Guess the gate receipts for our cup game against Leicester in Jan 1969

While wading through some of my scrap book collection this evening (trying to help Turvey Tyke out with some information) I came across an interesting piece of information that was published in The People for FA Cup Third Round day.

We played Leicester at home in January 1969 in the FA Cup Third Round.
There were 25,099 at Oakwell that day - the FA Cup really meant something then!
The People, alongside all the results and scorers published some of the gate receipts.
Ours was £5,962 - just shows how much we pay to watch football these days.

By the way, we battered Leicester that day but only managed a 1-1 draw against the Foxes who were First Division of course, and we were Third Division. Len Glover opened the scoring for them after Roy Ironside had saved a shot from Andy Lochhead, but couldn't hold it. Johnny Evans equalised for us after a cross from Jimmy Robson found him in the box. Peter Shilton was in goal for Leicester.

We lost the replay 2-1 (Eddie Loyden penalty for us) but went out with heads held high, just like we did on Wednesday night.

 

About £5962? Am I close?

 

Nah, it'll be a lot more than that. I'll go for £112,347.13. When do you think he'll let us know who won?

 

Soon I hope, the suspense is killing me.

Great competition though.

 

Close enough for government work

 

Can't be certain but I detect a smidgeon of sarcasm in your reply

 

Nah, not sarcasm, just messing about.

I actually got hold of a copy of our accounts from around 1970 and the figures were pretty astonishing. It's safe to say that the inflation in football vastly outweighs that of the real world.