What is the lowest ever attendance for a competitive Southampton F.C. match?

[Ohio Saint]

Thanks Duncan

 

strange it was against Port Vale. I didnt attend that game if I did would that make me the oldest fan on this forum?

 

No, you would be 74 if you attended that match (as a babe) there must be older guys on this forum, I'm 75 for one - tho' my first match was not until 1943

 

 

Well, I was about to give you a tip of the hat for your service sir!.........then I saw the date of the post, and I'm left just hoping if you are still alive! ........ Please shake a walking stick or rattle a Zimmer frame if you can read this!

 

 

Edit: I just looked up your posts...Phew! Please accept a greatly exaggerated tip of my hat!

Edited 6 October, 2016 by Ohio Saint

[Badger]

Thanks Duncan

 

strange it was against Port Vale. I didnt attend that game if I did would that make me the oldest fan on this forum?

 

Sheff Saint I think Branfoot got sacked after the replay at their place and not the home game. He certainly was in charge at the home game/ I think there were about 1000 fans max in the Milton that day . And archers was far less

 

 

I remember the Port Vale Cup game (in 1994 was it ?, certainly not the 1933 one), it was bloody cold, the match was typically poor from Saints as we'd come to expect at the time. The most memorable thing was the red card demonstration, and then a protest in the car park afterwards attended by an assortment of fans from the yobs to grey haired senior citizens.

 

Branfoot was sacked prior to the replay as Chatterley took charge of the team for that match.

[teamsaint]

Can't even imagine how Saints set up for the Ipswich game (& I was there!): Dave Beasant, Jason Dodd, Micky Adams, Francis Benali, Jeff Kenna, Steve Wood, Simon Charlton, Paul Allen, Terry Hurlock, Neil Maddison, Matt Le Tissier.

 

In todays money: Forster, Cedric, Targett, Bertrand, Martina, Yoshida, Valery, Clasie, Romeu, Davis, Redmond (I ran out of left backs!)

 

I was there too, on the empty Milton terraces.

All I remember is the rain, and Kiwomya's goal.

certainly don't remember Saints having a formation........

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Will it be played at Staplewood or St. Mary's?

Apparently the rules state it must be St Mary's!

[Saint86]

That match was played on a Monday afternoon and the crowd was still bigger than the 1,355 at Fratton Park last night, which apparently isn't Pompey's all-time lowest home gate, which must have been in the pre-war years. Does anybody know what it was?

 

Incidentally, although Saints' smallest home gate in the top flight was 9,028 v Ipswich, Pompey's was only 4,031 v Liverpool in Divison One on Sat, 25 Feb, 1933, which is always worth knowing when they harp on about the Ipswich gate;)

 

http://pompeyrama.com/pompey-fc-match-3682-25-Feb-1933-Pompey-2-Liverpool-1.html

 

That's hilarious. So our support the best part of a century ago was better than their current support...