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Yeah, but with Easter Monday and Boxing Day it's only 3 proper midweek games.

He's been at me all night. It's exhausting. He's fucking relentless.

This is true, but both of those clubs benefit from geography to a degree. Norwich is remote, is 45 miles from the nearest club and really represents the whole of Norfolk and its 800,000 residents. Sunderland have a couple of other big clubs in the area, but in a region of 2.6 million people...

You hear that a lot, and there is an element of truth in it, but actually Coventry's population growth was a lot earlier than that. In 1908 the city had a population of 88,000 but by 1951 it was 260,000. Leicester by contrast was 220,000 in 1908 and 285,000 by 1951. Coventry grew massively in...

We'll just have to agree to disagree then, because the point is that the populations of the places you listed are not correct in many cases - that's even before you stretch the areas out to include towns outside of the main conurbation (conurbation being the true size of a town/city, not the one...

How are you defining catchment area though? Birkenhead the town is 88K, Birkenhead the metro area is over 300K. Forest Green are really a Stroud team and not just Nailsworth. Lincoln is notably bigger than the figure quoted. You can make these figures look very different by using different...

The worse one I can recall was Chelsea away in the PL in 1993. They were playing in the FA Cup final just a few weeks later and only 8,000 at Stamford Bridge.

If people want to see how attendances go in cycles for all clubs and fluctuate massively, the EFS website is interesting, because it shows that all clubs have massively fickle supporters if that's how we are judging things. Our all time averages: England historical attendance and performance To...

You can take these snapshots at given times and scratch your head as to why, but these things change over time. Pompey averaged 8,500 in the Championship in 1997. Why?

Coventry has the entire population of Warwickshire to fall on. Does it really though? Even if you believe that people in Shipston-on-Stour and those living on the Gloucestershire border somehow identify with Coventry, the same can be said of the other places too. The population of...

Leicester won the league in their one and only season in L1 which would have had an impact. Why have there been many occasions over the years when we have average more than both of those clubs when playing at the same level? Gates fluctuate for all clubs over time and there are lots of...

Yes we did. The last 3 seasons we spent at HR in the PL the average was over 20K.

This is nonsense though, not even close to being true because people often grossly overstate how big Coventry is by using the city population (which is often a false figure based on an artificial line drawn on a map) to the metro area/urban area population. For example, people can argue all day...

With corporate sales which aren't visible we will have sold over a 1000 in the first week. There are still 2 weeks before pay day for many, 3 weeks to the end of the early bird and 6 weeks to the start of the season, so plenty of time for sales.

I dislike the Ricoh immensely for many reasons, and if there was another option in Coventry I'd be all over it, but I think the atmosphere thing is a bit of a myth. It can be flat of course, but there have been many occasions when it has been excellent. So often over the past 8 or 9 years I've...

The reality will be that crowds will be down hugely on last season. That's a given. People are talking up ST sales and encouraging those who are wavering, but that comes from a good place. We just would hate to see people turn their backs on the club because of the misguided belief that we...

Bit harsh. Yeah, he did have a good crop of players to work with - Wilson, Fleck, Leon Clarke, Baker, Cyrus Christie, Moussa etc. but it was a difficult situation and he handled himself well. Decent bloke. Didn't work out and he had to go, but not bitter towards him in the slightest.