Jackson CornerSCIAGLUX we are a bigger club than them, they would be horrified to read that, but it's true. We'd be getting more than them in the Premiership. And more if they were struggling with results in this league (ok there is a Premiership dividend vibe still going on for them).
And so we should , with their very small catchment area
Not sure I buy that. OK, they’ve got Chelsea on their doorstep, but Everton have Liverpool on theirs and still draw much bigger crowds than us. Easy to underestimate just how bloody big London is - it’s twenty times the size of Liverpool and something like forty-five times the size of Reading. SW London isn’t exactly Manhattan but it’s way denser than Berkshire.
Reading will draw from the surrounding counties but Fulham also draws a lot of people from Surrey and even a fair share from Berks and Bucks.
Trust me it never used to be like that. I remember going there in the old div 3 days in the early 80s and it was about 3-4 thousand they went down to the 4th division. And were there for a while until Micky Adams got them up. Then Al Fayed came in with his millions and the rest is history. I wonder if Richard Osman and Hugh Grant were fans in the 4th division days.
So a lot like Reading then? We were a third tier team for most of our history and spent more time in the fourth tier than the second. Average attendances in the 80s and early 90s weren’t exactly impressive.
Honestly don’t think it’s worth measuring dicks over average attendances 40 years ago.