The blonde bint on Sky News sports round-up keeps banging on about the attendance last night. Just seen the papers and they are happy to highlight this too. Especially the Sun. Yes, there were 15,000 or so empty seat but that means 46,000-odd full ones. For a Carling Cup game against Shrewsbury that ain’t bad. They brought 5,000 or so humourless divs (‘sacked in the morning’ – my how we laughed), for the record.
I was not only impressed with the turn-out but the level of vociferous support for the team and the manager. These games when anyone can rock up and get in means we have followers attending with genuine affection for the club as opposed to our often-cynical season ticket holders.
Oxo Kid looked bright as a button and, dare I say it, he already looks to have more about him than our other wonder buy from Southampton Theo. A tad harsh but what I mean is AOC appeared to have the look of a killer in his eyes. I am not sure Theo has the belief he should have given his talent. AOC does have a certain swagger. His goal proved that.
To put the crowd in persepctive we had more watch us than Blackburn (7,104), Wolves (7,749) and Stoke (15,023) put together. And our gate last night will be bigger than any crowd for any other London team’s home game this season.
Meanwhile, for some AW quotes post-game have a read of the Telegraph match report.
Elsewhere, there is some interesting boardroom tittle-tattle in the Mail.
Memo to Johan Djourou: nice bloke and all that but give up football.
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