Watford is a small town

less than half the size of Norwich, so the potential attendance is smaller. Take off all the Arsenal supporters (premiership hype has probably made this much more of a factor than it was when Watford made it to the final) and the dormitory town aspect (people like me) and you would need pretty much every man, woman and child to go to sell half of Villa Park, even if it is reasonably easy to get to.

Add in the high cost and the high probability of defeat, together with disgruntlemt about the way Boothroyd has them playing, and I'm not surprised they didn't sell out. In reality, few towns and cities are as enthusiastic across the board about their football team as Norwich is.

Posted By: watfordcanary on April 15th 2007 at 18:15:33

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watford (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 15:41:06
- They didn't sell all their tickets for the play-off final either. (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 15, 19:12:29
  - Which in this instance, given that the opposition is Man U, is in itself no bad thing (Other Football) - Partial Angler, Apr 15, 19:14:53
- Watford is a small town (Other Football) - watfordcanary, Apr 15, 18:15:33
- were was the game played? (n/m) (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 15:44:59
  - Villa Park (n/m) (Other Football) - iwans_ex_dentist, Apr 15, 15:45:33
    - watfors probally had about 20 thousand tickets tops (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 15:53:41
      - *watford* (n/m) (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 15:54:10
        
        we knew (n/m) (Other Football) - Dave in France, Apr 15, 15:58:25
        
        i knew you knew (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 16:15:10
        
        I agree, it is a poor showing generally (n/m) (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 15:56:45
- Sadly the fa cup has lost it's magic, all that "anyone can win it" is nonsence (Other Football) - pants, Apr 15, 15:44:39
  - Keep the League Cup... (Other Football) - Fierce Panda, Apr 15, 16:29:47
    - That's a right treat if you do (Other Football) - pants, Apr 15, 18:07:17
  - if norwich got to a FA cup semi (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 15:52:08
    - true (n/m) (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 15:53:49
  - proces for available tickets was £55... mum dad 2 kids - 200 quid (n/m) (Other Football) - phrankin, Apr 15, 15:45:55
    - Then you've got to get there, tv put it on a shit time (Other Football) - pants, Apr 15, 15:48:59
      - watford to birmingham east trip straight up the m1 i think (n/m) (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 16:45:09
      - they actually gave watford more tickets than man utd. (Other Football) - grants_cold_finger, Apr 15, 16:20:50
        
        I think that's quite a funny move (Other Football) - iwans_ex_dentist, Apr 15, 16:21:58

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