The gates were definitely lower but the tax fiddle was riduliculous in some games.
Vividly remember a game against boro around Xmas early 90's and the ground was rammed.
Official attendance was 25k.
Fair enough lid, I'm not clued up on transfers but only ever heard of sell on clauses in younger players who the selling club reluctantly agree to a sale they don't want to do but then insist on a sell on clause of a percentage above the agreed fee.
Aren't sell on clauses only for when a club sells a player they have bought for a lot more than what they paid.
So unless we paid over 100 million there would be nothing going their way.
Boss song sung about Beardsley that day as well "Peter the great, he wore number 8, we don't call him quasi no more".
Then we inexplicably sold him that summer.