Leeds game to be a sell out?

[Svlad Cjelli]

FFS the council wont EVER do anything, so it IS the club.

WTF??? How can you ever make a statement like that without justifying it?

Come on, on what basis are you saying that?

[Mr Optimist]

Almost sold out. LOL at people coming back out the woodwork for this.

Massively 'greed. LOL at people who still think Leeds are a big club.

Oh I suppose that they built one of the largest cantilever stands in the world for a laugh, did they?
They know they can fill it.

The Sheffield clubs both have big fanbases, but their support is mainly derived from the locality itself, and the other clubs in that area have proportionately smaller fanbases, in line with their population.

Leeds, however, are one of those phenomenon. In exactly the same way as West ham are the Essex national side, then today, we are hosting the Yorkshire national side, whose support stretches all over that region.

Don't get me wrong I agree Leeds are a big club and still a big name in English football but the comparison with the Sheffield clubs is not right. The reason Leeds are better slightly better supported than Sheff Utd or Wednesday is they are a one club city like Newcastle. Sheff Utd and Wednesday both consistently average 20,000+ in the second and third tiers. Leeds do not have a another club in their city to share support with.

[under the tin]

Don't get me wrong I agree Leeds are a big club and still a big name in English football but the comparison with the Sheffield clubs is not right. The reason Leeds are better slightly better supported than Sheff Utd or Wednesday is they are a one club city like Newcastle. Sheff Utd and Wednesday both consistently average 20,000+ in the second and third tiers. Leeds do not have a another club in their city to share support with.
/Mr. Optimist


That's certainly a factor, Mr. O. Were there only one club in Sheffield, it would be a monster. I think that what I was trying to get across was that whilst Sheffield's clubs were well supported, that fanbase is, by and large, concentrated within the Sheffield locality.
Leeds, however, have some kind of allure that draws supporters from all over Yorkshire, and even further afield. I was in the Royal Albion pre match, and a minibus turned up from Wales, full of Leeds fans. We saw the flags in the south stand "Essex whites, Maidenhead whites", etc. All clubs have pockets of exiled fans, but the sheer scale of Leeds following, when it's motivated, puts them in the top half dozen or so of well supported clubs in the country.

I remember singing the "we support our local team" jibe at United in the Prem, but even knowing that lots of their support comes from outside Manchester did not prepare me for the experience of travelling up to O/T for the cup game up there
(1-1, Gunnarsson)
We took 6000 up there, and at every motorway services we stopped at on the way up, we were outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1 by travelling United fans. Staggering.