considering how fans have been systematically and figuratively raped through hiking of ticket prices and a summer of transfer market incompetence, I have to say that the website's assertion that 46,000 is not a bad attendance for a mid-week cup tie against league two opposition is a fair one, it's hard to say whether it's low comparably because we have never played league two opposition at the emirates stadium prior to the match.

I think though that it cannot be ignored that a lot of the tickets are going on general sale, when hardly any (especially not weekend league fixtures) did so the previous season.........and it'd be hard to condemn fans for doing this.

Since the carling cup defeat we have played....nine times at home.....netting ten times......a statistic skewed by the 5-0 win over leyton orient, and if you remove that fixture from the equation....we have scored five goals in the last eight games at the emirates stadium, so essentially fans probably don't have a high expectation of entertainment (i mean you would probably feel less inclined to go to the cinema to watch a film if you thought it was going to be crap wouldn't you?)

Statistics seem to show that at home we don't ship many goals but neither do we score any, and away from home we are more free scoring but also calamitous at defending (17 goals scored and 23 conceded in last nine league games) and maybe purely for entertainment value there doesn't seem to be any drop in attendance of away fixtures (this is probably because most away fixtures are attended by the hardcore contingent as well)

The last game i went to see was Udinese at home and was struck by the bald patches of seats in the stands