When attendances are recorded, even in official club records, you also have to be wary of the tax avoidance measure of deliberately understating attendance
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Dundalk’s match attendance book for the 1980-81 season records receipts of more than £1000 on 18 occasions—and the season average for 25 domestic competitive games was £1,500 while the League games average was £1,750.
Two games exceeded £4,500: v Limerick (Nov-80) and Athlone (Mar-1981)
On that basis it is quite likely that over £1000 was not an unusual occurrence during the early McLaughlin era of mid-70s.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
A small correction to the data shared originally (three years ago!) when the topic was ancient League Cup results:
The Boss posted on 09/01/2014:
GROUP E
07/09/86 Waterford United 0 5 Bray Wanderers
The outcome on that occasion was Waterford 5-0 Bray [Cashin 29, Donnelly 35, 44, Bennett 46, McEvoy 85].
I wouldn't have bothered only that I had to cross-check it to verify my own data.
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