29 years ago today

[dave.woodhall]

Southampton. 8,456.

[bertlambshank]

Who is going to be first....Ok I will it was bloody freezing.

[andyaston]

I wasn't there.

[PeterWithesShin]

Neither was I.

[Rudy65]

Southampton. 8,456.

Is that the lowest ever attendance at VP in a top division game?

[cdward]

I was, unsurprisingly can't remember anything outstanding from it, except you could tell it was a low attendance, was it a night match?

[Damo70]

It was the one season I left the Holte to have a season ticket with my mate and his dad in the Trinity. We sat waiting for the Holte to start filling up to it's usual level, only to be stunned at the amount of space on it at kick off.

[Deano's Mullet]

I remember only 17000 vs saints in 1993. We were 2nd as well.

[PeterWithesShin]

Southampton. 8,456.

Is that the lowest ever attendance at VP in a top division game?

No, we had lower ones in the early days.

[dave.woodhall]

I was, unsurprisingly can't remember anything outstanding from it, except you could tell it was a low attendance, was it a night match?

Saturday 3pm. It was cold.

[andyaston]

I was, unsurprisingly can't remember anything outstanding from it, except you could tell it was a low attendance, was it a night match?

Saturday 3pm. It was cold.

But still it was a much better day than today. We didn't score but we got a point and we stayed up!

[Damo70]

I was, unsurprisingly can't remember anything outstanding from it, except you could tell it was a low attendance, was it a night match?

Saturday 3pm. It was cold.

Dave is so traumatised by the Villa his latest book stalled after five words.

[Charlie8182]

There's probably about 20,000 who could claim to have been there, but I really was.  The biggest memory was Dave Ismay's pre-match 'get behind the team' speech and then getting the bird from the sparely populated Holte End.
We reguarly had gates of 10 to 12,000 all season, but that was the nadir.

[saunders_heroes]

I was definitely there. Holte End, left hand side.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

I was there. My brother was a keen goalie and Peter Shilton was one of his heroes, so we stood right at the front of the Holte to watch the permed shouter close up. Can't remember a single thing about the game itself.  Funnily enough I don't remember it seeming that empty, but then I was a kid in the Holte End; there were taller people all around me, so it felt like there were a million there. It was noisy, it was cold, but it felt magical and special. It always did in those days.