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As I sat in the pub reflecting on the fact that we had just beaten Manchester City's first team listening to some City fans outside the pub after the match they were down of course and City hadn't spent enough on players (£6 million for Samaras) and that they were getting free transfers and on and on…..I thought this is exactly (bar the bit about spending enough) what I was thinking after our slump against Bristol City, some four days later we turn my idea that we didn't have enough quality on it's head and thump Manchester City out of the cup.
Don't get me wrong there were times where you could see class oozing out of City with their touch and precision passing and then they would pass it to Richard Dunne and he would just hoof it out of play. Caleb Folan was star man on the night for us, he ran rings around Dunne and linked up well with the midfield in particular Derek Niven scorer of our second goal, a goal reminiscent of Alan Shearer's into the Gallowgate against Everton a couple of seasons ago.
The Support on the night for the Spireites was superb although the childish pitch invasion at the end will earn the club little credibility (if it had any) with the Football League. Sadly though we couldn't fit enough of our fans into the old ground and people who decided to pay on the night and stay for that extra pint in the pub missed out as the club closed the doors at around 7.22pm for a 7.45pm kick off. Now the queue was going back up past Linda's sandwich shop at this point where there must have been up to 500 fans waiting to get into the ground. Rumours have it that many supporters rushed around to the away section where it was pay on the gate again and went in and mixed with the City fans. In the Saltergate Club they were showing the game live through a feed so I presume most of the latecomers spent their £15 on some extra extra pints.
Now I think in this circumstance the club as a ticket office are blameless if you thought that this game would attract no fans at all then you didn't buy a ticket and you didn't get in, all the kids who obviously can't get into the pubs got to the ground early and took the remaining 1000 Kop tickets that were available. Lesson is you buy a ticket for the game simple as.
Obviously their were many new and old Spireites in the ground and if we can attract nearly 9000 people inside and outside then is a 10500 capacity new ground enough? That's for other people to decide, when we take on Brentford on Saturday we will get the true level of support for the Town. 
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