A Goodison Park attendance record that had stood for 92 years was broken tonight

BoysInBlue · July 31, 2012

Just saw this on the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18902297

The 70,584 crowd at Wembley tonight for the Team GB Ladies vs Brazil Ladies Olympic football match broke the all time attendance record for a ladies' football match in this country.

The previous record as stated in the BBC article was 53,000 fans at Goodison Park back on Boxing Day 1920, to watch Dick Kerr's Ladies vs St Helens Ladies.

Goat · July 31, 2012

Wait?

There was a Ladies Team Manager called Dick Kerr????

*speechless*

Woolly Blue · July 31, 2012

St Helens ?
LADIES ?
Shirley there's some mistake here ?

The Esk · July 31, 2012

Interesting stuff on Dick Kerr's Ladies including the fact that at the Goodison game 10-14,000 were locked out!

http://www.dickkerrladies.com/page2.htm

kev101 · July 31, 2012

the esk said:
Interesting stuff on Dick Kerr's Ladies including the fact that at the Goodison game 10-14,000 were locked out!

http://www.dickkerrladies.com/page2.htm

Just gets better

Philw · July 31, 2012

BoysInBlue said:
Just saw this on the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18902297

The 70,584 crowd at Wembley tonight for the Team GB Ladies vs Brazil Ladies Olympic football match broke the all time attendance record for a ladies' football match in this country.

The previous record as stated in the BBC article was 53,000 fans at Goodison Park back on Boxing Day 1920, to watch Dick Kerr's Ladies vs St Helens Ladies.

That never looked liked 70k in the crowd to me. Great result tho, and they've scored some nice goals....

The T-Dex · July 31, 2012

Woolly Blue said:
St Helens ?
LADIES ?
Shirley there's some mistake here ?

I'm positive and don't call me surely?

tommye · July 31, 2012

i miss Frank Drebin

mawders · August 1, 2012

No way was there 70,000. Looked more like 30,000 to me... If that. It was a better game than anything I have seen from the men in years though. Good luck to them. Finally an England side with skill that likes to attack

BiggyRat · August 1, 2012

dickkerrladies....I think I've got that on VHS somewhere...

Kurt. · August 1, 2012

mawders said:
No way was there 70,000. Looked more like 30,000 to me... If that. It was a better game than anything I have seen from the men in years though. Good luck to them. Finally an England side with skill that likes to attack

But it's not England is it.

chicoazul · August 1, 2012

Kurt said:
But it's not England is it.

You can see why we never yield. This whole GB thing they view as a greater England.

I hope Team GB don't get a gold for that.

bluejock · August 1, 2012

*sighs and shakes head

jtl60 · August 1, 2012

mawders said:
No way was there 70,000. Looked more like 30,000 to me... If that. It was a better game than anything I have seen from the men in years though. Good luck to them. Finally an England side with skill that likes to attack

They had sold 70k, which probably means they gave away 40k and hardly any of those turned up and sold 30k.

I heard on the TV this morning about that record at Goodison and they also said 15k got turned away because it was full!

peteblue · August 1, 2012

The Dick, Kerr Ladies team story is a great piece of football history and some of the old b/w photo's are a fabulous reminder of what life was like a hundred years ago. After the amazing GP turnout, the FA banned womens football for fear it would take fans away from the mens game.....