Oldsmobile-88
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Torquay were averaging about 2,700 that season.Even allowing for the interest in a local derby & it being a Good Friday KO.There must have been a large % of Grecians at Plainmoor.I wrote an article about this for Some Sunny Day a while back. Many more people travel.
As for the visit to Torquay on 8 April 1977, I was there and the away end was certainly jam-packed, but the total attendance was 'only' 8,171 and I'm not sure if we made up a quarter of the crowd. We'll probably never know!
No official away end as such in those days,every one was scattered around iirc.
The Torquay home Mini Kop(the end that rivals always ‘took’)was packed with Grecians by 2.30pm.
I remember when Alan Beer scored it seemed like a home game with fans celebrating on all 4 sides.
I would be interested to read your article on the number of fans travelling to away games(the demographic is certainly different now) that was in SSD.
Any chance of posting it on the Memories sub forum ? ?