I was emailed this. Changed days

Scottish cup winners 1938 - East Fife, attendances....

score crowd
round 1 away v. AIRDRIE 2-1 5000
round 2 home v. DUNDEE UTD 5-0 11000
round 3 home v. ABERDEEN 1-1 17000
round 3 replay at ABERDEEN 2-1 25500
round 4 home v. RAITH ROVERS 2-2 18642
round 4 replay at RAITH ROVERS 3-2 25500
semi final tynecastle v. ST BERNARDS 1-1 34200
replay v. ST BERNARDS 2-1 35264
FINAL hampden v. KILMARNOCK 1-1 79000
replay wed 6.30 pm v. KILMARNOCK4-2 91700

At the end of the day, the people at these games were not true supporters.

Er, you missed out the 1st Replay in the Semi Final St Pauli Fifer.
1-1 30,185

"Black & Gold Heroes" by Jim Stewart

When they finally invent time travel, I'm getting the tardis back to 1938...

geeza lift gussy boy n me n jakey will bring the cider etc

Read earlier that 22500 V RR was our record home gate.
Biggest I can remember being at was about 14-15000 and I think it was Dundee. 22500 must have been something to see.

Its very interesting to note that the crowds then were so much larger than they are today but it begs the question.

What did the directors of the day do with the cash that was generated from these games. It is common knowledge that the money wasnt spent on players wages, seating or covered enclosers for the fans, the money was pocketed by the directors.

In short nothing has changed, throughout history football club directors have been guilty of missmanagement and lining their own pockets

I reckon that the record crowd at Bayview wasn't against Raith, but in an earlier game against Rangers.
Here's an extract from my book "On That Windswept Plain":
The 22,515 crowd that saw Ian Gardiner make his debut in the 3-0 victory over Raith Rovers in the 1950 New Year Derby is recorded as the largest ever assembled at Bayview. This, however, is debatable.
Not only did the Leven Mail give the attendance as 21,715, they stated that the 22,500 who paid to see the match against Rangers in November 1948 was still the record.
What seems likely is that the spectators seated in the 800 seat grandstand were not included in the 21,715 quoted in the Leven Mail for the Rovers match and, when these two figures are added together, the ‘record attendance’ of 22,515 is the result. Does this mean that the crowd figures quoted in the press at this time did not include those seated in the stand? If this is the case, then the attendance at the Rangers game could actually have been 23,300! Unfortunately, no official records exist at the club, so we may never know!

Jim
Also, the stand, in these days, held 1,100...

i want 2 go back to 1938 just for the enjoyment of the standard of football....somethin else or what?

Going back to 1938, 1947 - 1955 ish would be awesome. Even reliving 1972 or 1986 would do me to be honest mind.

Always wanted to use the tardis to go back to meet Laurel and Hardy as well as to see the Cup win, so 1938 would be a fine year to combine both. Don't want to be too greedy now.

Mind not get to see a cup winning side now but at least I get slapstick action from the clown of a chairman and the keystone cops security.

Thank goodness for Raith Rovers and their massive away support...

the only thing thats massive about the Rovers support now though is YOU

Fat git is he?

I am rather rotund.