Armchair Supporters - The Macclesfield View

With all the technology that is available today to be able to follow your team from an armchair it can be quite difficult to entice supporters to go and watch football at lower levels, especially when the team aren't playing very well and the weather is miserable.

The last two gates at Hereford United have both been under 1500.

And at Macclesfield the last home gate was even lower. Just 1035 watched their League Two match against Northampton.

This from the excellent Altrincham Site:

Macclesfield Town vice-chairman Andy Scott has issued a stark warning to the Silkmen’s armchair supporters – support your local club or it may cease to exist. The former Moss Rose terrace hero... couldn’t disguise his despair at last week’s meagre crowd – just 1,035 came through the turnstiles for the first game of 2010, a 2-0 defeat to Northampton

'We’re at a crossroads now', he told the Express. 'I’m really concerned about our gates at the moment. We desperately need the support of the local community, because the stark reality is that we cannot survive on 1,000 supporters attending home games. We’ve got a fabulous never-say-die attitude at this club, but we desperately need local support because, unless we see a change, it’s going to be really difficult to pull through, even to see out the season. It was painful to see the crowd at the Northampton game.

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