Its all about how we only got decent crowds/sell outs post Keegan/1992, whereas before, no-one watched us.
Its also one of the reasons they use for their current low crowds - loads of their supporters, and young mackem bairns (allegedly) started following us after 1992, and this was also due to "Sky kissing our arse".
well ive been around since the 70s. without knowing the facts, I would guess in the 70s and 80s our average gate over two decades, would be in the region of 10k higher than thiers.