Really that much, would have easily said well under 48,000. Would not surprise me they included season tickets holder who simply did not turn up and did nothing with there seats. Loads of empty season ticket seats not filled round me.
It's hard to tell really as this time of year is often right for a lot of people and we've ended up being stuck with this run of night matches which are harder for people to get to
Or those STHs simply couldn't be sold by the club via resale!
Those fans have always been there, it's probably more that people have ended up moving to different areas where the mix of people is different. I remember arguing with other fans at the United FA Cup semi about 10 years ago because some of us kept standing (not permanently, although I would have liked to personally, just getting up when we were looking dangerous etc) and a few people kept moaning at us to sit down. I can't get my head round going to watch Everton at Wembley and treating it as if you're watching a film at the cinema or going to the opera, but some people were determined that they were just going to remain seated throughout and everybody else had to do the same.
Youth team broke the jinx last night so it's all good now. Bring on City Chelsea and the RS.
New Everton - a side that competes with the Sky Six, is ambitious, attracts a top manager and players, does its transfer business quickly and decisively, and plays entertaining football - needs a 60,000 stadium. The current Make Do And Mend Everton, with Mykolenko, no right back, no strikers, and a reactive Moyesiah who can't set the side up for home matches, doesn't need more than 50.
I didn't sit down once in about 15 years in the all seated Lower Gwladys and neither did anyone around us. In the Lower South safe standing with roughly the same viewpoint theres loads sitting down, crying that they can't see and asking people not to swear. Its horrible.
