For RobRoy
Interesting article on football and WW1, which will be very much in the headlines this year, being the 100th anniversary and all.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfootball.htm
Asquith's Gov't of the day, with the famously hirsute Lord Kitchener at the helm, were having difficulty recruiting the average working man into the Army, especially football fans, until a brave bunch from Heart of Midlothian volunteered. This is covered in Jeremy Paxman's documentary on the Great War (Part 1) and also here :-
http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/syst ... FC_WW1.pdf
Compare that to today's primadonna's !
There's a very good article somewhere on how the losses of WW1 affected crowds but I can't find it. I'm sure up to 1914 Charlton and Millwall were very well supported - top 5 in the country - but the war decimated that.