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Do we have to listen to Robbie Savage as the man is a dunderhead.:(

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Had to take the Mitrovic gamble and get Austin. I think Mitrovic will straighten out, Cisse has to be sold at cut price asap. McClaren had to start him? That's a loss of bottle right there, SAF would tear the head off anyone that took the p* like that. Perez could've started.

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Arsenal you have been a embarrassment tonight.:td:

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:woot: disaster of a match

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Players out of form , players over the hill , players who simply do not care and players who are overpaid sums up Arsenal.

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European attendance records last season:

Bold are the standout ones, Dortmund had a pretty dire year but kept the attendance up, Lewandowski, Goetze and co all gone yet the fans still turn out, Newcastle were fighting relegation all the way down to the last day. It's no wonder Mike won't leave.

Barca and Madrid is the confusing one if someone can interpret incase I'm thinking wrong. It appears they rarely sold out their stadiums last year :confused:

Edit: If anyone can explain what Liverpool's defence was doing there... Rodgers...

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No its been like that for about three years now bud.

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Dortmund is Dortmund. The football club or the way of life should I say sits alone in Dortmund, those attendances just reconfirms what you see on the tele. Bayern Munichs average is disappointing considering its supposed following and oh yeah cost of tickets being virtually nil vs PL tickets! That doesn't add up ! Hamburg owns the city. Schalke has its history, bit like Dortmund.

RM have the obvious threat of AM and the following they have. If you tune in to matches vs lower level opposition you will see a fair few empty seats at RM. RM don't own the city unlike Barcelona who seemingly do. Espanyol cannot compete. Having said that Barcelonas average is low if you compare it to RM, this being stadium capacity > average attendance..

rounding off the numbers..

Barca = 99k capacity with an average attendance of 78k
RM = 81k capacity with an average attendance of 73k

on average Barcelona have more empty seats than RM which throws out what I said above of Barca owning the city.

Man Utd is the impeccable average on the list. Everyone else has a big loss. Arsenal comes in second behind Man Utd. Hardly surprising. London is red after all :D it also has to be said the EPL has restrictions on broadcasting of games, 3pm kick offs etc. which helps getting stadiums filled.

Marseille isn't soo much of a surprise with them having a decent'ish season. Started well then fell off. PSG fail to make the top 10 with a bigger stadia capacity and well Lille with the biggest in Ligue 1 flop

It does have to be mentioned though that these could be ticket sold averages rather than bums on seats averages. I could be wrong, the Arsenal average makes me ponder tbh.. "and the attendance today is sixtythousandmillion"... no mate it isn't! nonetheless the city is still red :D

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I can understand the attendance records but where does that list get the 'total fans' number from?

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yeah good question. can you post the link please Adz

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Its the number of fans in total over the season. So for United 75,335 x 19 (home league games) = 1.431 million

Dortmunds is less because there are fewer teams in their league so fewer home games.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averag...football_clubs

https://i.imgur.com/fafsg3d.jpg

Updated list without the total fans figure.

I'm unsure who made the figure count, or whether it's completely accurate as it would take a pretty decent amount of time to complete that top 10 for last season. Might have done though before I discredit someone :D

If anyone fancies doing an attendance count of your own to verify, please do, the thought of going through 19 games is daunting.

Did it, 956,802 For Newcastle United, List is close enough.

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2 less which would account for

Dortmund 19 = 1,528,797 million
-2 = 160,926 > 17 = 1,367,871
Stadium capacity 81,359 average attendance 80,463

Man Utd 19 = 1,431,365 million
Stadium capacity 75,731 average attendance 75,335

still a fair few not attending on average for Dortmund

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Theres http://www.worldfootball.net/ that has those same figures

did you copy and paste today with the update to the list being made today too?

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Got it from Reddit which then provided Wiki as the source, second image was from the comments.

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Costa is some piece of work. How did that all end with Gabi being sent off lol nuts

Also Gabi on Hazard was not a pen. Defender uses strength to haul attacker away from ball but during tussle Hazard uses his own strength to make more of the situation, pulling Gabi towards him mid way through. Funny thing is had Hazard had a little more strength about him and pulled Gabi down Hazard would have most probably been called up as fouling an opponent. The defender gets the benefit of the doubt in those situations.