time and time again and are good contributors to the site. Swindon is a classic example as even though his posts are never negative, I guarantee he would be banned from a lot of other clubs sites just for having the audacity to support a different club. More fool those sites. That's why this place is so busy and the mags sites for e.g. just can't compete.
 
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I think if we get off to a flyer we can shift a lot more season tickets; they are certainly priced to sell. Am I right in thinking that, in real terms, they are cheaper now than they were 10 years ago.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Its not like. That is what makes this forum better than almost every other clubs main fans forum. Others ban anyone who post anything other than the party line and certainly will ban any rival fan taking the piss. The ability to take that on the chin and give as good as you get with rival fans makes this place far more vibrant than most other sides main sites and it why we also have so many oppo fans on here.
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I agree with reasonable debate, not with incessant repetition of crowd numbers he uses as a sign of who is the biggest.
And crowd numbers he will only use after 1992.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Its not like. That is what makes this forum better than almost every other clubs main fans forum. Others ban anyone who post anything other than the party line and certainly will ban any rival fan taking the piss. The ability to take that on the chin and give as good as you get with rival fans makes this place far more vibrant than most other sides main sites and it's also why we also have so many oppo fans on here.

Many of those rival fans come back time and time again and are good contributors to the site. Swindon is a classic example as even though his posts are never negative, I guarantee he would be banned from a lot of other clubs sites just for having the audacity to support a different club. More fool those sites. That's why this place is so busy and the mags sites for e.g. just can't compete.
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Good post ^
 
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