The Banks’s Stadium witnessed a piece of history for Walsall – but for the wrong reason.
A crowd of 1,793 watched the Saddlers’ 2-1 Johnstone’s Paint Trophy defeat to Chesterfield, the lowest gate in 20 years at the stadium.
The previous low, if you were wondering, was 1,837 for a 2-0 win over Mansfield in December 1992 in the Autoglass Trophy.
Fast forward 18 years and the same competition attracted an even lower gate, but what can be drawn from it?
Read the full article in the Express and Star
Editor: Have you ever been to watch Walsall or any of our other lower league clubs? I saw Walsall at the Banks's twice last season and I also watched Coleshill Town against Burton Albion in the cup on a freezing cold night last winter and remember thinking "this is real football". Maybe we should all make the effort to support the smaller clubs in the region this season. Never mind your Man Uniteds and Chelseas, take your kids to watch a lower league club every now and then and help keep grass roots soccer alive.
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