Portuguese Liga Sagres review - Stand up… if you’ve bothered to come
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- Created: Monday, 26 January 2009 18:12
- Written by Ian Shine
The Liga Sagres struck new low this week as only 514 people showed up for Estrela Amadora’s game with Rio Ave.
If a figure like that needs putting into perspective, the lowest ever attendance in England was 469, which happened at a game between Thames and Luton Town in 1930.
Although it is somewhat amusing to imagine such a paltry number of people at a top flight game in Western Europe, it’s really quite tragic in that it highlights the appalling shabbiness of the Liga Sagres.
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