Sunderland historically has a massive fan base, Ipswich is fairly isolated from other footballing towns so brings a lot of fans in from surrounding areas, there's a lot of teams in our area!
Our average attendances are slightly higher at the moment yes, think it about 18.5k in 1995, I still feel we have the same amount of supporters now as back then just people go more now, but feel free to send a smile laughy face back!
He really hope we do, I love club, but I'm stating a fact that we havnt got that massive home support that people think we have, a lot if it started when went all seater in 1982
August 29th 1994, total attendance 12000 with what 3000 Villa fans, we lost 1-0, Sky were trying to big it up as a big local derby, Ron Atkinson the Villa manager at the time laughed saying what with 12000!
We used to get less than 10000 home fans against Villa in the 90s, who said we'd get 15k against them today we'd get more cus of the novelty, and why the laughy face?