Well I never knew that about the Cobblers

[TPFKA Marvo]

Exactly, I think the claim that so many people watched the Chester - and Man Utd game is overblown. I dont see any reason you would lie about being at either game or any evidence that people have done so.

If you were a Cobblers fan at either time, why wouldn't you be there? Surely that is a more valid question.

[BackOfTheNet]

My dad still goes on about how they bumped the prices up for this match. He paid it because he wanted to see the game but then refused to go to any other matches that year out of principle.

[Tabasco Kid]

Too young for the United game but was definitely at Chester as didn’t miss a game from 1979-1990, not that I remember it. Must have been one of the few games you could watch sitting down at the back of the Hotel End and you’d laugh at how bad we were. We definitely deserved that Carr season in that era.

I like the concept of sitting down on those concrete steps. Not for me!

[TPFKA Marvo]

My dad still goes on about how they bumped the prices up for this match. He paid it because he wanted to see the game but then refused to go to any other matches that year out of principle.

In those days when the FA Cup was THE competition which attracted higher crowds than league games, teams like the Cobblers had to make the most of them, that game alone probably paid the bills for the season. As the game sold out, you could argue the club could have charged more.

Ironic isn't it, we'd all like to see the Cobblers in the Premiership but in reality, some of our fans would be priced out of attending. Not to worry, I have room on my sofa.

[Larry]

My dad still goes on about how they bumped the prices up for this match. He paid it because he wanted to see the game but then refused to go to any other matches that year out of principle.

He was prepared to pay to go to the inflatedly priced FA cup game, but not the regularly priced league games?
I'm suggesting these are the principles of a good old fashioned glory hunter.

[BackOfTheNet]

He was prepared to pay to go to the inflatedly priced FA cup game, but not the regularly priced league games?
I'm suggesting these are the principles of a good old fashioned glory hunter.

Considering his first game was an 8-0 drubbing in 1947 and he's been going ever since he's been glory hunting for a long while!

[Larry]

Ironic isn't it, we'd all like to see the Cobblers in the Premiership but in reality, some of our fans would be priced out of attending. Not to worry, I have room on my sofa.

The average low end price for a Premiership game is £40. That is cheap compared to most live entertainment events.

[Melbourne Cobbler]

My Dad used to take me to games but I didn’t get taken to Utd, I was at Chester though. My Dad was at Fulham, Utd and Chester.

[DavCobb]

What did we charge in 1970 verses standard pricing?
I remember people kicking off for the £30 (I think) we charged in the 0 v 3 game.
From memory I think my first ST might have been £60-70 in 1979.
I definitely remember paying £3 cash to get in at the Kop at Anfield in 1980.

[everbrite]

Tabasco i think you are right, the same 50,000 attended the Chester game some 15 years later 

I do sometimes wonder why Cobblers fans are so fixated by a game where one player managed to completely humiliate us. 

Tranmere - Hoskins being hoisted on shoulders at the end of the 1 goal win. The great man looked terrified
as the hoister was a titch too! It all came good after a few seconds!

[guest3284]

I didn't go as I was still months away from my first game.

My abiding memory of the game and the week building up to it was learning 'Georgie Best, Superstar, Looks Like a Woman and wears a bra'.

Singing repeatedly at Weston Favell Lower School and getting told to shut up or else by a teacher..

A few years later I missed the Bournemouth game, choosing to spend the ticket money my Dad had given me on food in Abington Park instead..

I then had to fib to my Dad about what a great game it was..

[TPFKA Marvo]

Tranmere - Hoskins being hoisted on shoulders at the end of the 1 goal win. The great man looked terrified
as the hoister was a titch too! It all came good after a few seconds!

How random.

What has that to do with this thread?

Unless you're claiming Hoskins scored the winner at Tranmere in 1970?

[GlosCobbler]

I remember you had to go to that game to get a token for a ticket to the Man U match. A mate tried to get out before the game started to go back in and get a second token. He was wasn't allowed out, so he tried to complain unlawful imprisonment.

It was the Bradford Park Avenue game you had to attend to receive a voucher not Tranmere.

[DavCobb]

I like the concept of sitting down on those concrete steps. Not for me!

I just remember it being at the time of feeling it was an all time low of being a Cobbler, at an age when you really cared. People used to take the p*ss at school and we would sit at the back (you had to bob a bit to see, or wasn't too bothered if you couldn't!) and there a mere scattering of fans in the Hotel End some games. It must have been around the re-election year of 1985 before you know what happened. I can't remember that far back (understandably!) but I can recall us going at least a dozen games without a win. Carr arrived, immediately turned things around and the glory hunters soon turned up the next season.
I think it added to why the Carr season was so magical because of what we'd had to endure leading up to it.

[TPFKA Marvo]

I just remember it being at the time of feeling it was an all time low of being a Cobbler, at an age when you really cared. People used to take the p*ss at school and we would sit at the back (you had to bob a bit to see, or wasn't too bothered if you couldn't!) and there a mere scattering of fans in the Hotel End some games. It must have been around the re-election year of 1985 before you know what happened. I can't remember that far back (understandably!) but I can recall us going at least a dozen games without a win. Carr arrived, immediately turned things around and the glory hunters soon turned up the next season.
I think it added to why the Carr season was so magical because of what we'd had to endure leading up to it.

I recall the times of being able to sit in the Hotel End, at least until a few minutes before the start. In the 60's/70's they used to sing about "You'll never take the Hotel". Then the club gave it away against Man Utd. In the 80's anybody could have it. Christ they could have put a tent up and made camp if they'd wanted to.

They'll never be another season like the Carr one. Wilder came close but no cigar.

[Terryfenwickatemyhamster]

I recall the times of being able to sit in the Hotel End, at least until a few minutes before the start. In the 60's/70's they used to sing about "You'll never take the Hotel". Then the club gave it away against Man Utd. In the 80's anybody could have it. Christ they could have put a tent up and made camp if they'd wanted to.

They'll never be another season like the Carr one. Wilder came close but no cigar.

I absolutely loved the Carr season. But equally enjoyed Wilders

[DavCobb]

They'll never be another season like the Carr one.

I remember it via some of the highlights in the 'to the top' video...I just wished I remembered it in person. I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night these days.
The positive is it is better forgetting most of my Cobblers memories.

[therealpattcobb]

Wilder came close but no cigar.

I said that at the time.
With Carr's team it wasn't would we win it was by how many.
With wilder you just knew they wouldn't lose.

[Risdene]

If Carrs team conceded fans never panicked because you knew we could and would score 2 or 3!

Unique fact concerning the Chester lowest gate game. The game was my old boss's ONLY Cobblers game!

[Manwork04]

I remember it via some of the highlights in the 'to the top' video...I just wished I remembered it in person. I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night these days.
The positive is it is better forgetting most of my Cobblers memories.

I still have the To the Top Video, it has an annoying song of the same name.