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Lowest for Elm Park for a 1st team game in a senior competition I think was around 1830 in the league v Preston.
1713, 82/83
We averaged only 3459 that season.
We probably had league crowds lower than that at Elm Park over 100 times.
I was (sadly) there at the Preston game. It was gitting it down with rain. The Tilehurst and Town End were completely empty and typically for once in a blue moon the Southern TV (TVS?) cameras were there capturing a 3-2 home defeat, Kerry Dixon scored at least one of them.
I remember thinking things couldn’t get any worse than that and yet here we are (on a day when Bournemouth easily dink Man City in the Premier)…….God!
I was there too, in the south bank. I remember banners behind the Tilehurst End protesting against the then chairman Frank Waller, and in a parallel with today, Waller put the club up for sale the following week.
I'm pretty sure we were 2-0 up in the game and my memory is Dixon scoring both goals.....I've seen highlights somewhere of the game as it was on TV as above.