Football

How many half empty stadiums do you see on MOTD, the last two seasons Arsenal has had a few matches where the attendance has dropped to 50,000 - 11,000 short.

Arsenals ground needs growing into - it needs some big results, silverware and memories to settle in. and Utd fans expect to walk every match (it can be amazing but largely its quiet)

I would agree with what you said GS about your statement about the attendances seems to be true the latest statistics available seem to deny this.
http://itv.stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/PR/attend.html
The problem lies with teams like Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn etc. where there are other sports and teams in a relatively small area to compete with football.

As for the need to grow into Arsenals ground, at this rate that will take at least another 50 years, so much for Wenger fielding an understrength side in the FA cup as he had an important run of games coming up (from which they got 1 point)