These were the top away attendance for the First Round of the Carabao Cup at the weekend…
1) Portsmouth fans at West Ham United – 9,000*
THE OTHERS:
2) Preston fans at Goodison (vs Huddersfield) – 8,455
3) Huddersfield fans at Goodison (vs Preston) – 6,000
4) Sheffield United fans at Mansfield Town – 4,600
5) Port Vale fans at Wolverhampton Wanderers – 3,821
6) West Bromwich Albion fans at Rotherham United – 2,495
7) Oldham Athletic fans at Stoke City – 2,212
8) Bolton Wanderers fans at Sheffield Wednesday – 2,000*
9) Northampton Town fans at Leicester City – 2,000
10) Birmingham City fans at Swansea City – 1,971*
11) Millwall fans at Queens Park Rangers – 1,760
12) Lincoln City fans at Derby County – 1,720
13) Exeter City fans at Plymouth Argyle – 1,701*
14) Southampton fans at Colchester United – 1,477
15) Notts County fans at Burnley – 1,400
16) Swindon Town fans at Cardiff City – 1,394
17) Blackburn Rovers fans at Burton Albion – 1,243
18) Rochdale fans at Bradford City – 1,110
19) Oxford United fans at Leyton Orient – 979
20) Doncaster Rovers fans at Stockport County – 892
21) Luton Town fans at Gillingham – 842
22) Charlton Athletic fans at Cheltenham Town – 816
23) Crawley Town fans at Watford – 815
24) Reading fans at Bromley – 800*
25) Milton Keynes Dons fans at Norwich City – 700
26) Chesterfield fans at Fleetwood Town – 579
27) Walsall fans at Bristol City – 564
28) Wigan Athletic fans at Barnsley – 522
29) Blackpool fans at Grimsby Town – 510
30) Barnet fans at Cambridge United – 506
31) Shrewsbury Town fans at Salford City – 497
32) Peterborough United fans at Bristol Rovers – 424
33) Newport County fans at AFC Wimbledon – 373
34) Stevenage fans at Wycombe Wanderers – 324
Wrexham fans at Middlesbrough – TBC
Accrington Stanley fans at Crewe Alexandra – TBC
You can see all the attendances from the weekend by clicking HERE. Or for more photos/videos of away ends, click HERE.
Choose having a drink and a chat with the players after the game.
Choose mixing with the opposition fans.
Choose the old dears in the tea but serving Bovril for the 49″‘ consecutive season.
Choose meat raffles.
Choose to watch football alongside dogs.
Choose away days in towns you did not know existed.
Choose getting a beer for a couple of quid and standing on the terraces with it.
Choose getting a lift to the game with a club director.
Choose to give your money to a local club not a soulless corporation.
Choose players who know the fans by name.
Choose parking right next to the ground.
Choose standing wherever you want to.
Choose listening to everything the benches say.
Choose paying a pound for a cup of tea.
Choose proper pies.
Choose honest football right on your doorstep.
Expressions of hope from fans
Blackburn fan Callum Dunn-Broom
“Hope. It’s hoping for a team that fights for the badge. It’s hoping for a team that makes you proud. It’s hoping for the next Adam Wharton. It’s hoping for last minute winners, celebrating with strangers and losing your glasses in the process. It’s hoping this year’s the year. The year you walk down Wembley Way with your old man for the first time. It’s the hope that kills you. But we’ll be there. Week in. Week out. Hoping.”
Cambridge fan Connor O’Reilly
“Another season brings bouts of anxiety following our teams up and down the country. From the highest of highs of last minute victories and cup shocks, to the lowest of lows with derby day defeats and awful form with no end in sight, it’s never easy being a football fan.”
Wycombe fan Jonny King
The best bit of the season is just before kick off in the opening game. The moments before the first whistle is blown and the first ball is kicked, when everyone is equal and anything is possible. Both sets of fans united by the same hope. The tantalising prospect of what if? What will happen next is anyone’s guess. So all the more reason to enjoy the blissful pre-match ignorance of whatever madness, agony, heartbreak… or glory is about the come.
Crewe fan Jonny Tomlinson
In a town that many pass, but few ever stay, the passion here shines, in a special way. The hope of the Railwaymen, our hearts filled with pride, Crewe Alexandra, we’re always at your side. When passion meets hope, a magic ignites, something truly special, under our stadium lights. Through triumphs and trials, our spirit stays true. Crewe Alexandra, this season and every season were with you.
Salford fan Andrew Gordon
We trust in the process, we hope in the dream. With past high to inspire us, and past lows to drive us. We believe that this is our years! A belief we can be champions. A belief we will go up. You can call it blind loyalty. We call it true faith.
Check out the top away attendances in the National League on the next page.
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